Valerie was scrolling through the photos on her phone, looking at pictures of her and Tony, where they had taken billions of selfies together. Weird, Valerie didn't cry while looking at the pictures, because she had developed a plan, so she was calm as she thought about it.
She looks up and see her clock. It was two in the morning and it was on a Friday night. Dammit, she remembers that today was Friday the 13th, no wonder why all of this happened. Tony told her to listen to a song a day, she preferred this to happened later than right now, but life happens.
Valerie was replaying the first couple of romantic songs on her playlist, looking at the Nano. She pulls out her phone and unlocking it, going to her text messages. Maybe Selena can be a good help right now.
617-9081: Hey Sel :)
184-5990: Hi whoever this is . . . um, don't mind asking who's this?
617-9081: It's Valerie Ramos
184-5990: Oh hey Valerie! How is it going? :)
617-9081: Not good -.- hey, what happened between you and Tony exactly?
Valerie saw the speech bubble appear and she shuts off her phone. People tell her that they receive her 'read' receipts and gets mad when she opens the message and doesn't responds. She doesn't know how to remove it, so she doesn't bother. She didn't want to leave her phone on, then it's going to send Selena a read receipt, which why Valerie turned of her phone.
Instead, she was going to listen to the next song. She grabs Envelope Twenty for track twenty, and putting the ear bud back in her ear, pressing play for the next track
Track Twenty: I'm never giving up on you
Check yes Juliet
Are you with me?
Rain is falling down on the sidewalk
I won't go until you come outside.
Check yes Juliet
Kill the limbo
I'll keep tossing rocks at your window
There's no turning back for us tonight.
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Once the song ended- Valerie had no idea what was the use of this song- she glanced at her phone and sees she got three unread text messages from Selena; at least she had her phone off.
184-5990: Right, Tony called, and told me what happened
184-5990: It was nothing, if anything, it's my fault. I came back from Rio de Janeiro and I saw him and it was more of a catching up thing, I thought you guys broke up when I came back because he was so happy when he saw me , but I found out like a week later you guys were still dating, and I told him to leave me alone
184-5990: I don't know why he waited for so long to tell you, it happened a couple of months ago, and we became very close friends, that's all
She has Selena's side of the story . . . but those are lies in between the lines.
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8 more tracks left!
- ashley
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