Part 11: Back to Reality

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The next morning Ryan was up first and looked over to see Elizabeth still sleeping. Ryan ran her fingers through her hair pulling it away from her eyes and he grabbed her phone, 6 messages from Jenn. Ryan cursed herself for not texting and sighed as she began to look through them:

"Hey"

"Hello?"

"Did you wanna hang out?"

"Where are you?"

"Did I do something wrong...?"

The most recent text was just a simple "Morning". Ryan sighed and prepared herself for the storm as she texted back:

"Hey.." She messaged back slowly

"Where've you been?!" Came in almost instantly and Ryan sighed as she chose her words

"I slept over at a friends house.." Ryan sent back

"And you didn't tell me?" Jenn asked

"I didn't think it mattered.." Ryan said

"You didn't want to hang out with me?" She responded and Ryan felt bad even though she didn't want to

"It's not that...I assumed you were busy with your family" Ryan texted back

"Well. I wasn't." Jenn responded, Ryan knew how upset she was and knew she would have to fix everything...again

"Look, I'm sorry.." Ryan said and frustratingly set her phone down sighing and looking over at Elizabeth who was just waking up

Elizabeth groaned slightly as she woke up covering her head with her blanket. She looked over at Ryan who was sitting up and staring off into nothing "You alright?" Elizabeth asked and Ryan looked over and shook her head to focus herself. "Oh, um yeah" She said faking a quick smile which Elizabeth easily saw through but decided not to pester her for details. The two of them hung out for the rest of the day and once again Ryan ignored her phone until she got back home. She decided it was best to just go over to her house after school the next day and make amends. Of course the day Ryan went over to her house it was spent with Jenn telling her how upset she was about not being able to text her and Ryan spending the couple hours they had massaging her, amongst other things in order for her to feel better.  

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