The Runaway Dreamers

Chapter 16

I couldn't believe it. An expression of utter shock instantly came over my face like a mask. I looked him in the eye, he was serious. I was so confused, I felt the room begin to spin but I refused to pass out again, I was sick of embarrassing myself. "H-he?" I stuttered. I couldn't get my words out, that was all I could decipher.

My throat suddenly went dry and I struggled for breath before an almost sinister smile came across his face. "I knew you'd be jealous, Saffy. That's so you." I couldn't believe what I was hearing. What was he saying? That I was jealous of his love for a boy!? I don't think so. "Excuse me? Don't be so cocky, you dick!" What was I thinking!? I instantly regretted that remark and his grin quickly transformed in to an angry glare, as if he could kill me right there and then.

"It was a joke you bitch. Everyone's been saying you had a crush on me so I thought I'd test it out. Trust you to be so weird about it."

What was I hearing right now?

"So you pretended you were gay!? What are you, retarded?" I knew he hated that word.

"Don't say that! Call me anything, but not that!"

"Why? You a pussy?"

"No! We help disabled children for a living! How dare you take the piss like that!"

I hadn't thought my argument through and, before I knew it, I found myself shivering with anticipation.

"Then why don't you replace me with one of them? I bet you wouldn't do this prank on them you sick bastard."

My words flew at him like daggers in a furious frenzy. I didn't know what was going on. A minute ago, he was telling me how he had fallen for a boy and now he was admitting to it being a joke and I had practically waved so-long to our partnership.

What the fuck had just happened?