A week went by, and everything was peaceful.
I noticed that Skyler was alone all the time, all he did all day was draw those same smiley faces or just gaze out the window.
At one point I felt bad for him because he looked lonely but I also felt like he liked to be alone, so I just let it slide.
One day, on my way to college I noticed the weather being cloudy and dark.
(Ah looks like it's about to rain...I don't have an umbrella...)
It looked like a thunderstorm was approaching real soon.
Still, I didn't want to skip college and decided to go anyways.
I entered the college premises but immediately noticed the lack of people.
(I guess everyone decided to stay home.)
I went to my class but there seemed to be no one, not even the professor.
(I'm pretty sure the class was supposed to start about 5 minutes from now)
After a while, someone entered the room and made their way to the back of the class.
(Ah finally someone came)
It was Skyler.
(nevermind)
no need to greet this guy.
10 minutes passed and no one other than the two of us showed up. By now it had started raining hard.
(Why is no one here? This is so awkward.)
I took out my phone to see if anything was going on in the class group and guess what? The class was cancelled because of the thunderstorm approaching.
(Great just great I'm stuck here with no one other than Skyler)
While I was sulking the entire time, Skyler was drawing the same sketch he usually draws.
In the end, I couldn't stand the silence.
"Um, you do know that the class is cancelled right?" I said looking at him from the above seat.
He turned around and looked straight at me with the same dead expression.
(beautiful...)
"Unlike you, I wasn't stupid enough to not check before leaving for class"
(...my ass)
yep rude as always, but still, he knows that the class is cancelled, why is he here?
"Yeah, but you were still stupid enough to come to class" I replied rolling my eyes to the other side.
"I have my reasons and as far as I know, it should have nothing to do with you".
(He does have a point, why am I even talking to him?)
I looked outside at the stormy weather. It didn't look like it was going to stop raining anytime soon.
It was just the two of us in the class, maybe it was the rain that made the air in the class colder than usual or the dark atmosphere that surrounded us.
An hour went by and there were still no signs of the thunder calming.
After a while, Skyler checked his phone and got up from his seat, pulled out his umbrella and left the class.
(He...He had an umbrella??? why didn't he leave before?)
As much as I hated the idea of asking for Skyler's help, I could not stand being alone in this classroom, it seemed like asking for his help was the only way out.
(Ah damn it.)
I grabbed my bag and ran after him, luckily, he wasn't far.
"Hey listen!! Skyler!!"
(Of course, he's ignoring me.)
I ran as fast as I could and grabbed him by his bag.
"Hey listen, man, I'm sorry but could you please--"
"Let go of me," Skyler said cutting my sentence.
He turned around with the most horrifying expression a man could ever put on, an expression so cold that it could have made even the bravest shiver.
I know I should have just left him alone at that time, but I had no other option, I thought he was probably going to the same bus stop as me, and the rain was so cold, cold enough to give me a fever which I could not afford at the time. I cannot skip college, no one is even living with me to take care of me if I get ill, I just had to bury my ego.
Plus I was used to him being mean and so I thought this was his usual behaviour.
"Listen man I'm sorry but-".
"Are you deaf? I said let go of me!".He looked angry, annoyed but more than that…scared?
"are... are you okay?" concerned these words came out of my mouth.
"I said let go!" he screamed while jerking his arm hard enough for me to let go.
"I know guys like you, always trying to harass someone weaker than them, you grabbed me on the bus too, what do you want! Can't you just stay the fuck away from me!?" He continued with his voice getting louder by the word.
He peeked on the road outside the campus, there was a car with black tinted windows standing there.
(why the hell is he being like this!?)
He had said many rude things to me, and I couldn't care much or less about them, but this time it felt like he was just trying to get rid of me …in the harshest way possible.
At that time, I couldn't think about his expressions or anything all I could think about were the extremely harsh words he just said to me. Which made me snap at him in return.
"GUYS LIKE ME? I WOULDN'T GO FOR SOMEONE LIKE YOU EVEN IF I WAS DEAD OK? I JUST WANTED YOUR HELP TO GET TO THE BUS STOP FOR FUCKS SAKE" I said making my tone louder than his.
"DOES IT LOOK LIKE I WANNA HELP A LOWLY SHIT LIKE YOU?" he replied with the same tone.
"LOWLY??? THE ONE WHO'S ACTING LOW RIGHT NOW IS YOU! CAN YOU NOT JUST ACT LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN BEING??"
It was a very heated conversation. Both of us were shouting at each other.
The atmosphere was as dark as ever, the weather, the thunderstorm and the rain didn't make anything any better.
He looked at the car again.
"You know what back off ask for someone else's help" His voice toned down a little.
He turned around and started to move towards the car, the window of the car was so dark that I couldn't even see who was sitting in the driving seat.
I was still furious though.
"You think you're so special? who are you calling me low while you yourself are a manwhore?!" I said in a low tone.
He froze and turned around. His expression which was angry just a moment ago changed into something that resembled pure fear.
Furious I got my phone out and opened the picture I took of him and that guy kissing. He looked at the picture and then looked at the car again, his expression turning bluer.
"Put the phone down," he said as he looked at me again.
"What?"
"PUT THE PHONE DOWN DAMNIT"
I put the phone down, Skyler then stepped closer to me "where did you get this?"
"Do I owe you an answer?"
"Delete it right now."
Just look at this guy trying to order me around. Who does he think he is?
"And what if I don't"
He looked me dead in the eyes and grabbed my shoulder as hard as he could, he was holding my shoulder so hard that it felt like it was going to break anytime soon.
Though He looked thin, he was very strong. He snatched the phone from my hand and deleted the picture.
"ow ow ow let go off me you psycho!"
After deleting the photo, he looked at the car again without a change of expression.
He was acting weirder than usual.
"Stupid bastard" He mumbled as he turned around and started to make his way to the black car.
The window rolled down as he approached the car.
There was a woman who looked like she could be in her late 30s or early 40s, wearing a dress, in the driving seat.
The car and her whole get-up shouted the fact that she was wealthy. Her silky brown hair looked exactly like Skyler's, but her face was different, maybe she was his mom?
Skyler went and sat on the passenger seat, the woman greeted Skyler with a smile and then looked at me with the most horrifying eye, even more, horrifying than Skyler's, yet a smile was still on her face. After about two seconds of that expression, she immediately changed her expression into a warm one and nodded her head as if to greet me.
In a hurry, Skyler sat down and closed the door.
(Huh, what was that?)
I felt like I imagined the whole thing.
By then the rain had stopped, and the clouds were still there it was pretty obvious it would start pouring again. But I had the opportunity to run to the bus stop before the rain came back again.
Man, it would have been fine even if I didn't approach Skyler. Why was he even scared he should have been embarrassed and doesn't he know I can just restore the pic from my recently deleted? God, he's so weird.