Not Thinkin' Bout You

Chapter 58

PREVIOUSLY: "Why did you lie?" Ellody muttered, peeking out of her blankets and squinting at her sister.

"Because you're supposed to be at school, but you're clearly not going today. You know mum won't let you miss school," Sienna hissed. Ellody nodded slowly, glad that her sister was finally looking out for her again. Christina shut the bedroom door and joined them on the bed, and the girls curled up around Ellody as she fell back asleep. 

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Ellody rolled around in her sheets, eyes landing on the little clock on her bedside table.

11:35am.

That was the best sleep I've had in a long time.

She quickly found a note on the end of her bed from the girls, which told her that they'd all gone for a picnic and she was home alone until three in the afternoon.

Waking downstairs, Ellody decided she was seriously hungry and started to make scrambled eggs, her go-to easy breakfast.

I need a song to listen to... ooh, I haven't listened to Eben in a while.

Pressing play on Bad Drug, Ellody sang along to the lyrics, happily whisking her eggs and milk. But something didn't feel right. Like she was forgetting something.

"So why does your love always feel like a bad drug?" she sang under her breath, remembering Eben's performance. And that's when it hit her like a train that Zach had posted a photo of him and Kay, and that she had broken down just the night before in her friends' arms.

Oh.

"The second I leave you, my body it goes numb," Eben continued, the beat blasting through her speaker. Ellody slowly finished making her breakfast and took a seat, forcing her mind elsewhere as she played the song again.

He will never love me.

God, I'm falling back down the depression rabbit-hole.

Why can't I just get over him?

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ZACH'S POV:

He was nearly there, and Eben was blasting through his headphones.

"The high is so high but the low's low, so why does it feel like a bad drug? Why does it feel like a bad drug? Why is your love such a bad drug?"

The song made him think of Ellody, and how his feelings for her were like a bad drug. He was addicted, but it felt awful, since he was with Kay. And she wouldn't let him break up with her. She would always remind him that management wanted them together, and she even threatened to tell the world that she broke up with him because he cheated. It only scared Zach because it almost had truth to it.

Do I seriously have feelings for my best friend?

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ELLODY'S POV:

"It's hard to act like I don't think about you, sometimes," Ellody sang, pressing the piano keys in time with her voice. "I should win an Oscar."

There was a noise upstairs that could've been a door slamming, but Ellody ignored it. Right now, she was having her moment. Tears were clinging to her eyelashes as she remembered Zach's post, and how happy he looked with Kay.

"It was my birthday, right at the end of the night."

She remembered the caption clearly. He loved and missed her.