Chapter 21. Count on me.

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Guyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyys here you have chapter 21! Hope you're enjoying the story and don't get mad because of the late updates! Exams are taking over my life! Thanks for all the reads and votes, means a lot to us! :)

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'You can count on me like one, two, three, I'll be there

and I know when I'm needed.

I can count on you like four, three, two and you'll be there,

'cause that's what friends are supposed to do.

You'll always have my shoulder when you cry,

I'll never let go, never say goodbye'.

It’d been 2 days since I last spoke to Maddie. I didn’t know if she was mad at me, if she didn’t want to hear from me again, or if she was just busy. I had texted her a couple of times, but got no reply, and I didn’t want to be annoying. Today was her first day at uni, so I thought it wouldn’t be a problem if I texted her once again.

To: Maddie

How was uni today? I hope it was good, call me whenever you’re free :)

It didn’t take her too long to reply.

From: Maddie

Good I guess, what about you?

To: Maddie

It would’ve been better if you’ve given any signals of being alive earlier, you know, you could’ve replied to any of my texts:)

From: Maddie

I know, but I’ve been busy

To: Maddie

Sure, you didn’t have any time to reply to a simple text

From: Maddie

Think whatever you want to, you don’t even have to care anyway

I decided to call her, we just couldn’t speak about that through texts. I didn’t want to fight, but we needed to talk about it. I dialed her number, I almost knew it by heart.

“Hello?”

“Maddie”.

“Niall?”

“Yes, it’s me”.

“Wht do you want?”

“Why didn’t you want to reply to my texts?”

“I didn’t have any time, I told you”.

“You’re lying”.

“Niall, I’m not. And anyway, you don’t have to care about that”.

“But I do. We’re not ‘Maddie and Niall’ anymore, there’s an ‘us’ now. And that’s why I was worried about you”.

“That sounded as if I was your girlfriend, and I’m not”.

“I know, but understand me, you didn’t answer”.

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