"What the fuck?" I say looking at him.
"What?" He asks flustered
"Nothing." I shake my head "You just can't come here."
"Unannounced," I say emphasising it, looking back to make sure the door's closed.
"Okay." He says looking around, rubbing hands on his jeans.
"Or maybe you can," I say with a tilted head narrowing my eyes.
"Look I don't want my parents especially mother..." I start off rubbing my face, he interrupts me mid-sentence "I get it I get it."
"Okay," I said eyeing him. "So..." I start off putting hands in my pocket.
"Oh, yeah." He says nodding "C'mon" turning around he starts walking. I follow him in silence. I'm glad he didn't talk about last night. We keep on walking for a few, the silence suffocating me. I'm comfortable with him a lot more than I am with anyone but the silence surrounding us feels heavy. As if he could hear my thoughts he turns around at the exact moment speaking something incoherent. I heave a sigh of relief knowing I won't have to strike a conversation.
"Say again." I shake my head
"What?" He looks at me "Oh okay." He nods
"I asked if you remember Chase."
"Chase?" I narrow my eyes.
"Chase Smith." He says trying to make me remember him. Chase smith. The name rings a bell. I think I remember him. "Wait-Ah" Realisation dawning on my face as I speak. "The guy who used to be with you in school?" I ask.
"Yeah." He nods
"Okay, what about him?" I ask. I saw Chase a few months ago in a store. He, unlike Ryan, didn't go to college straight away, he stays in-between places, sometimes with his father and sometimes with his mother.
"Yeah well, he's going to be with us today." I instantly turn my head towards him the moment he speaks up.
"What?" I raise my eyebrows. "Isn't he supposed to be in England?"
"Umm yeah about that, he came back a few days ago. I've been with him." He scratches the back of his head asking me "Is-is that okay with you?"
"Yep-Yeah" I vigorously nod, a wave of apprehension hitting me.
He eyes me for a moment "Totally" I smile
"Okay." He says and then starts walking. The rest of the distance is covered by him talking about Chase as I try to listen but in the back of my mind all I can think of I'm going to act normal with him, not to make myself or him feel awkward. I've never heard him talk about his friends, or maybe I never thought of asking. I feel a pang of guilt in my chest, it keeps on growing with every word he speaks. Jeez, I'm such a bitch.
Ryan talks about how the place we're going to win the same place Chase and he discovered. He says something, I turn around to see him laughing with his head back. The fuck? Does he laugh at something he said? How stupid.
He turns, his pale skin right in front of my eyes and I notice things I haven't. Minor things, things that are extremely insignificant. The way the small dots around his nose push up when he crinkles his nose with his eyes closed as he laughs. The way he pushes his long hair back from his forehead every two minutes. I step back a little, feeling extremely close to him, knowing he too has an extremely close look at my face.
We keep on walking, the sound of trees rustling coming to our ears as our feet collide with the rocks on the road. We pass a familiar road stopping in front of an abandoned building. A creeper plant grows on the worn-out wall in the corner of the building, white dust circled around the whole thing. A window, covered with dust is situated on both sides. It looks haunted. I turn to look at Ryan. "What is this?"
"Come inside." He drags me by my arm.
The musty smell reeks through the punctured walls mixing with wood as it encloses us. The moist air sticking to my body as I walk behind Ryan. It looks haunted and is giving me creeps.
"Careful," he says as a flight of stairs meet us. We descend them quietly, the only sound coming of our shoes tapping against the tiles. Spider webs in the corner catch my eye, It looks like nobody comes here.
"Nobody comes here except Chase and me hence, the webs and dust." He says answering my thoughts.
"Oh okay." I try to keep my cool "You sure you were going to show me this?" I ask. This seems something like their "Thing"
"Yeah." He lightly chuckles pushing a polished door to open it, stepping aside for me to take a look at it once it's open.
Green. The first thing that catches my eye. The whole wall is painted green. I step inside, light barging in the room from a little window. A white slippery material catches my foot, I hold onto the corner of the door for support. I look down, coloured circles meet my eyes. I squint my eyes following its trail, it's a twister mat, the whole floor is covered with twister mats. I knit my eyebrows at Ryan turning back but he just shrugs pushing me inside the room.
The next thing that catches my eye is the wall. It's covered in colourful posters. Every mat has a different poster above it. Different things are written on them.
"This is one weird room." I lightheartedly chuckle. I have no clue what all this is. Everything is so weird.
"How do you know the name of the room?" He asks, amusement clear on his face.
"What?" I ask startled.
"Chill I'm joking." He grins "But if you like it we can call it one weird room."
"Yeah," I nod "We can." Silence meets my voice and I clear my throat to make it bearable "Where's Chase?"
"I'll just ask him." He says fishing out his phone from his back pocket "Be right back." He turns around. I'm about to tell him not to leave me in this creepy house alone but he doesn't wait for another second, closing the door behind as he leaves. I wipe my clammy hands on my T-shirt. I don't want him to think I'm creeped out by this, I take a deep breath and roam my eyes around the room taking it all. It's cleaned, unlike the rest of the house.
The posters have different fonts on them, with different colours and backgrounds. I walk closer to get a better look. Dragging my fingers on the dusty paper I read it, it says "When here, Dance." I move onto another poster it reads "When here, Smile." Each poster asks the person to do something.
"He'll be late." Ryan's voice booms around the room.
"Okay." I spin around immediately meeting his eyes. I keep the eye contact, shaking his head he chuckles, red locks falling on his face as he pushes them back with his long fingers. Jeez, I mentally slap myself, I should stop focusing so much on such details.
"So now will you tell me what all this is about?" I ask moving my hands around in the air.
"Yeah." He nods, stepping in front of a couch in the corner. He takes out the spinner of twister.
"Do you know how to play it?" He asks motioning towards the twister mates placed on the floor.
"Of course." I say in a "Duh" tone rolling my eyes "Who doesn't know how to play Twister?"
"I don't know? A lot of people."
"Not that I know of any," I say with a shrug, walking towards him.
"Chase and I invented this game a few years ago. Whenever your body is under the poster you have to do what it says. And if two things then you have to do both of them." He smiles at me.
"Kind of seems interesting," I say. It truly does. "You guys were kids when you did this?" I ask
"Yeah." He grins
"Where did you find these many mats?" I cock my eyebrow.
" I don't know? Maybe we stole them." Shrugging he puts the spinner aside doing a teacher impersonation looks at me. "Any questions?"
"No." I laugh shaking my head. Our arms are touching but I don't try to move and neither does he.
"Chase had his first kiss because of this game." He says recalling the event to me "He has to dance with his lower body while he kissed the girl." I chuckle softly at it when the realisation hits me, I hold his arm my eyes wide "Wait," he looks at me confusion clear on his face "I'm not kissing anyone." I say
"Trust me we don't want to too." A voice from the back says. Ryan laughs at it, I turn around, a mop of blond hair stands on the door. I quickly jump to make some distance from Ryan.
"Hi, I'm Chase." He smirks, hands shoved in his pocket. I awkwardly smile at him. The rejection kind of hurt, I mentally curse myself for letting it hurt. Why would I even want to kiss anyone?
A/N: Soo I kinda took a break for a week from writing, all I did was read FanFictions and new Wattpad books 24/7😌🤚🏻 But whatever it's over. And THANKYOU SM FOR 1,000 READS<3