A short story - The brothers & a girl

I promised to try and blog every day, so here I am, keeping up to my words. It is not as if I have something interesting to say every day anyway, so I wonder why I even kept such a promise. Lol.

As you all already know, I'm currently working on a novel. This is just a prelude and an introduction to two of the characters in my book, namely Ryan and Jonas. This will not be included in the novel, and this short story would have occurred a few years before the novel starts. (My characters in the novel are in their adult ages.) So here goes nothing, and let me know if you liked it :)

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A short story - The brothers & a girl

I had an argument with my buddy this morning.

He is currently going through a break up. I'm fed up. I told him to stop the whining. Just a reality check - I have been going through this with him for six months and counting. The constant drinking, the constant crying.

We were at the gym earlier today, and he started wailing like a baby. I was embarrassed as hell, and probably said too many things which bruised his ego further.

He accused me of not understanding what he feels. According to him, I have never been in love before. He's probably right. I would have grabbed steaks and headed to his place, as per the norm, but this time he stepped on my buttons a little too much.

He accused me of gloating on the inside. He assumes that I am delighted, and I finally got what I wanted - Alicia and him breaking up. Alicia has never liked me from the start. I mean why should she? She said she heard of my reputation even before Ryan introduced her to me. I was the only red flag and concern she had before they got together. She, like the rest of the world say that birds of the same feather flock together. Somehow, Ryan convinced her that he was "not like me" and they decided to pursue their relationship. That was three years ago. Three years ago, I wanted Alicia to explain to both Ryan and I what was so repulsive about me. She couldn't say anything besides seeing me in clubs with other girls. I mean I was and am single, so what was wrong with me being in clubs with girls? Yes, we were underaged back then, to be in clubs. But who was she to say anything when she met Ryan in a club as well?

My thoughts were interrupted when I saw Ryan's message on my phone.

"Jonas, come over to my place. I'm sorry man, I shouldn't have said all those stuff about you."

I didn't think twice. My best friend needed me. In twenty minutes, I found myself parking my car at his driveway.

His mom answered the door when I rang the bell.

"Hey Jonas! Ryan has been expecting you."

"Yeah! I was running a little late."

His mom squeezed my biceps a little.

"What is the matter with you boys? Are you people trying to look like Troy? Is it the in thing now?"

I laughed out loud, it was a fake laughter of course. I love Ryan's mom. She makes the best apple pies in the world and she has always treated me like her own son. But jesus christ, that was such a lame joke.

I gave her a kiss on the cheek and bolted up to Ryan's room.

"BRUHHHH!"

"Hey."

I looked at Ryan and no longer saw the usual cheerful, full of crap guy. He didn't even look at me. I went around the corner of his bed and managed to find a spot which wasn't occupied by his clothes, or pictures of Alicia. At least that was what I thought. I purposely flicked a few pictures on the floor and sat down. Her pictures were now near my feet. I was looking at the face of pure evil.

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing."

I grabbed his phone away from him. He was looking at Alicia's pictures.

"Ryan, seriously bro. It's over. Out of sight out of mind. I can delete her pictures off your phone for you."

"Jonas you don't understand. I love her."

"DUDE. YOU ARE 19. Wth is love? And you are heading to medical school in a few weeks. Is this really how you want to spend the last few days with me and every one else?"

"I don't know man.. just don't talk to me now."

I pace up and down his room. I can't do this anymore. I have to tell him. I mean, he HAS to know.

"Ryan, can you sit up? I have something very important to tell you."

He didn't budge. I go closer to him and sit him up.

"Listen to me very carefully. I have been meaning to tell you this for some time now.. but I thought she would change."

There was still no reaction from him.

"I THOUGHT ALICIA WOULD CHANGE."

He finally sat up. His expression started to change and I noticed his eyebrows narrowing closer to each other.

"Did.. Alicia and you...?"

"Fuck no, don't be gross."

"What is it?"

"Don't be mad ok? Just listen to the whole thing before you react."

He keeps quiet. I do a quick evaluation in my head, how this would sound like. The repercussions could be bad on me. But it's too late to turn back now. This was 3 years too late anyway. He is now pressing on to my hands. It feels like as if my fingers are going to snap any moment. I quickly entangle myself from his hands.

"Remember when I first moved into the neighbourhood, like five years ago?"

He nods his head in confusion.

"Ok, please don't say anything till I say I am done. Ok?"

"I didn't say anything."

"I know, I'm just telling you. Just promise not to say anything."

He remained silent.

"Hello?"

"Fuck? You told me to keep quiet?!"

"Ok ok, thanks"

I take a deep breath.

"Ok, 5 years ago, when I moved here, there was this girl. I had a huge crush on her. She was just something different, a breath of fresh air. I don't know what to say but it doesn't matter anyway."

