Chapter 232

"You know that I would have disapproved of them ever picking on you?" I say and he immidiately gives me an amused smile. He gives me that amused smile that makes me know the impossibility of that situation.

Exactly how long would I have been able to protect him from the taunts that other people might throw at him in the halls, exactly how much would I have been able to protect him from the name calling, would I be standing by his side all day.

It's even now that our schedule somehow collides a quennsy little bit, it's with Aron's breakup, that we have even been drawn together a little bit more.

Before this, I doubt I barely see him in four days. I simply know that I have a brother, a brother who i sight in school and whom I see at home but yet who will never share any sort of interaction with me.

"okay my turn". Oakley says and for a moment I think Scott would actually catch on to what we are trying to do. Normally we were both asked a question each, a question that the other agree to but yet I have asked my question, and now it seems Oakley has her own individual question to ask. He can simply refuse it and asks us to play another game of rock-paper-scissors, but surprisingly he does not.

"Ask away" he says sipping Oakley's smoothie once more.

"Okay, this act that you put up, is it really an act or is this how you actually are?".

He seems confused at this, and even I am confused.

"Exactly what do you mean by is this how I actually am?". She gives us a satisfied smile and she looks pointedly at him 

"This cold distant nature that you portray, is this how you actually are, because even with the amount of time you've spent with me, I still haven't figured you out. I still can't lay a hand as to say this is exactly who you are, or this is exactly who you are. I simply can't say that you like this, or you don't like this.

You are a mystery to me, and so I am asking, is this all an act, or is this how you are".

I'm guessing that it is something of an insensible and unlikely question to ask, but yet I also want to know. I want to know if this is the true Scott I am seeing in front of me.

For a moment I think we would not receive any answer, I think he will simply keep quiet and let our mind run wild with the silence of his answer, instead he lets out a deep sigh and answers.

"This is exactly the way I am, there is no other way that I would rather be if you asked me".

The mysterious smile on Oakley's face let me that she has been leading him into a trap all this while.

"Why are you like this then?" she asks and Scott let's out something of a stifled smile.