Wyatt and Wendy

Chapter 20

Wyatt

        Jake and I walked around campus after leaving Karl and Roxy in my room to catch up. I still didn't know how they knew each other but they seemed too engrossed in their conversation to give me a chance to question.

"Did your dad tell you anything that may have suggested Annie was a ghoul?" Jake asked

"She was supernatural so maybe the rule only applies to humans" I rationalized dispelling the possibility that Annie might have been, or still is a ghoul.

"You loved her didn't you?" he asked.

        I came to a stop in front of the coffee shop "love can't even describe it" I said sitting down under the umbrella situated in the middle of the round patio table. 

  "So what are you going to do?"

        I shrugged and though it pained me to I said, "Forget. I put her out of my head for months I need to do that again because you never know if I start trying to really remember her, stuff might happen."

        He nodded in agreement "like Stefan and Damon they sort of forgot about Katherine then when they tried to find her bad things happened."

 I paused "you watch Vampire Diaries?"

He shrugged "Charlotte".

I nodded knowingly "Wendy."

Forget. I was determined to do just that, starting now.

"You don't think Roxy was groping Karl do you?" I asked fiddling with the laminated menu.

Jake chuckled “yes, definitely, that's the reason I broke up with her."

"I thought you broke up with her because she held out, at least that's what Wendy told me".

        "That’s what she likes to tell everyone. I broke up with her because she hurt me" my eyebrows went up he sounded so dramatic. "When we were dating all she did was talk about the Karl, she was obsessed with him. ‘Can you believe Karl', 'O.M.G Karl changed his status.'" His imitation of Roxy was spot on.

 "How did she hurt you?" I asked.

        "She had promised to stop talking about Karl. One day we were in her room "hanging out" when she got a text from Karl asking if she wanted to hang out. She went all what am I going to wear and all that other stuff. She totally forgot about me when I could not take it anymore I just blew up and told her Roxanne was a stupid name. Funny thing Karl wanted to go to the movies in a group with his new girlfriend and I went to the same theatre to wallow. That is where I met Bridget and we became fully acquainted. When Roxy came, I was talking and having a good time with Bridget. She had thought she was going on a date with Karl but when she came, she found Karl had a new girlfriend, I had moved onto Bridget and she was all alone. You should have seen her face man karma is a bitch."

         I could not believe what he was saying was true but it had to be the way Roxy was groping Karl before we left made it all made sense.

        "Are you guys going to buy something?" Matthew stood over us his arms crossed over his chest, his lips pulled together tightly together. What did Wendy see in him? I really didn't like the guy and by the way, his eyes glared down at me, the feeling was mutual. Jake cleared his throat "can we have two iced lattes extra whipped cream." Matthew rolled his eyes and walked away obviously upset that we were making him work.

"Why did you order?" I asked Jake

        "I figured after the stare down you had you would be thirsty and that it'd be pretty funny to see him wait on his "arch nemesis".

        I laughed amused by his train of thought. Matthew returned with our drinks topped heavily with white foam. Jake smiled and handed him a ten-dollar bill "keep the change". Matthew smiled sarcastically snatching the bill from his hand.

        I looked down at my drink eyeing it skeptically, "do you think he spit in it?" I asked Jake who had already slurped down half the contents of the glass.

        "Aw shit" he pushed the cup away and began retching. Laughs escaped my lips bringing tears to my eyes.

        "Your receipt" Matthew said tossing a piece of paper folded in half on the table. I opened the paper and all laughs stuck in my throat, red ink stained the small sheet with three words all in bold capitals. FIND MY SISTER. So much for forgetting.

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          Karl was on the phone all night saying I love you to some girl about a million times per minute. Sleep was the light at the end of the tunnel that was near but oh so very far away. Every time I tried to close my eyes, he let out a laugh, or a snicker, or something that prevented me from falling asleep.

        I had planned to sleep in but the sound of a cell phone ringing woke me up. I glared at Karl and picked up my pillow to throw at him before realizing it was my phone.

 "Hello?" it was Roxy

"Is Karl there?"

I rolled my eyes "yeah why?" I could hear sniffling on the other end "are you crying?" I asked

"She's dead."

I gripped the phone and sat up fully alert. "Who?" I waited for the worst, for my world to come crashing down.

"Bridget."

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        Chaos would be understatement to describe the disorder in the girl's dorm the police were speaking to the principle, girls were shrieking, and the EMT’s were carrying a gurney out of her room. "Can I just see her one more time, she’s family," Karl said to one of the EMT’s. They stopped and lifted the sheet that covered Bridget's body away from her face. Her face was pale void of any indication that she maybe was just in a coma, but even in death, she was beautiful. Karl kissed his middle and index finger and touched her forehead.

Roxy slammed into me head on; I wrapped my arms around her as she sobbed into my chest.