There's Only You ✔

Chapter 17

Chapter 17

Kayden:

Can you two come over?

Girl trouble

It was like he dropped off the face of the Earth. None of us had heard from him since yesterday. Him storming off from Angela at lunch wasn't the only highlight of yesterday's events. We caught him and Angela fighting at his car after school.

Since the whole Gray situation started, he was going to come over every night, but there was my date with Garrett and then, Olive and I went costume shopping. He was, however, supposed to come over last night after we went home. He was a no-show.

He didn't respond.

Zach had been trying to get a hold of him all day yesterday.

He didn't reply to any of his texts or calls.

I tried texting him, even decided to use my phone as an actual telephone and dialed his number.

Nothing.

We'd all been worrying about him all night and morning. What kind of girl trouble was he having? I got dressed in my favorite white, knitted sweater with a pumpkin printed on the front, black leggings and black, leather, knee high boots.

There was a knock on my door. Seeing that my parents already left for work, the only other resident of this house who it would be was Zach. The possibility of me still being in my underwear and bra didn't deter him as he walked right in without waiting for the green light from me.

"Did he tell you what was wrong?"

He shook his head. You could clearly see in his eyes that he was worried about him. This was the longest they'd gone without texting. "He never got back to me." His voice dropped to a whisper as he nodded his head in the direction toward downstairs.

It took a few seconds for Kayden to open the door, but when he did, we noticed that Angela was inside. A sheen of tears glazed over her eyes as she glanced at me. She started shooting daggers at me and stormed out, making sure to 'accidentally' bump my shoulders with hers on her way to her car.

Oh shit.

Oh, she pissed.

What'd I even do?

"What happened?" My eyes were still on Angela as she slammed her car door shut. She was far away, but I could swear it looked like she was hunched over the wheel crying.

"I broke up with her."

Holy shit.

"Because I realized that I had feelings for someone else."

Holy shit!

My breath hitched in my throat at the thought of my dream since I was five becoming my reality. I could tell by their facial expressions how this was going to end; Kayden was glancing up at me through his lashes and Zach was staring at me with his curled lips growing bigger.

The anticipation for him to say it out loud was killing me. I played dumb.

"For who?"

He dropped his head to face the floor and he ran his fingers through his hair, mumbling something to himself. "Don't make me say it."

I want to make you say it.

You have to say it!

Please say it!

"Who?"

Despite the weight of shock I felt in my chest, the corners of my mouth tilted upward. I longed to hear his voice saying the words.