Chapter 24

Take A Shot At Me

Later that day, my sleep was cut short when my phone beeped, the beep woke me, I grabbed my phone and looked at it, it was a message from Julian, she was checking up on me. I got up and sat on the bed, cleaned my face with my palm, and texted her back to let her know I was okay. Ever since the incident the other day, she has been doing a routine check on me. I am lucky to have a friend like her. When I was done texting back, I navigated to my call log hoping to see Alex’s call, again I know that was stupid but then I still can't help myself. With every check comes the disappointment, he still hasn’t called or texted back, what was wrong? I have been thinking that he ghosted me but what if something happened to him. Something told me to go check him out.

I got up from the bed and went into the bathroom picked up my toothbrush, put some paste on it and started brushing starring back at myself from the mirror, as I did I kept thinking about Alex. when I was done bathing