Breaking Slowly // h.s. au

Chapter Three

Chapter Three

*Elsie*

Songs-

A sky full of stars- Cold Play

Moon dust- Jaymes Young

Dark Star- Jaymes Young

Stay High- Tove Lo

My heart is pounding in my ears as is step back into the house and take a deep long breath.

"Who was that?" Mara asks furrowing her brow.

"Just a kid from school who loves close and needed some answers on homework." I lie. Not a very good lie at that. A bad lie. One that is very farfetched and-

"Alright." And she bought it- I think.

"Okay well I'm gonna go do school work." I say smiling before walking away.

"Wait Elsie." Jen calls.

"What?" I ask.

"Eggs?" She questions motioning towards the pan.

"Oh right."

*****

The beloved weekend feels like a fucking blink of an eye as I'm lying in bed waiting for sleep to take over on Sunday night. It went too fast. I didn't heal as much as I wanted to- needed to. I can fully function without wincing but it still aches in places and my ribs are sore so it hurts to breathe deeply. Bruises are still to be seen and three knew cuts are scored into my arm, The same things running through my mind as the last time.

Non one calls, no one texts, social media is dead and I am once again being thrown around in the endless black hole my life has become. My phone lies idle next to me and I run my hands across the soft plush comforter tucked under my arms.

The vibration from my phone catches me off guard and I'm half expecting to get a notification from ibooks or some shit but there's a call from...

Harry.

Wait what?

But I thought...

Fuck it.

"Hello?" I answer groggily rubbing my eyes and sitting up.

"Oh shit did I wake you up?" His accent makes me feel some type of way. I don't know what way yet exactly.

"Harry? Why are you calling me... something wrong?" I ask looking out the window and watching the stars lining the dark sky twinkle as if lights on a wall.

"Oh- um y-you never called and I uh..." It sounds like he was fumbling with something because there was a crash and I could hear a string curses leaving his lips as there was a long pause.

"Are you okay?" I ask trying to stop laughter from bursting out of me.

"Yeah." He sighs, "I-um fell." There's another pause before I hear muffling on the other line.

"Babe come back to bed." Someone says on his end. He was with a girl... in bed. Typical. Ironic, and just typical.

"Hang on Jane." Harry says trying to be quiet. Jane!! Fuck you... fuck you... fuck you, "Sorry I have a... friend over."

"I should go." I'm goddamn unamused.

"No! No don't go." He says shuffling around.

"Harry!" Jane whines. I wince at the sound of her screeching voice.

"Just give me a minute baby." He says with no emotion besides exasperation in his voice. The feeling of knowing she was probably all over him while he dialed my number makes me want to upchuck the soup I had a while ago.