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- Anna's Apartment ⁱᵗ'ˢ ᵇᵉᵉⁿ ᵃ ᵐⁱⁿᵘᵗᵉ
Taylor Swift blared from the speakers of the TV as Anna danced around her tiny bathroom, hair dye in hand. It was time for another change, Anna could feel it. She was tired of being the sensitive, mopey girl that she had somehow become. It had been two weeks since she and Eli spoke or I guess texted. Almost every day she tried to call or text him, almost every day his responses got smaller and smaller until he just left one-word answers.
After a week of feeling down about it, Anna decided to get over it. Anna knew Eli was busy being a rockstar on tour and she was tired of being so sad. In a couple of weeks, Anna was going to be reunited with her lifelong best friend and she couldn't be more ecstatic.
If Eli wanted to talk to her he would make the effort to. As Anna sang along to her music she could hear her phone ringing.
"BETHHHH!!!!"
"ANNAAAA!!!" Beth screams, matching her best friend's newfound energy.
"You look happy!!" Beth says while she watches her best friend apply blonde dye to her newly bleached hair. "I am Beth! For once I don't have a weight on my shoulders!" Anna says with a laugh. "I feel so much lighter, like a feather!"
"A that's great! I can't wait to see you again!!" The smile on both Anna's and Beth's faces beaming. In just one week Beth and Anna would be reunited in Detroit for the boy's show at St. Andrews Hall. It was a spontaneous trip that Beth suggested a couple of weeks ago. It was also going to be a surprise for Eli as he didn't know she was coming. The only person who knew of the girls' trip was Ryan because Beth talks to him a lot apparently.
"I can't wait either-" Just as Anna is dying her hair, she gets on notification on Twitter. She was following the Inhaler topic so she got notifications all the time of random Inhaler-related tweets. "hold on Beth-" Anna says curious as to what photo is trending on Inhaler Twitter this week. Suddenly a picture of Eli and a mysterious girl appears on her screen, looking very close at some club. Anna holds back tears as she sends the post to Beth. "Is that real?" Anna looks at the screen in disbelief that Eli would do something like this to her.
"Oh, Anna...who knows? Eli's never mentioned her before to either of us. They could just be friends?" Her best friend says trying to cheer her friend up.
Without saying a word, Anna puts her phone down and closes her eyes. The old Anna would probably be crying by now. However, this new Anna knew that there was no use wasting her tears on this boy. It doesn't matter how much she cares, it matters how much she lets on that she cares. That was her new motto.
"You know what? Why don't I just call him and ask! I'll call you back later B." Anna picks up her cellphone and clicks on Eli's contact, hoping that he'll pick up and this whole problem will go away. After a few minutes of ringing it goes to voicemail. Anna tries again and again until inevitably turning to text.
"We need to talk. - Anna"
Anna lets out a loud sigh before tossing her phone on her sink. If Eli didn't want to be anything exclusive with her that's fine, she just wished that Eli would've told her instead of leaving her in the dark. After a couple of minutes, Anna quickly goes to wash the blonde dye out of her hair.
Feeling kind of down in the dumps, Anna takes out a tub of mint chocolate chip ice cream and sits in front of the TV singing along to sad Taylor Swift songs. Mittens looks at her judgingly as she meows.
"What? I'll start my new happy era tomorrow..." Anna looks down at her gray cat, earning a disapproving meow from Mittens. "Fineee, I'll start now." Anna grabs her phone and dials the number of the one person she knows can cheer her up right now, Alexis.
Alexis is a girl Anna met at a club a couple of months ago. She was lots of fun and knew how to get Anna to loosen up. She was a short Asian girl, with wavy long hair and sick tattoos all over her arms. Anna wasn't quite sure what Lexy did during the day but she knew exactly where and what she was doing once the clock struck 12 am.
"You wanna go to the club-" Is the first thing Anna hears as Alexis answers the phone.
"How'd you know?!!" Anna's tone was playful like she was dying to have some fun. Alexis laughs at the sound of Anna's response.
"OMG YAYY !! I'll BE AT YOUR PLACE AT SIX!!!" Alexis yelled into the phone before hanging up.
