Nathan
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Still no call from dr. Harper and tomorrow's Christmas. What is he doing for god's sake? And what's the dean doing?
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God I feel like I have committed a terrible crime, and it's not decided that I should go to hell or heaven.
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This is a different case though. I haven't committed any crimes. I was very careful, I took good care of the laboratory, like it's my dorm room.
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But why the hell did that have to happen to me? Why did it have to happen to me among all of those students and people?
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It's very suffocating. I feel like I need to put a stop to it. But put a stop to what? And how? I can't do anything about it except wait.
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And wait.
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And wait.
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And wait more.
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What do I do? I hate this torture. I wish I could prove that I'm innocent, but I don't know how.
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I wish I could just-
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"Earth to Nathan!"
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I blinked and turned around to stare at the person who interrupted my chain of thoughts. More like glare at them.
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It happened to be none other than Dave, of course.
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"What?" I mumbled, and stared out Of the car window. Me and Dave were sitting in the back seat of my father's car. My parents wanted to invite me and my friends to a small dinner at their home for Christmas. That's why they wanted to drive me and Dave back home, so that they tell Rachel and Jessie about the dinner.
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"I've been calling your name for the hundredth time now." Dave whisper-yelled. As if his words will ruin my parent's lovey-dovey mood.
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Yep. My father has put some romantic 90s music on, which I don't know, and don't even get the lyrics. My mother was resting her head on my father's shoulder.
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They were both singing together with the singer, and doing these silly expressions while staring at each other.
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Yikes.
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Go get a room mom and dad.
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"How can they still love each other so much?" Dave muttered. He was staring at me with a smirk of his own, as if expecting my answer already.
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"It's either because it's love of the twentieth century, or it's just addiction" I shrugged. Dave's smirked disappeared and he sighed.
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"How can you say that?" He said. With a little frown.
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"I don't think I've said anything wrong" I replied and rolled my eyes. "I just said the truth"
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Mom and dad were still singing together, so they could hardly hear us over the loud music and their own voice singing.
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"I know you haven't forgotten about -"
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"Don't mention her name!" I exclaimed, and looked over my parents. Thankfully they couldn't hear my somehow angry tone.
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"Sorry" Dave mumbled. His index finger twitched, like it always does when he regrets something or is very anxious about something.
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"It's alright" I mumbled back. And swallowing the lump in my throat.
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No. I won't let my mind go there.
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I can't let that happen, I did a great job forgetting about everything that happened. And I'll keep doing so. I was in enough torture and sorrow that will last me all these coming years, I don't need to remember all the torture now.
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"But my point is," Dave said slowly, as if waiting for something, possibly to check my reaction, " Love is true you know, you don't have the right to prevent other people from loving and showing their affection, just because you don't have love"
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I frowned and stared at Dave. He was looking into my eyes anxiously, he probably knew me too well to know he has hit a nerve. He knows I don't believe in love, but we have never had this kind of an argument.
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What could be the reason to this? I have no idea. I know Dave prefers to be single over having a nagging girlfriend, who could waste our time. I also know his feelings towards love is neutral, he's okay if he has a girlfriend or a lover or not. His reactions to what I said seems very suspicious to me.
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"What the hell is your problem, dude?" I asked.
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"I have no problem, I'm just telling you to let your parents have the time of time of their life. I wish mine were like yours" He said calmly, and looked away as he said the last part.
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I felt guilty instantly. So I reached out my right hand and patted his left shoulder.
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"I'm sorry for overreacting" I said, smiling sadly at him.
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"It's alright" he replied and smiled back, his smile reaching his eyes. He stared at my parents then stared back at me. "Still nothing?"
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I felt the familiar pain in my chest again, and shook my head. I was distracting myself by counting the trees on our way, the entire ride to Jessie's apartment.
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We finally arrived at Jessie's apartment. Which has happened to be my staying place for the last few weeks.
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Thankfully I had the spare keys with me and unlocked the door. I was the one to step inside, Dave and my parents followed me in.
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The scene inside made me frozen in my place.
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Rachel and Jessie both had fallen asleep on the sofa. Rachel had fallen asleep on her butt, which made me smile to myself.
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Jessie on the other hand, looked like she was in deep sleep.
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Her head was on Rachel's lap, they were both sleeping so peacefully that none of us could wake them up.
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My parents left soon, leaving me and Dave alone with the girls. I motioned for Dave to follow me, he nodded and followed me to Jessie's bed room.
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I grabbed the blanket on her bed and gave it to Dave.
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"Shouldn't we just carry them to their rooms?" He offered.
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"I honestly don't want to wake them up" I said and walked out of Jessie's room to Rachel's.
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I grabbed Rachel's blanket too, then we both tip toed back to the guest room where the girls were sleeping. I put Rachel's blanket around her, while Dave covered Jessie.
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Then Dave followed me to my room and we played some video games together until Rachel woke up.
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