Torn Between Dreams and Reality

CHAPTER 70 Atypical Kind of Friendship

CHAPTER 70 Atypical Kind of Friendship

“What the fuck, Zac?! No, you’re not coming here at this time!” I half-yelled at him over the cell phone because of the crazy plan that’s on his mind.

(I’ll be fetching you there whether you like it or not. Besides, it’s not me who wanted you to come with us here; it’s Sophia who’s insisting. I told her it’s too late for you but she-) He cut his sentence while I heard Ate Sophia talking to him at the background. (Is there a problem? I will talk to uncle to let her go tonight.) Then Zac talked to me saying, (Heard that? This is her idea.)

The idea of fetching me here at our house now that it is exactly 11:48 PM already, just to go at a club and party really bothers me to the extent that I was going up and down the stairs, from the bedroom to the kitchen and back to the bedroom just to drink water to ease my nervousness about how my parents will react when Ate Sophia drops by.

Then the door bell rang while I was at my bedroom.

“Oh mother of pizza pie!” I told myself with closed eyes and deep breath.

I heard my Mom’s footsteps walking down the stairs, obviously, to answer the door bell.

I stick my ears at my bedroom’s door and listened intently at the conversation they are having downstairs though I can barely cognize every word.

Ate Sophia told Mommy her purpose of dropping by, I can fully sense how surprised my Mom is, maybe that’s why she called Daddy down.

When Daddy came, I bet he was surprised too. Given the fact that Ate Sophia and he had some misunderstandings about Dwight and I’s relationship, it’s really quite a shocker for her to come over and ask them to let me go in the midst of midnight just to give her company.

Things are running through my mind while they are talking downstairs. If unfortunate things happen, I’m betting and I’m afraid Daddy would scold me about this tomorrow morning.

But I guess fate is on my side.

Ate Sophia went up to see me at my room to say that my parents are letting me go with her tonight and I have to change my clothes quickly so we can immediately leave and come back early.

I was in total excitement of picking what to wear before I remembered my boyfriend.

“Ate, Dwight will not be pleased to know about this,” I told her.

“Don’t mind him, as if he would kill you,” she said then winked at me.

“But Ate –“

“C’mon Zoe, I’ll take care of him. He’ll understand.”

With her assurance, I continued finding an outfit to wear. Afterwards, I put just a little bit of make-up, went downstairs to say goodbye to my parents, left the house and rode the vehicle waiting for us outside the gate which is driven by Zac.

“Girls are so fast I don’t even have the time to get bored,” Zac told us in a sarcastic manner when we entered his car.

“What are the actual words that you say for them to let me go out at this time??” I curiously asked Ate Sophia who sits at the passenger seat.

“I told them that I need company, that I have no friends here and I need someone who knows the Metro so well. I also told them we have a driver and we’ll bring you home before the sun rises. Besides, I’m a family, perhaps they trust me.”