The Other Side Of Matthew Taylor

Chapter #5

Hello reader!
Dedicating this chapter to my real life Alice and Rohan! <3 Pallavi and Parth! :*

The Other Side of Matthew Taylor _ chapter #5

Okay, take a deep breath, in out. In, out. In, out.

Phew! I don't have a clue how am I gonna do this!

I decided to talk to Matthew about all this upfront. How and what I was about to tell him, I don't know. I just knew that once I saw him, all the memories would come rushing back to my mind and I would know what to speak.

Yeah, I was like that - a true believer in logic but a strongly irrational person at times.

I decided to meet Matthew after his basketball practice. I was waiting on the bleachers for his practice to end.

He was playing alone, dribbling the ball and shooting and repeat.

He was so engrossed in the game that he hadn't noticed me ; that is until I decided to sneeze loudly 3 times in a row.

He snapped his head in my direction. I saw his eyes open wide in confusion the moment he saw me.

He stared at me for a while, probably wondering what was I doing in there.

Then all of a sudden I saw an arrogant smirk spread on his face, a smirk I know all too well.

He took swift steps towards me and before I could blink twice, he was standing right im front of me. He was wearing the perfume he always wore ; it's fragrance mixed with the smell of his perspiration. I stared a moment too long at him, maybe out of nervousness.

Unfortunately before I could tear my eyes away from him, he noticed what I was upto.

"Like what you see, nerd?" he asked in a husky voice.

"I..umm..hi?"

I asked, completely unaware of what I was saying. My mind was already working overtime, trying to figure out how to bring up the topic of his parents.

"Matthew, I think we need to talk...."

Before I could complete my sentence, Matthew started laughing hysterically.

"Kiara stone! Earth to you! Why are you using a break up line on me?" he said, in between giggles.

"what? Oh, um, I actually....." I tailed off, not being able to find the correct words.

"Listen nerd, you must've got rhe wrong guy. I am the captain of team Archers. You are probably looking for the captain of the losers ; your idiotic friend from faaar across the seas. He surely mustn't be getting any in India -that loser - so he tried his luck with you! And for someone like you and Alice, complete losers yourselves, he must've been a treat! All you losers completely fit along! Go find him and leave me alone, nerd."

Ugh!

That's it he has broken all limits! He called Rohan a loser! How dare he? He could call me any names he wanted ; I could bear with it. But no one, I repeat NO ONE gets to mess with my best friends!

"You are a big time loser yourself, Taylor! You have no rights to say anything about Alice and Rohan! Rohan is not a loser! And this is coming from you? A person who Is the biggest loser? Just because you couldn't handle the hell that your home is doesn't mean you have the rights to go around insulting every person you see! You are the weakest, sly-most loser ever, Matthew! "

I said, my voice strong with the new found confidence.

"wh...what?" Matthew said, completely shocked. All colour had faded from his face - you say he looked like a zombie.

Oh. My. God.

Nooooo! Shit! I couldn't stop those words from coming out! Before I could make up for what I said, Matthew started walking backwards. He turned his back to me, and took shaky steps out of the court.

As if I wasn't guilty enough ; the silence Matthew left me with was yelling only thing,

"You were here to help, Kiara. You were supposed to help."

______________x______________

Hello again!
Thank you so much for reading!
Please comment if you have any suggestions/opinions/views.
Keep reading, voting, and smiling! :)
Love, shadow_1500! <3