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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN ! real life, imessage, instagram
real life !
it had been around thirty minutes since the pair had been stuck in lyra's bedroom and not a single word had been spoken. the two just sat there, trying their best to avoid even acknowledging each other. but at this point, eliza was growing more and more annoyed with chris.
"okay, i'm just gonna be honest here," she began.
"that makes a first..." chris muttered under his breath, causing eliza to glare at him.
"okay... but i want to say, that i can swear to you, on my mothers life, that i don't know what i've done, seriously. and i promise you, i don't lie to anybody and especially not to someone who i like. so i just want to know what happened that morning and why you just suddenly stopped," she explained, looking at chris.
he hated to admit it, but eliza did seem like she was telling the truth and chris hated to be wrong. he sighed and pulled out his phone from his pocket.
chris walked over to eliza, who was still sat against the door, passed her his phone and then sat on the bed next to the door.
eliza's eyes skimmed over what she was reading. archie. but eliza couldn't help the laugh that came out of her mouth.
"it's not funny?" chris told her.
but the laughter had started now and she couldn't stop it. "it really is! you really believe this bullshit?" she passed chris his phone back.
"well yeah?" he responded, sounding confused yet also offended at how eliza reacted to this.
"it's not me, chris. i didn't send those messages to archie," she simply said.
"what?" he asked, he furrowed his eyebrows, "but that is you? that's how you text? you always say 'you get me'!"
eliza unlocked her phone and went onto archie's contact, which was blocked, she threw her phone to chris who still looked at her in confusion. "there. the last time i spoke to archie was the day i released SOUR, where he called me a bitch, by the way. then, i blocked him, if you click on the contact you can see he is, if you don't believe me, like you haven't for the past month," eliza snapped back. she was so frustrated with chris and also fucking sick of archie.
"but- the messages? they seemed-"
"real? no they don't. firstly: when do i ever use that emoji chris, it's fucking ugly. secondly: archie's like a borderline psycho, he will literally do anything to ruin someone. and thirdly: why would i ever ask to meet him, when he literally cheated on me and then acted as if he didn't?" eliza raised one eyebrow, looked at chris and waited for an answer. she lifted her shoulder up.
"i-i don't know..." chris sighed, he tossed eliza her phone back and walked over to her, so he could sit next to her. "i'm really sorry, like really fucking sorry. i just- after my ex girlfriend, sophie, she would go behind my back as well. she would message her ex's and boys she knew from before me and i guess it's just made me really insecure and i know it doesn't excuse what i've done and how much i've hurt you," chris explained.
"but, i've never liked someone how i like you. you're just, so special in every way possible and i don't want to lose you and i guess, when archie sent me that, i thought that was it. that i had no chance with you ever so instead of facing the truth and accepting that, i pushed you away because i was angry and hurt, but i just made things so much worse. but i want to be better at communicating, i want to be better for you,"
eliza looks at chris with soft eyes and her eyebrows furrowed. "i'm sorry that you went through that chris and thank you for telling me. i know how difficult those situations are to be in," she leant her head on his shoulder and held his hand.
"thank you," he responded quietly, "and i'm gonna do whatever it takes to gain your trust back and to make up for the entire month i missed out on," he promised.
"i really like you, chris sturniolo," eliza told him as she squeezed his hand once.
"i really really like you, eliza swift," chris replied.
"they better hurry up, cause i'm hungry and i'm sick of being sat in lyra's room.
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