Blue Ribbon

Chapter 14 - First heartbreak

"You walked away far too easily for me to believe it was ever really love."

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Lilly's POV

"Why are you still in bed?" Aylin's voice had me pulling the covers from over my face as a frustrated sound made it out of my throat.

I glanced at her, standing by my door. I shot her a glare but she didn't seem a bit affected as a wide grin split up her face, "Ahh, I've missed you." She squealed before she marched into my room like its her own.

My gaze was on the floor so I noticed how on her way, she stepped over the ribbon I've left laying there. Not that I care.

I sat down and all I felt were her arms wrap around my body and squeeze me in. I gathered my sleepy tired self and hugged her back.

"Get up, come on, it's almost noon!" Sally said, and that's when I noticed her. She walked closer and sat beside us on the bed.

Is it noon already?

I wouldn't know. I haven't had a minute of decent sleep since last night.

"Okay, I really don't think she missed me," Aylin said, annoyance flared in her tone, as she glanced at Sally.

"Aylin, it was barely a week." I mumbled sleepily before I leaned my back against the headboard.

She huffed out, "Still, you two spent it together, I was the one staying on the other side of the world!" She said, dramatically referring to her Christmas vacation with her mother's family in Australia.

"Today, we should arrange a gathering, us and the guys, you know to celebrate me coming back!"

Us and the guys.

The guys.

Zack, Conner and...Chase.

I pulled my phone from under the pillow and stared at the screen filled with messages and a few missed calls.

He texted me last night. He called me. I didn't open the messages, neither did I answer his call.

There are new messages from him now, and another missed call from today's morning.

I kept the phone on silent and placed it on the counter beside me, screen facing down.

"I'll call Conner and check what everyone else is doing." Aylin said excitedly as she typed something over her phone before she placed it to her ear.

When he answered, she got up to her feet and talked with him. I silenced her voice and pressed my eyes shut. I rubbed at my forehead, the ache surging through my head seemed to only intensify with the second.

My eyelids glided open when I felt Sally's hand rest over mine. Her eyebrows pulled together and she asked, "Are you okay?"

I just shook my head.

I've just spent the whole night thinking, drowning myself in my own misery, and trying to find the non-existing solution to this situation. So, no, no way in hell I am okay.

Worry drew lines over her forehead as she asked, "What's wrong?"

My gaze flickered to Aylin, who seemed way too engrossed in her conversation to notice us before I whispered, "It's Chase, he's leaving in a couple of months and he didn't even tell me a thing about it."

Sally's eyebrows furrowed in confusion and she was about to ask more, but-

"Oh Chase, hey!" Aylin's words had me freezing in my place. I turned around and my eyes fell on him, standing by my room's entrance, his hand curled, ready to knock on the opened door.