◣HE'S TREBLE◥

⎼⎼⌞chapter eleven⌝⎼⎼

I laid in my bed that was currently filled with tissues and water bottles as I sat listening to my favorite heartbreak song.

"Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on. I'm so hard to handle, I'm selfish and I'm sad. Now I've gone and lost the best baby that I ever had." I quietly sang to myself under the covers.

"Heyyyy." I heard Amy's voice awkwardly say from the doorway. I lifted the cover and turned over so I could face her.

"Hi." I said monotonous as she awkwardly glanced around the mess that I've made of my side of the room.

"So, Donald...Ouch." She awkwardly trailed off as I groaned.

"I mean, who could of seen that coming? Certainly not me..." Amy said trailing off, "Not Donald."

"I guess, I guess you saw that coming. I mean 'cause you broke up with him." Amy continues as I groaned loudly and slammed a pillow in my face as I fell back into the bed.

"All right. Message received." Amy said before scurrying out of the room. I buried myself back under the blanket as I resumed lying there once more.

"Cassie!" I heard Staci shout as she made our way into the room before abruptly stopping and holding her nose. "What died in here?"

"My heart." I said sighing.

"When's the last time you took a shower?" She said as she continued plugging her nose.

"A shower isn't gonna wash away my pain." I said as I sat up in bed.

"Okay, how about my pain?" Staci said playfully scoffing as she grabbed my hand and yanked me out from the bed.

"C'mon. We got to brush your teeth, then brush your hair." Staci said encouragingly as I sighed while finally getting up, Staci cowering back for a second.

"Then brush your teeth again, because babe that breath is nasty." She said as she crinkled her nose in disgust.

"Ugh, Staci, I just want to lay in bed for right now." I said as I plopped back down.

"Okay, you can either get up and rejoin the world or crawl back under those covers and be miserable." Staci said attempting once more to be encouraging.

"Thank you." I said as I laid back down and crawled under my covers.

"No, thank you, smells a lot better now." I heard Staci say mockingly before groaning and leaving the room.

***

"Hey, Cassie." I heard Cynthia saying from the doorway, as I pulled my cover back to look at her.

"Hey." I said as my song continued playing.

"What's this song called?"

"The river." I mumbled quietly.

"Hmm." Cynthia said nodding her head as I raised my eyebrow at her.

"Do you like it?"

"Yeah, yeah. I liked the way you played it the first time at ten o'clock last night..." Cynthia said as she hummed. "I liked it a little bit less at two A.M."

"And now, I'm kind of hoping that the sun comes up, thaws that river and that woman drowns." Cynthia said as I groaned and threw a pillow in her direction.

"Get out." I groaned as she held her hands up defensively and left. I rolled back around and closed my eyes, allowing sleep to drift me away. Only to be awoken by someone yanking the covers off me not too long after.

"Look, I know you're upset and you want to mope around until you feel better, but our retreat is tomorrow. You've got to get up and pack a bag Cassie. C'mon this retreat could be just what you need to clear your head." Staci said as she took a seat on the bed beside me.