The Middle

I was laying lazily on the couch when I heard Ichabod letting out it’s cute bark and scratched the door, wanting to go out when he knew someone’s parking their vehicle in front of my house. I smiled to myself, knowing who’s coming. Without further ado, I quickly got up from the couch, making my way to open the door and let the little fur out to meet my main man, Brian Haner Jr a.k.a Synyster Gates.

Today’s gonna be the day where we gonna have a bonding time after such a looooong time. I couldn’t even remember the last time we met. We’ve been too busy with our lives that we could barely contact each other. But not today. The excitement had been there inside me since he texted me to catch up every Sunday. And to add more spice into the bowl, we will play a virtual baseball game then we’ll go to a certain bar to get drunk. I could tell that today’s gonna be a very crazy yet exciting day.

But everything changed when I saw the expression on his face.

I was about to give him a bro hug when he just stormed into my house and to the livingroom, ignoring me and the little barking Icky. Like we’re only ghosts to him. His behaviour made my mind questions a lot of things. I thought today’s gonna be a fun Sunday, without any dramas and frown faces. Well, I guess I was wrong. Something or someone had completely pissed him off this morning. This is too obvious. Brian is not that kind of moody person. Even though he was in a bad mood, he wouldn’t show it unless its cap the climax. Though, as a bestfriend, I’ll try to cheer him up and make him spill the beans why is he unhappy.

I went to the place where he puts his big butt on. He was staring blankly at the big screen before glancing at me. His face was flat and almost unreadable. Its just weird because sometimes I could tell his problems just by looking at his face. But this time, I was lost. Perhaps, its because we’ve been away from each other for so long. That could be one of the reason why did I lose my power to sense his problems.

“Mind telling me what the fuck happened to you?” I said whilst standing at the livingroom door frame.

“My fiancé is really got me out of the guard” he growled. “My ‘soon will be’ parents are coming to visit us tonight and I completely forgot about it. At first, I was afraid to tell her that I have a schedule with you. Feel free to call me a pussy fiancé who’s afraid of his own partner, I don’t care though. But then I explained everything and, to me, she’s really overreacting over it. I mean, I just can’t cancel our ritual!” he ran his hands through his hair like he’s frustrated. Well, duh he IS frustrated.

“Man, remember our motto? ‘Bros before hoes’, dude. Chill out! Everything’s gonna be just fiiiine” I sang the ‘fine’ word.

He chuckled, "you're right, man. Anyway, shall we start our day?!"

I nodded eagerly then made my way to turned on the wii. We both were ready to play before a blasting ringtone interfered us. The sound came from Brian's phone. He was making a very annoyed look when he saw the contact name on his screen. But he doesn't seem to care much that he threw his phone onto the couch, leaving the call unanswered.

"You're not going to answer that?" I asked. I'm just confuse at the fact that his phone is still ringing and he doesn't even manage to answer it. What if its important?

"Nope" he said, popping the letter 'p'

His phone shut for a couple of seconds before went off again and again until about 3 times in a row. He paused the game to turn off his phone. I'm pretty sure that was Sarah. Though, I kept my mouth shut. I didn’t want to make his mood even worse. Whatever he does, he must be making the right decision. I know he had a plenty of reasons why he didn't want to answer her phone call.

1 match done. Arms of mine were flying in the air as I celebrate my victory over him. I’m pretty good at this shit and he gotta admit his defeat. But Brian isn’t an easily discouraged type of person. He’ll beat me anytime soon. He just need to wait for the right timing. We drained a lot of energy so we decided to take a rest for a while. As we lay on the couch, trying to recover our energy, suddenly the front door was flung open then a banging sound came afterwards. We heard stomping high heels came from the distance until Sarah’s figure was standing at the door frame.

Anger filled her eyes as she watched us laying. Her hands were clenched like she was about to punch someone right on their face. Of course its gonna be Brian’s. Though, I was sorta hoping that she wouldn’t do it.

“Wow! You two are very productive grown up men” Sarah said sarcastically. Obviously.

“Hello to you too, Sarah. Its very rude to storm into someone’s house like that. Hmm and I’m pretty sure that your parents told you manners, don’t they?” Brian said calmly.

“I’m so sick of your behaviour, Brian! You gotta pick who’s more important to you. Me or him?” she pointed at me.

“Here goes the picking game. Is there any more fun games than this? Ah yes the virtual baseball game is a lot more fun!” he spat. But that just made Sarah a lot more angry.

I bet there’s gonna be a fight if this keep going on. I can do nothing but stare at them as they slightly screamed at each other faces. Nobody would want to be in my position right now. Ever. I just want to escape from the room because of the tension between them. It is very frightening. I don’t understand why I didn’t even manage to separate them so they would end the little fight. There’s something in the way that made me stayed silent and do nothing.

Soon, Sarah feel defeated and growled before storming out of my house. Brian couldn’t help but followed her. Just before he stormed out too, he mouthed ”I’ll call you later” to me. I nodded as the answer and there they gone. What’s with this couple and storming into or out of someone’s house jeeeze. I face palmed myself. Brian was right, she was clearly overreacted. Our Sunday had definitely ruined. We just want to bond, is that too much to ask for?

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