I wanted to laugh, because by now I see Ryan's eye balls widening, almost as if it was gonna pop out from his eye sockets. But I knew better than to laugh at this moment. I raise my finger to cue him to not say anything.

"NO, IT'S NOT ALICIA. CALM DOWN."

"So I had a crush on this girl, Riley, and I think she knew it too. It took me a while to muster up some courage and send her a letter professing my "love" for her. We started writing letters back and forth. For some reason she would always talk about her best friend in her letters. Which was weird, and annoying. I didn't care about her best friend to be honest. I just wanted to talk about us. Then it came to a point where I HAD to talk about her best friend and be friendly with her best friend as well because her parents found out about the letters and got really pissed off, so all letters were sent to her best friends' house instead. It was so strange, she lived right across me and I saw her every day. We just couldn't speak after her parents found out. They grounded her pretty often, she didn't have much freedom. They were strict parents. But it was weird.. she seemed so different in the letters. She always seemed interested in the letters but her body language towards me suddenly changed. She kept avoiding me in person whenever she saw me outside or whatever. I asked her about it, she said that her parents were on constant watch. Her mom's a housewife, so I guess she could see everything."

"Where the fuck is this story going?"

"You were supposed to keep quiet bro."

He kept quiet and I continued.

"So after 2 or 3 months of this letter writing, we decided to meet at the yearly carnival. I still remember that day so clearly. I got a new hair cut and saved up for the first time, to take her out and also a CK cologne for me to use on our first date. Swagged the shit out of myself and went to meet her. When I reached the carnival, I went to the spot where I told her to wait for me. She wasn't there. But guess who was there? Her best friend. I first thought that something happened to her at home, and she sent her best friend instead. But no. Her fucking best friend told me that she was the one who was communicating with me all these while, and she didn't know how to tell me that it was her. She thought that I had a crush on her from the beginning just because I didn't address the first letter to Riley and it got sent to Riley's house on a day that she happened to drop by. In her defence, my first letter was referred to a girl in a white dress, and the best friend was wearing a white dress. Later, when it was more obvious that I was writing to Riley, she said she had already fallen for me and didn't know what else to do. She also very matter of factly informed me that Riley assumed that the both of us were in love or whatever. Maybe that was why Riley kept avoiding me. I don't know. I spent the next 6 months trying to tell her to stop bugging me. She kept sending me letters, begging me to talk to her and did all kinds of erratic stuff. I tried talking to Riley, but she told me she was disgusted with me and said that I shouldn't try to pursue her when I "was just making out with her best friend the day before". WHICH DIDN'T EVEN HAPPEN. I don't know, her best friend was just a fucking psycho. The best friend finally stopped bugging me. I never heard or saw Riley again, or her best friend. I mean, I moved houses again after that, cause dad got a new job."

Ryan still looked confused.

"I didn't tell you or any of the boys about it, I was just embarrassed about the whole thing."

"So why does this matter now?"

"Because Ryan.. I didn't meet the best friend ever again. Not till three years ago, when you introduced her to me. The best friend... she was, Alicia."

Ryan stared at me. His icy stare sent chills down my spine. I had never seen this look in him before.

"When she realised we were best friends, she found me on Facebook. She sent me a message asking me not to tell you anything. She said she has changed for the better and she apologised to me about what happened in the past. She told me how much she liked you, and vice versa. Which was true. I knew you were crazy about her. I didn't want to jeopardise anything. She did seem like she had changed. I hated that she tried to drive a wedge between us in the beginning by spinning stories about me, maybe she was constantly living in fear that I would tell you about what she did in the past. I gave her my word, and stuck to it despite whatever nonsense she went around sprouting. I didn't want to embarrass her by telling people what a maniac she was. After all, she is a girl. Wouldn't want her image to be ruined for a silly mess that she created in the past. I was okay with her not liking me as long as she kept you happy. But she's clearly not, and you need to know what kind of person she is. I don't want you sobbing up under your covers over a psychotic person when you have bigger things in life waiting for you to achieve."

I took out my phone and went to my inbox on Facebook. Thankfully, the chat history between Alicia and myself was still there. I threw it over towards Ryan.

His mouth started to move, almost like he was stopping himself from saying something.

"Ryan, please say something, anything."

"That fucking bitch."

And a tear rolled down his face.

THE END

Okay, I really don't know why I decided to do a back story about these two guys. It was totally random. I guess I needed a break from writing and wanted to create the history between these guys. I tried my best to sound like a 19 year old guy. HA. So what do you think? Should Ryan be pissed off with Jonas? Will they still be friends? Guess you will find out in time to come.... when my novel is ready. :p

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Love,

Naia

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