Manipulation (skephalo)

Chapter 9

I started slightly shaking as she smiled at me.

Oh no.
Did she tell Darryl?
No she wouldn't.
Oh I think she told him.
Poop, I think I'm just gonna die now.

(Sorry for 'poop', originally I wanted a swear word here but I don't like swearing)

I walked out the door, back in my room.
I silently cursed myself for saying those things yesterday.

After a few minutes, I heard a knock on the door.
I walked to the door slowly and opened it.

Darryl

The brown haired boy in front of me, gave me a sweet smile.

"Can I go in?" He asked

"Sure" I replied quietly and started shaking again.

Darryl came inside, shut the door behind him and sat on my bed.

"Is everything okay Zak?" He asked

"Yeah everything is perfect" I replied

"You seemed pretty upset when you walked out when I talked with Cassandra"

"As I said, everything is okay" I lied.

I felt that Darryl knew I was lying, but he didn't say anything.
After a few seconds of silence, he stood up and walked towards the door.

I'm think Cassandra didn't tell him my secret yet, but I'm pretty sure she has a plan.

"You can tell me anything, you know what right?
I'm always here for you" He said as he grabbed the handle

"Darryl" I said quietly

"Yes little muffin?" He asked, letting go of the door handle, looking back at me

"C-Can we go to the hill tonight?"

We had this place where we always planned to meet up.
It's a year since we want to meet up there, so now we just refer to it as 'the hill'

"Oooh 'the hill'?
Sure, we always planned to meet up there anyways.
But I think Cassandra has to go out somewhere so w-"
He said but I cut him off

"No Cassandra, just the two of us"

He smiled at me and nodded.
He grabbed the handle once again, opened the door and walked out.

I will confess my love to him there.
I'm so nervous.

I decided that the best I can do to distract myself is recording, so I recorded a bedwars video with Mega and Zelk.

After that, my day went painfully slowly.
I was mostly sitting in my room and overthinking.

What will he say?
Will he hate me?
Will we stay friends?

^_^

It was around 6pm, Cassandra already left the house hours ago, when I decided that we should go, because I can't do anything else anyways other than overthinking.

"Darryl can we go now?"

"Sure, but wait 10 minutes, I want to change into a more comfortable clothing"

"Ok" we conversed in the living room, as Darryl walked upstairs to change.

The sunlight is slowly less and less, so I assume that the sun will set in about an hour.

It took Darryl about 10 minutes to change his clothes, while I played on my phone on the couch

"Ok, we can go, I'll drive" Darryl said, almost running down the stairs.

He wore his favourite red hoodie with a dark blue jeans.

We walked to his car and sat inside.
This time, I was able to sit next to Darryl, so I did it.

He drove for about 30 minutes, until I heard his cheerful voice

"We're here"

He drove into a parking lot.
There were no other cars, or other people, just the two of us.

We got out of the car and walked for a few minutes, to get on the top of the hill.

There was a bench there

"Do you want to sit down and watch the sunset from here?
It should happen in a few minutes"

"Sure" Darryl replied

We sat down on the bench next to each other.
As I predicted, after we spent a few minutes sitting on the bench, the sun finally started setting.

"That's beautiful" Darryl said

"Yeah, it is" I said

A slowly put my head on Darryl's shoulder as we watched the sun setting.
He didn't seem to mind it, he actually smiled when I did it.

It's time to confess

"Darryl"

"Yeah little muffin?"

"I need to tell you something" I said not moving my head away from Darryl's shoulder

"I think I need to tell you something too" He admitted

"Go on then" I told him

"So, do you remember Cassandra and I talking this morning?"

I started slightly shaking again.
Did Cassandra really tell him?

"Y-yeah w-what about that" I asked quietly

"We talked in the morning, because uhh, today morning, she..."

"She what?" I asked, still anxious, but my head still on Darryl's shoulder

"She asked me out, so we are dating now"

My eyes widened and I moved my head away, looking into Darryl's forest green eyes.

"You two... are dating?" I asked still not believing

"Yeah" He replied

We sat there for a few minutes in complete silence.
I was in shock.
That chick really did this to me?
She figured out I love him and she took him away from me.
She's the devil itself.

"What do you wanted to tell me?" Darryl asked

"It doesn't matter anymore, Can we go home? I don't feel very well" I replied

I didn't lie.
I literally felt like throwing up.
I was just so sick of this girl and all my emotions.
I was heartbroken.
I was said.
I didn't feel any good energy.

"It matters for me Zak. Please tell me what's wrong"

"WE ARE GOING HOME" I yelled

I regretted yelling as soon as it came out of my mouth, but my mind was racing, I just couldn't help it.

Overall, It's not his problem.
Not his fault.
I knew from the beginning that he won't be mine.
The only thing I wanted was him.
But I don't deserve him.
I never did and I never will.

It gave me hope when he said he's bisexual.
It gave me hope every time he was kind and cared for me.
It gave me hope every time he hugged me back.

But I guess that was all false hope.
And false hope is worse than no hope.

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