Until Them...

Chapter Nine

GABRIEL

When we first met she has this wall up, that stopped me from seeing what she was thinking or feeling. But one night her walls came down, and the tears flooding with it. Until I betrayed her, and those walls I worked so hard to demolish have now been built ten times higher. And I make them ten times thicker. She's more distant and closed off then ever before. And I hate seeing her this way.

- Norah are you there? I need to talk to you.

I hit send and wait, no response.

- Baby please call me back. I need to hear your voice.

Send, wait, no response.

- I love you and I know you love me too. We can work this out, please just let me see you.

Send, wait, no response.

- You can't keep ignoring me.

No response.

- Norah this isn't funny. Are you getting my messages? Text me or call me...please!

I've stopped waiting now. I send one text after another, my fingers rapidly tapping against the screen that I'm worried it's going to break from the force.

- How are you?

- How was your day?

- I miss you

- You can ignore me all you want but I know you miss me too.

- Please Norah, this is killing me. I need to see you.

- I fucked up, but I love you.

-You're everything to me. Please baby just give me one more chance. I know you've already given me so many before, but this time is different. I'm never going to do anything to hurt you, never again.

- Norah

- Baby

- Okay now I'm getting worried. Text me back and let me know you're okay.

I send another one immediately afterwards.

- If you don't text me back then I'm going to come down to your halls to make sure your okay for myself.

That gets her attention as I receive her reply straight away. And it makes me hopeful, but also tells me that she's on her phone.

- I'm fine. Leave me alone.

- Baby, please talk to me.
-I love you and I miss you like crazy.
-I don't know what I'm doing without you
-Baby, please talk to me. I love you and I miss you like crazy. I don't know what I'm doing without you

Send, wait, no response, again. Now I'm angry cause she's purposefully ignoring me now.

- Seriously?
- The silent treatment?! I know I screwed up, but please just give me a chance to talk to you.

I beg again. Send, wait, no response.

- What's the matter with you? How can you go from loving me one minute, to not giving me the time of day the next?
- Norah
- Come on baby!
- Please!

Bing. I love that sound. I currently live for the sound of my special text alert for Norah. I've missed it so much.

- Stop. Just stop.
- Please

- How can we get through this if you won't even see me?
- I need you, and you need me too. 
- There's more to for story then what she'd said. And I want to tell you everything, but I don't want to have this conversation with you over text .
- Please baby!
- Talk to me.

- If you text me again I'm going to block you and change my number. And you will never see me again.
- And don't bother trying to asking Avery for it, cuz she won't give it to you.

I begin typing anyway, but receive another message immediately.

- If you ever actually loved me at all, then please, please, just leave me alone.

I have my reply all written down in front of me, yet I can't seem to be able to hit send. I know Norah, she doesn't threaten to do anything unless she has every intention on going through with it. And she really knows how to back you into a corner. I do love her, and that's the only reason why I delete the message and then then her contact in my phone. That way I'm not tempted to reach out to her. And it's fine, because I've remember her number by heart.