Fading Whispers

Chapter Two

Jayden's P.O.V.-

"Jayden!" Dad calls. "I'm going out tonight with a couple friends, I left you money on the counter to order Pizza or something if your hungry." Dad yells.

I run down the stairs to give him a hug goodbye and a 'I love you'.

He grabs his things and leaves.

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The doorbell rang. I ran downstairs as fast as I could, knowing who would be on the other side of the door.

I open it.

Only, to my surprise, it wasn't Elliot. It was my ex-boyfriend Mike.

We broke over a year ago, but Mike has always seemed to find me. He never leaves me alone.

"What do you want?" I rudely ask. "I just want to talk, please? You've been ignoring me ever since we broke up, and Jayden, I-I love you. I can't live without you."

"Mike, please leave. I don't want you here. And I want you no where near me, got that?"

Mike's eyes start to water. I can see that he was beginning to cry. I rolled my eyes.

He stands up straight. "Fine. If that's what you want, then I'll do it. I'll do anything for you."

He leaves. I close the door, almost at once. I take a deep breath.

"Elliot should be here any minute. Get yourself together, Jayden." I whisper to myself.

After a couple minutes of fixing myself up, my doorbell rings. 'Elliot' I immediately thought. I open the door and low and behold, there was Elliot.

"Oh, Hi Elliot!" I say. "Hey! Jayden!" Elliot says.

I welcome him in. "Make yourself at home" I say.

"You have a nice home" Elliot says facing me.

"Thank you, I have lived here for only a couple years now" I reply.

"So, let's get studying?" I ask, waiting for a response. "Yeah. Totally." Elliot sits down on my soft burgundy sofa, and pulls out his journal and a pen.

I grab my notes from my backpack, and a text book. "Okay, so we are on page 232 of the textbook." I say. "We're studying light, matter, and basically everything we learned from 5th grade" I explain to Elliot.

After about 15 minutes of studying, I ask Elliot, "Are you hungry?" He replies with a simple "Yeah, I could eat."

"How does pizza sound?" I ask him.

"Yeah, that sounds pretty good."

"Okay. Great." I walk up from the sofa to the money on top of the counter, and dial the number of the pizza place. I order the pizza, and I can tell from the corner of my eye, Elliot is totally checking me out. In my head, I'm thinking oh my god. Elliot is totally checking me out.

I hang up the phone, and walk back over to the couch.

"Can I tell you something? I feel like I can trust you." Elliot murmurs in a deep voice. I immediately get nervous and take a deep breathe.

"Yes. You can trust me."

"Okay. So I just broke up with my ex and I just can't seem to get her off of my mind. She's everything I need. And I think I'm In love with her."

I immediately feel my eyes tear up. My heart starts beating faster and faster. I'm furious. I'm actually starting that like Elliot. But, not as a friend.

"I need your advice."

"Well, I'm glad you came to me. Why did you guys break up in the first place?" I ask.

"Well, she really wasn't happy, she said that she wanted to take a break and that she didn't see a future with us."

"I see. Well, I'm having that same problem with my ex. Except he is in love with me. I can't stop you from loving her. But, there's a saying that says if you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was meant to be. So, let her go." I speak, fighting back the tears that are about to pour out of me.

"I guess that's what I have to do if I love her."

The doorbell rings. "Well, the pizzas here I guess." I leave to answer the door, grabbing the money. I answer the door and grab the pizza box and hand over the money. "Thank you" I say as the man leaves.

"Elliot, does your ex go to the same school as us?" I ask, placing the box on the table were we were sitting.

"Yes. Her name is Scarlet."

Scarlet.

Scarlet is my best friends little sister.

Scarlet.

"I think I know her." I say. Elliot and I both grab a slice of pizza.

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THE NEXT DAY-

I wake up on my bed. I barely remember what happened last night.

I can feel my tears from last night. My face, burning hot. I'm still in my clothes from last night.

I look in my mirror and stare at my face. I try to smile, but it's not worth it. I'm don't really feel myself today. Its like, I'm not me today. I grab my brush and brush through my hair.

Prim is calling my phone, I answer it.

"Hello?" I say in my morning raspy voice.

"Tonight Scarlet and I are going to the mall. Do you want to come?"

"Not really, I don't really feel myself today and I would hate to force myself to do something. I think I'll pass."

"Okay, well if you change your mind, call me."

I hang up.

I walk down my stairs, in the same clothes that I wore yesterday. Dad is in the kitchen working on one of his "inventions" for work. Sometimes, it's like he doesn't even notice me when he's doing it.

I walk by him. "Hey dad"

He doesn't respond. "Hey dad!" I say again, this time almost screaming.

"DAD!" I yell out. He gets scared and almost drops the whole thing on the floor. "Oh, sorry honey. Good morning!" He says clearing his voice.

I roll my eyes. I sit at the counter and watch dad play with the parts of his machine.

I almost immediately get bored and walk back up the stairs. I open up my drawer, and pull out black leggings, a black and white long sleeve shirt, and my all black low-cut converse. I change into it.

"Thank god it's Saturday" I say in a low tone.

I grab my phone and walk back down stairs.

I get a text. And of course, it's from Mike. It read "I want 2 see u."

And another, "Can we talk about 'us'?"

I roll my eyes, but decide to respond this time. "Okay Mike. Tonight, meet me at the mall at 6 pm, by the food court. If your not there I'm leaving, don't waste my time." I texted.

I put my phone down and check the time. 3:24 Pm.

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Hii guys here's another update. sorry it's short. Thanks for all your support and Ily. Next update will be pretty soon, I'm actually starting to like how this is turning out.

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-Lindsay