❣️ ROOMMATES❣️
?By Authoress Pinky?
?Chapter Twelve (12)?
Subtitle: {I’m not alone☺️}
★Ella’s Pov★
“Why didn’t you tell me that you were an asthmatic patient?” Sonia asked me. We were both in my room now.
I gulped. “No reason.” I simply replied, trying my possible best to avoid her eyes.
“No reason? Really, Ella? I’m your friend! Your best friend. I have every right to know what’s going on with you. You almost died out there, Ella. If your dad hadn’t called at the right time you could have been 6feat under the ground! You don’t joke with life, Ella. You don’t!” She scolded. She moistened her li-ps with her w-et tongue before adding. No asking again. “Why did you keep it away from me, huh?”
I sighed and fought the urge to roll my eyes. I mean, I’m fine now so why does she bother? Yeah, she was my best friend but that doesn’t mean I have to tell her everything that goes on in my life. It’s my privacy and I won’t let anyone…not even my best friend invade it.
It was a wall. A wall between my secret and the world and I wasn’t ready to break that wall yet. Maybe not ever.
“Ella?” She called out to get my attention.
“It doesn’t matter, Sonia. I’m fine now. Yeah, I’m an asthmatic patient so what is it do you want to know again?”
“Everything. Especially your reasons for keeping it away from me!” She yelled.
“You are overreacting.” I said.
She gave me a look that says, you are crazy. “You almost died a few minute ago! And what? Yous said I’m overreacting?” She rubbed the nape of her ne-ck as she exhaled a de-ep breath. “What were you and Ryder talking about? About him trying to kill you twice? What was that all about?”
Really? Why was she peeking into my life and business! Yeah. She was my best friend but that doesn’t make her my mother who has every right or control over my life! This was my business.So why does she cares? And if she really does, why can’t she just go over to Ryder and ask him herself?
“Why do you care?” I blunted out before I could even stop myself. That was rude of me. Very rude.
Sonia was taken aback by my outburst. She stared at me with shock written all over her face. She was hurt from that word I had said to her. Gosh, I’m stupid. She was only just worried. She was asking those questions for my own good and look, I just replied her rudely like she was a stranger who had asked me about the number of my family.
“Um…Sonia, I’m so…”
She raised a hand to me indicating me to shut up. “No. You are right. I mean, why do I even care. It’s your life and you have every right to do whatever it is. I’m sorry for Intruding.” She said and turned her back from me to leave my room. But I quickly wrapped my arms around her wai-st, hugging her from behind and shut my eyes closed. She do care, the least I could do was appreciate, instead of snapping out at her.
“I’m sorry.” Is said softly and tightened my arms arms around her wai-st. Sonia just stood still,keeping mute for an unknown reason. “I’m really really sorry, Sonia. I’m not just use to someone especially a friend getting so worried about me or my life. Aside from my family…no one cares about me. Everything I’m experiencing today, the love. The care. The attention. Everything. They are just so new to me and I’m sorry for snapping out like that.”
“Ella?” She finally called out after a long silence.
“hmm?” I mumbled.
“Promise you won’t keep anything from me.” I didn’t say anything but let go of Sonia gently and faces the ground while she turned around to me. “Tell me now. Please Answer.”
“Fine. You win.” We both laughed and she hug-ged me. I held her close to me and smiled. Indeed she was a great friend.
****
“Hey.” I said softly as I walked into the sitting room and took a sp-ot on the couch beside Ryder.
It was nine O’clock and Sonia had already left for her room and she made me promise to give her a call before I go to bed. Overprotective, right?
Guess what? Yeah. I know.
Ryder look from his phone to me and adjusted a little for me so I could get comfortable. What a shock moment of the day.
“Thanks for today.” I said as I readjusted my gla-sses.
He pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. “Why didn’t you tell me?” He asked now after a while.
I was a bit taken aback by his question but get past it. “Hello? Do I need to remind you that you hated me?” I joked, just to lighten the mood but it didn’t go as planned because Ryder blank expression changed into a glare.
“I don’t hate you.” He now said.
“How do I know that? You were always teasing me or trying to get Into my pan-ts.”
