Apart from getting suspended from school for a week, I thought some situation could get any better. One week after our suspension together with our community service, Grant has been distant to me ever since the day the admin officer told us about our sanction. I don't know what he has been thinking and I tried to reach him out he just said to me that it's all right, he's fine and I should not bother and worry about him because I should focus more to my project and that's what we've been doing since then. Though I feel like I'm getting a silent treatment from him and I don't understand why.
"Do you want me to go back to my dorm now?" I said to Grant out of nowhere. He's watching television, we just finished eating our dinner and it still seems quiet. I'm not familiar with this silence anymore. I'm trying to understand what's happening but when I keep guessing, I've been getting into nowhere so I tried not to think deep but I've got no place to go. I just need to talk him out of this.
"I didn't say anything," he uttered. "Why would you say that?"
I shrugged off my shoulder, "I just thought that you need some space. You know, I'm not blind not to notice that you've been avoiding me since we were called in the—"
"No, please, let's not talk about it," he said putting his hand on my face cutting me off.
I was confused. "Okay... if you say so but you could talk to me when you want to. I'm not here with you just to be some kind of figurines you're passing by. I will listen."
"There's nothing to talk about, Lili." He said but there's a slight irritation coming out of his tone and I'm not sure if there's really nothing to talk about when clearly from what he's been acting, there is something. "I'll go to bed now. I need to wake up early, I don't wanna miss my class tomorrow."
"Sure..." I muttered and then I watched him stood up and follow him headed to the bedroom. He shut the door completely and leave me alone—confused and bothered.
Out of boredom, I open up my gram and immediately went to Grant's profile @eyedrawu and I noticed something that's been missing on his profile. His sketch of me and the one he captured from the wall, it's now gone. My eyes instantly landed to where the frame located and my shoulder dropped to find that it was taken down. I stood up from the couch and walk forward to the desk to reach for the frame and when I pick it up. There's damage in it. The glass frame of it was broken.
Because of what I have learned, I abruptly went into the bedroom and check Grant and I found him deep asleep so I didn't bother him anymore. And it just added to my anxiety. I haven't notice that it was taken down, we were both busy on my project too and Grant didn't talk about it. That's the biggest question lingers in my mind right now.
As when the morning came, just when I got up from bed, I saw Grant left and he said that he needed to do something that's why he had to go alone, and with that, I was curious to know what he's been dealing with.
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Lili Roberts' Identity Crisis (Season 1)
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