The next day.
I've spent the entire day in my room again, not willing to talk to anyone. I still haven't figured out what's going on in my head and what I'm actually feeling towards Jay and Brad. And to be honest, I don't want to think about it. So I spent the day watching lame rom coms on Netflix, which obviously wasn't a great idea as I ended up crying in front of all of them. I'm now in the middle of watching The Holiday, already falling asleep when someone knocks on my door.
"Love, Tristan is here to see you", my dad says as his head pops up in the door frame. What can he possibly want? Did Brad send him? Well nice try B, but it's not gonna be that easy.
"Tell him I'm not...", I start to say before Tris suddenly appears behind dad and enters my room. Just great.
"Hey, Em", he says with a half-smile. Dad gives me an apologetic look before leaving.
"Look, Tris, you know I love you but please stay out of this. I don't wanna talk to him. He needs to understand that instead of sending you"
"It's not what you think", Tris says, a worried look on his face. "Brad's missing", he adds and my heart stops for a second.
"What do you mean he's missing?"
"We were all supposed to meet for soundcheck today for tomorrow's concert and he never showed up"
"Have you tried calling him?", I ask and realize too late how stupid my question was.
"A million times, no answer", he answers and I can tell by looking at him that he is trying not to show me how really panicked he is. And that's starting to freak me out.
"Are you sure he's not home?"
"What do you think? We checked everywhere. He's not home, and he's not at his parents'"
"Sorry... I'm sure you have", I say, realizing I'm probably not helping with all my stupid questions. "I don't know, Tris... What did Ashley say? He's probably with her"
"Oh... He didn't tell you? They're not together anymore", Tris says and I freeze again. What? Why? Did they break up because of what Ashley did? Did Brad finally see the real her? Did he finally realize I've been telling the truth since the beginning?
"No, I didn't know...", I answer, a million of questions popping into my head.
"Did he text you anything that could help us find him?"
Fuck. My phone has been turned off for days. I 've been ignoring him all this time. What if he did text me and I didn't see his texts? I quickly open my nightstand drawer and grab my phone. The minute it takes for it to turn on feels like an eternity but eventually, the missed calls and text notifications start to appear on my screen. It's like a never-ending stream of notifications and I can feel my heart racing in my chest at the thought of Brad being in trouble while I ignored him. He's probably heartbroken because of his break up and I didn't do anything to help him.
"Anything?", Tris asks, pulling me out of my thoughts.
"There's so many", I say as I glance at all the messages, feeling tears coming up my eyes again. I scroll to the bottom of the message conversation.
"I miss you Em. I tried to give you space but it's been days and I can't take it anymore."
"Please you've gotta stop ignoring me"
"I need you in my life Em"
"Fuck how long is this gonna last?"
"I'm sorry for everything that happened, but you can't keep me out of your life like that"
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FRIENDS - BWS
Fanfic"Don't even try to deny it", she spat at me. "I see the way you look at Brad, the way you talk to him as if you two are the only ones in the room. You're constantly around him, craving his attention. It's pathetic". "Wow, I'm pathetic? Yet I'm not t...
