GIRL ADDICTION

Chapter 7:Love-Struck Fools

~Sage~

I fiddled with the phone in the pocket of my skirt. It was Gwen's. She'd left it on her seat by accident after disappearing with a bunch of her gamer friends.

Gwen's gamer friends were a mix of dark, moody, gawky and lanky people. They roamed around at the dead of the night in cyberspace, where it was as bright as daylight, killing fictional monsters and creating guilds for themselves. I even heard her male character had a cyber girlfriend, who she loved to play around with; the wonders of cyberspace and cyber freedom.

Don't get me wrong, I'm an avid gamer myself. I'm just talking from an outsider's point of view, so obviously I'm being sulky and gripping about it cause I'm not, well, part of her bit of it.

It was five minutes to the next class, which meant five minutes to the end of this one, and five minutes to her reappearing. Should I ...

a) Wait till everyone had left and leave it on her table?

b) Hand it to her?

c) Give it to one of her friends and remain anonymous?

I mean I could always just throw it, but I didn't hate her... but handing it to her would be so awkward...

The bell rang. Or more like, the bell rang in my pocket. The whole class turned to look at me and I muttered several apologies, pressing a few buttons and hoping I was actually switching it off.

Finally, it stopped ringing.

"Ah well, let's wrap things up for today since someone is so eager to get away, she decided to pull a classic date-trick on me" Ms. Lin winked as everyone laughed, while I tried to shrink into nothingness.

The students all packed up and began to bustle out of the room.

I pulled the phone out of my pocket and gasped, realizing I had received the call, and it was still receiving.

I quickly got up and hurried over to Gwen's table, where I placed it and scurried towards the door at the back of the class, just as Gwen busted through the front door.

"Sage! Don't you fucking dare move!" She suddenly bellowed, then picked up her phone and began checking it thoroughly.

"I-I found it, under your table," I said as the teacher and the last student filed out. I bet they could read the tension a mile away.

"Oh? And I'm to believe that and not that you stole it?" She snapped.

"What the hell? Why would I steal my friend's phone?" I snapped.

Gwen looked up with that hawk like stare of her's.

" Friends?" She said, letting the word drop like a brick load of question marks.

I took a step back and looked away. 'What the hell? So now we aren't even friends because of something she did...fuck this.'

"Fine, never mind. It looks fine so I'll let you off." She said and turned to acknowledge one of her friends. I was dismissed.

I left the classroom and wandered down the hall, fingers dragging along the wall. I felt empty. Cold. I was never going to touch another thing of Gwen's again.

I decided to go over to my cousin's for a day. She had nice games and cool stuff to fiddle with. She was the sweetest warmest person alive, never a mean word or an ill intention from her, and despite being straight, she accepted me for who I was, no questions asked.

A bus trip and a ten-minute walk away took me to her apartment. I walked up the eight stories to her apartment, and walked down the corridor, finally stopping outside her door.