32- Effie

Bella's POV

Why am I so stupid? What was I expecting? I can't believe I thought he'd come see me, but it's literally 8pm and he hasn't even texted me or tried calling me to see how I was doing. I'm starting to question his feelings for me, could it be that he's cheating on me. Effie did say they have something with each other.

Stop thinking like that Bella!  I scolded myself. But what am I supposed to think, he probably likes being with her, they've been friends before I knew him.

"Bella! Someone wants to see you!" My mom yelled from downstairs. I quickly rushed down stairs hoping it would be Ashton.

I was so surprised when I found Effie at the door, she was the last person I'd expect to see at the door of my home. More importantly how did she know where I live?

"Can we talk?" She asked, I couldn't tell if she wanted to do something to me or if she really did what to talk because she covered half her face with her hood.

"Sure, let's go to my room" I said and led her to my room.

I opened the door of my room and let her in once we were upstairs, I sat on my reading chair and she sat on my bed.

"What do you want to talk about?" I asked, but she ignored my question and took off her hoodie. Her eyes were bloodshot and her skin was bruised, she looked like she just came from war.

"Are you ok?" I asked, my eyes were wide from surprise.

"I'm sorry" She said as tears streamed down her cheeks.

"For what?" I asked. "For being so mean to you, for everything, " She said.

"It's fine, what happened?" I asked. She looked up at me and smiled.

"I really want you to know the truth, " She said.

"The truth about what?" I asked.

"I don't like Ashton, I never did" She said, well that's a relief.

"Then why were you always flirting with him?" I asked.

"Because I wanted to forget about Mark, ever since we broke up I've been trying to get my mind off him but nothing worked, so I thought if I hung out with another guy it would help but it didn't change anything" She cried.

"Ohh... Sorry, is that all?" I asked.

"Wanna get rid of me already?" She laughed.

"No, that's not what I meant," I said.

"I know, I was teasing you" She laughed.

"Is there anything you want to tell me? Like why you are crying" I said.

"Mark sent nude pictures of me to the Internet and I'm planning to leave" She said.

"Why would he do that?" I asked, I never thought someone like Matt would do such a thing.

"He was angry with me. He was angry that I hung out with Ashton so he did that" She cried.

"Sorry" I said, patting her back gently.

"You don't know how much pain I feel right now. Whenever I walk on the streets everyone gives me a funny stare and they laugh, two people even tried to touch me" She cried harder.

"How did he get those pictures?" I asked.

"I sent it to him. I loved him so much and I did everything I could to please him, I am so fucking foolish" She cursed as she cried.

"I'm so sorry. It's going to be fine" I said.

"You have nothing to be sorry about, I'm going to leave now, goodbye. It was so nice talking to you" She said and hugged  me before leaving.

"Wait! Where are you going?" I asked, at least now I know she's not that bad, I need to know where I can find her in the near future.

"To another state, I'm not exactly sure but I'll figure something out. Thanks for listening to me and forgiving me even after all I did to you"

"Goodbye" I said, hugging her.

I watched her walk down the stairs and out the door, I never thought she was going to leave like this. I used to hate her so much but now I think I'm going to miss her.

I waved at her one more time before closing the door. All that's left to do is fix things with Ashton.

I picked up my phone and thought of calling him, if  I do it would be like I'm begging for him to love him, if I don't he might never call. Maybe I should just wait till tomorrow and talk to him in person.

I looked at my alarm clock and saw that it was 11:58 pm so I decided to sleep.

I changed into a Mickey Mouse pyjamas and brushed my teeth before laying under the covers, the hardest past of my night routine was falling asleep, especially with all that has happened these past few days.

From the bullets, to meeting Ashton's friends and now to Effie. It's been a lot to handle in just three days, it's like I get one problem for a day.

I looked at my window when I noticed someone was trying to open it. I quickly picked up the pen beside my bed and proceeded to approach the window, I looked closely until I recognized who it was.

"Hey, Ashton," I said.

"We really need to talk, " He said, hugging me tightly, I nodded and led him to the bed.

