Rejection

Lilly.

“Kyle’s here?” I asked, my heart starting to beat faster.

Leah placed her phone on the couch and stood up. “They’ve just sent me a message that they’ve reached. I can hear them.”

“Shit,” I leapt from the couch and started grabbing my phone and purse. “Don’t let them know I’m here.”

“I already told them.”

“Tell them I’ve left,” I said, hurrying off. “Will be in your room.”

A few seconds later, I heard the door opening and new voices.

I hoped they would not realise that I was still around. Ever since my drunken one night stand with Kyle, I’d been avoiding him. I had neither picked his calls nor answered the messages he’d sent me countless times. I had never done something like that and I didn’t know how to deal with it. Could we really go back to being friends like nothing had happened?

A few minutes later, I heard a knock and my heart leapt to my throat. I stayed silent, pretending that I had not heard anything.

“Lilly, I know you’re in there.” it was Kyle’s smooth voice. I ros