Wanna Play A Game? {Completed}

The Application

Colby's POV

If you are interested in the fact of what it was like in the car ride home, the answer is simple: silence. Not even all the curves and bumps in the road made Brie speak to me. It irked me to no end that she remained silent through the whole ride.

It seemed as if every five seconds I opened my mouth, to ask what I'd done to upset her, but I closed it as soon as I remembered Brie telling me to drop it ... Ha-ha, as if I could.

Brie released an elongated sigh once we pulled into the driveway.

I put the car in park and turned off the engine, "Brie-" I wasn't able to finish my sentence before Brie quickly unbuckled her seat belt and hopped out of the car.

It didn't take me but a few seconds before annoyance started to flow through me. I hurriedly got out of the car, and chased after her.

When I caught up with her, she was in the living room with her parents. They gave us skeptical looks followed by questions of why we were out of the house when we were 'sick'. Brie told them we went out to get some meds. Even with our empty hands, they gave us a nod of belief.

I watched as Brie went to leave the living room, but her father's voice stopped her, "Brie, Colby, we have some news."

Brie turned around and faced her dad looking like she wanted to run off but was stopping herself.

I stood there, silent, waiting for him to continue.

"Child services are going to visit us tomorrow. They will inspect the house, and interview both of you."

I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion, "Why so soon?"

Brie's mother shrugged her shoulders, "I have no idea, but the sooner the better, I say."

Brie's father's eyes flickered between his daughter and I before he giving us another nod, "That is all; you can go to your rooms now."

My head turned to where Brie was standing, only to find her lean figure nowhere in sight. I clenched my jaw and took off in the direction of her room.

Due to my long legs I was able to reach her egg shell color door in a matter of seconds. With no hesitation I opened the door, and stepped in.

Looking over at Brie's bed, I saw her. She was lying across her white quilted bed, with a pillow placed under her head. Tears were streaming down her face.

Peering over at the doorway she stared at me. Her green eyes seemed to be pleading for comfort, but something told me she wanted nothing more than for me to leave.

Unsure of what to do, I just stood there, gawking at her with a spiritless expression.

Without breaking contact with my eyes, she kept weeping.

I cringed with every sniff she made, for I felt totally helpless as she cried. Every bone in my body was screaming for me to ask what was wrong, but I didn't.

No, I just stood there, frozen.

Hours passed, or at least that is what it felt like before Brie gradually sat up in her bed. Her eyes glanced away from mine, breaking the eye contact.

I watched as she stood up from her bed and strolled towards me.

Reaching me, she looked up.

" ... Colby ... I'm in love with Mason," Brie told me.

Confusion coursed through me for I knew she was lying. "In love with Mason?"

"Yes ... You were right, earlier. I have been dating Mason while dating you ... and the thing is," Brie's eyes casted down on the hardwood floor beneath our feet. "I pick him."

I began to shake my head, "No, no, no, Brie! I know your lyin-"

"Colby, don't make this harder than it is ... please ... just leave!" Her voice rose in anger.

I stepped back as shock and outrage poured into my veins. I was beyond confused and in bewilderment of what could be going on with her that my voice seemed to have disappeared.

The minute my feet were out of her room, she slammed her door in my face.

My legs refused to move as I realized she just broke up with me...

It must have taken me a good thirty minutes to walk ten feet to my room. Once I entered I lightly closed the door and walked to my desk. I sat down and started aimlessly at my shoes, before looking up at my desk surface with a solemn expression ... It was then that my blue eyes connected with an application I just absent-mindedly tossed onto my desk earlier in the day.

I picked it up and saw my ink handwriting scribbled all over the paper. I read the title of the application -- as if I hadn't stared at it a thousand times before; Enlistment / Reenlistment Document Armed Forces of The United States, and I also noticed a bright red stamp in the corner of the application: ACCEPTED.

If there was a such thing as a light bulb in your head, that goes off when things start to make sense, right about now one would be turning on the high beams in my head. For it was at that very moment, I realized why Brie went running out of the house previously ... she'd read this and saw I was going to be deployed overseas in a few months.

I sat there, gaping at the paper, as if looking at it hard enough would make it go away. Every fiber of my being was regretting signing up for the military ... I don't know what came over me when I signed up. I wasn't thinking clearly. I wanted to get away from my dad ... I'd plans for Penny and Chase to go live with my Aunt if I was to be deployed ... but then my bastard of a dad died ... and I got shipped over to Brie's house ... Only to find that over the years I'd been lying to myself about how I felt for the fearless blonde.

But it seemed that I was now faced with the unwanted question of if I should let her push me away, because in the end I will have to leave ... or should I make sure I spend every last moment I have here fighting and being with her...

It didn't take me long for me to come up with a decision.

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Edited by: As usual, VICTORIA!!!! @pcgeeksquadgirl