Inside | Shane Harte

49 | We miss you

The next two months go by extremely fast and I've never felt as free as I do now. I've been busy writing loads of music lyrics, putting a melody on them and so on. A few famous musicians have asked for me to be their background singer in several songs of their albums, but I've also recorded a few songs of my own to eventually form an album.

Thanks to Mason I've met not only his close friend squad, but also a huge amount of people that they know. Everyone has been very supportive through the entire journey so far, and I couldn't be more grateful of the life I've created for myself.

Well, there's still one thing that's missing. The hole in my heart is still far from healed but it really helped opening up and telling my new friends about what I've been through. I've spent almost every free hour I've got with Mason if it hasn't been with the whole squad also, and it feels just like old times when we were almost neighbors.

It's now friday night and me and Mason are on our way home from an Ariana Grande concert that I somehow managed to make Mason attend with me. He's still mainly interested in classical music but I've showed him that there are more music styles out there that's not terrible either.

When I finally get home and open the door, my phone lets out a loud message signal. Mason walks before me and enter the apartment as I grab my phone from the pocket of my winter jacket.

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From: Crystal 😎

Hey girl! Wanna skype?
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From: Me

Absolutely! Call me in 5 🌞
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I put down the phone in the back pocket of my jeans and walk into the apartment with a wide smile on my face. Mason looks at me with suspicious eyes as I open up the computer on the sofa.

"What's up?" he asks, sitting down in the sofa next to me. "Who are you calling?"

"A friend from Toronto" I smile as I click on the 'call' button by Crystal's picture. It's been months since we last spoke. I've really missed her.

"Kayla, hi!" she exclaims happily after answering my call.

"Hey Crystal" I grin.

"How's everything going so far? We miss you"

"It's been a lot, definately. I've been working on an album of my own, while featuring other artists' albums as well. It has been great though, I made a lot of friends quite early and we hang out all weekend long pretty much. Clubbing, going to concerts and theme parks..."

"Okay, okay Kayla. I get it" Crystal laughs and I do as well.

"Sorry. Don't want to rub it in your face" I smile.

"No, not at all. You deserve it" she chuckles. "Everything has been like it's always been here at college, the only thing that's been a bit unusual is that they've started building another department on campus. No one really knows what kind of department it will be, since we already have every music style there is, so that's kind of the talk of the school right now"

I giggle a little.

"I miss it sometimes. School, I mean. Despite the fact that I've been living a dream here in Ottawa I still miss Toronto every now and then" I say and Crystal nods with a small smile. That soon transfers to a more troubled look, like she want to say something but doesn't know where to start.

"I don't know if it's too soon but I have to know. What happened with Shane, really?"

I sigh quietly so she doesn't hear. I understand that she wants to know, I didn't really tell anyone back in Toronto besides Cora, but it's hard to think about and live through all of that again.

"Everything was great between me and Shane. It was almost getting too great, and that's when he told me that everything between us was fake the entire time. On my first day, he and Trevor created a bet. The first one who could get me into bed would win"

"Uhm... Kayla... There's no bet?" Crystal says surprisingly. I wrinkle my eyebrows.

"Yeah, Shane confessed himself" I say and her face goes completely serious.

"Girl, if two of my best mates would create a bet about a freshman I would be the first one they would tell" she says, and I don't know what to think or believe. "On top of that, if what Shane 'confessed' now was true, why haven't he and Trevor spoken one word to each other since the whole thing with you and Trevor happened?"

I just sit there in shock. Why would Shane lie about something like that? He's even more of a coward than I ever thought, if he didn't want me he could've just told me instead of lying and let me go through that excruciating pain that I've felt the last couple of months.

"Okay, I have to go. We'll talk soon, okay?" I say to her and she nods with a bothered look.

"Bye, Kayla. Take care" she says before hanging up. I turn around towards Mason that's heard the whole conversation.

"Okay...." he says stiffly.