Eyes that see into Infinity
Part 1
Chapter seven
The next days passed by incredibly quickly. Phai and I hung out a lot more and talked alot more. It was a miracle to me and a change for him. I was still obsessing over that quick kiss he gave me and maybe because I know now how he feels. Or maybe that could have been a way he says lets be friends. I have no idea. It felt good anyway and it was better than sharing quick and stupid smiles. We grew comfortable with everything though other than hugging. It's weird but that remained our problem. It was just something boys didn't do, even though a kiss on the cheek in both his and my opinion were perfectly natural.
But still the week continued the usual way, Cassy bothering him and Roxanne clinging to me because I was hanging out with Phai too much, so she says, even though I hang out with her almost twenty four seven. We still sat with eahcother at lunch, I came over to his house often enjoying his crazy little sister and his outoging mother. Sometimes he came to mine and we just hung out and talked.
"I am not going to go to your party unless Phai comes." Argued Tolem with the birthday girl at her front door step.
Roxanne cleared her throat gently. "And why would I allow him into my house?" her little arms were crossed high against her chest sternly glaring.
"He's my friend aswell, and it's not fair."
"Well Tolem you are just going to have to live with it."
Okay so it was the weekend and finally Roxanne's 14th birthday. Her birthday came close to all of our graduation of middle school which was the only good thing about it. We were growing up and hitting high school pretty soon. Other than that she drove her father mad by stomping her foot whenever she wanted something. She even had her maid hitting her head against the wall. She wanted her decorations perfect, her cake perfect, everything just perfect. And she also expected a lot of gifts so that's the reason why she let Phai go, only if he had a gift to give her.
Tolem ran to Phais house just to give him the news and Phai was not happy. "She said you can come." Tolem said helping Phai and his family unload the groceries as his mom arrived home from going food shopping.
"Inorder to go I have to get her a present?" the brunette boy reclaimed not seeing the logic at all. "How stupid is she. I am not going to that hideous girl's party." Phai was angry, shoving the groceries away in awkward places because he was too livid to even think correctly. He wasn't actually implying that she was ugly but her personality was. She was a very pretty and unique looking girl but that was just about the nicest thing he could say about her.
"Phai peanut butter doesn't go in the trash!" his sister scolded him. He didn't care and left it there.
Their mom walked by and kissed Phai on the head. "Don't worry about it too much. Give her the peanut butter." The mom chuckled cruelly and left the kitchen picking up the phone that rang in the other room while the kids finished putting away the stuff. The mother had heard stories of this Roxanne and she already didn't like her.
"That's ridiculous Tolem." Phai snapped. "I just want to feed her to the lions." He growled.
"I know but I really want you to come. I feel weird hanging out with them unless Leon or Thais are there. Or Alex and they don't mind you so you should come and hang out with us." Tolem answered simply. "Besides free food, you can't go wrong with that, I mean that's why Cleitus is going."
"I don't care about any of it Toelm. No is my final answer. No." he re-clarified.
"If Alex asked you to go you would." Tolem assumed. He noticed how closer they had gotten lately. Phai never smiled around anyone before that much.
"He would have to convince me big time." Phai replied audaciously.
"I can take your place." Suggested Callista who was dipping her finger in the opened peanut butter. "People say I look like you Phai."
Phai and Tolem both grinned. "I think I am good Callista but thanks for that strange offer."
Tolem tossed him all the canned items and Phai straitened them in the pantry. "Tolem is Alex even going." He asked just to make sure. Roxanne most likely kill herself if Alex didn't end up showing.
"Yea. Why?"
"Just wondering. I thought he said he had stuff to do with his parents."
"He said after he's done with that he will hop on over." The frizzy haired boy replied with a poor attempt of being excited. Alex's parents were stricter than any of their parents combined and he couldn't help but feel bad for him.
"Can I go?"
"No!" the two boys responding in unity at Callista who they had forgotten was still sitting there.
"Tolem can you come play Barbie's with me." She asked smiling wide and squinting her eyes. She was incredibly bored.
"Callista why would I do that?" asked the boy almost certain that he would never ever do that with her.
"Alex does."
Phai looked over at his sister smirking. "Don't make him sound out to be a saint Callista. He helped you organize them, that's it."
She just shrugged her small shoulders "whatever. Close enough." She hopped off of the high chair at the counter and ran upstairs leaving the boys to finish the rest of the work, not like she was doing much anyway.
