did you hear about river?

chapter 7

i sat crossed legged on my bed as i played some games.

"how did you afford that phone?" finneas asks.

"by working." i say before getting back to playing crossy road.

"really?" finneas asks.

"yes finneas, i know it doesn't seem like it to you but i've been working hard the moment i was shunned from the bassaux family. i'm so glad i was though. i have a much nicer family now, a family who actually loves me, respects me and isn't filled with ignorance and hatred." i say as i beat my high score.

"who's your new family?" he says stupidly.

"i thought it was obvious. the sartori family. me, mia and valé were adopted by them." i say as i receive a message from rory.

rory: where are u?!
me: hospital but i bet you already knew that
rory: i took a guess

i hear a knock on the door and the nurse comes back in again.

"a miss aurora montgomery is here to see you?" she reads the name off a board and i nod my head as if to say yes.

rory walks in and i smile at her.

"you look worse than i do rory." i say as she hands me some oreos. i love oreos. "thank you."

"i know i do. i was stressing all night about whether i should visit you or not. i couldn't though because someone locked me in my room, somehow. i had no energy to leave try and leave and my room was open in the morning." she sends the message and i read it out loud.

"someone locked the door to the cool room as well. a few randomly placed rooms were locked all over." brea says as she walks in, hair done, nice clothes on, sick heels and overall looking sexy.

"damn ma you're looking sexy." i say before we both laugh.

"yeah i wish i was going somewhere nice though. i have to go my cousins confirmation and i absolutely hate their parents and some of his siblings." she says as she hugs me. "fuck. i was supposed to bring a date." she says as she moves back. "they pretend to be the religious type but really they're just the vulgar type who hide behind the façade of religion to excuse their broken ways."

"go with finneas." i say as i smile evilly.

"what! you're an absolute joker you know." brea says as she shakes her head. "but also i mean i'm pretty bored so i could." she says as she shrugs.

i look at her in disbelief. "he torments you bree." i mouth.

"oh well." she mouths. "so finneas would you care to accompany your so kindly endeared 'depressed bitch' to my annoying cousins confirmation?" she says smirking as he looks shocked.

"you heard that? the whole conversation?" he says as his face flushes.

"yes, yes i did. i actually DO have depression so the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. now you wouldn't want to make this depressed bitch feel bad." she says as she smiles falsely but sweetly at him. she was having a good day.

"fine." finneas says as he huffs and puffs before getting up and following brea out.

rory signs here goodbyes as me and elijah are left in the room.

i sigh at how happy brea and finneas looked, even if they didn't look like each other. rory had told me. brea and finneas were soulmates, what kind didn't matter because they were. rory had never told me mine and she said it's because i wouldn't like mine and i could never convince her to tell me.

i looked at elijah before looking back at my phone and opening my notes. they were descriptions of every person i had ever met. sometimes photos if i has them.

elijah wang.

my first account of him was when i was 5. i was young but as soon as i could write i would take down everything about everyone as soon as i could, i soon started taking it everywhere with me. i have the same notebook years later, it's still waiting to be filled.

i scroll through the folder and find it. i open it. it has his name, his birthday, his hobbies and description of his physical features.

however, the most precious thing on there was the photos of me and him. in his 18 years of life, he had never changed his hairstyle. there we were 13 years ago, us two face to face as we smiled for a picture that finneas took of us. it was a little dodgy, due to the fact that finneas took it at the ripe age of five and also because it's digitalisation was a dodgy thing.

i looked at it and smiled. back when we were friends. i had a crush on him at the time however those feeling slowly vacated when he and finneas start being cruel to me.

i felt betrayed. lost. confused. damaged.

i guess after all those years, all i really could be was damaged goods. so that's when i met kaçper and felt that true love, i was entranced and he was head over heels.

we were tight for years. i told everyone that the reason that the reason we were breaking up was work but he understood my job and i understood his. he found his preference. guys. a girl who likes guys. he was transitioning. he said he didn't want to me to call him she until he was ready to hear it. i knew he needed support in this and i knew it would come, i know he'd want to break up. i didn't mind because i knew it was coming to end. it was still sad. i'll love him forever.

i received a message and saw that we had a meeting in 2 hours.

i got immediately and grabbed all my stuff and went into the bathroom and put them on, taking off the gown. it hurt a little and elijah definitely saw that when i walked out.

i made sure i had everything before i left the room, informing the doctor upon departure.

i know this was going to be fun.