Psycho But Not Really

p s y c h o - 26

Althea

Of course I stayed home, all day, the hospital called in and said that my mother is getting worse and I couldn't visit, I was beginning to worry that she might not get better. I laid in bed all day, waiting for Nate to call my phone, or someone to talk to me.

I wondered what was so important to Nate, that he had to leave me. Was he cheating on me?! Oh no!

Thoughts of Nate with another girl flooded my mind, I was having awful thoughts about Nate. And as the sensitive person I am, tears spilled and dropped from my chin.

My phone rang, and the caller ID showed up as Marcl, I promised Nate not to talk to him anymore, but he's a good friend, and Nate was the one that left me.

"Hello?"

"Thea! Can I come over?"

I bit my lip, deciding if I should let Marcl come over or not, what if Nate comes back and thinks the wrong idea? I sighed.

"Sure"

I don't know where this will take me, but I know that this will probably end up in a bad situation. While I was cleaning my bedroom, I noticed Nate left his belt, he must've took it off before he fell asleep. I chuckled, imagining Nate pulling up his pants every five minutes throughout the day.

"Whatcha' laughing about?", I heard a deep voice behind me, I quickly turned around, and Marcl was standing there, against the wall, smirking. I knew I couldn't stay mad at him, because well, he's basically my best friend.

"Hey..." I softly said, and walked over to him, he leaned in to give me a hug, and I willingly leaned forwards as well, engulfing myself into his hard chest. "you know you should really lock your front door".

"I'm sorry..." I whispered, puckering my bottom lip, Marcl chuckled, "It's fine, by all means, I'm the one that's sorry" he said, and frowned. I looked up, and smiled at him. "Nate can be overprotective at times, but I like him a lot", I said adding the little pouty face at the end.

Marcl went tense, "about Nate..." he said, and rubbed his neck, "well whatever he does to you, isn't my business, but please be careful" he said, like a protective older brother. As much as I didn't want to kill the mood, I smiled and patted his shoulder.

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"You kissed me?!" Marcl screamed, grabbing his hair. I chuckled, and stuck my tongue out, "Dude chill, it was the only way to make you lose" I laughed.

We were playing a video game.

It's been two hours and we were stuck playing this stupid cheap game. Marcl found it fun, but I didn't. I just wanted Nate to come back.

"Yea yea, you could've just hit me, instead of kiss me, you dumbass!" He exclaimed.

"You kissed him?" A deep voice crept into the room without us knowing, I titled my head, and I saw Nate's curious eyes, almost hurt, Marcl was frozen, he didn't even look behind him.

"Nate! You're back" I went up to hug him, but he didn't return the hug, I looked at him, "Hey..." I softly said, he just coldly stared into my eyes, I felt a wave of ache in my heart.

"Did you kiss him?" He asked, my eyes widened, he thought I kissed Marcl!, I knew this wouldn't end well. I shook my head vigorously, "no no no, we were playing a video game, and my character kissed him!, please I'm telling the truth!" I said, almost crying.

"Hey.. you don't need to cry over it, I believe you, but why is he here?" Nate wrapped his arm around my waist. Marcl scowled at Nate, and stood up, "what's your problem? Can't I just hang out with her!" He raised his voice, at this Nate released his grip on me, and walked up to Marcl, the nervousness in me was rising.

"I'm only protecting her" he sternly said, as Marcl's chest rose, they were both breathing heavily, and jaws clenched, I didn't know what to do, I've never seen Nate this angry before, I mean he hasn't been like this with Lenny.

"Nate, let it go!" I gripped his arm, but he gently pulled me off, "Yea Nate, let... it... go" Marcl pushed his last buttons.

Nate came lunging at Marcl, grabbing his collar, "Shut up! Shut the fuck up!, don't ever touch Thea again, or even speak, breathe or see her!" Nate screamed in his face, as Marcl tried to wriggle out of his grip. Nate started to punch Marcl, so I stepped in.

My hands found their ways around Nate's waist, as I clung onto him, "Nate! Stop!" I screamed, he eventually let go, and fell on top of me, I came out beneath him, and rushed to Marcl.

"This was a bad idea..." I whispered. Marcls eyes widened.

"Bad idea? Are you serious, you barely know this guy! I'm trying to protect you from this psychopath!, alright?" Marcl yelled in my face, and I remained silent. I lowered my head.

"And you! She will know about you! Malcom is on your tail, little fucker!" Marcl stood up, and spat the blood out of his mouth, I looked up at them both, Nate was panting, and Marcl had this look of death, a Look I've never seen before. And who was Malcom? The name sounded familiar.

"Thea, stay away from him, and if you don't! Then this friendship is over. And I'm serious, you don't know what he is, sooner or later you'll know every little secret" Marcl looked at me, I shivered under him, he finally scoffed and walked out, slamming the front door, I rushed to the window, and watched him walk out of my peripheral.

I looked at Nate, who was standing there looking at me. I knew he was mad.

"Why would you even let him in, after you promised?!" He raised his voice, and I flinched. "I told you! I'm trying to protect you" he grabbed my shoulders, tears began to fill in my eyes, and Nate noticed.

"Look you're in danger, and I'm only trying to protect you Thea, and if this isn't going to work, the best way for you to stay safe, is for us to break up" Nate paused

My heart stopped beating at his words, my lips quivered, and my tears finally dropped.

" no no no!" I whispered.

"Thea, I'm not saying this is the end, but I need you to listen to me, if we're going to make it work, you're a target, and I can't loose you".

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Oof, Thea is finally going to know the truth... kinda

Updates are slowing down now, schools got me messed up ;[ but I'll try to update more frequently.  I was looking back at some chapters and I saw a lot of mistakes and misspelt words, I apologise for the confusion or the sentence that didn't make sense, I will go back and edit them correctly.

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