For Granted: Regretful Childhood Friend

Chapter 2

Someone is shaking me.

(Leave me alone, I want to sleep... Sleeping is so good.... Zzzzzz)

Continues to shake me.

- Erin, wake up! - My roommate, Amanda, is saying with urgency.

- What is it...? - I answer with a murmur.

- Erin! Wake up right now! Chase is outside screaming the place down! He tried to force his entrance but was stopped, obviously, but now he is like.... Erin he is like a madman. There is like people outside... anyway, hurry!

What...?

How....?

Where...?

I raise up from bed totally dizzy, crumpled, still wearing the clothes from the party. My head was hurting so much I took some medicine and it looks like I passed out. And Chase decided to throuth a tantrum in front of my dorm!

This brat...!

- Erin, please we need to go outside. He said he is not leaving without talking to you first.

For crying out loud...!

- Fine - I mutter - Give me a minute.

I grab my phone and go to the bathroom in a dash, trying to clean the sleep from my eyes a little bit. I look at my phone rapidly, look away, then look startled at it again, approaching the screen almost to my nose, without believing my eyes.

42 missed calls - 31 texts from Chase.

What is HE thinking?

Is there some fire I should know about?

Why is he being like this, it's not like he didn't know where I was.

And, if I remember correctly, he was KISSING some chick in a party, with ME being in there!

This guy needs a good WAKE UP CALL! I don't know why I was friends with this idiot for so long!

Hiss!

Amanda grabs my arm and drags me from the bathroom, through the building till the entrance. There are people looking at us from the windows and some are outside, enjoying the show, almost ready to make some popcorn to accompany!

CHAAAASE, you....!

He has his arms down, hands in a fist, looking furious (furious?!), his face specialy dark and turbulent. 

- Erin! - He shouts, marching to my side. - What were you thinking?

ME? What I was thinking? I don't believe this guy... I decide to spike him a bit more.

- Hum.... About...? - I draw the words.

- Are you.... Are you shi**ng me!! Why would you leave the party like this, why wouldn't you answer my calls? You know how I hate this. I asked you to answer me, I already told you not to leave any places without me. What happened, someone did anything to you?!

He is now breathing hard, with eyes wild open furiously.

Okay then, it's true, he is really acting like a madman!

- Chase - I start calmly - I am not a child. I left with an uber. I told you were I was. It's not like I put myself in danger or anything! Besides, you were VERY much busy in the party so, it's not like you were really preoccupied with me, anyway. - I finalize, putting my arms in my back, taking a stern position, like a soldier - So, I really don't understand why would YOU be here, screaming the place down. 

His face is now so red I think it might be burning. He is showing me his teeth like in a sneering and he is shaking his head like he can't believe his ears.