I sat him on one end and went to the other end.

"I'm sorry for not introducing you to my friends as my girlfriend and I'm sorry for not apologising to you earlier. It's just that Effie went missing and we haven't seen her yet" He said, that's confusing because she probably already told them she was leaving.

"I'm not mad anymore. But didn't Effie tell you she's leaving the state because of the pictures on the internet?" I asked.

"No. Why did she tell you?" He asked.

"I'm not sure, but she did say she was sorry and she never liked you, she only used you to get over her feelings for Mark" I added.

"I'm surprised she didn't tell us, " He said, dumbfounded.

"I guess she felt comfortable telling me" I shurgged.

"I guess so," He said.

"Soo... " He said.

"Soo... " I  answered.

"I really want to kiss you" He said, I giggled and kissed his cheek.

"I need to sleep, I haven't been getting enough sleep lately" I said.

"What did your dad say about you staying at my house?" He asked, as he lay beside me on the bed.

"He wasn't at home when I got home and when he came home he asked about where I was and I told him I slept over at Liana's house" I said.

"Ok, goodnight" He said, kissing my forehead.

"Goodnight"

...

Today has been an extremely unproblematic day, everything was going great. Everything seemed perfect, but I really don't know why I have this ill feeling in the pit of my stomach, something felt wrong, like there's still something I haven't uncovered.

Maybe I'm just hallucinating, everything is perfectly fine.

"What are you thinking about?" Liana asked.

"Nothing" I said, Liana and I were currently hanging out in her house, Aubrey couldn't join because she had to help her mom. But she said she'll sleepover tonight.

"Tell me" Liana commanded.

"I just feel like something is wrong," I said.

"What do you mean? Everything is perfect between you and Ashton and apart from that I don't think you have any other trouble in your life" She said, annoyingly chewing her salt and vinegar chips.

"I know, but something just doesn't feel righ,t" I said.

"You're probably just over thinking things. By the way I got accepted into Columbia University, that means we are both going to see each other in New York!" She squealed.

"That's great!" I  said excitedly.

"But Aubrey won't be coming with us, she said she's going to University Of California, Berkeley. I guess her family wants her close, I'm gonna miss her" She said.

"I'm going to miss her, but we can visit her," I said.

"What university is Ashton going to?" Liana asked.

"I haven't talked to him about it yet" I said, she nodded.

"I just don't want the both of you to split up, you've had too many problems already" She said with a smile.

"That is never going to happen" I assured her.

The rest of the night went smoothly, we talked and joked for hours before deciding to go to bed around 3am.

The next morning around 10am I went to work and  hung out with Ashton after. I'm currently with Ashton in his house and we were hanging out, since we were just casually talking I decided to bring up what me and Liana talked about earlier.

"I got accepted into Columbia University," I said.

"That's great!" He said cheerfully.

"Have you gotten acceptance letters yet?" I asked.

"Yeah, from University Of California, Los Angeles" He said.

"Any other places?" I asked, hoping he would say he got admission into a school in New York.

"I only signed up for UCLA" He said.

"Ohh... That means we might not be able to see each other since we are going to be in two different cities" I said, it hurt to know we are going to be away from each other. Other than Columbia I  signed up for another University outside the country, so either ways we'll still be away from each other.

"It's going to be fine, long distance isn't that bad" He said holding my face.

"But long distance relationships never really work out" I said.

"It will if we promise that we won't cheat on each other" He said holding out his pinky finger.

"It's not only that, what if we stop having feelings for each other?" I asked.

"We'll talk every single day and we'll visit each other often, I promise, " He said.

"Ok, pinky promise?" I asked, holding out my pinky finger.

"Pinky promise" He said, intertwining our fingers.

"I love you" We said in unison, while kissing each other's pinky.

Maybe long distance won't be that bad.

A/N

Sorry  for the late update, my left nostril hurts and I can't breathe well. It hurt so badly last night when I was  writing this chapter so I couldn't continue I had to sleep early because of it.

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