Cold Cold Hearts

Chapter 10: Aftermath

Grace's POV

I cried the entire day.

After my call with Joel I came back inside and was immediately embraced in a hug by both Lara and Camila. Emma and Casey stayed on call.

After about an hour or so of crying and me venting out, Camila left and bought back some chips and chocolates and we started watching Sex and the City. I guess the whole point of Casey suggesting we watch this was to make me feel better by seeing Carrie jump from one guy to another. After a couple of episodes, it was afternoon so we ordered and ate Chinese. Good food always puts me in a good mood but today it didn't last very long. By evening we went down to the patio and Lara started playing breakup songs in the speaker to help me process my feelings. The view was very beautiful in the evening sky, Camila made us hot chocolate but mine was lukewarm and extra thick because that's how I like it. We just sat there and took sips from our mugs. Afterglow by Taylor Swift started playing and I started crying again, looking into the distance. I am so sorry I burned us Joe.

Emma, Casey, Lara and Camila were just there for me the whole day. They listened to my rants and hugged me when I cried. They didn't have much to say like they did before I broke up with Joel, I guess they are letting me get it out of my system.

We were back in my bedroom when we heard the front door open and shut, shortly after we heard, "Hey sweetie I am home."

"Up here Mr. Silver."

We heard my dad come up the stairs, he opened the door and smiled but his smile quickly dropped when he saw my face.

"My sweet girl what is wrong?" he sounded so concerned, I started crying again.

"She broke up with Joel." Camila said.

"Oh." he stared at the floor for a bit and then he looked at me. He sighed and came over to my bed and hugged me.

"It will be alright sweetie." and kissed my forehead, I started sobbing into his shoulders.

My phone started ringing and it was my mother. My dad saw my phone and he looked at me. "Don't worry I will fill in your mother about what happened." He said and got up from the bed and went out to his room.

I felt so horrible, I wish I could somehow numb myself. For someone who broke up because she wasn't in love I sure was hurting a lot. I missed Joel with every minute that ticked away. My eyes were swollen and I guess so was my face from all the crying. I was so tired and my head was starting to hurt. I laid in my head on my pillow and before I knew I drifted off into a peaceful slumber.

*The next morning*

I woke up around 7 in the morning and immediately had a heavy feeling in my chest. The first day without Joel. Ever since we both met we have talked to each other every single day.

I got up from the bed because I didn't want to ponder on any more of Joel thoughts and saw that both Lara and Camila were dozed off on my bed, Emma and Casey were asleep on video call. I knew in order to process my feelings completely I had to be alone. I cut the call and texted in our group chat that I needed to be alone and process my feelings and thanked them for being there for me. Then I went downstairs and saw that dad was already up.

"Hey dad."

"Hey sweetie, how are you feeling today?"

"Better than yesterday I guess? I don't know..."

"It will take some time to adjust to being single again."

He is not wrong about that. It felt like there was an arrow in my chest. I wonder how Joel is doing. That poor boy. I wanted to text Jake and find out but I refrained myself.