The Distance Between Us

Forget About It

Derek's POV :

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"Helloooo ?" I hear her voice and my mood instantly brightens.

"Hey babe, how's it been ?" I can feel myself smiling already. God, I'm turning into a girl.

"Umumumum, it's good ! How bout you ?" She seems perky, ditzy like usual.

"It's okay, I miss you like crazy though." I plop myself down on my bed and stare at the ceiling as I listen to her talk about the most weird topics. Occasionally I'll make a sarcastic comment or just laugh just to remind her I was still here.

After about two hours of laughing and talking, she said she needs to go and that her phone is going to die also. Time to say our goodbyes.

"Bye baby girl, I love you." I feel lighter and less stressed after talking to her, like always.

"Bye love, and ditto ! Omfg okay I gotta go, Aaron and Kayla are here." She hangs up.

Wait what ? She had to leave me because she needed to go with her friends ? Shouldn't I be more important ? Especially more important than him.

I sigh and feel the stress coming back full swing. Rolling over to my side, I close my eyes and try to sleep it off. Maybe I'll be lucky and time will heal my problems.

I open my eyes only to be greeted by the same darkness. I must've slept longer than I intended...Hmm.

Rolling over, I switch on my light and look out my window. Yep, it's late alright. I check my phone, one missed call. One. From her. She even left a voicemail. That's a first. I put my phone to my ear and wait for the message to playback.

"Hey Derek, I-um, just wanted to talk about us and stuff but um I guess you're busy or whatever. I just think with the circumstances we have that we should wait till later on in our lives to be together. Just um call me when you get this and we can-um talk...kay um bye."

I sit there trying to process what she just had said. To think I actually had hope that we'd be together forever, that we'd met up somewhere down the line and be reunited. All that's over now.

The phone slips from my grasp and I stand up heading to take a shower.

I get out after what felt like an eternity and lay back on my bed, not bothering to put on a shirt. My brain hasn't even accepted what she said yet. My heart on the other hand, is broken into such tiny pieces that I don't think anyone could ever fix it.

I'm broken but yet no tears have escaped my wrenched tear ducts yet.

I attempt to convince myself I don't need her, that she was just another girl I had minor feelings for. I know better than that. She changed my outlook on life, hell, she changed my life period.

You know what, screw it. I don't need to over think this like some sappy girl with raging hormones.

I can forget about this, I can forget about her. I'll just move on, this is just a speed bump and I won't let it affect me.

Although, she wanted me to call her...maybe I should, we can talk it out, fix it. I contemplate those words long and hard. I just sit there staring at the ceiling, lost in my already deranged thought process.

I'm back to feeling helpless and lost. God people weren't kidding when they said love is a blessing AS WELL as a curse. Those people are preaching to the mother trucking choir.

Finally after lying there for so long, I begin to drift back to sleep. Maybe, just maybe when I awake, everything will be forgotten and I won't feel empty anymore...

And updated again (: Sorry the past few chapters have been so short, it's been weird with writing for this story as well as my new one I'm working on. Speaking of that...go check it out (; It's more action and adventure and mystery...with a touch of love mixed in xD And wow guys, 130 reads so far, thats A LOT to me considering I was only expecting 2 people at most to read this. But THANK YOU SO MUCH !!! I'll try and update really soon probably in Ari's POV to get her side of the story. Okay bye lovelies !