"Phai."
"What Tolem?" Phai buried his head under his arms as he leaned on the counter muttering about something most likely about the party. He didn't care about Roxanne so why would he go.
"Please just come and if it doesn't turn out okay we'll leave." Tolem smiled up at him. "Besides." He took the peanut butter container in his hands. "You already have her present."
The blue eyed boy couldn't prevent the smile that lighted up his face seeing where his little sis stuck to digits in the sticky food. "Okay Tolem. I'll go." He surrendered with a long sigh.
"Egh, can you believe that Tolem actually wants to have him over." Roxanne bitched some more as Thais and a couple of other girls from her school were at her house early while her father was busting his ass trying to set everything up correctly for the party.
Thais and the rest of the girls were careful not to say anything as Roxanne was always in a fussy fit and got angry if people cared to disagree with her. Thais was the only one who never really had a major problem with Phai but the rest of the girls hated him just because Roxanne did and they had to impress her because she was supposedly the leader of the click.
Roxanne brought a brush to her thick hair and started combing out all the knot and kinks. Her friends then helped her with her makeup and picking out a right dress. It was obvious she was trying to look her best for Alex. She was obsessed with no one else.
"I can't wait for the day he will propose to me." She smirked into the mirror watching as she took the brush again to her hair.
"You two have been going out for awhile anyway. It would be weird if he doesn't." one of her friends replied.
"You and him are like the perfect couple.' Another said.
Thais watched as the girls fed her confidence busting her ego even more.
"You are already talking about marriage Roxanne?" Thais stirred at Roxanne's excitement.
"Why not. I am sure he thinks of it too." She sat up in her chair with a confidence that annoyed the tom boyish girl.
"Okay, whatever you say." Thais replied rolling her eyes keeping herself from groaning. Roxanne was her friend but she wasn't afraid to admit she was delusional. Her obsession with Alex surpassed that of a fan girl with a rock singer.
The other girls squealed and screamed dramatically when they saw the father bring in the cake downstairs on the counter. It was a very large white cake as most of the class was invited.
Her father spoiled her reckless. "Is this okay for you Roxy?" He asked already seeing the glowing in her eyes as she was stunned by it.
"Thank you daddy." She jumped up and hugged him and then hurried back with her friends to go upstairs before all the guest arrived.
"You should wear these pants or the suit you wore to mom and dads wedding Phai."
"First we weren't born yet so I have no idea what suit you are talking about and just exactly who do you think I need to look good for?" Her brother asked as she was trying to make him appear high classed. "Callista this is a birthday party with messy kids, not prom."
She frowned when he snatched the trousers away from her hands and threw them back into his closet. "Well then what are you going to wear?"
He took a deep breath. "Just jeans and a tee."
"Boring." she faked a yawn.
"Yep, just as boring as the party will be. I am not dressing to impress anyone." He reminded her again.
"Why. You could meet the girl of your dreams there." Callista rolled around on his bed.
Phai snapped his fingers in front of her face when he saw that she was day dreaming about something and laying on his shirt he was going to wear wrinkling it with her body weight. "Roxanne's friends are annoying just like her so I doubt it." he pushed her off.
She folded her arms and pouted for only three seconds. "Is that one mean bully going to be there?" Phai knew she was talking about Cassy.
"Yep and sadly same with the rest of them."
"Well atleast Alex and Tolem are going." She mentioned. "They will back you up if anything goes wrong."
"Yea I guess." Phai started putting on his socks and shoes.
'Oh and if there is a fight take pictures." She ventured more.
"Oh my god, fine! I'm leaving now so get out my room and stay out."
Tolem and Leon stood outside Phai's house all dressed up in nice clothes waiting for him so they could head together to the party that started five minutes ago. Tolem looked at his watch. It read 7:07. He sighed.
Leon was there mostly to see Phai's sister. "Maybe you should go and get him out, or I will if you don't want to." Leon smiled wide at his offer. Maybe Callista would open the door.
"Be my guest."
"Yes!" Leon said theatrically and before he even started heading to the door they saw Phai hurry out throwing on a jacket and he went to them with his foiled wrapped present in his hand.
Leon frowned disappointed that he didn't see Callista and bothered by the shiny thing in Phais' hand. "What is that?"
"Oh it's for Roxanne. It's her birthday present." A grin plastered on his face.
"Did you wrap it?"
"No my sis did while I was getting dressed."
