Happily Ever After.. No (SQ to Not A Regular Girl)

Chapter 24

After Angie leaving I felt our house wasn't a place I could consider as home anymore, so I had to leave and that's what I did. I couldn't keep waking up in that bed because everyday I woke up with the hope she might be there next to me and that it was all a bad dream, but I never seem to wake up from this nightmare I created. So, after I realized Angie wasn't going to reply the message I sent her, I understood that was the end of us, and the end of our house so that's why it's now sold and I have purchased a new house for me to live alone. It's a much more smaller house and I haven't done anything to it because I don't really care about it. I don't care if my new house is perfect like the other one, because the only reason I made sure the other house was perfect was Angie, I did it for her. But now it doesn't matter because I no longer have her.

The house is a two story house with five rooms, huge backyard with two pools, and a really big living room which is now occupied with people that I don't know and don't care enough to get to know. My house is full with people, in every single corner of it besides my room 'cause I made sure to lock it. Tom and Damon decided to throw a party for the new house and before I got a saying people were already here. I don't mind. It's a big house and it would be a waste to not use this big space.

"Love your new house!" Some drunk guy I have never seen in my life says to me before spilling his drink on the floor that used to be clean two hours ago. The drunk guy leaves, probably heads to hit on some girl or more shots and I go upstairs to my room. I don't feel like partying anymore. I'm getting really tired of all these parties. I feel like we have been partying too much that it just got old and not fun anymore. I don't know how they can party all day and everyday.

My phone rings and I pick it up. "Hey, Scoot," I sit on my bed and check the time on the clock that's on my nightstand. It's one am and I'm not tired, which is no surprise because I normally go to sleep at seven in the morning.

"I'm so glad you aren't asleep," he says sounding relieved and I lay on my bed. It's surprising he is calling me at this time of the night.

"What's up?" I look at my boring ceiling. All these people here and I feel alone.

"Angie knows you have the book and she is not so happy about it, she told me to ask you- well, she said to demand the book back, so she is here in my house, pretty angry." I immediately sit up as I hear him say Angie is here and I feel this small happiness in me. This means she has read the message and chose not to answer, which actually doesn't make me so happy, but she is here, that makes me happy.

"Oh, I'll be there in-"

"No, she doesn't want you to come, she only wants the book back and I can't leave her alone because she almost broke my laptop." I frown and dig my hand under the pillow to pull out the book.

I look at the book and half smile at it. April left me this book and I'm not going to go against what she wanted because of Angie. I know the book means a lot to her, but if this is what April wanted then I'm keeping it. I'm sorry Angie didn't get it and is upset but I'm not going against April. If this is the last thing I can do for her then I'll do it, even if it upsets the girl I love the most.

My room's door bursts open and I see Tom looking like he is about to fall any minute to the floor but I ignore him and return to finishing the book. "What the fuck?" He hiccups and approaches me, stumbling with his own feet as he does.

"Did the party end?" I ask him sarcastically but keep my eyes on the book, the question causes him to laugh out loud, but at this state he would laugh at anything.

"Yeah, it's the after party now." He laughs and stands next to my bed.

"Could you-"

"What the fuck are you reading? No! Why the fuck are you reading?!" He grabs the book from my hands, inspects it for a second before throwing it away carelessly.