“Honestly, I never hated you and I never liked you either. I just….”
I cut him off by saying. “….wanted to get into my pan-ts? Yeah, I get it.” We both laughed.
“Like i said, you should have told me. I’m your roommates. And I deserve to know things like this.” I just smiled with nod of my head.
we were both quiet until I asked now. “Can I ask you a question?”
“Yes?”
I paused. “why do you act like you don’t care when you definitely do?”
He didn’t say a word. He just kept mute and I honestly don’t blame him. I must have crossed the line. I just sat there staring at nothing In particular.
“Because that was how I was brou-ght up.” He said without any emotions And I could swear I heard the sadness in his face. But decided not to say anything about it.
“Really? But you also treat girls like trash. What’s are you going to say on that?”
I heard his light chuckle. “Not all ladies I treat as trash.”
“Really? Tell me one girl you haven’t treated as trash?” I asked.
“….You.” I heard him say.
❣️ ROOMMATES❣️
?By Authoress Pinky?
?Chapter Thirteen (13)?
Subtitle: {Bonds??}
★Ella’s Pov★
“….Me?” I questioned a bit taken aback by his remark.
He shrugged. “Yup. You. Though I tried but hell, you are one heck of a tough girl.” I didn’t say anything to that I just stared at the darkness. I mean, what was I suppose to say? “won’t you ask why I treat girls that way?” He asked now.
I shrugged. “because it’s none of my business?” That wasn’t a question but it sounded like one. I sighed. “Everyone has one or two secret to keep away from the world. I am not an exception. That’s why I always provide people with as much privacy as they want.”
He didn’t say anything for a while but then finally spoke again. “Would it be rude of me to ask about your sickness?” I kept mute. “um, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have asked tha…”
“It’s an hereditary.” I spoke, cutting him off from whatever he was going to say. “my mother was an asthmatic patient so…I inherited from her.” I added with a shrug.
“Oh.” That was all he could say. A comfortable silence fell between the both of us. Both of us in our own quiet world and I kind of like it this way.
I wasn’t thinking alone. someone was by my side, thinking along with me. That thought brou-ght a smile to my face.
“Can I ask a question?” I asked, breaking the silence.
“yeah?”
“Are we friends now?” I couldn’t help but ask. I needed to know if this connection were only just temporary.
“Maybe. But hey, that doesn’t mean I will stop teasing you or try getting into your pan-ts.” He warned.
I couldn’t help the laugh that escaped my li-ps. “oh my God. Are you kidding me? Wait, you aren’t going to give up yet?”
“I’m not the type who give up on the girl I…”
“….want to have s-ex with.” I completed the sentence for him.
“Yup.”
I crawled my legs beneath my body, already getting very comfortable with him around. “You can keep trying but just keep this in mind, you are getting no where near my body.”
He gave me a blank look. “Is that a challenge?”
“Maybe?”
“Fine. Challenge accepted.” He said as he brou-ght out his right fist. I smiled and said. “Yeah.” And we both bumped our fist together, laughing.
In my sad moment, he was here with me. Like I had said earlier, he was the light in my darkness. Our fist were still against each other. We were both smiling, staring at each other in the eyes.
I was happy. And so was he. It was our little bond.
****
“Ella!” I heard my name as I walked into my next clas-swhich was Art. I spun around to see Owens making his way to me.
“Hey.” I greeted as soon. as he got to where I stood.
He smiled and waved. “Hey.” He greeted me back with a grin on his cute face. “I heard about what happened. I’m really sorry for not being there with you.”
I smiled. “it’s fine. Besides, I had Sonia by my side. And also my roommate.”
“Yeah, that’s good.” He paused. “Um, Ella? Are you still mad at me?” He now asked.
Honestly, I had forgotten about what had happened. Owens was my friend. Actually, my first friend ever. And also the guy who captured my heart. I still like Owens but…I don’t think he likes me back. So I guess it’s better for us to just be friends.
“Nope.” I replied with a warm smile across my face. “Honestly, I have forgotten all about what had happened that day. It’s all in the past now. But hey, I really miss hanging out with you.”
“Me too. Like seriously, it felt like a huge part of me was missing.” We laughed over that.
