The adventures of Hanna Walker

Papers And Pens (Hanna)

"You stick with your papers and pens, wait until you love me again. Wait for your love...Your love, wait for your love..."
Ariana Grande is playing on the background while Hanna is studying. She signed up for computer science classes recently and suddenly took up an interest in coding. She's been debugging and coding all night, trying to finish her program. Her phone buzzes with a text, she didn't even notice until 4am. It is Selena, with a simple question, "are you free now?"
Hanna texts with her eyes half closed,"Hanna down, ready to deploy for bed, call me tmr?"
The next morning though, at their shared chemistry class, Selena is nowhere to be found, nor does she call. Hanna suppressed her anxiety and stay through an entire day of class, waiting for sel to reply to her message. But Sel never does. Not even the next day, or the day after, as of she's disappeared in thin air.
Hanna stares at her phone, a list of messages asking where Selena is with no reply, and wonders if she should call the police.
To her relieve, Selena appears the next day looking as glamorous as usual, just that her eyes are a bit sunken, so maybe she's tired.
"Where have you been Sel? I've been looking for you all week! You didn't reply to any of my text, I'm going crazy!" Hanna said.
"I bury a body." Selena said in a lowered, conspiratorial voice.
"Hahahaha, look at your face! Relax, I've just been out to LA partying with Benny, I thought that I would ask you to come as well, but you didn't reply, and they took our phones. The hosts say no devices."
"Wow, that's unexpected. I thought you were done with Benny."
"I was, but he had this mega yacht and he was crying and sad af when he called." Selena said quickly, as if a bit ashamed of herself for giving in to him, her eyes blinking too fast.
"Well I have nothing to say to that, so if you decided you are back with him I have no proms. That's on you." Having said her piece, Hanna storm out of the room, face scarlet from all the adrenaline coursing through her veins.
That night, while drinking alone in the bar, Hanna received a text from Bieber. "Hey, Sorry to ring out of the blue like this, but please keep an eye out for Selena for me okay? Her bipolar relapsed and she was suicidal for 2 days. I was contacted by the emergency.  She almost overdosed on sleeping pills. It was scary. I only knows this becuase she forgot to update her emergency contact. I can't do this all the time. I have a wife and a baby to take care of now, hope you understand that being a father is not easy. But hey if she needs me, I'll always be there, I just hope she has someone to take care of her, keep a careful watch on her, like I used to. And I hope that person is you. -JB" Hanna throws her phone inside her pocket and runs to Selena's house.
Selena opens the door, black eyed. "What are you doing?" Hanna asked. Selena looks into her eyes and reads her mind."look, I don't mean to lie to you, I just dont want to trouble you because you've been so busy..."
"You think I care about Javascript while my girlfriends in the emergency care unit? If so then you don't know me at all." Hanna goes around the house checking all the medicine and keeping the knives and wires. "From now on I live with you." She says simply.
"No, this is exactly what I don't need, I'm not a baby I can take care of myself." Selena says impatiently.
"No. Bieber saved your life. Without him you're dead. And I can't let it happened again." Hanna says.
"No, I don't wanna hear that name again. He was with me in the hospital that's all. I'll change my emergency contact."
"To who?" Hanna asks.
"To you you stupid." Selena took out her phone and did this.
Hanna hugs Selena from the back and let tears flows down from her face. Selena sees this and wipe the tears from Hanna's face and whispered,"im still here, not going anywhere." Over and over again, and Hanna broke into a brawl. She's so afraid for Selena, worried that things will happen to her that she can't control. If it does, nothing will ever be the same again.