Memories ch. 11

remember when Racheal asked you to be her boyfriend?"

"Yah, why?"

"What did you say to her?"

"I told you already, I told her no, and that I only liked her as a friend, why?"

"No reason"

"Come-on tell me, I know you didn’t ask for no reason"

"Okay well I asked for a reason but I don’t feel like talking about it"

Richard moved back and so I sat up straight and looked toward him. Then Richard stood up and looked at me, "Well when you want to talk about it let me know."

With that he turned away without a good-bye and went home.

I sat there for a long time thinking about that afternoon. I thought about him being stuck and me helping him. He said he owed me one and he ended up leaving all upset. I didn’t think I did anything wrong. All I did was ask him about Racheal. Then I thought about Racheal and her tricks. I actually started to doubt that Richard liked me and that he only said he did because Racheal told him too.

I knew that Richard was a close friend before all this but Richard did have something to do with Racheal before in 4^th grade. Racheal and Richard had made a plan to steal one of the teachers lesson plans so that they would have a free class instead of doing work. They asked me to help them but I said no and that I wanted nothing to do with it. Racheal was mad that I wouldn’t help them and from then on she had hated me. They had succeeded in taking it but they got caught and got detention. Since they did that, what else could they of done.

I thought about it more and more. I started to cry at the thought of me not trusting Richard but a lot of the facts seemed to point as that. He had gotten mad when I brought up Racheal and he wanted to know so badly. He tried really hard for me to get him to like him, he even said so. I started wondering and wondering.

I told myself, I was just letting Racheal get the best of me and that I was crazy to think Richard was just tricking me. He didn’t even have a reason to trick me. Richard usually does things for a reason. Still I couldn’t get the thought out of my head so I went inside and told my dad I was going to take a walk. He of corse said okay.

I took a walk down to Richard’s house. I could see him sitting down, through the window, just about to call someone or so it looked. All of a sudden my cell phone starts going off. Oh no! I took out my phone and clicked ignore call. That was close, I wonder why he was calling me. He looked mad when he got my recording. He dialed again and my phone went off again. This time I ran down the block and sat down on a bench in the corner, while the phone was still ringing, I answered it.

"Hello?"

"Hi Sam, it’s me Richard. Im really sorry that I acted the way I did and I wanted to know if you were mad at me."

"I don’t know, I have to go, bye."

"Wait..."

I hung up the phone. That was close, what will I say tomorrow. I stayed a couple more minutes to make sure he wasn’t going to call me again. When he didn’t I went back to his house and looked through the window again. He took a sigh and ran up stairs. I remembered that there was a door to his house that was always open but no one ever used it and the door that it lead to wasn’t able to be seen, but instead part of the wall.