Avoiding The End || ✓ [#1] FIUFAMNEXTGEN

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Chapter 22 || Hi

;life is too short not to take chances

"Like girl, I'm serious, no matter how many times I tell him, he isn't giving up. This is the fifth bunch that's arrived in two days."

It's a warm Sunday morning when I find myself on FaceTime to Stella and Maisie while my dad stands at the stove cooking  pancakes before we head down to the cemetery.

Today is always a day we spend together, my mom loved birthday's. Actually, my mom loved anything we could celebrate; holiday's, promotions, a good grade, you name it, she'd throw a party for it, which is why it's super important we stick to our tradition of a pancake breakfast, a trip to see mom's grave and then out to dinner once we've let balloons go. 

"If anymore come, refuse to take them in, send them back or something." I tell her, looking away from her down to my coffee. "I don't want anything from him."

Maisie pokes her head into the camera, a dolphin jumping over a wave painted on her right cheek, she frowns. "You can't not accept $100 flowers, Frey."

"You can if they're from a grade-A asshole."

Stella rolls her eyes at Maise, then smiles at me. "I got you, babes. I'll scare the delivery man so bad he'll never come here ever again."

When I laugh, she winks.

"Thanks, Stell, keep me updated." I give her a sad smile. "I gotta go, we're leaving soon, but I'll be back in the morning."

"I'll be in class, but make sure you text me so I know you got back okay." she says with the same smile. "And give your pops a kiss from me, and that I'm of age if he's changed his mind about my offer from last year."

Before I can throw abuse her way, she laughs, winks and hangs up on me.

Behind me, my dad chuckles. "That girl."

"Try living with it."

Dad carries two plates of syrup soaked pancakes over to the dining table and places one in front of me before taking a seat to my right.

"So the flowers... A guy?"

I frown. "I'm not into girls, if that's what you're getting at."

Holding his hands up, he smirks. "Ay, no judgement here, honey, just curious as to who's sending my daughter multiple bunches of expensive flowers."

Since Micah found out I wasn't lying, that I didn't cheat on him with his cousin, he's been blowing up my phone, and because I'm now the one who's blocked his number, he's retreated to showing up at my apartment and sending over $1000's worth of flowers.

I'm glad he finally knows the truth, but I'm also not over how he treated me, and so angry that he thinks I'll go crawling back because he realises he was wrong and wants me to forgive him. It doesn't work like that, not with me anyway. Now the shoe is on the other foot, lets see how he feels not to be heard.