Build It Better | Hunter Rowland

Chapter 11

|Ella's POV

Three days. I had three days with Hunter before he had to leave for tour. I was sad that he was leaving, but happy that he was following his dreams.

Ever since the kiss, we haven't really spoken. And when we did, it was either a simple 'Hello' or small talk. I didn't know what to say to him. I was also beginning to think about what he said that night, what if he lied to make me happy? So many thoughts flew through my head, I couldn't think straight.

"Ella!" Collin snapped his fingers in my face, cause me to lose my train of thought.

"Yes, Collin?" I asked and looked up at him. We were currently sitting at the kitchen table, waiting for our pizza to get here.

"Did you hear anything from Reghan?" He asked and bit his finger nail. Reghan was our step mother. The last we heard from her was the day our dad left for Iraq, which was about 4 months ago. I shook my head and sighed. "Anything from Bryson?" Bryson was our half brother, he was 12.

I nodded my head again as the doorbell rang. Thinking it was the pizza guy, I grabbed the $25 of the counter and walked towards the door. When I opened the door, there wasn't a pizza there; but a Hunter Rowland.

"Ella," he smiled and scratched the back of his neck. "Hey, uh. I need to talk to you."

"Uh, okay." I gave him a confused look and handed Collin the money back. I told him I would be back soon and closed the door behind me. We walked in silence for a bit before I asked, "So you need to talk to me about something?"

"Oh, yea." He chuckled nervously. "I just wanted to apologize for not really speaking to you after the kiss." The emphasis on the last two words made it seem like the worst thing in the world. "I just became really nervous about the whole thing and didn't really know what to say."

"Its fine, Hunter." I laughed to myself. "I get it, and to be completely honest, it's the same thing with me. I had no idea what to say."

"Well, I'm glad the feelings mutual." He smiled and wrapped an arm around my shoulder, pulling me closer to him as we walked. I wrapped my left arm around his torso and smiled to myself.

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"Ella, c'mon! They wanna see you!" Hunter whined as he climbed ontop of me. I was laying down on Hunter's bed as he was broadcasting. He wanted me to join him, but I was nervous at what the fans reactions would be. Hunter then managed to pull me off the bed and put me in front of his phone.

"Guys, this is Ella. Be nice to her or else ill have to come through the screen and beat your booties." Hunter said and got closer to the phone. I sat next to him and waved to the screen. Comments began flowing through. A majority of them nice, some negative. "See, Ell. They love you!"

"Shut up ugly," I laughed and lightly pushed his arm. He acted like I had pushed him 10 times hard and fell on the floor and fake cried.

"I thought you loved me, Ella. I thought what we had was special." He pouted as he sat back up.

"I lied, oops." I sat back up on the bed and reached for my phone. When I turned back around Hunter was smirking at the phone and pointing at me. "What are you doing?"

"Nothing, nothing!" He laughed and began to say 'I love you' to the fans.

After about 20 more minutes of watching Hunter dance and sing to random songs, he decided to end the broadcast. Christine, Brandon, Ashton, and Tyler had all left, so it was just Hunter and me. He suggested a movie night, so we downstairs and sat in the living room.

We both decided on Insidious and sat down. Hunter said he picked this movie only because he knows ill get scared and he'll have to be the hero and save me. Loser.

Before the movie started, Hunter wrapped an arm around my shoulder and pulled me close to him. I laid my head against his shoulder and smiled to myself once again. I really did like small things like this, especially with Hunter.

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I AM SO SORRY I HAVEN'T UPDATED IN LIKE 2 WEEKS, AND WHEN I FINALLY DO, THE CHAPTER SUCKS.

I've had major writers block and had no ideas, but I did some brainstorming and came up with a few ideas. All good things coming sooooon!

There will also be a few time skips within the next few chapters. I don't want to write about every tour stop, so I'm just going to write about like 3. (There's gonna be a big surprise for Ella when they do the Phoenix show ;) comment if you know what it is)

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love, madi.