Haunting {ChrisMotionless}

Focus

I woke up by my phone ringing. I answered it in a haze.

"Hello?" I answered, sleepily.

"Hi honey" I heard my mom's voice.

"Mom, why the hell are you calling me in the middle of the night?" I groaned.

"Stephanie, it's light outside. It's eight thirty in the morning"

"I know. That's apart of the night to me"

She laughed, "I thought you worked at this time"

"I use to but I got switched to eleven"

"More sleep, but anyways I have some bad news"

I bit my lip and got nervous, "What?"

"David, your step father got in an accident and broke his leg, which means he can't travel"

My spirt dropped, "You can't come see me graduate?"

"I afraid not sweetie"

Tears rushed from my eyes and down my cheeks, "But why can't you just leave David there?"

"He couldn't survive on his own. He doesn't cook and besides, he can't get around"

I wiped the tears that were down my cheek, "Fine mom. I'm not important enough"

"You are, baby! I don't know what to do. I'm sorry"

I sniffed then breathed out, "It's whatever. I'll take pictures, I guess"

"Okay. I'm sorry" She hung up.

I threw my phone on the bed and covered my face, sobbing. How could she be so inconsiderate?! She cared more about him then her own daughter.

"Stephanie, are you okay?" I heard Alex's voice along with a knock.

I looked up, wiping my tears away, "Y-yeah, I'm okay"

"No, you're not" she said coming all the way then sitting on my bed "What happened?"

My bottom lip trembled. Tears over came me once again, "My mom can't come see me graduate" I squeaked out.

"What! Why not?"

"My stupid step father broke his stupid leg"

"That's no reason to miss your daughters graduation"

"That's what I said!"

"Maybe she'll change her mind"

I shook my head, "I don't think so. It's pretty final to me"

She sighed, "I'm sorry. Do you want a hug?"

I nodded and opened my arms. She slid in and hugged tightly. Her hugs were absolutely amazing. When I was sad and I felt broken, she would hug me so tight that all my broken pieces came together.

"I love you" I whispered.

"And I love you" Alex whispered back then let go.

We looked at each other for a straight minute then I laughed, "Well good morning"

She laughed, "You're such a loser"

"Yeah but you're a loser too"

She nodded, "Oh yeah, big time. But hey, you never told me what happened with you and Chris"

I felt my cheeks burn and I smiled, "What's the last thing I told you?"

"That you were going out to have coffee together"

I sighed, "Well he asked me questions to get to know me better, he drove me home. Last night, he picked me up because I was so shit faced drunk and took car of me and now I'm here"

She narrowed her eyes at me, "There's got to be more to it"

"Nope. That's all" I said, shaking my head, "But I'm going up to his house tomorrow, I'll be back Sunday"

Her eyes widened, "You're what?!"

"I'm going to be with him tomorrow"

"Are you guys a thing? Like what the fuck?!"

"No and we aren't. It's just a friendship sorta thing"

She narrowed her eyes again, "Sure it is"

"I'm seriously! Why can't a guy and a girl be friends and hanging out with each other"

"I'm not saying opposite genders can't be friends. It just isn't connecting. Why couldn't he come here to hang out?"

"He was leaving today to go back home and he's already been here for too long" I answered quickly.

"Fine but I'm just saying about the friends thing. I mean, look at Ash Costello and him"

I glared at her, "What?"

"The Angel Eyes music video, the kissing on stage" She pointed out.

I rolled my eyes, "Alex, that shit wasn't real. Ash said that the kiss was apart of the show, not real"

"And she could've been lying. But it's whatever" She said getting up.

She walked out the door and I bit my lip. What if Chris and Ash had a thing? They were cute as hell together but thinking about it made me so angry. On Ash's Instagram she had a lot of pictures of them together and Chris had only a little. What if Chris played her? I doubt it. Alex is just getting into my head. Ash and Chris were never a thing.

I laughed to myself then shook my head. I needed to calm down and stop worrying so much.

'You like Amy Winehouse right?' I got a text from Chris.

'Love her. Why?' I responded.

'Just wanted to know. I may or may not have a surprise for you'

I smiled hard and texted back, 'Now I'm excited. Stooopp'

'Whoops. Anyways, I'll let you get back to work' He responded.

'I'm not at work love. 😂'

'Love? Is that a pet name?'

'I call everybody love, Chris'

'I don't want to be like everybody else sweetheart'

I laughed softly to myself. 'Is sweetheart my pet name now?'

'I'll play the same game as you and say no, I call everyone that'

'Shh!'

We continued you texting until I had to get ready for work. I wasn't late to work today and the day went by pretty fast. I guess it was the fact that I had something to look forward to.