unknown ; m.c. (DISCONTINUED)

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"kate, you're phone's ringing again! that's the fifth time in the past hour. "

"can you just let it ring, please?" she's yelling at me through the door while i use the washroom. i'm over at her house and we're supposed to be studying but that never goes well when we're together.

"why does this number keep calling you anyway? can i listen to the voicemails?"

"he's trying to reach some girl that had this number before i got it. i guess something happened between the two or maybe she just doesn't like him anymore. i don't know. i don't really care. listen to the voicemails if you want, mia." i let her listen to the voicemails so she can finally stop bugging me about this guy and his phone calls.

"oh wow. so it's a guy? he sounds pretty desperate. why don't you just-"

"MIA! would you stop with the questions? i don't know about this guy and, frankly, i don't care." and so she left back to the living room. i did care though. i felt bad for the guy and every time he would call i felt this pain of guilt in my stomach because i'm making things worse for him by not breaking the truth to him. i just don't care right at this moment where i'm sitting on a toilet.

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the next day took an unexpected turn. i'm sitting in my second period class working on an essay when my phone starts buzzing and buzzing non-stop and i knew it was the guy. i didn't know what to do because eventually people started staring at me due to how insanely loud it was. i got up and went to the bathroom all the way at the end of the hall where rarely anyone goes to. i take out my phone and notice i have seven missed calls and now another incoming. i've never been this annoyed and angry by this guy but i answer on the first ring. "listen. i'm in school right now. would you stop calling?" i hang up and head back to class.

i was sitting in the cafeteria and eating lunch with my friends when i realized what i had done earlier. i started panicking. i realized 1) how rude i had been to the guy 2) i had given him hope that i was this girl, angie, he's been trying to reach 3) i answered his call which means 4) he's going to be expecting me to answer more of them. once i realized this i told mia.

"you know, this is a good thing."

"it is? how?" i didn't understand how this was at all a good thing.

"this is giving you a chance to finally break the news to him. this girl changed her number and now it's your number and he should stop calling you. maybe throw in a few'i'm sorry's in that little speech"

i thought about what she had said for the rest of the day. maybe i should answer him. maybe it'd hurt him or maybe it won't. i think the best thing is to do it.

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a/n: hello ! this is my new story (which will have slow and short updates). i'm pretty excited about it ! i hope you enjoy this very short chapter ! love u, bubs !