Fizzled out

Chapter 7

Chapter seven

An hour later after a couple more tests I was safely tucked up in my bed again. I stared up at my now brightly coloured orange ceiling and smiled. My room now felt like mine. Like it had a big personalized stamp on it. I slowly sat up and hopped out of bed stretching out my sore muscles from being cooped up in bed. I stuffed my feet into my ugg boots and put on a hoodie. I slipped out of my room and hopped down stairs I glanced at the clock as I walked down the hall. It was 2:00 on a Friday. I still can't believe I had been asleep for so long. I grabbed my mobile off the counter and was surprised to see two new messages. I opened the first one and saw it was from Ashleigh. I sighed as I thought about her. I didn't exactly want to be friends with her but I kind of got in over my head in my plan for Daniel's revenge so i'd just have to stick with them for a little while longer. Or at least till I made some more friends. I opened Ashleigh's message and read it through rolling my eyes: OMG Sydney! I hope ur ok :) miss ya at school xx Ash. I could just imagine her saying that in her over the top dramatic way she exaggerates everything. I sent her a quick reply and checked the other message. To my surprise it was from Daniel. I still hadn't figured out how he had gotten my number... I opened the message, my eyes studied the text as a smile spread across my face. Hey it's Daniel. I read as my eyes scanned the screen. I'm sorry for everything that happened on Tuesday. I would really appreciate it if you called me so we could talk things through. Thanks. I stared at the number and contemplated whether to call it. I decided to go with it. I clutched my phone in my hand and started down the hallway to get the land line. I was stopped in my tracks when I noticed that there were new photo frames up on our collection on the wall. As I looked closer I noticed that they were of Anna-Lee. My sister. Who died of cancer when she was only five. She died a year before I was born so i never got to meet her. I always wonder what she was like. Today was the first time I'd heard dad speak of her in years. I wish he would tell me more about her but i guess it brings back to many painful memories. I'll get it out of him someday I thought to myself as Briana came bursting down the hallway to her home office. "You ok honey?" Briana asked.

"um yea," I replied snapping out of my thoughts realizing I had been standing her lost in time for the last five minutes. I took one last glance at the picture of Anna-Lee. Smiling back at me. Telling me to stay strong because everything was going to be alright.

As soon as I picked up the phone I chickened out. What if Daniel thought I'd been ignoring him for the last couple days. When I had really had no awareness of my surroundings. After five minutes of pacing back and forth and thinking through my options I realized I was a complete mess. Worrying about something that was probably going to turn out fine. After a lot of reassuring myself I finally dialed the number and anxiously waited as the phone rang and rang and finally after what seemed like an eternity a gruff voice answered the other end. I nearly jumped out of my skin. I was so nervous that I had forgotten why I had rung. "Umm, could I please um maybe speak to Daniel? I managed to stutter out,"

"Is this Daniel's girlfriend?" the guy asked on the other end. I couldn't tell if he was being serious or not.

"Um what? No? Uh no." There was a chuckle at the other end as he said something about going to get him. I waited anxiously as the phone made crackling noises aas he went to find Daniel. I heard a faint voice speak as I assumed he handed over the phone. "It's the love of your life," I heard the same guy mutter. I almost burst out laughing and had to cover my mouth to stop myself. My face went pink with embarrassment and I'm sure Daniel's was too. 

"Hey, um sorry about my brother," Daniel said with a nervous laugh.

"Its fine haha. soooooo....." I asked making the conversation even more awkward then it already was. "You didn't tell me you had a brother," I admitted trying to start up a conversation.

"Oh yea, haha well I didn't really get the chance. It's a little hard to have a conversation with an unconscious person." He replied joking around. 

"Oh you heard about that...?"

"yep, I came to visit you a couple times but you were still asleep so yea.."

"oh um thanks, You didn't have to,' I replied smiling.

"Its the least I could do," Th conversation carried on for an hour or so and we found ourselves talking about the randomest things. After awhile the awkwardness faded away and it seemed like we had been friends forever. For all I knew he seemed like one of my friends from back in Ohio. Maybe even a better one since none of my old friends had bothered to try and contact me since after the move. It was quite sad really. And made me think if they were really that good a friends after all. Did I ever mean anything to them?

I found myself blabbering away to Daniel about stuff like this. Not even realizing that I had only met the guy a couple days ago. It's strange how things change so easily. It normally takes people a while to gain my trust. But all of a sudden I felt like I could tell this boy anything. In only a couple of days a guy who had meant nothing to me now seemed to be the only friend I had left.

Authors note:

sorry for the long wait... haha opps... but it up now :)

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-emily xx