Escaping Death [Watty Awards]

Chapter 6-Gwen

Chapter 6-Gwen

“So you don’t remember anything that happened before you fainted, except for the fact that you met this guy?”  Tammy said on the phone.

“Yes, that about sums it up.”  I said.  “And the guy has a name, Tams.  His name is Gabriel.”

“Yeah, yeah.  Don’t you think that it’s weird though?”  She sounded exasperated.  Which I thought was funny considering that I wasn’t vexing about the situation as much as she was.

“What do you mean?”  Tammy always has to have a theory for every little, out of the ordinary thing that happens in life. 

“Well, you faint and then all of a sudden you don’t remember anything.  There has to be a logical explanation for that. Like...”

“Like what?”  I asked suddenly curious.

She lets out a breath and laughs.  “Damn.  I don’t know.”

I laugh at the hint of defeat in her voice.  “Well, maybe you were paralyzed by his hotness!”  She gushes and I can feel heat creep up into my cheeks.  “I mean did you see him.  He is tall, handsome, and mysterious.  And did you see his eyes!  They were-”

“Tammy.”  I groaned.

“Okay, okay.  I’m sorry.  But you can’t deny that you did not check him out.”  She stated.

I sighed.  “Okay, maybe I did.  So what?  Gabriel doesn’t seem like my type.  I don’t know...”

“Gwen! It’s time for dinner!”  My mother called from downstairs.  I covered the phone with my hand and called out, “Alright.  Be there in a sec.”  I put the phone back to my ear and said, “Hey, I gotta go but I’ll see you tomorrow.”

“Yup.  Don’t forget the notes for Latin tomorrow.”  She said in a rush.  “Later!”  Before I could say anything the line went dead.

I walked down to the living room and sat down in the settee next to the window.  Dad hadn’t come home from work yet.  It was usual for him.  Mom and I mostly ate dinner by ourselves now.  A part of me knew where dad was and it wasn’t work.  The other part of me knew that mom also thought the same thing.  Dad had had become distant the past couple of months.  The only explanation-Tammy’s explanation-was that dad was having an affair.  I didn’t want to believe it at first but now it was clear.  The signs were all there; him coming home late, the smell of perfume on him, the ruffle of his hair...it all points to it.  Even though we had our assumptions, we still didn’t have any proof.  I had no idea if our theories were correct; if they were, I don’t know what I’d do.  I didn’t want to accept the fact that maybe my father was possibly cheating because it was just not a thought that I could grasp.  I knew something was going on but I didn’t want it to be an affair.  I would want anything else than that.  I couldn’t even imagine how I’d handle it.  I couldn’t imagine what mom would do.

My heart was telling me that dad couldn’t cheat because he loved mom so much but my mind was telling me otherwise.  I was surprised that mom was handling it well.  She was never the one to cause a scene and maybe this was better for all of us.  I never overheard mom question dad about his whereabouts and maybe it was because she didn’t have the slightest idea of what he may be doing.  But this idea would go against everything that I know about mom.  Mom is always perceptive even when the person may not know it.  It’s one of the reasons that I can’t ever lie because she would know the second the lie was said.  No, she knows something and I know that this was true.

We ate dinner silently and alone.  After I was finished with my plate, I went upstairs and started on my homework.  Or at least I tried to do it.  My thoughts kept on going off track.  I kept thinking about Gabriel.  It wasn’t usual for me to start feeling like this towards a guy.  Somehow, Gabriel seemed different.  But at the same time I felt like I knew him and trusted him.

“That’s not possible.”  I said aloud.

I pushed all thoughts of him aside and started to concentrate really hard on my homework.  If I didn’t finish this tonight I was going to be dead tomorrow.  Gates was going to have my head on a platter if I didn’t have this paper on the Roman Empire finished.

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