Obsession ( boyxboy )

Chapter seven

Rosemary got to her house with a grin on her face. Even though using Foley felt wrong, she looked forward to dinner with him. She knew her mom would ask questions she didn't dare ask herself.

For the past three weeks, Chris and Anthony had been inseparable. A lot of people at school thought their friendship was strange. Chris was shy and quiet. Anthony was an extrovert and loved to be the center of attention. Yet something had changed between them. Chris had ceased to sit with them at lunch or meet with them after school. Anthony no longer spoke of him or the tutoring sessions. In fact, the only time he had mentioned the topic was to tell her his parents had hired a new math tutor.

With a mischievous flare in his blue eyes and a sarcastic smile, he revealed the tutor's ridiculous salary.

Rosemary only raised an eyebrow.

"Yes," he said, as if enjoying the look of shock on her face. "They'll do anything for me to be accepted into Dartmouth. I think my dad gets hard just thinking about it."

Rosemary slapped his arm. "That's disgusting."

"It's true. I can't wait until I get out of this dingy town."

She narrowed her eyes. "What about us?"

Someone knocked on his bedroom door, and he walked away from her. Carmen, the help, brought in neatly folded laundry.

College was a topic Rosemary rarely touched. She went with the flow. But as the months drew closer to the inevitable moment when they would have to make a decision between staying together or splitting, Rosemary got more anxious.

Long distance relationships rarely worked. And Rosemary couldn't imagine life without Anthony. She had already envisioned a future as a married couple with children. Unlike most girls her age, Rosemary had saved herself for someone she loved. Anthony had been that first love. At first, she didn't think about the future, or what Anthony wanted. She didn't see the point. Despite his good looks, popularity and athleticism, she had never caught him flirting with another girl, or acting in anyway that might make her jealous.

He would often take time off his busy swim schedule just to attend her mediocre volley ball games. The one thing that set Anthony apart from other students was the way he dismissed other people's opinions of him. He didn't seem to care how others perceived him.

This was the reason why his sudden friendship with Chris Foley did not shock her. He got bored of people easily. She knew sooner or later Anthony would drop Foley.

What struck her as odd was how he avoided the topic like he was hiding something.

When she saw Chris sitting on the park bench, she already decided she would get out of him what she couldn't get out of her own boyfriend. At the same time, she would convince her parents she was interested in him so they could let her attend Anthony's party without asking questions. Of course, she wouldn't tell them it was his party. They would just think she had gone on a date with the quiet boy from next door.

Avoiding her mom's mouth before dinner and dodging her little sister in the hallway, Rosemary locked herself inside her bed room and started planning.