Entangled (Vice Games) Read Online Free

you listen and they’ll listen to you.’
    I understood what Anna meant. She was talking about the doctors and those around her. My time with Anna had revealed that she’s been on medication for so long that her sanity is questionable. Her mind’s constantly jumbled and anything she says doesn’t make sense; and because of that, no one is willing to listen to her. Tristan had been her rock for the past few years until his fiancée showed up. I still don’t know her name as Anna always called her the bitch. Her mother died when she was five and her father remarried quickly after that. I noted the bitter tone when she spoke about him and never once calling him dad in her conversations with me. Medication began when quickly after her stepmother moved in and she’s been on them ever since. Her list of pills grew as the years went by and now they’re injecting things into her.
    It’s also revealed that Tristan has always been against it but he had no power over their father’s decisions, which from the sound of things are influenced by his new wife and something about a lost court case. I didn’t press Anna for these facts. She willingly told me and I felt that by telling me, she has a weight lifted off her.
    My mobile phone sat on the coffee table and Anna grabbed it without my permission. Her nimble fingers began to tap something in.
    ‘What are you doing?’
    ‘Getting you a job.’
    I paced across the room and attempted to grab the phone off her. Anna placed the ice-cream tub down and hurdled over the back of the couch. I chased her about but she was quick to get away. I saw her press send and a message was sent.
    ‘Who did you just texted?’
    ‘Who else could I have texted?’
    ‘Give me back my phone.’
    The phone buzzed as a reply message was received. Anna flicked her finger over my phone again and informed me of its contents.
    ‘You’re hired,’ she said.
    ‘What?’
    ‘Tristan’s hired you. I’m sure you can discuss pay rates and stuff like that later.’
    Anna gave me back my phone and returned to her spot on the couch to finish her ice-cream. I looked at the message and saw that it was a simple yes in the reply. I was unsure about how to feel before the sense of dread rose from the pit of my stomach. I didn’t want to work for Tristan. It meant that I would see him more often and although deep down I was not against that, the man has a fiancée. I closed my eyes and shook my head.
    ‘No,’ I said. I was being silly to even dare think that he and I could develop into something else. For goodness sake, he’s getting married.
    ‘Yes,’ said Anna, completely out of context from what I was thinking. ‘You have to work for him. He’ll probably put you up as my babysitter or something like that, which I don’t mind if it’s you.’
    ‘You’re sixteen, you don’t need a babysitter.’
    ‘I’m emotionally unstable. I need someone with me.’
    I laughed. ‘Oh really? You seem pretty stable to me right now.’
    ‘That’s only because I’m with you and not with them. I mean, come on, you feed ice cream and leftovers from your fridge. Everyone else just gives me pills.’
    It was hard not to agree. As I stood there and contemplated my situation, a loud cracking crash sounded in the kitchen. Anna and I went in to investigate and found that the ceiling had collapsed. The water damage had weakened the structure above and there was a gaping hole over where the leak is. A brown mush which had been the insulation and big slabs of crumbled ceiling lay on the ground.
    ‘Holy crap,’ I found myself saying. I placed the mobile phone in my hand down on the counter and edge d closer to peer up at the damage. I lived on the top floor, which meant that I could see the rotting roof struts. Mushrooms were also growing at odd angles in the wood.
    My phone buzzed and I turned to find it in Anna’s hands again.
    ‘Did you just text him again?’
    ‘Yes. You’re going to need a new place to