Ava walks by me again,
But I stop her.
"Hey, Ava?" I say calmly.
"Hm?" She turns around.
"I..." the words were stuck in my throat.
"I'm sorry." They finally come out.
"Like...REALLY sorry." I continue.
She looks at me.
And smiles.
And I felt...
Relief.
"Thanks for apologizing. I accept it." Ava says and smiles even more.
I smile.
But I don't know if I meant it.
I shouldn't mean it.
I don't even know her well.
. . .
The next morning, I woke up and walked sleepily to the fridge for a snack.
Then, I found a note.
"Hey little bro. Me, Dean and Aaron decided to go somewhere. This is where we went.
Dean-Went to the nearest park for no reason.
Ethan (me)- went to the movies with Aaron.
Aaron- went to the movies.
If you're too scared to be alone, just call me.
See you later,
Ethan."
Scared?
Eh. Maybe I'm just a little scared to be alone.
It's just that being around your brothers makes you feel safe.
And when they're all not here...
It just makes me a little paranoid.
But I think I'll be fine.
A few hours past by, and I'm still alone.
No one has bothered to call, nor has anybody came home yet.
Now I'm scared.
I pick up my phone, and call Ethan.
No reply.
I get a little nervous, and start to bite my nails.
Then, I tried to call Aaron.
Still, no reply.
I start swearing under my breath.
Then finally, I call Dean.
"Yeah?"
A voice replies finally.
"Do you know what happened to Ethan and Aaron?" I ask.
A moment of silence past by, before he finally answered.
"Nah. Why you asking? I thought they were at the movies."
He says. I could tell there was a hint of worry in his voice.
"Well...I tried to call them but they didn't answer." I explain.
More silence pasted.
"Hm. Meet me at the park. I'll see you." He says and hangs up.
I sigh.
"Let's hope they're okay." I thought.
...
I arrived shortly and found him sitting on the bench with some booze.
I sat next to him quietly.
I look over to him to see him looking down, unresponsive.
"Hey. You okay?" I ask.
No response.
"Probably wasn't a good idea to ask him that." I thought.
He sighs softly but still doesn't say anything.
I know it's a bad idea to ask him "are you okay" type of questions, but I'm determined to know why he's acting that way.
"Uh...are you mad?" I ask again, this time with a more sincere tone.
He looks at me but then growls a bit.
"Hm."
He doesn't SEEM mad.
He usually hits walls and curses when he gets mad.
But he just seems calm and stressed at the same time.
"Well, cmon." I take his hand.
"We gotta go find our bros."
Dean gasps.
"What are you doing?" He finally blurts out.
"We have to find our brothers, remember?" I say as we continued walking.
"I...I don't remember saying that." He says and puts his hand on his head.
"You don't?" I stop walking.
"Nah. Just remembered being here and drinking booze. This whiskey's good, you should try it." He stumbles a bit and puts the bottle close to my face.
I push the bottle away.
"Cmon....let's just go find them," I say and continued walking once again.
"Nooooo, I don't want to." He says and tries to slow me down with his foot.
I sigh.
"Why are you being so difficult all of a sudden?" I ask him.
He shows me his old whiskey bottle.
And then I remembered.
He's drunk.
"But why is he acting differently than when I last saw him drunk?" I thought.
"Hey, Cadet Caden, how 'bout we take a rest, huh?" He asks.
"Cadet. Really?" I say, annoyed by the comment.
"And we barely even walked." I continue.
I still continued walking, getting more frustrated each time he says an idiotic thing.
"So, when we gonna get there?" Dean asks for the millionth time.
"We are here!" I yell.
We walk inside the movies and tried to find which movie slot Ethan and Aaron were in.
Then finally, we found them.
They were safe.
The movie was just a little bit longer than it said to be.
And by a little bit, I meant a lot.
"Hey, bros!" Ethan says and hugs me and Dean warmly.
"Hey, Caden bro, who are these people?" Dean slurs his words.
"Uh...what's wrong with him?" Aaron asks and points at Dean.
"Drunk." I bluntly say.
"I ain't-" Dean then proceeds to throw up.
Ethan starts laughing wildly.
"Manners, Dean!" Aaron says a little aggressively.
"Since when did you care about manners, eh?" Dean asks and points his finger at Aaron.
Aaron grunts.
"Let's just go home." He says quietly.
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Betrayal
General Fiction"As I was walking home, a Lamborghini pulls up to me unexpectedly. Twisters got out of the car like ants and walked up to me. "Why were you talking to Ava?" Jayden asks as he rubs his fingers through his sharp blade. I say nothing and shrugged. They...
