The Game We Play [COMPLETED]

6.

Gosh my life is boring.

When I get home Delilah is with Malarie.

I go up to my room and plop on my bed.

Thirty minutes later I hear light tapping on my bedroom window.

I want to go towards the window, but that's what always happens in horror movie. I'm going to play it safe and not go to the window.

As minutes pass, the tapping continues and I become aggravated.

I go to my window and I see Ashton, I open my window.

"What the fuck do you want?" I yell

"Is that cactus too far in to pull out?" He smirks

"Shut up!" I slam my window down and close the curtains

The tapping continues.

I storm downstairs and into the backyard.

"Ashton will you stop with the tapping!"

"Say please."

"Why are you here anyways?" I ask

"I got bored" he sets down the little pebbles he was throwing at my window.

I sigh in defeat knowing he's not going to leave anytime soon.

I walk back to the house and into the kitchen, he follows me as if he were a lost puppy.

"Don't you have friends or something?" I ask

"All of them are out" he says

"You got so bored you decided to come here?"

Since I'm not doing anything, I guess we could hang out.

"Fine, you can stay" I sigh

"But only until Heather texts me and tells me she's home" I add

I then walk upstairs and into my room.

Ashton looks around my room.

"Do you want to watch a movie or something?" I ask not knowing what to do.

"No" he deadpans

"You're just going to snoop around in my drawers?" I ask

He didn't respond, as if he didn't hear me or he's lost in a train of his thoughts.

"Hello? Earth to Ashton!" I say a bit louder

"Where do you keep all of your lingerie?" He asks as if it's a casual question.

Well coming from him, it's probably is casual.

Pervert.

"There's no way I'm showing you, you perv" I shake my head

He continues to search, as if it's a quest he must conquer.

"Can you not go through my stuff?" I add

"Fine" he sits next to me on my bed

I break the awkward silence, saying "So... How's Bethany?" I ask

"She's fine I guess" he shrugs

"You must really care for her if you're willing to do as she asked and not associate with her. You're kind of a big dick to anyone else."

"Well yeah. She's family after all. I'll always be there for her. I always have. I remember this one time I took her to the park, we were just children at the time. She lost her jacket and she started crying, I couldn't bare to see her cry. So I took off my jacket, and put it on her. I got sick after that, but it was worth it. The whole time I was sick she sat with me and looked at the pictures in the books in my room, we didn't talk, she was just there to accompany me." He gives a small smile

"Wow, I wish my brother cared about me like that" I mumble

I didn't mean to say it, it was just a thought in my head.

"What?" He asks confused

"Oh nothing, I was just talking to myself that's all" I shrug

"You have a brother?" He looks at me like he's trying to figure me out

"Invalid question"

"Real or not real, you have a brother?"

Why the fuck did I have to make this game again? Oh yeah, I'm nosy and I wanted to find out what was happening! Now I have to answer it because knowing him the punishment could be bad.

"That game no longer exists"

"Yes it does, now answer the question, or you'll probably die"

"Real"

"So you have a brother"

"Yes" I huff out.

Why does he care anyways?

"How come I've never seen or heard of him?" He asks

"How come you have to be so nosy?"

"You made the game to be nosy" he chuckles

"Fine you want to learn my personal life the so have it"

"When I was three our dad left us because he said he couldn't afford us anymore. I was just a baby so I barely understood. Delilah and my brother were five and seven so they felt it more. From that age my brother became distant from his siblings. He set up a goal for himself to show our father that he'd regret what he had done. My brother wanted a job that would pay good money, so in the future when he has a wife and some kids, they wouldn't go through what we've been through. My brother ended up closing off the world. Eventually, he went off to college. He would sometimes come home for Christmas and other holidays, but then came a day where he stopped coming, he abandoned us. Just like dad. When my mom got sick we tried to contact him, same for when she died. We found him, though. He's doing fine. He's a stranger now."

"Damn" Was all Ashton said.

"Yeah well, it doesn't matter anyways he's not important, and I don't really care"

"You don't have to act like that" Ashton say

"What? Acting how I truly feel?" I ask, "You know, just forget I even told you the story, I don't want people finding out and giving me pity for something I don't give a shit about"

"Like your abandonment issues?" He asks

"I don't have abandonment issues. I frankly don't care. If you're going to come here and snoop around in my private life then just leave."

And that's what he did. He left.