Leon's excitement brightened and for no reason. 'Is she coming?"
Tolem and Phai shared a quick glance at each other. "Uh no she's not. She's nine." Phai reminded Leon.
'Oh okay." Leon looked away embarrassed hands sinking in his pockets as Phai gave him the big brother protecting stare.
"Are we going to wait for Alex or is he going to meet us there." Asked Phai. He hadn't seen the boy all day. It happened a lot when his parents were home.
"Uh he will just meet us there I'm sure. If not we'll come and get him." Tolem replied definite.
"Okay."
"Bye Phai have a nice time. Bring back the peanut butter if she doesn't want it!" His sister yelled from the front door and Leon blushed faster than it hit him and Phai and Tolem frowned at her.
"A friend's advice Phai, put her on a leash." Tolem thought clever patting his shoulder then shaking his head in shame. Phai gestured his sister back inside the house and then followed after Tolem and pretty much having to drag Leon from staring at her. He was not looking forward to this.
"Dad can I go now?" Alex asked politely even though he was impatient to get out the house, as his dad had him in the house all day helping him with office papers, stacking them neatly, sorting them in seperate files and printing and making copies for him while he did the phone calls.
It was so much, they even had to run to the store to buy more ink. He wasn't just doing it for his dad but also sorting out his mothers busines papers, who wasn't home because she was called in to work.
"No son not yet." Phillip pointed to the filing cabinet as they were in the big office and told Alex to go file them accordingly to procedure.
"Can I do this after the party?"
"Didn't your mother and I warn you about parties' boy?" the dad asked holding the phone between his ear and shoulder. "Anything can go wrong."
The boy felt like saying and 'you care because' but decided to keep his mouth shut. His father had a cigarette in his mouth and finally the phone picked up and he stepped out of the office.
Alex heard always his father laughing with someone on the other end of the phone but it was not a buddy kind of laugh you share with best friends but more of a flirtatious laugh and he always told himself something was wrong but he never understood until that day.
It took me awhile to finish the files but I was finally done. I hurried to go put on some different clothes and rushed to the front door, I opened it and saw something I never expected even though it was obvious and always in front of me. My mother always mentioned him cheating on her with some other whore but that was just an assumption me and her both made. How wrong she was and how stupid was I for ignoring it. My dad who I always looked up to, I found kissing a young and very attractive girl right at his car vehicle. I never expected the cheating to happen so soon, in fact I thought my parents would remain faithful until I hit my high school years but I was a child. I couldn't stand to see this. You can say this shouldn't be a shock. I pried on him whenever I had thought him suspicious of something, the only things I actually had proof of were the phone calls and even that I wasn't sure of, but actually seeing right before my eyes, him loving some other woman at my house and in my driveway, I could now believe it.
You really don't start to really get hurt by something unless it strikes you right in the face. Well this did. It hurt my insides, it hurt my head and just watching them made me go dizzy. I slowly closed the door seeing him coming back and he opens it and tells me that he would be right back. The smile on his face tells me that he was going to go fuck her quick somewhere and I remembered my mind was pumping with so much anger and sadness I didn't know what happened next. He closed the door, took off with her in his car and I remember walking mindlessly in the fields, forgetting about the party, then hitting something cold like death and that's it.
Phai walked behind Tolem and entered Roxanne's house. There were flowers, decorations and balloons everywhere. Kids were loud and running all over the place. They all felt bad for her father as he was running around all over the place trying to get the kids out of places that weren't allowed.
Pretty much Roxanne was spoiled. In her own defense she always used the excuse that she grew up dirt poor and her father worked hard to get them where they were at even though most of the money came from her mother after her mom's death. But he put it on himself. Never spoil a child because eventually you are preparing them for a brutal future.
Tolem and Phai entered a room where the party host was as she was dressed in an over the top dress with bows in her hair and she was ripping open the wrappers of her present.
"Hi Tolem…and Phai." She rolled her eyes at the boy and scurried back to her presents.
The boys were in another room playing doing what boys do best and mess around. There were so many activities going and so many kids, Phai regretted it. He hated pointless noise and headed to the room where the TV was telling Tolem so he knew where to find him if he ever went looking. He sat down watching the movie that was playing, not like it did him any good escaping from the noise as kids would run through and out the room frequently. He just sat and waited patiently for Alex to show up hoping he would.
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Alexander can you hear me?"
Alexander, my king…
Please don't leave me.
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