𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 | 𝐒.𝐌

Chapter 58

Happy Birthday to me🤗

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I help Zayneb get her suitcases upstairs and decide to call Shawn again when I let Zayneb settle into the guest room. He doesn't pick up and I send him a short message, letting him know I'm a little worried. 

I sit down on the couch and Aristo sits down next to me, resting his head on my leg. I pet his head and he closes his eyes a little.

'Liz. Look.' Zayneb holds her left hand in front of my face.

I see a shining ring with a big diamond around her ring finger. I grab her wrist and look at the beautiful ring. She has a big smile on her face.

'He proposed two days ago!' She says with a high pitched voice.

'I'm so happy for you!' I say with a big smile.

Who would've ever thought that Ludovic fucking Ryder would get married to my best friend? Yet again, there are a lot of things most of us would've never thought of but still happen all the time... 

Like Shawn Mendes disappearing out of fucking nowhere! I inhale sharply, trying to push my thoughts away.

'And I need to tell you something else...' She sits down across from me, petting Aristo's back.

'Please don't tell me you're moving halfway across the world?' I hold my breath, waiting for her answer.

'No!' Her leg moves up and down. 'I'm having triplets!'

My eyes widen. She is having triplets?! There will be three babies instead of one coming out of her in a few months?

'That's fucking awesome!' I yell, grabbing her hand.

'I know right!' Her whole face shines.

We mostly talk about her and Ludovic. She tells me what a delight he is and how nice he is to her. All the romantic gestures he does for her. If I didn't know him myself, I would start to think she's engaged to an angel.

'And the best part is... it doesn't bother him that I'm pregnant from another man.'

'That's nice, Zayneb. I'm really happy for you.'

She looks at me, studying my sad face. I am happy for her, but I just have this terrible feeling that everything in my life is falling apart. 

Maybe I'm overreacting and everything between Shawn and me is fine. I try to tell myself he just went to the dry cleaner, to clean his clothes... and toothbrush... and shaving cream... 

I mean, who am I kidding? Maybe he left me and he's not coming back, but what have I done to him that he decided to leave me? We made up yesterday, how could he leave me without telling me?

'Elizabeth!' Zayneb shouts.

'Yes.' I respond.

'Talk to me. What's going on?' She sits down next to me and wraps her arm around my shoulder.

'I think Shawn left me.' I whisper, standing up to grab the rose in the bathroom.

'What do you mean?' I hear her say from the living room.

I grab the rose and look for the note I saw thirty minutes ago, but it's not there. I look in the sink, behind it, on the ground, in the other cabinets, but nothing. It's gone. 

I decide to grab the rose and show it to Zayneb. Maybe I am the only one seeing it as a goodbye present.

'He took everything he had at my place, so I thought, maybe, he went back to Amsterdam?'