I Hate You, I Love You { mitch grassi }

XXIV

"Hey, how's it going?" Ethan says on the other side of the phone.

"Great, great. Hey, is Izzy there?"

"No. She hasn't showed up for the past couple of days, why?"

"I don't know.. I just have a weird feeling about her. She hasn't texted me back or answered my calls all day."

"Oh, well I'm sure it's nothing," he said.

"Yeah you're probably right," I said, taking a deep breath, "How's everything going with the cafe?"

"It's going pretty well, actually! People have been asking where you are, but I think they're warming up to Reina and I," he chuckled slightly.

"Is that Cress?" I heard a background-Reina say.

"Yeet," Ethan answered.

"Hey, Cress! I saw the concert last night on YouTube. You actually slayed it," she laughed.

"Thank you s'much, Rei!" I smiled to myself.

I do miss their company. Ethan and Reina are great people, and I'm glad we chose them.

"Sorry, E, I gotta go now. I'm helping Avriel with his parts in a new song. Text me, though," I said.

"Certainly!" He chirped.

"Tell Reina that I miss her and I'll see you guys in a few days!"

"Will do. Bye, Cress."

"G'bye," I hung up.

Hearing his voice after a few days was very pleasing. It seemed he always had the right thing to say, too. He's just an all around great guy and I'm glad I got the privilege of getting to know him. Reina, too. They were definitely a good choice.

After I get off the phone, I make my way to Avi and Kevin's room.

I knocked on the door with no answer.

I knocked again, but to my surprise, a rugged looking Avi answered the door.

"Hey, Kaplan. You two need to hurry and get ready, you have a plane to catch to Tulsa in three hours. Also when we get there you'll rehearsals and sound checks all day," I inform him.

I went back up the the room that Kirstie, Scott, Mitch, and I all stayed in last night. Kirstie and I got the beds and we made them sleep in the floor. I don't even know why we stayed in there. There was another perfectly good room that Kirstie and I were going to stay in.

Scott, Mitch, and I were awake and nearly ready, but I guess Mitch wanted to wake Kirstie up like a true gentleman.

He got really close to her face and yelled, "Get the fuck up!" really loudly.

She jumped up quickly and hit him in the abdomen, "Stop being a dick, Grassi."

Scott and I were laughing as Mitch tried to catch the air that was hit out of his lungs.

She stood up and adjusted herself.

"Alright, nerds. We have a plane to board in 3 hours, so let's get to it," I said, clapping.

"Why did we pick her as Esther's replacement?" Scott groaned.

"You love me," I smirked.

"Sadly," he mumbled before I threw a pen at him and hit him in the arm. He winced slightly.

"Fight me, Noodle."

"I hate you," he laughed.

"We just went over this, Scott. Keep up," I laughed in return.

Soon we were all ready to go. We headed to get Avi and Kevin, and we left for the airport.

On the flight, I sat between Mitch and Avi.

We all sat and watched the Corpse Bride, but halfway in, Mitch looked at him phone and sighed.

"Everything okay?" I asked.

"Yeah,  I'm fine. It's just that Izzy will not stop texting me. Every five minutes for the last three days, I've gotten a text from her," he stated.

I let out an annoyed laugh, "Funny, ive been trying to reach her since I came and she hasn't texted or called me back at all. Why does she keep texting you?"

"It's all this stuff about how I should've chose her and not you, and how much happier she could've made me. A lot of them have been her telling me I should break up with you. I would tell her to stop and leave the subject alone, but she didn't so I just stopped answering."

Really? Izzy is already trying to ruin this for me?

I definitely know what the first think I address when I get back will be.

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A/N; this is short and gross but it is literally just s filler chapter.

anyways, this story is so close to 500 reads! I know for a lot of people that isn't a lot, but I never expected this to get a 3 reads a chapter.

So, a huge thank you to everyone who has read or is reading this right now! you're all super great !

As always, thank you guys for reading (even though it was obvious shit), I love ya, and I will see all you dudes in the next chapter!

-ash xx :-)