Gravity

Chapter 37

"And you guys haven't talked since then?" Emily asks me and I shake my head.

"Wow." She breathes out as she lays back on my bed.

Sorry you came in on the middle of our conversation. You probably wanna know what the hell we're talking about.

Well for like three days straight Spencer and I haven't talked on the phone for more than ten minutes total. And that's including FaceTime and the ten minutes is for all three days together.

"What's the point in having those fancy gadgets if you're not gonna use them?" Katie asks me as she fucks around on her MacBook.

"She's been really busy, you know...actually trying to do school work. Unlike us." I tell my friends. We barely do our work...hell, we barely go to class and we're all passing with A averages.

"Well, she could at least make time to talk to you for more than two minutes a day." Emily says shaking her head.

I get that Spencer's got a lot of shit going on right now with school and all but...Emily's right! We need to talk more, especially with the whole million mile distance in between us.

"I'm gonna call her right now." I tell my friends and excuse myself from the room. I take out my iPhone and FaceTime Spencer. She doesn't answer on the first time so I try again.

Ugh!

Still no answer.

Sigh.

I miss talking to her.
She's probably writing and essay with her headphones on so she can't hear the phone ringing.

"Stop making excuses for her." Emily says coming up behind me.

"Ah!" I say and grab my chest. "Could you not sneak up on me like that?" I turn around and say to my friend who has a very serious look on her face.

I don't think I've ever seen the serious side of Emily.

"I'm not making excuses. I'm just...wait what the fuck? Are you like reading my mind right now?" I ask my friend, raising a brow.

"Bitch you know you're always saying shit out loud that you think you're saying in your head." She tells me, this time letting a smile play at her lips as we both take a seat on the steps.

"I miss her." I sigh out.

"I know." Emily says rubbing my back.

"I know she's busy but like, ten minutes a day. I can deal with that. We literally haven't talked at all since she told me she had a bunch of extra credit stuff to do and she needed to prepare for her finals." I say and Emily just nods. "I just wanna see her face, hell I'll settle for just a text."

"Christmas break is in a week, have you talked to your parents about going back there?" She asks me and I shake my head. I really don't want to push it. I know this phone must have cost an arm and a leg, I just don't want them to think that I'm being greedy. "I think you should ask." She adds.

"Maybe." I shrug and lay my head down on her shoulder.

"Why the fuck are you two bitches always going off and leaving me? Like what the fuck?" Katie asks as Emily and I turn and face her. "Emily I recall meeting your ass in second grade." She says with a hand on her hip. "We just met this hoe." She adds pointing to me. Anyone else would have taken that as an insult, not me. I know Katie well enough to get what she's saying.

Emily and I continue to laugh at her as we get up and walk back to my room.

"I never took you for the jealous type." I hear Emily say behind me to Katie.