AncilIt was Megan.
“I’m bored,” she said, helping herself in my room without any invitation. It wasn’t like I didn’t want her in my room, but I was tired and really was in no mood to entertain company.
“Where’s Rajiv?” I asked
“He’s sleeping,” she answered. “He fell asleep almost two hours ago.”
“And where’s Melanie?”
“She’s sleeping too.”
I could definitely understand why they were both sleeping. It was 3am and most people were sleeping. The only reason I was still up was because I couldn’t sleep.
“What do you want to do?” I asked her while making my way back to the bed. There were a lot of thoughts that entered my head as I asked the question. I really surprised myself at the things I was able to conjure in my head.
She didn’t answer but she just threw herself on the bed facing upwards towards the ceiling with her two hands behind her head.
“You want to play a game?” She asked.
“What kind of game?” I flirted awkwardly. I wasn’t sure if her mind was anywhere near where mines was so I felt a bit awkward.
“A game of chess?” She asked.
My brain was tired and foggy and I wasn’t in the mood to play chess but I didn’t want her to leave since she was already around.
“You have a board?” I asked.
She sprung up from the bed and headed towards the door.”Give me one minute.”
When she came back she had her bag in her hand. She dropped it on the bed and from it she pulled out a tablet device. Just like the phones, it was a flat transparent glass, able to fold into any shape.
“I have the game on here,” she said with her tablet in hand. She found the game and we started playing. I wasn’t very good at chess. I couldn’t let myself lose to a girl, but I did. She won the first two games that we played.
“A next one?” She asked.
“So that you could beat me again. No thanks,” I scoffed jokingly.
“Don’t be a loser. Just one more game,” she begged. “I won’t play as hard this game.”
She convinced me. “Alright, one more game.”
“Yayy!” Megan said as she started a new game.
While we were playing she said, “Thanks.”
“For what?”
“For saving our lives,” she replied.
“As Rajiv said before, I didn’t save your lives, I just helped.”
“Don’t listen to Rajiv, he’s stupid,” she said. “Your bravery saved our lives. If you didn’t jump the bandit back on the bridge I would not be here now. I owe you my life and my sister’s life. You got us off the bridge alive.”
“A bridge that I put you guys on in the first place,” I interrupted, trying to remain humble.
“You didn’t put us in that situation.”
“Yes I did. I convinced you all to go to San Fernando.”
“It was my idea too,” Megan said.
She was right, it was also her idea. I couldn’t deny it.
“Checkmate!” Megan shouted.
She was right again. My king was cornered and he couldn’t move.
“Dammit!”
“Don’t worry, you would get good someday,” Megan mocked. “Thanks for the company. I was bored out of my mind. And all those horrible things that happened today were in my head and I just couldn’t…”
“Anytime,” I said, interrupting her train of thought.
She packed away the tablet and I thought that she was about to leave but she simply just made herself more comfortable on the bed. I made myself comfortable on the bed as well not really sure what would have happened next. There was a slight moment of silence but Megan eventually broke it with a very random question. “You have a girlfriend Jed?”
I didn’t have one but I answered yes anyway. She began to question me more and more about my imaginary girlfriend living in Jamaica until the conversation swayed to other topics. We talked about a host of things the entire night. We talked about television shows, life, love, news, and basically everything that came to our minds at the moment. I would have loved to have gotten a bit more flirty with her but even though we didn’t I still enjoyed the conversation. We continued on the bed talking until we both unexpectedly succumbed to sleep.
