The Bet

Chapter 10

"Really I fine." I said looking up to see Eddie standing there. "What do you want?" I asked him.

"I am going to let you guys talk." Fabian said getting up and leaving.

"So can I sit down?" Eddie asked.

"It's a free country. So I guess." I told him. He sat down next to me. We sat there in silents. Then Eddie was the first to say something.

"This is weird." He said.

"You think." I said. "Why are you out here any ways?" I looked at him.

"To see if you are okay." He said.

"I'm fine you can see." I told him.

"I can see that you are hiding your feelings." He said.

"No I am not." I said.

"Yes you are. Every time you get upset you run away from the problem. But when you get mad you yell at everyone." He said.

"Look here. You don't know me. You don't know anything about how I feel and how I express it." I said getting annoyed.

"You may be right. But what I do know is that you feel you have to prove to everyone you are stronger and not scared to do anything. That is why you do what you do." He said.

"What? Are you a shrink or something?" I asked confused.

"No. What I said is you hate showing your feelings. You think if you show any feelings at all people will think you are weak. So you just scare people and seem like you don't care. But truly you do care." He said.

"You are wrong. I care about stuff you just don't see it because you are a selfish little american brat." I said.

"So if I am a selfish little american brat then why am sitting here with you instead eating breakfast." I asked me.

"I don't know and I don't care." I said.

"And there it is." He said.

"There what is." I asked now more annoyed.

"Your I don't care act." He said.

"It's not an act. I really don't care." I said.

"Sure you don't. If you didn't care then you didn't care if you did the dare or not." He said to me.

"I did the dare because I don't back down from a dare." I said.

"There is the you have to prove everyone that you are strong and can do any thing." He said.

"Okay listen here. I'm really getting annoyed with you telling me who I'm not. You don't know me. You can't just walk in here and think you know who I am just by one truth or dare game or whatever. What about just leave me alone." I said getting up and heading back to the house. I walked back to the house. When I got inside everyone was done with breakfast and everything was cleaned up. Mara saw me came back in.

"Hey Patty. Are you okay?" She asked me.

"Yeah I'm fine." I told her. That was a lie. I was not fine I was annoyed.

"That's good." She said.

"Yeah. Have you seen Jerome?" I asked her.

"Yeah. He is in his room. Why do you ask?" She told me.

"Thanks." I said walking to his room. I knocked on the door then I heard someone said, "Enter." I entered the room to see Jerome on his bed.

"Hey Trixie. What is the pleasure to you here?" He said sitting up.

"Listen Jerome I don't know if I can do it." I told him.

"Do what?" He asked me confused.

"The bet." I told him.

"Oh yeah. What apart of it you can't do?" He asked me.

"I don't know if I can be nice to him." I told him.

"Is Patrica backing down from a bet?" He asked me.

"No. I just don't know if I can do it. Everytime he is near me I get annoyed. He is so annoying." I told him.