A Twisted Fate

Mixed Emotions

I guess I had fallen asleep again because I was woken up to the sound of my front door opening. At first I thought it might be the killer, coming back to finish me off but those thoughts were interrupted when Savannah's voice broke through the air.

"Sorrow? You home?" I wiped the sleep from my eyes and slowly made my way down the stairs in silence. I watched her close the door behind her and before she could turn around I spoke, startling her.

"Why wouldn't I be home? I have nowhere else to go." She jumped out of her skin and turned toward me quickly, looking quite angry but it subsided rather quickly.

"You scared the shit out of me! Wow, you look like something my dog chewed up and spat out." She took her jacket off and draped it over the back of my father's Lazy boy recliner, then proceeded to give me a once over glance.

"Look, if you are only here to tease me and bully me more, then you can leave. I don't need to deal with you anymore." I scoffed and turned, starting to head back up the stairs.

"Actually I'm not here for that. I'm genuinely worried about you. You haven't been at school and Adrian had tried to get ahold of you many times but you never answered back. I..." I stopped in my tracks and waited a minute before heading back to the bottom of the stairs, letting her words sink in.

"You, what? Finish what you were saying 'cause now I'm curious." I curiously watched her and noticed.... Wait is she blushing? What the hell was going on here? Why is the biggest bully at school now suddenly at my house?

"I know it's a messed up way of showing it but... I-I like you Sorrow...I have...for a long time now." I watched her blush harder as she stumbled over her words that had hit me like a ton of bricks. Savannah has had a crush on me this whole time and she used bullying to cover it up? No... She just didn't know how to show it?

"You're right. That is a fucked up way of showing it." My words came out a little more forceful then I had wanted them to and I watched the pain register on her face.

"I-I just didn't know how to tell you... I knew you would never like a girl like me and I kind of hated you for that but I can't hide these feelings anymore." She looked like she was about to burst into tears at any moment but I really didn't feel sorry for her. She had been torturing me since grade school and that isn't something you just forget because they finally lay their feelings on the table.

"You know, back in grade school I actually liked you but the more you bullied me, the more those feelings changed. You're a little too late on the feels train here. I'll see you later." I watched a tear slide down her cheek and turned, walking back upstairs without a second glance at her.

"Fuck you Sorrow!" I smirked and shut my bedroom door, turning the knob on my stereo so I could drown out the rest of what she was saying and soon enough, she caught on and slammed the door as she left.

It felt nice to finally be the one to play with someone else's emotions, but why did I suddenly feel bad? She has been my worst enemy for years and now I was suddenly feeling sorry for her? Did I really not hate her as much as I thought I had? What the hell was I thinking? Of course I hated her... didn't I?

I started pacing the confines of my bedroom and I swear I made a permanent pace dent in my floor as I thought about Savannah and the crazy disappearance of Trent and Valorie. I was shortly interrupted by the continuous banging on the front door, so I decided to answer it knowing all too well who it was.

"Craig, Angel." I grimaced as I opened the door to find my least favorite officers looking a bit riled up.

"Don't you know how to answer a door? We have been knocking for a little over 5 minutes!" Craig scowled and pushed past me, making himself at home on my couch.

"I must have not heard you over my music." I spat toward him as Angel finally came in and stood off to the side.

"Well get talking. You know why we are here and I want to hear the words come straight from your filthy little mouth." I had half a nerve to punch his face off but I really didn't like the thought of jail because I stupidly assaulted an officer.

"Hear me say what? That I've been laying in my bed for the past few days because I wasn't feeling well and haven't been to school? I don't see posted anywhere that being unwell is a crime." I surprisingly said that in a calm tone even though anger was clearly burning through me as Angel wrote a few things down on her little note pad. Craig and Angel were going to try to get me to fess up to anything when I'm clearly innocent.

"We know you haven't been in school and it's because you have something to do with the disappearances and I'm starting to think you may have had a part in your parent's death. It's pretty ironic that the people you have had problems with are now suddenly gone. Tell us where you hid Trent and Valorie." He was right. Why hadn't I made the connection yet? Still, I had nothing to do with any of it.

"I didn't hide them anywhere because I had nothing to do with it. Ask the neighbors. I haven't left my house in days!"

"Oh we already talked to your neighbors. You had a visitor earlier and she left, making a pretty big scene. Yelling obscene phrases and throwing rocks at your front door. What was all that about?" Angel piped up and readied her pen to write what I was going to say.

"Savannah stopped by because she was worried that I hadn't been in school. She didn't like what I had to say so she got pissed and left. End of story." I glared at Angel who was busy scribbling away.

"That's a load of shit! Everyone in this town knows that Savannah hates your guts! Why would she be worried about you?" Craig spat, the venom seeping from his lips.

"Like I'm supposed to know the answer to that? Look, if I'm not being taken in for something I didn't do then our 'interrogation' is over. See your way out." I spat and stood up, Heading back upstairs before they could stop me. They weren't going to pin this on me when I knew I was innocent.

I listened to them leave and decided to take a shower. It had been a few days and I was feeling a little better, so it was definitely needed. I gathered everything and placed it all in their spots before glancing up at the mirror and I swear I saw my reflection sneer at me...

(Pic above is Savannah)