The Town of Frostwallow

Chapter 17: "Do you think it will work?"

DAPHNE'S POV

I went home that day without seeing Cole again. It's not that something awful happened to him. It's just that he got suspended for going through Mr. Colson's things and apparently, he answered back Principal Nyre with a disrespectful tone. I knew that telling him was a wrong thing to do. I was never supposed to tell him about me and the girls, but he was very pushy. I decided to tell him what we were planning, and as I thought, he'd have a hard time getting his hands off of the issue.

I remember having a fight with Cole the night before I told him about what the girls and I were doing. It was also the day I went with Doug, the day I met Noah, the night when Autumn's family had a panic because of the food poisoning.

"What were you thinking Daphne?" Cole asked me.

"What do you mean? I haven't done anything wrong!"

"Yes you have. You haven't told me that you met Noah and you had a conversation with him without my permission?"

"Your permission? What am I to you? I'm your girlfriend, I'm not under your possession, Cole."

"Yes you are, you're my girlfriend!"

"Cole, do you even hear yourself? You're sounding like a mad man!"

"Why did you even talk to Noah? Huh? Why did you? Are you having a relationship with him?"

"I am not! I only talked to him because I haven't seen him in a while. How dare you say such thing? Do you not trust me anymore?"

"Look!" he said and sighed as if he was already frustrated. "I trust you. It's just the people around you that I don't trust. To be honest. I don't fully trust your friends. Harper and Quinn? I don't- I'm not that fond of them."

"Well you should be because they're my friends. If you can't handle my friends, then what's the point of being with me?"

"Daphne, I love you and I want you to understand.. It's just that lately you haven't been hanging out with me anymore. It's like all about them. What about us?"

After that conversation, I've started to think about what I've done. If I'm right. If it was right to keep it a secret, that we're slowly, one by one, starting to be involved in a threat from being the next victim.

It's not a walk in the park – to be in a relationship with Cole. His family's one of the richest families in our town which makes it hard for me to keep up, even if I myself and my family are wealthy, there was no question about Cole being wealthier than us.

Taking my planner from the desk, I looked at what I have for the day. I saw that I'm scheduled to meet Doug today. I smiled at the thought of seeing my brother again. Although he has his faults and have a different way of expressing himself towards others, I still treat him, and will always do, as my only family.

I got up from my bed after writing on my planner, seeing that my parents are already away - probably for the short vacation that they'll be having since I'm not actually invited. They do that usually, going out of town, sometimes out of the country. We've gone away as a family before but that was when Doug and I were still kids. Sometimes I get the idea that my parents don't like me and Doug as their children, as if they've always wanted a different pair of kids.

From where I was, by my peripheral vision, I saw someone standing by the door. I looked at that direction and saw that it was Ferdinand, on his phone.

"Dad wouldn't be happy to see you on the phone, Ferdinand."