Rosie

Chapter 8 - Sam

"Yo! You're up for another beer?" I hear Charles yell at me from the other side of the room.

"Yeah, sure! Just look in the mini-fridge" I was currently getting dressed after taking a shower. Charles came over after Wednesday night practice. He has been a pain in my ass lately. He just keeps bugging me about Leo. Keeps calling him a nerd and boring and all kind of other disrespectful things. Because I hang out in my dorm room more I was going out and drinking with him less and I think he took that the wrong way. He just keeps pushing me to go out, drink and get laid. We used to hang out all the time, but lately just seeing him at practice pisses me off. After that one fight at the beginning of the year in the locker rooms, he tried to aboard the Rosie subject a few times. One bleeding nose and a blue eye were enough to make him quit. Just to be clear I don't have anger issues. Just issues with most of the people around me.

I walk back into the room and go sit on the couch; he throws me a beer "How are you? haven't hung out a lot lately"

There we go "Fine" I answer plainly. I don't even know why he is here, he just followed me after practice and knocked on the door a few minutes after I got in. Saying he wanted to hang out for the night. I texted Leo not to come back. I didn't know how Charles and he would react to each other.

He comes to sit down next to me "I mean we could have but you always hang in here with nerd boy and those two chicks"

Oh yes, here it is "They have names, Charles". I don't know why it annoys me so much, but it does. I got close to the three of them lately. And I guess looking at their lives and friendships I noticed how bad I fucked up in mine. I'm done with being everybody's biggest disappointment. I'm done with not trying to make a single thing out of my life. It's time to get my shit together and people like Charles are not making it easy on me.

Charles rolls his eyes "As if I care. You are my mate and I haven't seen you in ages". Yeah, see I'm not sure if that first part is still true. Pretty sure it's not.

I sigh looking away from him, just looking at the small black Tv screen in the corner "Now don't go dramatic on me, it's not your style"

"It's true you have been boring as fuck!" he exclaims.

He is really getting on my nerves; I take a sip of my beer to calm down and to think over my next words "Says the guy who has had the same activities for over four years now".

"What are you talking about?" like he doesn't know.

I start my enumeration "school, work, party, fuck, sleep, school, work, party, fuck again if you are lucky, sleep, school..."

He cuts me off "Okay! I get it. Just don't forget you used to be the same" I was sensing he was kind of done with me to at this point.

I take a sip of my beer "Yeah well I'm trying something new"

"Something new my ass! sooner or later you will get bored or fuck up with your new friends like you always do and you will come back." that kind of hurts. Not that I let it show. But he is right not about the whole bored thing. At least I don't think so. But about the fuck up part. I always fuck up every good thing in my life. If one thing has been proven in the past, it is that precise thing. Charles knows some things. Things I told him during drunken nights. Things I shouldn't have told him

Knowing he is only saying this to piss me off I just say "well see" not elaborating on the subject.

He lets out a frustrated sigh "you will".

"Put on the game will you" he does as I say and turns the Tv on to watch the basketball game.

It is almost 8 o'clock and Charles is still here. I didn't find a good enough excuse to kick him out since the game is still on. He is drinking all our beer and being annoying as fuck. Suddenly Leo barges into the room looking upset.