Tolerating The Player

“shit” I cussed as I threw my keys on the glass table that was in the living room.

My head wasn’t straight all through the ride and I needed to get my mind off what happened in school today. I was damn sure she hates me so bad right now but why the hell do I care if she hates me or not.

I slumped on the couch with my head facing the ceiling as I was staring at the art design on the ceiling. It wasn’t helping to relay me at all.

My phone suddenly buzzed and I picked it with annoyance but my mind came down when I saw who the caller was.

“Devin?” I whispered before answering the call.

“Hey dude, what’s up?” He greeted, it was definitely Devin with that smug voice of his.

“Fuck off Dude, where the hell have you been!” I yelled, almost becoming excited to talk to him.

“If you wanted to know you would have called all this while” he said through the phone and I realized it was actually my fault for not calling.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

“Yeah yeah, whatever you’re still an asshole” I said and we both laughed.

“I’m coming over tomorrow, I miss my dunderheaded cousin” he dragged the dunderheaded.

“You’re such a fool Devin, just come over already” I say and he chuckled before hanging up. I felt relieved that he was going to be here, he was the only person i considered as a close friend.

Devin and I grew up together but some strange things happened and he ended up living with our grandmother, she raised him up like her own son and after the incident with my mum, he urged me to come live with my grandma but I wasn’t really a fan of her.

She didn’t like my mum like she liked Devin’s mum and I would definitely hate to be maltreated. Finally, for some time now I haven’t been thinking about Bella, I just couldn’t wait any longer for him to come.

I checked the time and it was just 3;30. They should have closed from school by now. I know I’m supposed to be bothered about cutting classes and missing tests but I have people who would cover that up for me.

I laid my head down on the couch with a smile on my face but then images of Bella sitting at the other couch came to my mind and I just couldn’t help but hallucinate. Fuck it! I really need to leave this house, it’s like she’s everywhere.

I walked upstairs to my room and changed my clothes into sportswear before driving away from the house. I was going to go to a football field where I used to play before I got recognized.

“Zach!” The coach yelled as he spotted me, his face was plastered with a big smile and I smiled back at him, after all he made me get to where I was.

I couldn’t see any of the old faces I was used to on the field. Perhaps they all got recognized and signed to.

“What brings you here?” He asked

“We currently don’t have any matches and I’m here in Tennessee, I just wanted to get my mind off somethings by playing” I said and the tall, slender Man patted me on my shoulder.

“Okay son” he said and walked away to the middle of the field, I watched as he blew the whistle assembling everyone before him so I went too.

“Alright everybody, we have a professional in our midst, show him what you’ve got and don’t forget to have fun” he said and exited the field to a corner where he sat and drank his usual coke.

We started playing the match and It was easy to tell that this set of players just joined the team. They played like amateurs even though their legs were swift, they weren’t thinking.

I single handedly ended up scoring five goals before the coach blew the whistle and called it a day.

“Come here everyone” I said to them and they all gathered around me.

“You’ve tried and you played good, you have the moves and skills but you don’t make use of what is up here” I said tapping my head.

“It’s no insult or whatever but to become a professional you have to think while playing and not just play to want to score a goal by all means.”

“Think of what your opponent is about to do, when you’ve figured it out, use that against him and watch how you’ll endlessly score”, I said and left their midst to drink water. I was dehydrated to level zero.

“Nice job what you did back there!” Adams patted me on my shoulder and I smiled at him.

I shortly left the field for my car and got in to drive back to my house.

ISABELLA’S POV

“What the hell is wrong with that bastard, you should have let me teach him a lesson he would never forget” Maya fumed in her car.

“It’s fine just calm down Maya, we’ve left the school for him already so let’s just go somewhere else” I said trying to calm her down so she would focus on the road and probably not get us dead or whatever.

I wasn’t expecting anything good from Zach but I never believed he would stoop so low to do what he did, after crying earlier on I realized that I had no reason to cry over someone who doesn’t even deserve air to breathe in.

He humiliated me in his house after sleeping with me but he didn’t think that was enough as he humiliated me in front of the whole school and Kiki’s camera. He’s such a low person and I will always remember not to rate him at a high place. He doesn’t deserve shit.

Telling me a sad story about his life then using me just for sex when I thought we had something real going on and not I forget that he fucking dropped me in the middle of the road not caring if I had some change or not.

“Let’s just go get ice cream and head back to my house, we’ll pick Joe up from school afterwards” she said and I nodded my head.

We reached the ice cream parlour and she surprisingly ordered three bowls of the largest size with some whip cream, chocolate and sprinkles.

“We can’t finish those,” I said, pointing at her orders.

“We don’t have any more in the fridge so I might as well stock our fridge” she said and I nodded my head in understanding.

We got into her car as she drove off and played some revenge songs in her car. I knew she was trying to cheer me up but revenge just wasn’t my thing. It got to a part where the female lead singer said “I made you but you made love to her” and I suddenly remembered Maya’s and George’s case.

“How’s it going with both George and Frank” I asked, I knew I should have asked way earlier but I was stuck up in the dare contest and had no time to talk to her.

“They’re both fine I guess, I haven’t told George about it yet so we’re still cool” she said and I opened my mouth in awe.

“Babe I think he deserves to know,” I said to her.

“I know he deserves to know, but he’ll be so heartbroken and devastated besides I still love him” she said and I slapped my forehead.

“It’s better now than later babe, but then you don’t love Frank?” I asked and she sighed.

“I’m a bad person Isabella” she whispered and I understood exactly what she meant. She likes the both of them and thinks keeping it cool with them will help.

“Does Frank know about George?” I asked

“Yes but I lied to him that we broke up,” she stuttered.

“Come on Maya, you can’t keep on lying forever” I yelled.

“I know! Trust me I do know and I’ll make it up to them both someday”she whined but I increased the volume of the music to the loudest volume. I wasn’t going to be part of this game of hers and when did she become this all of a sudden.

We arrived at Maya’s house but her parents weren’t home yet, they were probably still at their workplace, not like they couldn’t leave if they wanted to since they’re their own bosses.

“Help me with these” she said and handed over two large bowls of ice cream to me. They were freezing cold so I had to rush into the house. I placed the bowls on the kitchen counter before arranging them in the fridge. I brought out two smaller bowls and scooped some amount of Ice cream into them. We couldn’t even finish half of a bowl today.

She walked towards me and added some extras on it before we both settled on the couch and turned on the TV to watch Netflix.

It was a two hours Teenage romance movie that was absolutely perfect in everything, it was a mixture of all genres and it gave me vibes like that of twilight.

There was still time to watch one more movie so we decided to watch another one but wouldn’t stop till we watched part two of the movie.

Time went by and we realized Joe must have closed from school. “Shit!” We cussed and jumped up from the couch giggling together as we ran to Maya’s car. We arrived at his school but he wasn’t standing at his usual spot waiting for us to pick him and I sensed something strange. I asked one of the teachers in the school and she said someone else has picked him.

“Who?” I asked and she shrugged her shoulders.

“I don’t know” she said as she blew and popped the gum in her mouth.

“How the hell would you let someone else, a total stranger pick my brother up!!” I yelled at the lady but she seemed unbothered, I suddenly started to get confused as I found it hard to breathe.

“Where could Joe be?”