16 | LEAVING ME DAFT AND DIM.

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Hazel barely manages to change, wash her face

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Hazel barely manages to change, wash her face. She's much slower, without him around to at least cheer her on. She looks out of the window, and the moon is glistening. She thinks she'll head to bed early, ignore all the pings from her phone. She puts it into do not disturb. But then it starts ringing. And only one person can call her when she's on do not disturb.

She picks up. "Hey, Maple."

Fuck herself for sounding like she has a severe cold.

"Arden—Are you okay?" Maple's tone shifts almost instantly, when she notices how hoarse her best friend's voice sounds.

Hazel's not surprised, she cried the whole way through her one hour shower. It's like she's gone through a whole fucking breakup, but to Ken she was just a situationship. She can't bear to think of him, actually.

"Yeah, I'm good," she lies through her teeth.

"What the fuck did he do?" Maple's words sound like they're dripping venom, and Hazel should honestly be happy about it, but she's more scared than she is anything else.

"Nothing." She doesn't know why she's defending him anymore.

"Hazel."

She just breaks when her best friend says her name. She spills her guts. Drops onto her bed and cries some more as she tries to explain the situation to her best friend. Maple is seething by the time she stops, although Hazel's sniffles are rather loud anyway.

( 𝙍𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙀.) kenji sato | ✓Where stories live. Discover now