You are My Discovery (2018)

|Chapter nine ⋅ Symptoms of you

Chapter Nine ⋅ Symptoms of you ⋅ Thatclassicchick⋅ You are My Discovery

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Vienna's Side- Meanwhile

I walk out of the bathroom, when I notice that I have a new voicemail from Lynn. I hesitate to open it, but I do, and exhale when clicking play.

hey vee, it's me—again-um I just, can we talk I can wait until you're ready anyways bye--

I put my phone down and stare at my desk.

"Should I call her or not, I mean maybe I need to hear her out. But what if I say something I don't mean, like I did last time--oh my gosh Vee just do it", I scold myself.

I bring up her number and stare at the screen for a few seconds. I hyperventilate pacing back and forth in my room. Whatever-I'm just overthinking per usual when I should be getting things done. I say taking a seat on the light blue roller chair, as music quietly plays through my speakers. I look at my phone again and decide to call her.

The phone rings a few times when there is a knock on my door making me turn and it was Ashe, peaking through the door.

"hey, can I come in", she asks nervously, as I nod at her and she walks in confused.

The call goes to voicemail, so I hang up looking at the screen bummed out. While ashe sits on the bed in front of me.

"is everything okay", she asks shyly, as I exhale looking around when my eyes land on hers.

"oh um- yeah I suppose I was just calling Lynn back, but she didn't answer. She's probably busy or something. I hope everything is okay though, anyways go ahead-", I say sadly.

"hopefully it is, but I just want to say that I know I overreacted the other night, and It was dumb of me to say what I did. So, I'm sorry-" I cut her off by holding her hand.

"-ashe stop it's not dumb, you're just looking out for me like you always do. I should be the one apologizing, Heck you've done so much for me and I'll never be able to pay you back. I am blessed to have you in my life and I'm the one that is sorry for not telling you, but I promise it won't happen again", I say softly.

"aww, dude you know I would do anything for you, and honestly I can't blame you cause you have a right to keep things from me. I've been thinking that maybe you didn't want things to get out of hand, which they did. But can we just put the whole drew and Krystena thing behind us and get back to how it was. I'm done playing the quiet game with you", she hopefully replies, pulling me in for a hug that makes me smile.

"I would really like that, I also want to forget about everything and focus on more important things. But before that I want to show you something", I say opening the yellow manila folder on my desk, as I spread the photos across.

She leans closer notices the photographs that drew had sent to be printed. She scrunches her eyebrows confused, as she looks up at me.

"okay what the hell, is this some kind of joke, like who would do this. I personally do not like people taking candid shots of me, therefore I'm the photographer not the other way around. Please tell me it doesn't say what I think it says--", she yells into slight grunt reading the name on the back.

Ha-ha I love her so much even when she overreacts, I'm just glad she's not upset anymore. I hate making her feel that way but all I wanted was my best friend back. At this point I just want her to help me put an end to this. I snap back to reality, noticing how she is still complaining about every image.

"unfortunately, I it is, and Ryker risked his job to show me this and I appreciate that a lot. He also told me that he's been a customer for like 2 months or something. but apparently, he was asking questions about me. Yet he never told him anything", I reply biting the inside of my mouth.