Thin Line Between Love & Hate

Part 1 - Mysterious Card.

The sound of the doorbell woke me up, I stretched my arms lazily wondering why I still felt sleepy despite having my usual eight hour sleep, I mean once it was my usual time to wake up, I'd always wake up without any difficulties, today it dint seem so and this stupid milk man was always on time, why couldn't he be late for once and let me sleep a bit more?

I stepped out of the bed yet struggling to open my eyes, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't get them to open, I was such a sleepy head.

Once I was at the door, I unlocked it and finally managed to open my eyes fully waiting for the milk man to hand me my bottle, I had told him so many times to leave it on the door but he wouldn't listen, he had to wake me up anyway.

When I opened the door though, I wasn't met with the milk man but just darkness outside. I looked behind on the wall where there was a clock, wondering if I woke up early or it was a dark day today, but it wouldn't be this dark at seven in the morning would it be?

The clock read, three o'clock in the morning, why would anyone ring my damn door bell at such a time plus why would anyone visit me or play a prank on me at such a time when it was raining heavily outside? I looked around trying to see if there was anyone out there but I couldn't see even a person, maybe I was just dreaming?

But the sound of the doorbell sounded so real? How could it be just a dream? It felt so real, I know I heard it, why else would I wake up?

I sighed as she decided to head back to bed and finish my sleep when I noticed a card like thing placed on the floor, I looked around worriedly once again and then bent down to pick it up, it was a thick kind of a paper, I wondered how it ended up here, did someone leave it here? Maybe the person that rang the doorbell. The front was just blank so I flipped it over and looked at the other side where the words were written in capital letters.

THE GAME BEGINS NOW.

I quickly shut the door in fear, and headed back to my room wondering who could have left this. Was someone really just pranking me or threatening me? What game was this, why would anyone leave such a note outside my house?

I never had any kind of a bad relationship with anyone, I never even had an enemy who would do this to me, I was always good to everyone so there couldn't be any possibility of anyone doing this to me which meant, all this, it definitely had to be a prank and if it was a prank, I knew who exactly played it.

"I will deal with you in college." I said as I lied down on my bed, covered myself with a blanket and headed back to sleep, like duh, sleep was important please.

*****

"You idiot!" I slapped my best friend with the card on his head as I looked at him angrily almost wanting to punch him. I knew this was done by him, we always played stupid pranks on each other so it had to be him, no one else could do this to me.

"What?" Arnav, my dear best friend, turned around and looked at me in confusion. Such a great actor was he, wasn't he?

Arnav was the perfect description of the boy next door, he was good looking, very good looking in that matter with very beautiful eyes, his eyes could speak a million words, literally. He was a very extrovert kind of a person and I was like opposite of him, I wasn't really an introvert but I dint do a lot of extrovert things either. I was just in between, you get me?

Arnav and I were like this cute couple you watch in movies or read about them in novels and instantly ship them but only that we weren't a couple, we were two best friends who were with each other through thick and thin.

As for me, I dint like dating and Arnav was always around flirting with random girls, not that he ever dated any of them, he's just have his fun flirting around and stuff and I was like his wingman, getting him information about the girls and if possible even their phone numbers, our friendship in one word, was perfect.