Too Equal For My Taste
Chapter 4: A Split Trio
Sarah left her room that evening to walk into Jake and Mike playing a Super Smash Bros. Meele game on the Nintendo Game Cube. She stopped, and watched them at it for a bit. Jake won the first game, and before she could speak, Jake and Mike started yelling about how cheap the game might've been. She had to wait through another game before she could speak. Before they could open their mouths about the game anymore, she seized her chance.
"What the hell are your problems?"
Jake put his controller down and looked over at Sarah with a puzzled expression on his face, "What the hell are you talking about?"
Mike looked up at both of them, who were about to go at it. Sarah eyed Jake with an angry stare, "Why didn't you tell me Elliot was here? You know we like to hang out!"
"Oh yeah, Sarah, Elliot is here," Jake said casually, turning back to the television with Mike.
Sarah gapped at his back, which was facing towards her as Jake restarted the game. Sarah was not amused, and she stepped in front of them. Jake and Mike were only annoyed, "Hey!" Mike demanded. "Get out of the way!"
She switched off the console, and stared at Jake. Jake and Mike started yelling at her at the same time. What they were saying was hardly discernable as they spoke over each other angrily at Sarah.
"What the"-
"You completely rui"-
"You're a piece of"-
"I was about to bea"-
She managed to seize the subject quite nicely though, and yelled very angrily over Jake and Mike, "WILL YOU SHUT UP? It's your fault!" Sarah yelled over them. "You could've at least told me Elliot was here."
"So, he's here!" Jake yelled. "Go see him tomorrow. It's as simple as that!"
"You know I like hanging out with you guys!" She screamed. "But you completely neglected me and forgotten about me. And after all the years we spent together, you'd think I'd have done the same for you!"
"How do you know it's not Elliot who forgot about you?" Jake questioned. "Why blame us? He's the one who followed us. Just go and talk to him yourself! It's not like he dumped you, so stop taking it like that. You girls take everything off the frigging handle. Leave it damn it!"
Sarah opened her mouth to respond, but Mike spoke over her, "Get outta the way! We wanna play. You're ruining the game!"
"Humph, she already ruined the game," Jake said bitterly.
Starting to think it useless to discuss anything with boys, Sarah stomped off angrily, shaking her head in annoyance. She retreated to her room, and slammed the door angrily. She slumped down on the chair facing the window. It was the chair she sat on the day before spying Elliot and the two boys skateboarding. She stared out the window tiredly and miserably. She half expected Elliot to look up and wave for her to come down, but he never did.
She looked up hopefully when Elliot showed up on the driveway. She stared down hopefully, trying desperately to catch his eye, but not wanting to seem too obvious or desperate by knocking on the window. She watched as Elliot walked up the front steps, and rang the doorbell. He obviously wanted to hang with Jake and Mike again. Maybe he'd ask for Sarah this time. She could just wait. Staring longer, she noticed Kenneth was with him, so Mark was gonna go out too. She stared down, keeping her eyes on Elliot. Again, she hoped he'd look up, and wave at her to come down. Again, he never did.
Elliot never looked up. He didn't so much as glance at her. She heard the door open, and Tom calling Jake. So Elliot had asked for just one of the three. Even Mike was forgotten. Or was he?
Sarah didn't even bother to think further that both being forgotten could only mean that Elliot only wanted to talk to Jake for a while. She slumped back down, and miserably pondered over the bad luck she was facing with Elliot. Didn't he even remember her? She wiped a tear from her eye, and got up. Maybe she could talk to Mike, but without interrupting anything.
As she opened the door, she heard Elliot's voice calling for Mike too. Now, that was pure neglect. He was completely forgetting about her. She started wondering how Elliot would look at her when they finally crossed paths.
She went back in her room, closed the door, and threw herself on her bed. She was staring at the ceiling for at least a minute before the door opened. She jumped up, and stared. Just maybe, this time, things would be better.
As Mike walked outside with Jake, he locked eyes with Kenneth once again. And once again, they stared at each other, at that moment them hating almost everything about the other. Elliot stepped in between them. "What's going on?"
Ken shrugged, and walked away back to his own backyard with a puzzled Mark. The two started talking casually, but little did Mike, Jake, or Elliot know that this was only the beginning; that eventually, sooner or later, whether they liked it or not, one or all will have to get involved.