Changes

CHAPTER 30

Callie threw her purse aside as she walked into her hotel room. Karren had her own room as well, and had paid for both. She walked over to her duffel bag and yanked out her laptop. She set it on the desk and sat down I the chair. She opened it and typed in her password. "Your password is his name?" She heard Alex say from behind her. "Yeah. Eddy underscore Skipper. It's from when we were dating. I just never changed it. Got a problem with it?" She shot a glare over her shoulder, hoping he believed her lie. He shook his head and continued to flip through the magazine he was reading. She turned her attention back to her computer. "I mean, I know that's not really the reason he is your password, but I don't have a problem with it." He shrugged. "But, you have some competition." She looked at him.

Alex chuckled. "You mean you haven't noticed? The way they both look at him?" Callie blinked. "Wait, both?" Alex nodded, as if it was obvious. "Nazz, that really hot blonde girl, and Lee, the scary Kanker girl." Callie looked confused. "Nazz is around him constantly. She flirts with him all the time. She's always next to him whenever she gets the chance." Callie shrugged. She noticed, but she didn't think anything of it. When they were dating, she had asked about girls of his past. And he told her about Nazz. But he told her she didn't like him, and she was being nice. That, and that he was over her.

"What about Lee?" Callie began to play with her ring. It was no secret that Lee broke into Eddy's house that night. Word about their newly found friendship spread around like wildfire. Everyone thought he was sleeping with her. They kept accusing him of this day after day. Eventually, word also spread that Eddy and Callie had history. So, naturally, she already had a reputation as a cheater when she was only there for a week.

"Lee and Eddys friendship is on thin ive as it is. Just a small step away from them being enemies again. Lee is his friend because she got into his head and confused him and just made him feel guilty. Every day she stands up for him and helps him, the more he trusts her. The closer they get. But you can tell she's going to do whatever she can to build up his trust. She looks at him with this deep, what's the word, longing, I guess." Callie sighed lightly.

Alex stood up and walked over to her. He put a hand on her shoulder. "You deserve better. Why are you going after him?" Callie looked at him. "No, I don't deserve better. In reality, I don't deserve him. But I miss him, so much." Alex looked at her intently. "Come on. Explain." Callie looked down.

"Have you ever had a relationship where it's so close to perfect, and you just love every second of it. But at the same time, you don't realize what you had. So to screw it up, and afterwards, you can't stop hurting that person and... You just miss what you had..." Alex continued to look at her.

Callie stood up suddenly and pushed him away. "Can you not?" Alex smirked. "Feisty. I like that. I don't know why he let you go." Callie glared at him. "Shut up! Drop the subject!" Alex chuckled. "Sort I won't bring it up again. I'm just saying, I really do like your personality. Your good looking, your just awesome." Callie growled. "I don't date low lives." She opened the door. "Now get out." Alex smirked and walked outside the door, but not before saying "You dated Eddy, didn't you?". She punched him in the arm and shoved him out the door.

"Fucking dick! I hate him! Why did we ever ask for his help?" Callie went back to her computer and opened up a certain file. It had pictures of the art show. He really had a winner piece. But they had to take it out of the contest. Callie closed her eyes and shut the laptop. She stayed there, enjoying the silence for a minute, then stood up. She opened her eyes and went to sit on her bed. She kicked her shoes off and flipped back onto her bed. She began to play with her fire red hair. Eddy always used to compliment her on her hair...

Callie layed down like you normal would in a bed and clicked the light off. She began to shove her face in a pillow, trying to drown out the thoughts of a certain boy.