It All Started With A Bet

Decisions

He called up Rosche. " Hi Rosche , Patrick here. Yes so about the date , I ...."

"I just broke up with Jass and I am not in the right place right now. " Pat said and stopped to listen to what Roche was saying .

"No , no , listen ... I just think it will not be fair to you . I am very confused right now and I need some time to process this thing " He said . I could see he was not confident of his decision . He was mincing words choosing each word carefully .

"I can't tell you when . I just need some time. Please.." I looked at Liya. She was also patiently waiting for the call to get over .

" Yea." He closed his cell and looked at us . I smiled at him . "He said he can wait forever." Then he looked down at his phone . Probably a text .
"Roche just texted 'forever'!"

"Wow... that's sweet and creepy." I said. "Yea...." he muttered. " But what happened ... do you think it was because of the break up ? That all the crying and stuff got me all low? Am I not straight ??"

As much as he was affected by the thought he didn't show it . Liya and me knew he disliked the thought of him being bi or gay. I kept quiet allowing Liya to handle this one . She had a way with words.

"Don't run behind labels right now " said Liya. "You have time to figure all that out . Don't over think this. "

And Patrick texted a smiley or something I guess,shut off his phone and laid in his bed."It's been a long day " he exclaimed. "My head hurts". "Mine also" I said . "Me three" said Liya and we all started laughing. After that we just kept quiet. It was a comfortable silence and we just sat there basking in it .

In a while Liya's phone rang. She said it's her mom and went outside the room to speak . I looked around the room at Pat's various posters. He was a true fanboy , which was really cool cause I could talk to him about all the shows I watched. He also has a few baseball posters around.

He looked at me to figure out why I was so quiet and so me looking at his baseball posters. "Wanna come over to see the match tomorrow ? " he asked me .

Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow.
" Oh tomorrow your favourites McCall and Stilinsky are playing. Thats why!.....you want me to come over so that your mom can't push you to study . Smartass."

He laughed, "coming or no ?"
"Yes obviously .....Stilinsky is playing .... I love Stilinsky."

Liya entered. She said her mom just wanted to know what happened, how he is and where we were. I smiled . I liked Liya's mom . She was pretty chill too.

"What's the time ?" Asked Pat. I checked my phone only to see it had switched off. "
"7.15 ..... why? Tired of us already " Liya said with a chuckle.

" Nah ... I am really tired and just wanna eat and sleep. " He replied with a yawn . I picked up the plate of snacks his mom kept down and took it next to him. He declined it with a nod . Then I offered Liya also who said she'll take later.

" What did we even do today that got me so tired? " Pat exclaimed loudly. Hmmm. What did we today ? Oh shit. Oh Shit . Oh Shit.

I looked at Liya and she had the same expression on her face. Realisation struck. Then we looked at Pat. Seeing our looks he realised what was going on .

"Oh.... Wasn't he supposed to message you or something ?" Pat asked . "Yeah but my phone died right ... after you like an idiot fainted in front of me ." I said teasing him .

" Well next time I shall book an appointment to faint in front of the great Miss.Adabelle." he retorted. "Oh man , what should I do now. Pat , charger ?" He pointed me towards a drawer beneath his Hale poster.

I plugged my phone in. Decided to give it few mins to charge before I switch it on . In the meantime Liya began eating the snacks so we took the plate and sat on his bed . Eating a little and forcing him to eat a little.

After some time of snacking I went and checked my phone.

14 new messages
Mom; 5.03 : Take Care of him and be Safe.

6.27 :Call Tyler if you need to be picked.

Tyler; 5.48 : Call me if you need to be picked from Patrick's place.

6.43 : Leaving for home.

Randall; 2.09 : Hi.

2.10• I live on the East Side of the School. Take the the second exit from the round about and go straight . Stop when you see a large board that says RD properties. First house on the left. It has a large name plate that says my name in caps .

3.00 •You're late slave .

3.10 • Very late.

3.50• Knew you weren't gonna turn up. Someone's a sore loser.

4.20 • Wow. I can't believe you .

4.45 • Did you get lost or something ?

5.15 • Where the hell are you ?

5.30• Guess what? You're gonna pay for not keeping your side of the bet. ;)

6.00 • Bye.

Oh God. He waited for me to show for three hours . And I forgot. How stupid .Should I go? He waited for three hours so the least I could do is show up right?

I could ask Tyler to drop me but his big brother side would get all protective and ask loads of questions. And I was too tired to handle him .So I asked Liya and she said she would, provided I called Tyler to pick me up in the night . I agreed .

Patrick told us to go right at that time , before it got too dark. We left from his house round 7.40 after greeting his mom .

Because of Liya's slow and tiresome driving we reached at 8.10 , but I couldn't complain she had helped out after all .

After wishing her Goodnight I got out, went inside the gate . His house was huge. It was a two storey bungalow. It had a garden running 10 metres around the house. It looked like one of those picture perfect houses you see in catalogues.

I walked to the gate, registered my name with the security guard and found a way to the door . Indeed his name was there on the door, in caps, in gold lettering against the doors oaky background.

I knocked on the door. After 2 knocks only someone opened the door . It was a butler . "Adabelle ?" . I nodded. "The Master waited for a long while and then went to his room ." He said with a sigh.

"Can you call him? Tell him I am here. " I asked.
He nodded and gestured to me to walk in. I walked in. As I entered I was shocked , the place was so royal. Everything I could see in front of me was in shades of Gold,Silver, Bronze and Platinum. It was really pretty but at the same time too much to take in .

The butler came back out of the hallway he had disappeared into a while back. "Please go down this hall, last room at the end of this corridor . Knock before you enter." He said whilst pointing to this long corridor.

This was slowly starting to feel stupid . What if Randall was some Mafia's kid. Or a snobby rich kid who has weird kinks and tastes. What if he had something for torturing people ? Or maybe he himself was a criminal and therefore needed to change schools . Or a Cullen ... oh my God . I am overthinking this shit.

Wasn't really a smart idea to come to an area I don't know without having any sort of protection . But putting all those thoughts aside I walked to the room. I knocked. I heard a deep male voice "Enter" as I walked in I saw Randall on a large sofa chair. With a large evil smirk he said
"Welcome.."