The Bet

Don't Care

Saturday Morning

"This is the second time now" Ryan voiced, making me open my eyes just a little. "If you wanna cuddle just say so"

"This is the second time now that you ruined my sleep"

"Oh whatever" she laughs flipping around to face me.

"Thank you for letting me stay the night though. I just didn't wanna be home with my dad" I tell her.

"It's fine. But I still don't know why you didn't wanna stay home after I dropped you off. Did he do something to you again?"

"No. Well, yes but that's not why I wanted to leave"

"Well do tell," she says lifting sitting upright on her bed as I stayed laying down however now looking up at her.

"Ok well, my mom has this big-time company and when she died she left it to me but my dad was a little upset that he didn't go to him"

"Well, what does that have to do with anything?"

"My dad and mom meet at her firm. He was under her and then she got promoted and so she moved up upon the success ladder"

"I'm still- wait if the company is hers that is now left to you that means it's now yours..which means your dad works for you?"

"Yup but because I'm still in college I had someone take the CEO seat for now till I graduate," I tell her, letting her in more on my family life. "I have such a promising future ahead of me but that promising future is damaging my relationship and home life with my dad"

"Yikes. That rough" she says falling next to me. "Is that also why he drinks?"

"I wouldn't know but I don't put it past him for that to be another reason. He blames me without saying it but I have this gut feeling that it's because of me. He's all I have left in a parent but sometimes it feels like he wishes my mom was here and I would be the one to go...I'm sorry that got way too heavy"

"It's no sweat. I would know how you feel about that..well not the part of being gone but I do sometimes think my mom wish it was just her"

"How do you mean?"

"My dad also left me his company. Well, correction he left half to both my mom and me"

"Well there's some news"

"Yea the worst part is that I will be just like you. Taking over the company once I graduate"

"Why is that such a bad thing?"

"Because I wanna travel to see the world, live a little, see everything before I become swamped with being an adult and running a multi-million dollar company. I'm still young"

"Where would you go?" I asked as I subconsciously moved to lay my head on her shoulder, playing with the end of her hair.

"Huh?" She asked getting more comfortable not caring about how I was laying on her.

"If you travel where would go first?"

"Oh. I would love to go to Dubai" she says now running her hand through my hair, causing me to close my eyes at how good this felt.

"Why there?"

"Have you seen it? It's beautiful"

"I'll take your word for it"

"Heh ok," she chuckled. "You know I won't lie, I think I could get used to waking up next to you"

Ok, let's pause! I know I have feelings for Ryan now but could she possibly like me back now? Or did she just mean that as in because it's nice to wake up to a friendly face of a good friend? Having feelings for a person and not knowing how they feel sucks.