Ring of Love

Break In

Ally's pov:

We ended up sitting there in the library for quite a while. I told him everything that went down with my friends back in my room. He told me about what went down in his driveway before coming here.

So all and all, I guess we both were having a pretty shitty day.

I had tried to get him to answer one of the calls from his roommates, but he insisted that he would just deal with it later tonight.

I told him he was going to give Dylan a heart attack by doing that, to which pretended to be relieved as he responds, "finally."

This guy I swear...

We must have talked for over two hours when suddenly I noticed I got a missed call from Zoe. At first, I thought it was just her telling me that Claire got back safe to our room, but I was shocked to see a following text that read, SOS.

"What's wrong?" Axel asks, see my reaction to the text.

I scratch the back of my neck and say, "Zoe sent an SOS to me. I'm going to call her back and make sure everything is alright."

Axel nods his head as I stand and walk a few steps away to get some privacy as I answer the call. When I do so, the sound of her rapid breaths on the other line concern me.

"Hey, Zoe? Hello?" I say when I don't hear a response the first time.

Her side stays silent, and after a few seconds, I go to ask for her again until I hear her whisper, "Ally?"

My heart skips a beat at the sound of her voice. She sounded as if she was scared, and was trying to keep quiet from something.

"Is everything alright?" I ask, unintentionally whispering back.

Axel, who was watching me from a distance, gives me a concerned expression. I shrug my shoulders and hold up my pointer finger, signaling him to wait a minute so that I could try to figure out what was happening.

I wait a few more seconds for Zoe to catch her breath before she says, "here's here."

"What? Who's here?" I repeat, not understanding what she was trying to say from those two words alone.

"Ben."

My brain freezes. And for a second, I can't comprehend what is happening as I hear the sound of footsteps approaching me.

Axel appears in front of me, trying to get me to look at him with a concerned expression. I put a hand on my head as I say, "What do you mean Ben is there-..."

The sound of banging on a door from the other side of the line stops me from continuing my sentence as I gasp.

"Zoe where are you?"

"I'm in your room. Sophia must have told him about the fight, because the next thing I know he is here. He started banging on the door a few minutes ago to be let in. Claire isn't back yet, and you left." My heart drops into my stomach hearing Zoe's panicked voice.

The banging on the other end gets louder, and I can just make out the sound of Ben yelling to be let in.

"Don't let him in! I'll be right there." I say, and next thing I know, I'm panickily racing out of the library with Axel hot on my heels.

Axel was only able to pick up about a quarter of the conversation, but what from he did hear, he was able to relatively piece together, which was the fact that someone was at my door trying to get in, and if I wasn't here with him, I would have been in that room with Zoe in this exact moment.