carolina | dream x oc

5

tw// arguing, mentions of abuse, gaslighting, drug addiction

clay woke up the next morning, with lia next to him and patches meowing in the background. he got up slowly, careful not to wake her up. he checked his phone, seeing a few messages from george, karl, quackity, and sapnap. meanwhile, lia's phone was completely blowing up with text's that looked to be from unknown numbers. he ignored it, not wanting to snoop.

he got up, fed patches and sat in a chair in the kitchen waiting for lia to wake up. she awoke to messages spammed on her phone, opening them.

unknown

lia?
i miss you
can we meet up?
i love you so much

um who is this?

it's anthony
please can we meet up
i need to see you

what? i thought you were
still in texas

i'm in florida
i want you back, lia
i messed up

immediately lia began to panic. why did anthony follow her here? what did he want? she knew that she certainly didn't want him back. there was no way he was sober texting her that.

she didn't want to go through that whole situation again. it had been some of the hardest times for her, and she didn't know if she could handle it. clay walked into the room, picking up on her worriedness.

"everything okay?" he asked, concerned.

"yeah," she said, forcing a smile. she didn't want to worry him, and she also didn't want to tell him about anthony. a lot of people decided that they don't believe lia's side of the story, and she didn't want to risk the same thing happening with him.

clay and lia hung out for a short while longer, until lia went back to her apartment.

"i gotta go feed my cat and shower and stuff," she said.

"okay," he smiled, "text me later?"

"of course," she said, embracing him in a hug before she left. she could never get tired of hugging him, his strong arms encasing her where she felt so safe.

when she got back into the apartment, she immediately called katie.

"hey what's wrong? what happened?"

"anthony texted me. he said he misses me and he wants to meet up. and he FOLLOWED me here."

"what the hell? oh my god-"

"what am i supposed to do? and i don't want to tell clay because i don't want him to worry."

"just wait it out, maybe he will stop texting you."

"maybe. i just feel so bad, clay and i had such a good time yesterday. it's just so annoying that anthony had to come along and ruin my life again."

"stop thinking about anthony. tell me about clay."

"well, he's really funny. i just feel like i can act normally around him, and our personalities are quite similar. he is very polite and he's so sweet."