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All I wanted to do was cry. To curl up into the tiniest ball I could manage and wail.
Instead, I stared blankly at the small screen, watching horror films in an attempt to erase all the sadness pumping through my veins.
It didn’t work.
Not one little bit.
“What is going on with your phone?” my mom finally snaps. “It’s driving me to insanity, Henley.Whois trying to contact you?”
“Brooks,” I answer blankly.
“And?”
“And what?” I glance at her, the same void in my eyes that sits in my words. “I don’t feel like talking.”
Her over-plucked eyebrows pull together. “You’ve been quiet since you came home. Did something happen?”
Looking away before she could possibly read anything in my eyes, I continue to spoon cereal into my mouth. “No. I’m just jet-lagged.”
“It’s that boy,” she speculates. “I don’t want to say I told you so—”
“Then don’t.” I drop my spoon into my bowl roughly, the sound enough to make her wince as milk spills over the counter. “Please, just fucking don’t.”
“Henley,” she chides.
I walk from the kitchen, locking myself in my room and throwing the comforter over my head like I’ve done every day since I’ve been back.
I miss him.
In a way that causes a physical pain in my chest.
My cell won’t stop.
Texts.
Calls.
Addy: Yo. Call me. Why are you ignoring me?
I don’t know? Maybe because I cheated with your friend’s boyfriend, and I’m hating on myself enough that I don’t need anyone else to add to that.
My ringtone sounds, and I close my eyes.
“Hi,” I speak into the device.
“Henley. Fuck. Finally. What gives?”
His voice brings a fresh wave of tears to my eyes, and I stuff my face into my pillow.
“Are you there?” he pushes.
“Yes,” I mumble into my pillow.
“I can’t hear you.”
I pull my face away from the cotton. “I’m here.”
“Squirrel. Baby. Why are you cutting me out?”
