ACT: A Complicated Tale

Chapter 15

Finale

"Erika, its nice to see you again." Tyler smiled at me in the kitchen while the party went on inside.

"Yeah, it is." I shrug my shoulders awkwardly. Tyler noticed I was acting different but he just wouldn't say anything.

Many things had went on the past week and I just couldn't help but be weird and sceptical around all of them.

What was the point? Was I just going to accept that I was always apart of a game.

"Sorry." I apologised to Tyler. "It's just." I sighed: "I'm finished."

Tyler smiled "With what?"

"All of you..."

Tyler's eyes grew wider as he was shocked from what had just come out of my mouth. I knew just by what I said, he immediately knew what was going on.

"Hey Erika, I'm sorry-"

"- but you probably knew about it too. I thought we were just acquainted old friends and then you all blew it because you thought that you could just underestimate me."

"I don't understand what your saying..." Tyler avoided eye contact and stared at the ground. "Well, I left you a present on the table..." He murmured.

His eyes then averted back to me. "I think I'm gonna leave now."

He brushed his fringe and tried to smile at me and then he walked away and disappeared out of the lively room of dancing.

What had I done... I closed my eyes as I thought to myself. Who was I to be so cold to him? What the hell is wrong with me?

Just then I felt like I wanted to cry from guilt, but I couldn't. I had to be alone right now, I hadn't wanted this party in the first place.

I tried to avoid Joshua and Erik while I walked up to my room to be alone. Lily wasn't anywhere to be seen and Sarah was clearly having the blast of her life.

As I walked to my door, I found it was locked. Clearly some one was busy in there and I couldn't care less anymore.

Sex was everywhere in this god forsaken college.

I found the laundry closet and I decided to sit in there. There was nobody in it and I was lucky there was a hanging light switch inside.

I rubbed my hands through my pink hair and I closed my eyes, trying to sleep while ignoring the booming music in the house. My eyes finally shut closed after a few minutes.

In my dream, I was at my old house. Mom and dad were having an argument.

I saw uncle staring uneasily at me. "Eri, go and play outside with your friends okay, mom and dad are just playing a shouting game. So..."

My uncle paused from the shouting inside the house. "So- I promise everything will be fine okay?!"

"Yes Dandan" I nodded obediently using his nickname that I gave him ever since we were introduced.

I ran outside to the nearby park where I played with two siblings with very dark hair, fair skin and light eyes.

"Eri!!" The one young female sibling shouted. " You've come back!!"

Her brother said nothing. He was a very shy boy. The shy boy had something in his hands.

"Erika..." He murmured. "I want you to marry me."