Tear Myself Apart // Billie Eilish

Chapter 21

CAMILLA'S P.O.V

I sat up and looked around confusedly for my phone as it rang. I finally found it tucked under part of my blanket and picked it up. It was Billie calling me. I answered it and held the phone up to my ear. "Hello?"

"Listen. I know I'm a bitch. I'm such a bitch and I shouldn't have lashed out on you, but I really need your help. Is there any way you could come back?"

"I have work on Monday so I can't stay out there for very long ago."

"That's fine. I can get you a plane ticket but I need you to come right now."

"Okay."

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"So, you needed me here so quickly for what exactly?" I raised my eyebrows, sitting on her bed.

"Erika."

Erika? As in the girl that was posting those pictures? "Umm... elaborate please."

"She's been fucking blackmailing me ever since you left."

"Blackmailing you? Listen, Billie, I don't know what you think I can do about this—"

She shoved her phone into my hands and scrolled through pictures. There were a lot of them. Of Billie. She doesn't didn't look too good in any of them.

"Billie, what is this?" I turned the phone around to show her.

"She got mad at me and choked me."

"For what?"

"Because I didn't want to do anything with her."

I raised my eyebrows, not quite understanding.

"Because I didn't want to fuck her!" She scratched her forehead. "And then she started making me take these pills so that I'd stop eating and lose weight." She scrolled over to a picture of her in the hospital. "And then I didn't eat for too long."

"What has she been blackmailing you with?"

She took the phone back. "A picture of you—well, us... but you're naked in it so... that's not good."

"Billie!"

She flinched and covered her face. "I'm sorry! I'm gonna get rid of them."

"No! Stop! You can't let her keep doing this to you. Fuck those damn pictures! I would never ask you to do that for me."

"Camilla, she's gonna post those pictures."

"Then she can post them." I shrugged. "But you're gonna get a fucking restraining order or something—I don't know. There are so many things you could get her for."

"I know and this is about to sound absolutely crazy but... I think we should break into her house."

"What?"

"She has a hidden fucking basement, dude."

"And you're gonna be the next person she kidnaps."