Bereft (h.s)

55. Opposite.

Chapter 55

Alycia's Pov.

"Jasper c'mon." I said with frustration as he ran around the little flowerbed in front of my apartment building.

He's seeming really into these flowers because they laid out fresh mulch for the front. Now he's gonna smell like dirt. Great.

"Babe come on. Now!" I said and tugged his leash a bit and he made a groaning noise before finally getting up and following me back into the building.

He's a little shit but gah I love him.

Also, it's 6:45am.

Harry never called last night.

Jasper woke me up to go out. He had to go and I expected to see a call that maybe I had fallen asleep on. However, I was sadly mistaken.

I don't know what's going on with him.

He could tell something was off when we spoke and I even told him it was important so it was unfortunate to see that he didn't even try and call. Not even a text.

I took Jasper off his leash as we got up to my apartment and hung it by my pantry door in the kitchen, along with his collar.

I told my Alexa to play music and I decided to start cooking breakfast.

I really just want egg and cheese today so I pulled out the eggs from the fridge and started cooking up some scrambled eggs with cheese.

My phone started ringing as I put the toast in the toaster.

I went to grab it and saw Harry's name.

I felt a bit annoyed because I know he's just gonna give me an excuse on why he didn't call.

"Hello?" "Hi baby." He said in his groggy morning voice that I fucking miss. "Hi." I responded nonchalantly.

"I'm really sorry I didn't call last night baby. I fell asleep." He lied.

He has trouble falling asleep and how energetic and excited , and probably high, he sounded last night proves that he did not fall asleep.

I looked at the clock on my microwave that read 7:14. He's an hour ahead of time so it's past 8 there.

"I'm pretty sure you didn't fall asleep...so do you just wanna explain why you really didn't call?"

It was silent on his end and I could tell he didn't expect me to say that.

"Baby I really did just fall asleep." He eventually spoke. "I wanna know why you called though. You sounded off. Talk to me."

Oh so now you wanna sound so interested?

He wanted honesty from me though so i'll give him that.

"Well Dylan messaged me." I spoke simply. "What? What the fuck did he say? Were you alone?" "He said something about you actually. He mentioned how"- I started to say and stopped myself.