“Me too.” And that was the truth. I really do have a huge crush on Owens. But why can’t he see that in my eyes instead? Why isn’t he asking me out yet?
“Going for your art cla-ss?” He asked now.
I rolled my eyes at him like he was crazy. “you mean, our art cla-ss. And yes.” I linked my arms around his and dragged him along with me into the cla-ss. “Let’s go draw!” I cheered.
He chuckled. “I wish I love art clas-slike you do.”
****
“No! That’s crazy!” Sonia states, laughing as she dragged the pen from Owens and cancelled what he had written on a piece of paper.
We were all laughing now. Owens had written, ‘Sonia loves Jasper.’ because of how Sonia had being talking about him since we walked into the cafeteria to eat lunch.
“But you do love him.” Owens said in between laughter.
She scowled at him. “No! I don’t! And besides, it’s very obvious that he’s into Ella and not me.”
I fake glared at her. “Really? What does my name have to do in this Nau-ghty conversation. And how do you know he’s into me?”
“Hey, he was your hero. And ladies always falls for their superheroes.” She said, grinning.
“Really? If that’s how life is then I should be in love with your brother.” I said before I could even stop myself. I received weird looks from all of my friends and that made me feel so embarra-ssed. “Okay, scrap those words out.” I said.
“I can’t.” Sonia said.
“And neither can I.” Lewis added. Owens was the only who didn’t say a word. He just gulped from his drink not looking at me in the face.
Did I do something wrong? Or better still…said something wrong? Honestly, I don’t know.
“So, tell me. How many times has my brother saved you?” Sonia asked leaning her face to me.
“I said scrap that word.”
She shrugged. “Too bad I can’t. Have you forgotten, I have a retentive memory.” I chuckled slightly but my gaze were still fixed on Owens. He just had his gaze on his drink. What’s going on with him? A moment ago, he was very lively and jovial. So what changed?
****
Owens and I were in his car now as he was driving us to my apartment. He hasn’t said a word to me since lunchtime. I am quite confused on what’s going on in his head.
“Owens?” I called out now, breaking the awkward silence between us.
He tightened his fist around the steering. His knuckles tuned white from that. “Yes?” He answered.
“Are you okay? You’ve being acting strange since lunchtime. Did something happen?” I was worried. He wasn’t just a guy I had a huge crush on, he was my friend. And friends stick together. That’s one thing I got to know since I got into this college.
“No.” He answered rudely.
That almost made me angry. I mean, what the hell is wrong with him? Can’t he see I’m trying to fix things now? Why was he being such a di-ck?
& Language!& My subconscious warned.
“Stop the car.” I ordered. I was pissed. And if we keep going on like this, we might end up getting into a nasty accident. So it’s better one of us get off this car. And he possibly can’t be the one, because he owns the car so, that leave us in one option; Me.
“Wait. What? Why?”
“i can’t do this, Owens. I can’t keep trying to talk to you but you keep….” Owens rode from fast and parked the car beside a walk way. “What the hell is wrong with you!?” I asked in anger.
“Do like him?” He asked me now.
“what?”
“Do you like Ryder? Please just tell me the truth.”
“And why do you care about it? No, why do you care about my life and business. If i like him or don’t, that has absolutely nothing to do with you!” I was about to get the door open but Owens caught my wrist and when I turned to face him, I could see the pain, the hurt in his eyes. I had hurt him. I had caused him pain. And I hated myself for doing so. But he caused it. He pushed me to the wall. He_
My thought were cut short as a li-p crashed into mine. I was taken aback over that action. My eyes were widely open until I came to a conclusion on what was happening. Owens was ki-ssing. I smiled against his li-ps and shut my eyes closed as I started ki-ssing him back. Yeah, I do like this guy.
Owens slowly pulled away from me. Our foreheads were against each other.
“I like you, Ella. I really do like you.” I heard him say. Wait. he what? My eyes flew open and stared at him with wide eyes. He was staring right back at me.
“Can you be my girlfriend, Ella Anderson?” TBC.
Quick question: What do you want her to say? Yes? Or No? And also, where are the Owella team in the house?