~B R E A T H E~

chapter seven ~

(I couldn't find a picture from this video on Pinterest, so I decided to screenshot it from TikTok lmao)

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Aurora was currently at home by herself today. She was bored out of her mind. No one invited her to any parties, nor to just hang out.

But today was also the day her mother came back home. For the first time in a while, she was happy about that. Aurora's finger curled the loose ends of her hair, as she watched some random show on tv.

Soon enough the brown-haired girl had Billie's contact pulled up on her phone. She contemplated if she should call the girl or not.

It's been about 3 days with no communication with Billie, and Aurora felt as if she needed her.

She came to the thought that Billie was now her only source of happiness. It scared the young girl. She never wanted to rely on someone else for her happiness, but somehow it happened.

Something in her wondered if Billie was thinking about her, or even missed her. But if she did, why hasn't she reached out. Aurora thought to herself repeatedly.

A huge boom from the tv made Aurora jump, her head snapped over to the noise to see that the scene in the show was a car wreck.

Her eyes widened in fear.

"DAD!" She yelled before he finally looked back towards Aurora.

Aurora's hands started to shake as well as her breath starting to shorten.

Everything went black as the girl laid there in shock. She could still hear the faint voices of firefighters yells.

"Mom," the girl said with her voice breaking, tears now in the brim of her waterline. Her body was now sweating.

Aurora grabbed her forehead as she felt it throbbing in excruciating pain.

"I'm sorry, it's all my fault." She screamed with emotion filling her tone.

Aurora was now balling her eyes out, still trying to contain her breathing, as she fails to. "Someone, come home please."

"I don't feel a pulse!" a nurse shouts out.

Her eyes were now bloodshot red, she didn't know how to calm herself down. She felt as if her panic attack has been going on for hours and that it would never stop.

"Aurora?" A familiar voice to Aurora shouted out.

"Mom help me." She sobbed uncontrollably. Which made Jennifer run towards Aurora, dropping everything that she had in her hands.

"Hey, no, it's okay. You're doing okay. Look at me." Jennifer says to her daughter, trying to get her breathing back to normal.

The girl turned her head to her mother, "I-I can't breathe."

Jennifer looked her daughter in the eyes, "Guess what, Earlier today, I booked us plane tickets to Mexico. I thought that you deserved to go and it would be a good distraction for spring break."

Aurora realized that her mom was trying to distract her and it was working. Her breathing slowed down to a normal pace. Her hands weren't shaking uncontrollably, and her crying stopped.

The girl fell into her mother's arms, she ran her fingers down her mother's spine.

"I love you," the girl mumbles against her shoulder.

Jennifer kissed her daughter's head, "I love you more, Aurora."

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"Come on Aurora, you can't ignore me all day," Billie groaned as she followed behind Aurora.

The girl didn't respond, but instead, she rolled her eyes. She was still very upset that Billie lied to her. If she didn't wanna hang out she could have just said that the girl thought multiple times.

"Aurora, why won't you just talk to me. Yeah okay, I hung out with other people when I said I was supposed to be home, but you're taking it to a whole different level by ignoring me."

Once again she said nothing, the girl couldn't even walk in the halls in peace.

"Gosh, why won't you just open your mouth and talk to me!" Billie raised her voice, catching Aurora off guard.

"What could you possibly want Billie!" Aurora snapped with the same tone Billie gave her.

"I want you to stop ignoring me."

The girl chuckled, "yeah not happening."

"Are you jealous because I don't like you?" Billie practically yelled.

Aurora was confused. Why is she bringing that up? But in fact, Aurora was jealous. She was jealous because she didn't wanna see any other girl with Billie. And when she did her heart shattered.

"What are you talking about? Of course, I'm not jealous!"

"Well, you sure are acting like it. Every time I hang out with someone else you start acting weird, it's obsessive at this point."

She chuckled, "me obsessive? Are you crazy! I'm not obsessive over you!"

At this point, Aurora was angry, why was Billie acting the way she was. Yeah, Aurora ignored her but she didn't think Billie would have been this upset.

"Yes, you are Aurora! It's like you rely on me for your happiness and it's so mentally draining. Why can't you just open your eyes to see that?" The blue-eyed girl snapped harder than she meant to.

Aurora snatched the bunny ring off her hand throwing it at Billie, "you're a real jerk, I don't want you coming near me anymore."

Billie's eyes flashed with hurt as she just now realizes what she did. She knew she went too far and in all honesty, she didn't mean to.

"Wait Aurora-" she started but quickly got shut down.

"Save it, you've said enough."

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A/n

This chapter is shorter but I needed to put one out for this book.

I'm low on ideas I need suggestions please!!

Anyways thoughts?

How are you guys?