Capítulo 128: Chapter 125
" There he is, " Miles pointed out, but there really was no need. I had already seen him. There was this green bench there, and he was seated on the backrest, his feet on its surface.... talking to someone. They were watching some guys skateboard, and I watched as the stranger took out his phone and showed Austin something with this look of proud satisfaction on his face, as if he was proving a point about something and he had succeeded. Austin shrugged and waved him off. I thought I already knew everyone he hang out with, but I must have been wrong. And I wasn't sure whether it was just me but they seemed awfully close. The same way he was with Miles, maybe even more.
I knew him, so I could easily tell when he was comfortable around someone. When he was into a conversation versus when he was simply tolerating it. And this time it was clear that whatever they were talking about was interesting to him. So he had dropped out of school to spend his days making jokes with some random guys. After some steps towards them, he spotted us and stopped talking. His focus shifting from Miles to me, then to Miles again before his expression turned a little dark and disappointed.
" He clearly warned me against telling you where he was. He is NOT happy, " Miles muttered as we approached them.
" What's up with you two?" He further asked, but I did reply. My eyes were set on Austin, as well as his friend. And the closer we got, the more his features started to seem familiar. I was surprisingly good at remembering faces, and I was certain that I knew the guy. I just needed to be closer to confirm. And when we got to where they were, Austin looked away from us, I watched as he squeezed his eyes shut for a brief moment, then he looked back at us... actually, he only looked at Miles. It was just childish, him avoiding my gaze and all.
" Seriously dude?!" He complained to Miles who shook his head and said he had no choice. Because he didn't. I had technically forced him into taking me to Austin....and I had decided that the first thing I was going to do was yell at him, but that guy! Just where did I know him from? He looked familiar, but he didn't at the same time, almost like my mind believed I had seen him before but it couldn't properly comprehend from where exactly. He stared back, and I saw the same look on his face. He was studying me skeptically, but then his eyes widened in clear realization...I still had no clue though.
" Missed me already baby?" Austin's cocky voice asked. I turned to find him smirking with that signature dark gaze of his.
" We need to talk!" I wasn't joking around. But he must have thought I was.
" You don't sound like you wanna talk, and I've argued with you enough. "
I didn't like having others listen in on our private matters, so I asked him to step aside with me. But of course he chose to be hardheaded, and his new friend was staring back and forth between us with this unreadable look I didn't care to try and comprehend. And I also wasn't in the mood to tolerate his stubbornness, so I firmly held his arm and forcibly pulled him along.
" So I should just wait right here? cool. Take your time, " Miles muttered under his breath as he settled on the bench. And then the stranger dared to ask Austin whether he was okay, if he ought to go with us. The actual nerve! As if I was kidnapping him or something of the sort. Austin simply chuckled and shook his head, then he assured him there was no need. But that wasn't what caught my attention, it was rather the name that Austin refered to him by. Chris.
It was a fairly normal name....but when I heard it being referred to the guy, my mind quickly joined the distant dots. I continued walking, pulling Austin along, and once we were at a safe distance away from the two,I stopped and immediately turned to them.
" If you're here to try and get me to -"
" Chris?" I asked, cutting him short. And this look of total guilt came over his features. He even hung his head, and it had been obvious he had been about to say something back before I mentioned the name. His reaction only confirmed my suspicions.
" Wait...THAT Chris?"
" Okay, let's try and calm down a bit. "
" Are you fucking serious?" I was unintentionally too loud, and I managed to attain the attention of quite a number of people, Miles and Chris included. But my reaction made total sense and anyone else who could understand it would definitely agree. And that revelation just just made me wanna wrap my hand around his neck and strangle him. It wouldn't be with the intention of seriously hurting him or anything, but I'd make sure he got some sense into his head because what the actual hell! That was the pure definition of betrayal and there was nothing he was gonna say to convince me otherwise. I was still having a hard time processing that new revelation and I would need a lot more.
" Please don't start Kyle..." he pleaded, burying his face in his hands. He knew. He could tell I was pissed and he knew why.
" So you're friends? And what the hell is he doing here anyways? Did you call him?"
" It's not like that I swear. "
" No, but Chris? "
The same Chris I recalled from back home? That narcissistic little maniac?
" What's going on between you two?"
" Don't phrase it like that, "
" You're friends. " It was a fact. There was no need to pose it as a question because I had eyes and I could clearly tell that they were. And at least he didn't bother trying to deny it either. I was openly hurt and I hated it. Why and how did he keep finding new ways to make me feel even worse. He just kept piling one bad thing on top of another until there was this enormous mountain that was impossible to climb without me passing out from all the hurt and exhaustion.
Why couldn't have it been someone else, anyone else. And finding that out made me wonder exactly what he had been upto in Phoenix after I left. It was clear there was a lot I didn't know and I wasn't sure how I'd find out because I was curious and he definitely wouldn't be the one to tell me.
" Don't make a huge deal out of it, "
" But it is a huge deal. "
It was a great deal and he hadn't right to try and make me view it otherwise. He had just gotten him one more thing to answer for and we weren't leaving until he explained. Yes, it was in the past and all that,but still affected me. And I wasn't one to just leave such things behind easily, especially not if they affected me in the same way that specific issue did. And the issue was named Chris!
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Okay, it's been over two days and he hasn't done anything to bother me. That's a good sign. Perhaps he's finally gotten fed up and decided to start picking on someone else. Although that's very unlikely. But I just really don't get him, out of all the students in this school why does he specifically choose to bother me? Plus he's only been here for about two months. He doesn't even know me well. I was having enough trouble with those seven graders before he came along. The last thing I need is a kid from my class messing around withe as well.
What's even crazier is that he seems completely normal when everyone else is around. He doesn't even show ay interest in making my life harder, but whenever he happens to catch me at a vulnerable spot, he just switches. But I don't think I have to worry about him that much.
Chris is a bother, but at least he just sticks to using his words to tease and mess with me. If he ever dares to get physical I'm not sure what I'd do. Austin beat up a seventh grader for my sake....so what would he do to a kid from our own class? One who was both shorter and possibly weaker than him. It wouldn't be pretty, and I want to avoid any more violence that is started because of me.
Although, somehow, he creeps me out even more than those other bullies. I could just be seeing things, but it feels as if he's always just watching and staring at me. So I have to do whatever it takes to stay away from him.
" Hi Kyle, " I tensed and shuddered. Then I wondered how unlucky I could be. Just when I'd been celebrating not having been bothered by him, he showed up.
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