People I Don't Know

He's my happiness

Rachel called Luis, she said that he said that he will go and check on Erin. We are waiting for his call sitting in the living room. It's been more than two hours since we didn't receive any call from him.

I tried calling Erin but his phone is switched off. I can only hope that he doesn't make any stupid decisions. It is early in the morning, we are all tired because of lack of sleep. We are just sitting on the couch in the living room silently.

"You never said that you have Luis number with you," Tori mumbled.

"It's not a big thing." Rachel said.

"Umm.. since when?" Tori asked sitting straight.

She said nothing, Tori and I started glaring at her for answers.

"Stop glaring at me." Rachel said with a deep frown.

I don't know why she's acting weird but right now I'm not in a mood to interrogate her. I sat silently listening to their conversation.

Suddenly someone knocked on our door and Rachel went to see who's that. Tori and I glued our eyes on the door and when Rachel opened the door we saw Luis. He just hugged Rachel so tight and she hugged him back. I widened my eyes with shock, Tori gasped, it is her favourite reaction.

"What was that?" Tori whispered in the air.

They broke their hug, Luis looked like he's worried about something. I hope everything is okay, I don't want to invade their private space so I just stood next to the couch. They started discussing something that I can't hear. After five minutes Luis walked into the living room towards me.

"I couldn't stop him." He said with a low voice. His eyes are red and his face looked tired just like us.

"He left?" I asked looking up at Luis's face catching eye contact.

"Yeah." He said.

"Where?" I asked.

"I don't know." He said. To be honest, I don't know how to react, I don't know what to ask Luis. It is quite awkward discussing such an issue with my brother.

"Why is he doing like this?" I asked him.

"Umm... I think he's tired of everything. He needs a break." He stated.

"He said he wants you to be happy." He said breaking our eye contact and looking away.

Does he want my happiness? He's my happiness.

Maybe, in the beginning, I doubted him but later I liked him the way he is with all the secrets behind him, even with a confused head I fell for him. I was happy when he was around, that's enough for me. Why doesn't he understand that?

"When he will be back?" I asked with a puzzled face.

"He said nothing about that." He snapped.

"Okay." That's all I can say.

"You need to get over this." He suggested.

"Yeah! I will, I don't need him anyway. I know it will never work out. I'm fine. I'll be fine. Let him stay away. It's okay. Good for me." I said and smiled.

Everyone looked at me with a frown, disbelieving my words. But I won't be strong and I don't want to continuously show people how weak I am. I ignored their puzzled faces.

They stayed silent, what else I can say? Do they expect me to cry like a baby and say I need him, please help me get back to him? Maybe that's what I really wanted to do, I want him back, I want them to help me. But I don't want to look like an idiot before Luis.