lies

14

Taytum Moore

"Berry, I haven't talked to you in a while." Josh says right when he answers the phone. I haven't talked to him since New years. I've heard where he's been obviously because of Lily. She calls me every hour some days. I don't mind though I've been waiting years for them to be together too.

"Hey Joshy!" I say excitedly into the phone, at any moment now he's gonna bring up Lily I'm just waiting for it.

"You have no idea how crazy life has been, Berry. Lily and I are doing well so far everything has been great. I'm trying my best to keep it that way." He says, I knew it. I know them both so well.

"Anyways before I start rambling, how's everything with curly going?" He says shocking me, I expected me to sit here for an hour listening to him talk about Lily but he stopped himself. He's been hanging out with Lily too much. She does the same thing, she'll ask you first how you are then tell you everything going on with her. That's why we fight so much, Lily and I, because we'll hang out or be on the phone and she'll tell me to go first but then I'll tell her the same thing.

"Everythings good. I mean we've been together a lot." I says with a stupid smile slowly forming on my face. I look like an idiot right now smiling into the phone at work by myself.

"That's good, berry. I'm happy for you. After all that fucker put you through." He says and I can tell he's already pacing from the way he's talking. He was the first one that wanted to fight Tanner after he found out about everything that happened. He ranted to Lily and I, telling us all the things he's gonna do to him.

"Josh, It's not happening anymore." I say trying to calm him down with my words because I'm not physically with him. How was he brought up again because I wanna go back to that moment and take him out of the conversation.

"I know I know. It just makes me so upset that you even had to go through that. You didn't deserve any of it." He says softly remembering everything I told him when he found out. Let's just say that day was eventful for Lily and I. We were both a little stunned by how much he said and how upset he was showing he was.

"I know you're upset and with me deserving it..." I say trailing off at the end because a piece of me still feels like I deserved everything that happened to me.

"You are not about to tell me you think you deserved any of that." He says raising his voice a little, I hear Lily in the background telling him something.

"I didn't say that."

"Well you were going to."

"Have you gotten the court date already?"

"They said I should be getting a call sometime today." I say, sighing heavily as soon as I say it. I got a call this morning from my lawyer telling me that she should be getting the court date later tonight. It made me think about everything again and honestly I felt like I went through it all again when she told me. I'm scared to see him again after these past couple months. Honestly I hadn't thought about it until today and thinking about the feeling I'll get if I see him again scares me.

"Hmm it's been awhile since anything about him has been brought up between us." He says in a serious tone instead of an angry tone, so now I at least know he isn't mad anymore.

"Well moving back to the reason I called you... I need you to tell me where Harry works." I say getting back to the reason I had initially called him. I've been at work trying to figure out when I'm gonna see Harry again and then I found out the flower shop is closing early so I thought I'd just go see him myself.

"He works at some random bookstore in town. I could send you the address now if you want."

"Yeah please."