NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 9: Such Twist
"She felt like a super hero, I couldn't believe my eyes and she died right in my arms would've been the perfect ending if it was a movie. She was so cool". Stacy ended her narration to my mom and they both had a happy laugh. It was our two years anniversary of being best friends and we had this little dinner arranged, we had the best time together. It got really dark, my mom had left my room and we were alone, Stacy moved closer to where I was on the bed and she asked me, " I never got to know why you decided to become my friend, please tell me"? I stared into her beautiful eyes and told her, "Because you're different". She kissed me on the cheek and hugged me.
"Oh, would you check the time, I guess it's time for me to leave", "but, I've got this concert thing going on tomorrow, wanna come? I've got tickets", Stacy looked so excited as she mentioned the concert and I wouldn't wanna let her down by turning down the invite, so I accepted. "What about your dad, he's gonna let you attend"? I asked Stacy. "Well, he's actually not home this weekend, so yeah of course" she responded.
She kissed me again before jumping out my bedroom window since she didn't want to disturb the house by opening the door. Stacy was the sweetest thing that happened to me after being diagnosed with CCG, and my mom adored her, and well, I loved her, more intimately than being her friend. We turned nineteen and with every age she's clocked, she has gotten more and more enchanting, but Stacy was into guys. I tucked myself into my bed as I stared at a photo of her on my phone.
The next day arrived quickly and I wondered if I actually ever slept at night, I still hadn't forgotten that dream, more had been happening over the past two years and it doesn't seem like I need an answer to anything yet, except that of Stacy's sexuality. I patiently waited to get a text from her that morning. My grandma had gone to visit her friends and my mom, just spends more time at her job. Although I didn't care much about the concert, I patiently waited for the light to give way to darkness, so I could meet up with Stacy. Just as I was waiting, I received a text from her, telling me to meet her at the park, I got dressed and I left, it was freezing cold that evening. I met up with Stacy and couple of some other girls, we exchanged pleasantries and I asked Stacy why she didn't tell me of the crowd we'd be going with, she just told me to be chill about it, we got there, got in and the concert had already started. It was all going well, although it was some cheeky music they had going on, but Stacy loved it, so I'm cool. But something felt off because of how Stacy kept checking her phone, at some point she went to the back and was pacing back and forth with the phone in her hands and her eyes completely locked in on the screen. I wondered what was wrong with her, but didn't ask because she didn't feel like telling, if it was really serious, she would've have brought it to my attention a long time ago. Just when I thought she gave in, the phone rang and she let out a sigh of relief, she answered the call and started smiling from ear to ear while on the call with that mysterious person. She returned back to the line where I was standing and I asked her if she was ready to leave, she shook her head in disagreement since the music was too loud. I told her I was gonna go get us some drinks and I left the hall, went outside looking for where to get drinks, a group of guys walked past me, the voices sounded familiar, as I turned to get a glimpse of their faces, one of them dropped something and turned back to pick it up, my eyes widened as I saw his face, although I had a scarf covering mine a bit, I silently screamed, SIJU!!!!!
I waited for them to get in and then I got in and just as I suspected, he was with Stacy, could this be the guy she had been expecting his call? She must have invited, or does he reside around here? Those were my thoughts. I walked over to where they were standing but didn't wanna interrupt the conversation, the only thing that worried me a bit, would be Stacy revealing my identity. Unless it comes to her heart to call me by the nickname she gave me "Sun", she said it reminded her of the first thing she said to me when we met. With my scarf still covering my face, just leaving a little part for my eyes to breathe, I greeted, "good evening gentlemen", Stacy who was tremendously excited, immediately introduced me " This is my best friend sun, she can be weird but she's amazing", she continued, "Sun, Siju", "Siju, sun". The name rang an annoying bell in my head that gave me a bad headache. Stacy continued " Sun, remember that time you told me that I needed to try out new things, yeah, I tried out a new thing and it didn't hurt me at all, sun meet my boyfriend, Siju". It felt like the last word of her sentence played back like five times in my head, as I stood there staring at her, I couldn't tell if I was heart broken, disappointed, angry or happy for the girl I loved. I only told her to try out something new because I wanted her to see that I would always be there for her, but I'm convinced she took it the wrong way. But why did the universe have to do this to me!!! Why Stacy? Why Siju?
Neither daniel nor Jason was with him, I hated the sight of him holding Stacy and caressing her body. Can I ever recover from this? I asked myself. Stacy was supposed to be mine and not with some two faced back stabbing incompetent bastard like SIJU!!!!