Cold

Chapter 15: Tell Me

CHAPTER 15: Tell Me

I was creeping anxiously to the door. Someone out there kept knocking and I tried not to freak out, thought it could be Jane, but maybe no. She would never get out seeing me at this hour.

I leaned on the wall beside the door. “Jane?” I whispered at the door. The knocking has stopped.

It was silent for a minute, staring vigilantly at the floor while focusing my ears for a sudden sound that would occur.

I took a deep a breath and exhaled. “That’s it.” A strange man was standing next to it after I opened the door, made myself to move back.

“Friz!” I was shocked, swiped my hair from the forehead. Sneered and relieved.

I let him in, opened the lights and gave him a chair. “What brought you here, sir?”

Puzzled with his very weird entrance, I noticed him seriously upset to something.

I glanced at the window. “Hey, are you the one who made that creepy noise at my window?” I asked, tilting to look at his bowed head.

“No I didn’t, Kieran.” He finally had spoken, sitting still bowed, clenching his hands while leaning his elbows on his knees.

“So…?” yawned and a little bit dizzy. I tapped my bed, sat on it, and then waited for him to speak out again.

Friz gazed at me. “I want you to tell me something, Kieran,” he said, bowed again. I rubbed my right temple, confused about what he’s up to. “Okay?”

“Did Jane tell you something that I didn’t know?” he asked.

I paused for moment, considering that Friz and Jane had this talk again. These two really need to get along with their secrets, I said to myself and realized that the noise from my window was probably a bird or Percy who signaled me that Friz was coming for some interrogation.

I need to lie, I thought.

While staring at him, “Tell you the truth, sir. Jane and I were keeping our secret relationship to you. But well, I thought you’re okay with that, now?” I scratched my nape. He couldn’t look at me in the eye. He insisted that he knew that already and asked me again, if Jane shared a secret to me.

Think Kieran think.

Inclined my body when sitting, leaned my hands backward on the bed. I was in the middle of either keep Jane’s trust or Friz’s trust.

I remembered that Jane knew everything about her mother and that one moment that I brought Jane, secretly, at the West Forest. She met her beautiful mother, Crystal. It was my precious surprise for her birthday last year. Friz didn’t know that even Benji and I were spending our free time at the cabin with Crystal. We kept it from Friz, as we all knew that he didn’t want to hear a thing about Crystal.

If I told this to Friz right now, he might get mad or I don’t know. I must keep my mouth shut, I said to myself, staring at his angled head, probably he was gazing at the window.

I sat straight again on my bed. “I’m not really sure, Friz… but she told me that she was keeping her secrets on her notebook, and I never had a chance to read it,” I said, clenching my fists. He glanced at me, but he was quite serious. I looked at him, showing that I was being 'honest'.

“Look. I love both of you… I don’t want you guys fight over with reserved secrets,” stood up, walked slowly away from the bed. “Please, whatever it is in your mind Friz, let it go…” walked left, passing in front of where Friz was sitting. “Jane needs you as much as she needs me, too.” I stood up right in front of the window, opened it and took a slight breeze.