The Bet (Just The Way You Are)

The Bet *Revelation

“But why would you dream of that?”

“Perhaps it was because of my subconscious mind, or it can be the guilt consuming me because I am playing with her.”

“Do you want to cancel the bet?” Andre asks in a concern tone.

“No,” Draky says firmly. He pauses and says, “It’s the sixth day already. I can’t back out now.”

“Don’t worry Swift, we just have to be careful.”

“Do you think she knows what we’re up to?”

“I doubt it. As you said, today is the sixth day and nothing weird happened since the first day.”

“I just have to make her fall in love with me.”

“Maybe you are falling in love with her,” Andre says matter-of-factly.

“Are you crazy?!” Draky snaps. “You just can’t fall in love with someone within just a few days of hanging out with her. And just because I will make her fall in love with me doesn’t mean I’ll do the same.”

“I was just kidding,” Andre says in a soft voice.

“She’s not even my type,” Draky says furiously.

“Remember,” Andre reminds him, “You have to ask her to be your girl friend. She should say yes on the thirty-first.”

“I know,” Draky whispers. “And then I’ll tell her it was all a bet.”

A bet, a bet, a bet. It was all a bet.

My mind is spinning wildly, I feel dizzy again. Is this a nightmare? I pinch my cheek to wake up but I’m still here, my face a few inches from the door.

I can’t form a coherent thought. I don’t know why my heart wants to rip its way out of my chest.

Time suddenly stops ticking. My messed up mind tries to fit the puzzle perfectly.

The nightmare. The killing. The guilt. The bet.

Of course, before that, the tutoring lesson, him staying at this house while I’m here, listening to me, hanging out with me, pretending he’s concern with my situation.

Oh God. It’s so obvious. I was just blind. I should have known!

He did not talk to me before, and then like a magic puff, he wants to get close to me, like he’s suddenly interested in me.

I feel so brainless! What’s the point of being intelligent when I don’t even know someone is playing with me?

Closing my eyes, I try to block the images burning in my mind when I was with Draky. To my horror, I hear feet shuffling inside the room. Someone wants to get out.

I am frozen in place, like the time when I overheard my parents talking about me. My feet are numb; they are firmly planted on the ground. But I can’t let them see me. Using all the energy left in my body, I crawl inside my room painfully. It’s hard, when my own body doesn’t want to cooperate. I don’t want to fail so I continue, ignoring the protest of my limbs and muscles until I enter my room. How I lock the door behind me with shaking and uncontrollable fingers is beyond me.

There’s an arrow with a fire that pierces right through my chest, striking it so hard I stumble on the floor.

She’s not even my type. Make her fall in love with me. Tell her all about the bet.

My mind haunts me with those words again and again.

An eerie kind of sound is inside my room. My eyes are close so I can’t see where it’s coming from. My stomach is clenching in pain, it’s tightening so hard. I crawl into a ball, hugging it to numb the pain. I guess my lung is malfunctioning because I can’t breathe.

A hiccup escapes from my quivering lips and that’s when I realize what the eerie sound I heard earlier is. It’s my sob; a hysterical kind of sobbing. I didn’t even know it was me.

Tears flows through my eyes like rain from the sky.

He did all those things to make me fall in his trap. He’s a stupid guy, playing a girl, making her fall in love with him because of a bet. Why me? There are a lot of girls out there! Did they think I am shallow enough to fall for him?

What they are doing is absolutely wrong and immoral! Even if the victim isn’t me. They want to make my life miserable? I won’t let them! My life is already messed up as it is. They don’t have to add another burden in me!

Did they say today is the sixth day? My mind do the math and I realize that they started on the day Ma’am Coelho instructed me to tutor Draky. I guess he or both Andre and him planned it all along. Did they plan this too, me staying at this house?

Perhaps all his actions were all pretend to make me fall.

My heart is shattering into tiny pieces in my body. It’s not because I love him. How can I even love that stupid moron? It’s because of the thought that everything happened between us was all a lie.

Did they really think I will fall for their idiotic game? Those jerks even think low of me!

I shove all the pains aside, trying to think logically. My breathing is sharp and slow, I can feel the anger radiating off my body.

I shouldn’t be moping around like there’s no tomorrow. I should save all my energy to think of a plan to sabotage their deadly little game.

Drake Swift sure won in those first five days but I won’t let him score again. If he wants to play, I will give him a game he will never forget for the rest of his life.

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The song has nothing to do with the chapter but it makes me cry whenever I listen to it. It’s called Terrible Things by Mayday Parade.

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