His Chase

09 | His Chase

"I HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU!!!!" Zoe and Mabel's words scud almost together in the bedroom. The exposure about her sentence turns Mabel desperate to hear her best friend first. She walks through the pile of clothes and kicks a few of them off aside which makes her more furious.

"You say first!" Zoe takes a deep breath.

"First you!" Mabel retorts, shifting aside over the bed to give Zoe a comfortable space beside her.

Zoe stands in front of her, nervously, chewing her lower lip constantly, "It may sound weird but... you know... I tried calling you but you weren't--"

"Zoe! JUST SAY!! Don't make fudge!" Mabel almost bursts out of her curiosity.

Zoe hesitates but Mabel can sense the excitement in her shaky moves, after all, it is a gossip and has kilos of drama and Zoe loves the drama. Zoe gets more nervous and loses the joy and looks more serious and scared, finally, she opens her mouth to say. She sits beside Mabel, "I guess... I made a sort of mistake!"

Mabel says slowly, "It's okay unless you've killed someone, just say it."

"I...I was...coming back from our play practice...And I saw..." She chews over her lip and pauses as if she was narrating a horror story and waits for suspense music to play in the background. She doesn't speak for a few seconds then continues, "Mabel! Is it fine if I tell you this, I actually... I..."

Mabel nods to let her know that she can speak without carrying any further suspense. Zoe continues, "I'll tell from the beginning that what actually happened!" She takes a long breath and starts explaining, "And do remember that I tried calling you!! Okay?"

Mabel nods. Okay. Losing patience.

Zoe begins, "When I came to my locker with Nina and Becca after completing our all drama stuff. I saw a piece of paper stuck in my locker. It all happened after school ended." She quickly grabs her bag from her study desk and ruffles out a paper and hands it to Mabel and throws her bag away in the mess and would probably complain tomorrow in the morning for not getting it.

Mabel reads the written words on the perfect torn-square-piece of paper.

Meet me at the school ground...
I'm waiting for you... ♡

Mabel looks back at her, "Did you go to meet this person?" It was unnecessary to even guess who was the sender of this beautiful love letter.

Zoe gulps, "I called you after getting this thing but it was unreachable. Nina and Becca said at least I should have a look who he is... and so I went after them forcing me to."

Mabel doesn't react but she couldn't believe it, Nina and Becca were witnesses to this situation and at that same moment in the different corner of their town, Mabel was probably sleeping her ass off in the crappiest car of Skyler Foster. "Then what happened... did you see who he was?" Mabel asks with no madness in her voice. Honestly, this Bad-Boys played very cleverly today.

"I saw who he was for sure. It was... You know who he was."

Mabel hisses his name like a curse, "Dylan. That fu--"

"Yea... him!" Zoe grits her teeth, "Dylan Rodriguez. When I saw it was him, I kinda thought of punching his throat out of him but then I thought, I should just walk away because you weren't there. I wasn't getting any other good idea."

"And please tell me you did walk away!" Mabel blissfully made a guess but Zoe's facial expressions didn't cooperate with hers.

"No Mabel... I did a horrible mistake... Now I regret! I went to him... but please, believe me, Nina forced me too!!"