The Road Ahead (A Hunter Hayes Fanfiction, Book 4 of The Hardships Saga)

Chapter Fifty

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Lucky :D

August 24, 2032

6:37 PM

Lucky?

hey babe!! what's up?

Its Hunter again

oh noo :( everything okay?

i don't really know.

wanna vent?

I'm kinda just sitting here

on the bed

crying because I'm pathetic

you are NOT pathetic. don't say that to yourself

have you eaten?

Hunter made chili but if I eat I might throw up

please eat something, you'll just feel worse

I'm not going back down there

now you're just being unreasonable

ry, go and eat. nothing bad can happen.

You don't know that

what's he gonna do, stab you?

maybe

don't be stupid. go eat

fine.

8:23 PM

hey sorry about earlier

that's okay babe. are you ready to talk?

Yeah just closed myself into the study. I'm just feeling confused and like

idk

go on? you said hunter did something?

Okay so

I was sitting after bringing the kids back from swimming right

and he's already home, but I don't really say anything

good, he's been ignoring you anyway, right?

Mhm but then

he said hi

??

And I wasnt sure what to say so I was like "hi" back

um

hasn't he literally been ignoring you for the past like, three weeks?

I hate how he went about breaking it off like

he just decided "oh hey i'll ignore her 'til she brings it up herself"

and then he asked how swimming went so I said "it was fine" and started reading Gatsby, but he kept trying to talk to me and I just kinda went "i don't want to talk