Catfish

And I Will Wait

"Camila, she's in Johannesburg now."

My jaw fell at the unexpected news. What does she do for a living?

"As in, Johannesburg, South Africa? As in another entirely different continent from last night?" I clarified, just to make sure that Max wasn't pulling my leg. Judging by his sympathetic expression, he wasn't kidding.

I stand up and grunt in frustration, tugging at my hair and screwing my eyes shut, trying not to cry in front of the cameras. Despite my pathetic situation, I atleast have a shred of dignity.

"If it makes you feel any better, it seems that she hasn't been taking it any better." Nev pitches in, gesturing for me to sit next to him. I reluctantly did so, and he turned his open laptop so I could see the screen.

He was on her Tumblr.

The last recent post that caught my attention was the one that said, "And I will wait, I will wait for you.." and my stomach dropped. My hand flew to my mouth and I tried my best to hold back my loud sobs. I immediately felt a few bodies embrace me, but their warm embraces did not comfort me.

"Camila-"

"I'm sorry, I- I have to step out." I said apologetically, untangling myself from their clutches and calmly walked to the sliding door in Nev and Max's hotel room, opening it and stepping out into the balcony. I heard the door shut, before I heard Nev's voice say, "Let it out."

And let it out I did.

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After half an hour of sobbing and screaming my lungs out, I went back inside when I sufficiently felt like I couldn't let out more. When I had closed the balcony door behind me, I noticed that Nev and Max were heatedly arguing about something that I couldn't hear - probably from all of my screaming, my ears are definitely ringing.

"But Max, she has an email! Why couldn't we have just used that?" I hear Nev say after I've popped my ears. My eyebrows scrunch and I decide to make my presence noticed by crawling onto the bed and placing myself between them. Once they notice me, Max slips an arm around me, and Nev has me lean on his shoulder.

"So Camila, we've managed to tear down her blog and find her email address. Do you want us to run it through, or..?"

I sniffled and rubbed my face, and nodded.

"I'll do anything at this point."

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"Her name is Jane Doe."

"Huh?"

"The name she used to sign up for her email is Jane Doe."

"It's literally Jane Doe." I stated, not sure if he was joking or not.

"Okay, but we have another phone number on here, so we'll run that through."

"In the mean time, you should probably head home." Too tired to argue with them, and keeping in mind that I spent the last two hours listening to Nev and Max talk all tech-y, I nodded. I gave them each a hug and said goodbye, heading home.

I pulled my phone out of my pocket and plugged my earbuds, needing to clear my mind with music. I pressed play on my phone and waited for the song to load and I let the familiar strum of the guitar flow through my earbuds.

"Well I came home, like a stone..." The lyrics reminded me of what she posted — they were from the same song — and I wanted to change the song, desperately so, but I held my head high and walked home.

And I'd be lying if I said that I didn't bawl my eyes out into my pillow.

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The song, or the lyrics that made Camila cry, is I Will Wait by Mumford And Sons, I only remembered the song because I was listening to Little Mix's cover for the song and I realized how alike the song is to the situation (of course I love the original version, but you know when you hear a cover before the actual song, you grow used to the cover).

I'm not going to lie, I was having Writer's Block over this chapter.

But then I watched the new Catfish episode (they got Catfished omg xD) and it gave me inspiration to write.

Also, just to focus in on the author (me, of course), I'm being Catfished. Yeah, and I sort of knew about it the entire time (mah friend ssweet-dispositixn cleared that up for me, I never said I was being Catfished, but thank you for telling me xD)

So, I hope you enjoyed the chapter, if not then tell me how shitty it was. Whatever. I'm also sorry that it's short, but the next chapter is even shorter.

BYEEEEEEEEE

~ InTheseWalls xo