Game

FIVE YEARS LATER

"Oi Nat, what are doing, look straight." Christina yelled at me. I looked at her, she was furious.

"I told you we are gonna loose, with her in the team, she is so useless." Christian said bluntly looking at me and enjoying every syllable as it left his tongue, I couldn't believe that he could be so evil.

This is life and things happen but I don't know what happened between us that things turned out the way it did. The Christian I used to play with was right in front of me and I could not recognise him. He looked the same but was so different in so many ways.

We were playing a three on three basketball game and my team consisted of Christian, Christina and me whereas the other team consisted of Kaitlin, Kevin and daisy. I admit that I am a very clumsy person when it comes to sports, not athletic kind, whereas Christian and Kevin were both member of junior basketball team, they were also the best buddies.

"What happened nat? Got lost again eh?" I was brought back to reality by Kevin, I looked up at him and my heart literally skipped a beat as I stared at his beautiful hazel eyes, peachy lips and droplets of sweat at his forehead. He was beautiful, one look at him and my mood is all swaying and swinging in the little heaven of hearts.

"Just leave her be Kevin, if you wanna distract someone from the game then choose me, she does not even know the rules properly." I looked up and it was Christian, who was very angry at me may be because I got zoned out again. He is so fixated on winning that he would go to any limits for it, I wonder how I ended up being in his team.

With every basket, the time passed, sun came down and so did the game, we won, ofcourse my contribution to the victory was zero percent but it was Christian who played quite nicely, he always does.

" You were even more pathetic than your usual self, was it because of Kevin?" Kaitlin said while making fun of me. I never liked her, she has always been a bitch to me.

I told Christian about my infatuation with Kevin when we were on good terms, he promised to keep it a secret but now everyone knew it including Kevin ofcourse.

Things weren't like this always, we used to be like normal friends but a year ago my dad got arrested for some reason, my mom never spared me other details but a month ago he returned home. I thought everything will go back to normal but nothing like that ever happened.

Christina and Kaitlin became more meaner towards me, daisy started maintaining more distance and Christian became another person.

It was time to get back home. Home a place where you feel loved and cared, but my home was nothing like that, not anymore. When my dad returned he changed too and that was when I truly understood the cruelty of time. It changes people, and when they change it hurts.

Dad started drinking and became a regular drinker. Both of my parents used to get into verbal fight almost daily like a routine.

I stood outside the door of my house, not wanting to open it as I could hear the voices already.

"You bitch, I won't eat your food take it away from me" my dad yelled.

"Oh really, then why don't you make your own food? I don't care about you anymore, you make me sick..." Mom argued.

" You want me to make my own food? Alright, I will, atleast I won't poison myself to death"

" Poison? Are you blaming me for something like this how...."

" Yes I am, and why won't I both of us know you want me dead, so that you can go and have..."

"Shut up derek, I won't hear anymore, you are pathe.."

" How dare you shut up me? Eh? Am I your dog?"

" Please stop it or else.."

"Or else what? You can do nothing you weak shrimp..you despicable woman I will make you..."

I slipped past both of them completely unnoticed. I closed the door of my room and as I locked it, I felt the wetness in my eyes created by the sorrowful tears. I closed my eyes and felt the tears dropping down my cheeks. I went up to my bed and squeezed the pillow to my chest and cried for an hour or so, somehow my whimpering resonated with their fighting.

After a while my eyes started to feel heavy and I was feeling sleepy, but I could not sleep because I was hungry as proof of it my stomach growled loudly and I just squirmed around on the bed in order to silence it's rumbling.