Chapter 5

‘I’m coming, I’m coming’ I had shouted for the hundredth time, I ran from the kitchen after turning off the cooker with the spaghetti on it. ‘Who  is it’ I asked once at the door ‘ it’s the Grinch, who else would it be knocking on your door, open up, its freaking cold out here’ shaking my head I open the door to see none other than my  crazy best friend with a suitcase in  her hand. ‘Look swho we have here, if it isn’t the Grinch,  oh and she came  with luggage too’ I said with a  huge smile on my face, ‘I thought you were only staying for one night, what’s with the suitcase. Please don’t tell me you’ve moved out’ I said with a pointed look towards her direction as she dragged her things inside the house. ‘No nothing like hat, I just that my parents travelled again, I got back home to see a later from them telling me they had to go for a business trip that couldn’t be avoided and I should come over, im sure they’ll have called your mom by now, so sorry to inconvenience, I rea[[y wish they’ll stop disappearing on me’ her parents always pull this stunt right after a trip, they’ll take her out and have fun with her for one day and then go MIA for a week or two, leaving behind a very confused very a lone child. ‘Nah, no problem, you’ll just have to sleep in gramps old room till you leave couse theres no way in hell that ill be charmingly room with you’ I say after closing the door, I try to put up a serious face but I was failing miserably and burst into laughter. ‘I just finished making pasta we can go up to eat while we talk about what you’ve been up to during the summer break, especially how you  landed yourself with a cute boyfriend’ i winked at her as I made3 my way back to the  kitchen to dish some for both of us ‘mom said she’s going to be late so there’s no need for us to wait up on her’ we made our way up to my room where I sat on a bean bag  and Gloria sat on my bed. ‘So spill’ I was already dying from the suspense. ‘I don’t even know why I’m with Xander, he’s a douche and a bully and he always tries to have sex with me’ there were tears already forming in her eyes ‘Glow, hey, what’s wrong? If you don’t like him then why don’t you just leave him?’ I asked as I wrapped my arms around her, trying to ease   her pain. It’s so unlike Gloria to cry because of a guy, she’s the one who makes boys cry, not  the other   way round, ‘it’s not that easy, I don’t like him but if I leave him Kyle will  know I like  him’  Gloria revealed in between pants, what does Kyle have to do with her dating an asshole? Wait, did she just say ‘you like Kyle? When did this start?’ I was seriously confused, when did she start liking him, I never thought she could have the hots for Kyle, he isn’t even her type. ‘Since summer break, he stopped by the cabin to drop some documents dad forgot, I don’t know, he just looked so yummy’ Gloria had a very colourful shade of red creeping into her face. ‘ wow Glow, I never saw you as the Kyle type, you even called him yummy’ I giggled ‘what I don’t understand is how dating Xander will  do anything, it’s not like he knows you like him or anything’ I said looking straight at her, but she was looking at her hands, she won’t even face me, ‘Glow?  What did you do?’ I asked in a stern voice. ‘Maybe I told him I liked him ‘she mumbled ‘maybe? Maybe? You don’t know?’ Gloria stood up fast and started to pace I the middle of the room ‘okay I told him, but, but that day I was drunk and after that day I told him I couldn’t remember anything so things won’t be complicated between us’ she gushed out in almost one breath. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, when did all this happen that I knew nothing about it ‘how come you are just telling me now?’ Gloria never keeps secrets from me, it’s weird that I’m just finding out ‘oh I wanted to tell you but  the day I  came your mum said you had gone on some mysterious trip to new Orleans’ oh gosh no, no one was supposed to know about, damn it  mom ‘no need to look so scared, I know  you didn’t lie about  not  having anywhere  to go, your  mum explained it all to me, that  your cousin came over and demanded you follow her on a road trip, however you did lie to me in school during lunch when I asked how your summer went, what’s up with that?’ Guilty began to eat its way  into my soul, I shouldn’t have lied, now she’s going to have more que3stions, ‘I’m so sorry Glow, I thought if I told  you about the trip you’ll think I lied’ Gloria scoffed ‘so instead you lie to me so that what? Not cool Toria, not cool at all. Now you are keeping secrets from me? And you were acting hurt because I dint tell you about Kyle, I can’t believe you’. 

This conversation was going downhill pretty fast. ‘I’m sorry Glow, I never should have kept things from you and expected you to spill your guts to me, it wasn’t fair of me to do that to you, but I need you to promise me that you won’t tell anyone else about my trip’ I watched Gloria’s expression change from sad to confused then finally settling with anger. ‘A secret? You want me to keep it from the boys? After everything I have told you, you still want me to keep it a secret? What’s with you and going to New Orleans that nobody can know? It’s not like you went to somewhere exotic and fun’ she said while shaking her head, ‘exotic and fun? Well excuse me if I don’t have parents who have to bribe me with a so called exotic vacation because they don’t have time for me’ ‘really Toria? You want to take a jab at my parents? I know they don’t have time but that’s only because they are busy and I understand that. Those exotic vacations aren’t bribes, it’s a way of allowing us to bond and spend time together before they have to face their busy schedule, I thought you under stood that, but I was wrong’ she took her plate and went out the door, I was about to sit when she came back, poking her head through the door ‘oh and about keeping your trip a secret? There’s no need for that the boys already know, and no, I didn’t tell them. Your mum did, maybe you should have told her to keep it a secret too’ she rolled her eyes and left.

This night didn’t go the way I imagined, first day of seeing Gloria since summer and I picked a fight with her all because she was asking questions about summer, the same question I asked her. After all I did to try to make sure none of them found out about the trip, only for my mum to rat me out. At least now I know how they know and I will be able to control myself better in the future. Now I have to things to do, tonight I’ll let Glow brew and curse because I really took it too far with what I said about her parents, tomorrow ill apologise and ill deal with Kyle’s question another time, right now I need to get ready for when Bruce will bring it up. Come to think of it, I said I was going to ask Bruce about Kyle’s weird behaviour, I guess I’ll just do that tomorrow. Tonight had been horrible and I really hope tomorrow is better, I thought as I got ready for bed