The Girl Hiding In The Shadows

Chapter 26

Ella's POV

* buzz buzz buzz *

"Ella! Did you see what Zachary posted on his Instagram?!" Lauren shrieked in her high-pitched voice. Ouch. I extended the distance between my phone and ear.

"What did he posted?" My tone was flat, because I was annoyed by Lauren who made me pause halfway through my game. Seriously, must those girls who have a crush on Zachary be so dramatic? What else can Zachary post?

"You haven't saw?! Oh my God. You've got to check it out now!" Lauren finished off her sentence with another ear-piercing scream and hung up the call.

If Lauren was right in front of me now, I would totally strangle her. Just kidding. I'm not a violent person, in fact, I'm a fun loving individual. *laughs*

Letting out a sigh, I picked up my phone again to exit the game. I was wondering if Lauren was overreacting, until I saw what everyone else saw.

What the freaking hell?

ZachDav Our first date was a success! @Rachel_Williams ❤

The above was the caption for Zachary's photo of him and Rachel sitting down on the grass. First date? Since when they're together?

As I was scrolling down the comments, anger couldn't cover all that I felt. Tons of people commented the usual "Last long!" and "Awww, so sweet."

The rest of the female population haven't leave any negative comments about Rachel, yet. I really have the urge to type 'What the hell were you thinking?! Couldn't you see that I'm the one for you?!'

I inhaled and exhaled several times to keep my temper in check. Zachary didn't even paid any attention to all the girls who threw themselves at him. I was the only girl whom Zachary cared about. I was living in my own one sided fairy tale, until Rachel came back.

To clear things up, I was really really happy when Rachel moved back here. I really am, until Zachary paid a hell lot more attention to Rachel than me.

Why must these kind of situation happened to us? Why can't we be great friends with Rachel finding her own boyfriend? Feeling the anger getting worse and worse I exited Instagram and called Rachel.

"C'mon, c'mon. Pick up the phone." I drummed my fingers on the table impatiently as I heard the ring go on and on. Rachel finally answered by the fifth ring.

"Hello?"

"It's me."

"Oh, hi Ella." Rachel's voice was barely a whisper at the last word.

"Meet me at our usual place." I said with irritation laced in my voice.

I didn't even bother to wait for a reply and hung up the phone on Rachel. This was either going to end well or badly.
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Rachel's POV

The engaged tone beep into my ears as Ella hung up on the other side. Oh no. She must be super mad at me. Anyways, I have mentally prepared myself for this kind of situation. Be brave, Rachel. You can do this. For youself, Zachary and Ella.

Well you must be wondering why am I so courageous this time round. If I thought about this situation with the mindset of escaping from reality, this wouldn't do any of us good. It would be really unfair to let Ella have Zachary when I also have feelings for him. Zachary isn't a toy, he's a human being who has feelings too. Who would like to be treated as a redundant object?

Keeping this thoughts with me and walked out of the house door.
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Ella wasn't here when I reached at our usual place, the playground.