Entwined

Chapter 7

West's POV -

I watched the tiny droplets, from the shower hit the steamy, glass door whilst hearing Ava's muffled voice, shouting outside. I stood up and wrapped the towel around my waist, then reached up to switch the shower off.

"- understand what you're saying -no , don't worry, listen - yeah but - no, no, I'll try my absolute best but it might not be possible, I just really don't want to - can you let me speak? - no, I'll tell you if he agrees which I highly doubt he will because he is most definitely not up for performing after what happened with Taissa - yes I understand, but I don't want to force him so -," Ava froze as she turned around and saw me standing there. I absolutely hated anyone mentioning anything about her. I felt like someone was strangling me and I rapidly blinked away tears. "Urm, yeah, I'll ask okay, calm down okay bye." She disconnected the phone-call and looked down at her feet. "West, I can feel your eyes burning on me."

"Shut up Ava, I've told you a thousand times not to talk about her. Do you even know how angry her name makes me? You do know and I don't understand why you'd talk about this crap again." I felt myself choking for some reason and I hated myself for it. Why can't I get over it? It's been 117 days, for fuck's sake.

"I'm sorry, I was just trying to explain to Zac why you wouldn't want to do any sort of performances even though we're staying here for three more weeks." She stepped towards me and sighed. "Sorry," she apologised again whilst crinkling her nose.

"Sorry for being a jerk, I just can't deal with hearing anything about her." I glanced up at Ava and she was just staring at me. "I'll go and get ready then I'll be back." I walked into my room and knelt down next to my suitcase.

"Hurry up, the meeting's in like an hour."

   

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The car gradually slowed down as we neared management's building.

"Do we have to go in? Zac is so damn annoying." I buried my head in my hands, dreading the meeting.

"He just wants to talk, we'll all beat his ass if he starts being a dick." Caden sassily put his sunglasses on and walked out the car. I opened my door and catched up with him.

"Caden, it's so damn cloudy, stop being retarded," I said as I reached over his shoulders and pulled his sunglasses off.

"Urgh, you always kill my vibe." He messed his hair around then shouted for Ava. "Ava, could you even get out of the fucking car? We're already late."

"Yeah, yeah wait," she exclaimed as she smeared a nude, unnoticeable lipstick over her lips, still sitting in the car.

"Why are you still getting ready? You literally dragged us out the house before, plus you look fine," I shouted to her as she ran out the car.

"Yeah but West, what if there's paps or something? Like you two always look hot so it's fine but I can't be seen looking like a dead rat, especially in pictures." She ran up to us laughing. "Oh my god, remember that time when you tripped me into a puddle and I looked like a soaked dog and then the paps took like a hundred pictures and oh my god, cringe."

Yeah, I do remember.I tripped her over too. I already saw camera flashes in the corner of my eye as we entered the building. We ran uo the stairs and went to the second floor reception. Oh, how I hate the atmosphere of this place. The multi-coloured, neon walls seemed to harshly stand out to me. Workers with overly, fake smiles surrounded me making me even more uncomfortable.

"West!" I turned around to see Zac in a strolling towards me in a perfect, white suit with a pretentious grin on his face. Typical, superficial idiots. "It's good to see you, how are you?" He extended his arm to me.