𝐁𝐨𝐲 | 𝙅𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝘿𝙮𝙡𝙖𝙣 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙯𝙚𝙧

TEN

"How've you been Mills?" I asked as she coughed loudly over our FaceTime call. "I'm living" she joked tiredly, her nose was red like a cherry as if she's been constantly blowing her nose all day and her voice is raspy like she smoked eight packs of darts. 

"What's your condition? You look washed out on my screen are you sure you're living?" I got a little worried since her face was pale like the white wall behind her "I'm just battling a cold nothing-" she sneezed and coughed "nothing too serious."

"Okay if you need anything just know that I'm here," I tell her she nods and blows her nose with a kleenex. "I feel..." she yawned "ahh, I feel tired" she croaked "yeah you should probably get some rest," I say "Have a good nap Mills, love and miss you"

"thank you, I miss you too" she blew a kiss "love you, bye" she hung up the call I sat there for a few minutes before calling Sophia up. She answered after a couple of rings, her voice sounded like she just woke up I forgot about the difference in time zones in Spain than here. "hey Soph, I'm sorry for waking you" I softly spoke.

"Hey, Nah it's all good I was going to get up in five minutes anyhow because my flight is in an hour so." she explains I nod as if she could even see me, "so. How was tennis? Who won?" I ask she laughs "Serena did, of course," I could tell she was smiling by the way she talked "I mean she's the best tennis player so there wasn't a doubt."

"yeah for sure, I just wanted to check in on you and see what's up," I say "how are you?'

"I'm doing swell, Barcelona has been treating me great so that's good. How have you been? I heard about the party incident and you know was with someone else, like why would he even post on his story that he's with her? It's so dumb." she sighs

"wait, hold up. When were those stories posted?" I ask 

"He posted them a few days ago, it was captioned best friend with a heart emoji." she tells me I nod and felt relieved "okay good"

"why do you ask? are you blocked from his story?" 

"no," I paused "it just hurts too much to look at his socials"

"ahh, yeah that makes sense," she says "I better go get ready I'll talk later"

"Alright, safe flight see you"

"thank you, bye" she hung up shortly after I sighed and texted Jack, he texted within him a minute later which surprised me

"Jack" I ringed him, "can you pick up"

"Hey baby" he answered

"want to come over?" I asked

"um, sure. I was going to do somethings before I come over though" he tells me

"Okay, see you later when you get here - the back door is unlocked by the way," I say "and be quiet because my mom and dog is sleeping"

"Alright," he softly chuckled "I'll be quiet as a mouse"

"mouses are kind of loud at times"

"or a turtle, whatever is quieter or even an ASMR video I don't know"

I laughed "bye, love you"

"love you," he said and hung up

fifteen minutes passed and there was a gentle knock at my door before it slowly opened, Jack walked in with two bags of my favourite foods and snacks.

"You didn't" I whispered loudly, he smiled and set it on the desk by my bed handing me a drink of my favourite beverage "that's what I needed to do before coming to see you"

"You're the best." I kissed him "I love you"

"I love you" he grabbed the bags putting them beside me "want me to grab your mom's bed tray?" he asked

"sure, it's downstairs in the kitchen in between the fridge and counter on the right side - but be quiet," I remind him

"of course" he kissed my nose and walked out of my room moments later he returned with the table and set it up on the bed in front of me, I took the food out of the bags putting it all on the tray.

we sat there enjoying our snacks and drinks while talking about random things, soon later Jack received a text causing his phone to ting he checked it then set it back down not being fazed by it. I gave him a questioning look "who was it?"

"Ellie" he rolled his eyes "shes apologizing for everything and says she dumped her boyfriend and wants to hang out and work through things so we'd date"

"are you going to respond?" I took a bite of my food

"no" he sipped his soda "she's kind of obsessive, like crazy obsessive"

"Give an example" I smiled

"one time we were hanging out at a restaurant with Finn and Caleb, she was telling them we were dating and I said no - I went to the washroom there and she told Finn and Caleb she stole one of my rings and a hoodie I asked for them back nicely but she denied that she even took them, now they're still missing and she asked you what my favourite snacks were and would always text me late a night - then she even would post me on her story all the time saying we were dating. even with a current boyfriend where she used to go to school," he explains looking slightly uncomfortable with what he was saying, I could tell he didn't like being around Ellie now

I hugged him "you kind of fed it to her though, I mean you let her kiss you and at school, you guys were basically hugging all the time"

"That was the point, I don't know why I wanted to make sure you saw so you'd be jealous and maybe message me or something but then I remembered you aren't like that"

"yeah, I know," I said quietly