Chapter 328

"I'm not betting with you" i say deadpanning to him and he looks at me, he looks at me like he cannot just believe what he just heard.

"Why will you not bet with your younger brother?".

If he is trying to play that card on me he's just failed. He's failed miserably.

"You will win it without a second thought, even if it hurts my feelings, at least I know Oakley is a little bit more considerate"

"Now that is just you being stereotypical" Scott says and i think he might be hurt by my words but yet he is not.

He is still wearing that oddly satisfied smile on his face and I smile to myself knowing what to do. I know exactly what to do to him. As for Oakley, I want to enter this bet with her.

"What is the bet all about?" she says and I smile.

"I dare you to go in there and talk to five different people when we get in".

I know that this might seem like a really really stupid bet to make but I have noticed that Oakley has withdrawn into herself lately.

She's withdrawing into herself more and more, almost like she doesn't want to talk to anybody and she doesn't want to have any interactions with anyone. She doesn't want to be speaking to too much people now because of what happened to her and I do not like this.

Even if I am not the most social of all people I know that it is not good to withdraw into yourself. I know that is not good to simply lock yourself up in a private compartment of the library and continue reading by yourself.

That's right.

I found out exactly what she does in the library. While she was taking her bath someone sent her a text on her phone, they were asking if she wanted them to reserve the quiet space for her in the library. It was practically the librarian who was texting, he was asking to see if the girl who was always lonely will also be lonely today because they practically had a lot of people coming in.

He had felt he should take pity on her and inform her now, and hence the text message but still.

I do not like it. I don't like it that she's withdrawing into herself.

She's contemplating this, the fact that she's even contemplating it lets me know that Oakley has changed. She might look okay on the outside but yet she isn't ok on the inside, she's practically burning up on the inside and I did not like my friend to feel that sort of pain.

"Deal or No deal?" I say looking at her and trying to sound as confident as I can and she smirks at me.

"What is on the line here?" she says and i have to take some time to think about it.

"I'll buy you a weeks supply of cupcakes".

Food is the only thing that can get to her, food is only thing that can get her to come out of the shell which she has put herself in.