PHONE SWAP | drew starkey

28: POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE

Drew | 3:14pm
Addie!
Drew | 3:15pm
How've you been?

Me | 3:39pm
hello Drewwwwwwwwww
Me | 3:41pm
I'm good
Me | 3:41 pm
swamped with work though it's busy as fuck

Drew | 3:43pm
Man that sucks
Drew | 3:43pm
does Marianne make sure you leave the house enough?

Me | 3:50pm
yeah she takes me on walks
Me | 3:50pm
puts me on a little lead so I can't run away and go back to work
Me | 3:51pm
bribes me with her the sweet little treat of her cooking

Drew | 3:52pm
I'm proud of her

Me | 3:59pm
I'll let her know
Me | 4:07pm
And how are you??
Me | 4:08pm
I feel bad for not asking sorry I'm just very overwhelmed with work right now haha

Drew | 4:12pm
Don't worry 😊
Drew | 4:12pm
I'm great! Doing the second round of auditions for the movie I told you about actually so I'm staingy in LA for a few more days

Me | 4:15pm
CONGRATS!!!!!!!
Me | 4:15pm
you better believe you're gonna get it

Drew | 4:16pm
Thanks Addie 😊
Drew | 4:16pm
I try to believe
Drew | 4:17pm
You know, New Year's wish and all

Me | 4:18pm
good good
Me | 4:18pm
that's good thinking
Me | 4:19pm
positive mental attitude is where it's at
Me | 4:20pm
I'm very happy for you
Me | 4:20pm
A big proud friend

Drew | 4:21pm
and I am very glad for that
Drew | 4:34pm
you're not gonna pester me about details?

Me | 4:37pm
oh shoot
Me | 4:37pm
forgot about it
Me | 4:39pm
my head's not really in it atm sorry
Me | 4:40pm
next time!!

Drew | 4:40pm
that's cool, just look after yourself
Drew | 4:41pm
I'm gonna let you go but I'll be back in Atlanta very soon so I'll be taking you out for another Waystone special
Drew | 4:41pm
I'll tell you the date as soon as I know it

Me | 4:45pm
thanks!

—

'Alright, I can't stand this anymore. Stop whatever you're doing in this cave and come to the kitchen. You have one minute and then I'm raising hell if you're not through.'

  The door shuts as quickly as it opened and Addie barely caught more than a glimpse of her flatmate before she was gone, with nothing but dramatic stomps getting quieter on the other side of the door.

  Addie blinks at it, rubbing her eyes. The sudden burst of light from the living room gave her dark spots in her vision – she has to replay the moment in her head to even really comprehend what was said.

  She feels a frown coming on and mutters that 'it's not a cave,' before realising that she's a) talking to herself, and b) wrong.

  The only light that's turned on is the orange-tinted lamp on her desk, illuminating piles of files and folders and notes and random papers wedged between these. Some of them are Addie's, some are Holden's, while others are written in more different styles of handwriting than she can count. All from witness accounts, files, and court documentation, it's every Addie needs to catch up on that she couldn't do over her laptop at home. The same laptop that should be playing lo-fi study music but she hadn't even noticed until now that she hadn't plugged it in correctly and the battery ran out at some point.