An Unexpected Love

Chapter 4

a few months later i flung out of bed in the middle of the night during a nightmare and my vibrating phone woke me. it was a text from zac and i told myself i would answer this time. i read the message . it said " im so sorry Hanna, i love you and im so sorry i hurt you this bad. its just what i had to do. im in trouble but dont worry i will be fine eventually. i just wanted you to know that this wasnt my decision i just got mixed up in bad things." i stared at my phone for ten minutes. how i longed for a text from him so badly it hurt inside. i felt like throwing up but at the same time i felt like jumping for joy. i ended up crying my eyes out . thinking about those three words "i love you" and how he typed them to me, i havent experienced this in a very long time and i thought i would never get them from him again. i responded " what kind of trouble? i cant believe you texted me after all this time."

I tried to go back to sleep but I couldn't sleep knowing the only person I cared about was still out there and he still loved me. finally I got another text from him saying he couldn't talk about the trouble he was in but as soon as he could tell me he would but for me not to worry because he would be alright.

when I woke up in the morning I smelled eggs and bacon. my mom was making me breakfast again, I suppose it was part of her attempt at trying to get me back to my happy self. although I loved eggs and bacon, so did zac and at this point, anything that reminded me of him wasn't something I was willing to acknowledge.

I walked down the steps wiping my eyes and almost tripping over my fat cat. it hissed and ran away. instead of falling i made a loud thump on the steps so my mom called and asked if I was okay and i said I was fine. when I went into the kitchen my mom hugged me and said good morning very enthusiastically. I just said morning bc im not a morning person at all. the eggs and bacon looked so delicious and my stomach growled really loud as if it were asking to eat . I just stood there staring at the bacon sizzling in the pan on the stove. I was thinking back to the time I slept over zac's house and i was cooking bacon. he came up behind me and put his arms around my waist and hugged me then kissed me on the cheek. even in the morning he smelled amazing. I could still smell him as if he were standing right in front of me.

my mom was talking to me but I wasn't paying attention so she was waving her hand across my face and i zoned back in and looked at her. she wanted to know how much bacon I wanted and i said just a few pieces because I was trying to lose weight . Zac always told me I was perfect but I never truly thought I was. Gosh there was never a second i wasn't thinking about him or the things we did together. I needed him. it wasn't a matter of what I wanted anymore it was just this need that i couldn't control. sometimes my heart would hurt from thinking about him .

as I ate my bacon and eggs i was texting my best friend kelly . She is always there for me and she has really helped me through this breakup. she wanted to hangout because she's worried about me. I always tell her im busy because I never want to leave the house. but today I was feelin adventurous so i thought I'd go out. she wanted to go to putt putt so i said that's fine.

Again thanks for reading I hope you're enjoying it and I'll update again soon. it's really late so im going to go to sleep now.