everything sucks! ( texting )

sixteen!

[today 11:43 pm]

you have been unblocked by kate!

emaline
kate please

i'm so sorry-

kate
no

let me say something first

i'm sorry i overreacting earlier.

i'm was just so upset

so scared, a-and confused

i didn't even listen

please-

just tell me what's going on..

emaline
no,

kate pls don't put any of this on you

this is completely my fault.

it's all my fault..

o-on monday night, tyler texted me about oliver. and how worried he was for him. he convinced me to take him to new york city to find him. to bring him home.

i don't know why i agreed.

i don't know why i didn't come to you first about it

it was a horrible idea.

oh, kate..

i'm so overwhelmed

i'm so scared

i feel like an adult

tyler's my responsibility right now.

and, thousands of miles away from boring

i don't know what to do.

i'm so sorry, kate.

please don't be mad at me-

kate
oh, em

i'm not mad

i was just worried

so goddamn worried, emaline.

i think we both scared each other

but really

it all could've been avoided.

every single part of the heartache

[delivered 11:52 pm]

kate
i just-

i need to know something

do you,

emaline do you still like oliver?

do you still care for him?

emaline
no

i don't

if anything, fuck him

he left

and truthfully i don't care shit for him anymore

this was for tyler

actually

he's a really good kid

but,

kate?

c-can i tell you something?

kate
of course you can

emaline
can i tell you how much i love you?

how much you mean to me?

how much i was wanna hold you again?

just to see you again

god, it's only been a few days..

but i miss you so much

it's killing me that i can't see your beautiful face right now

i love you so much, kate.. i love you more than anything in the whole world

[read 11:59 pm]

at that moment, kate began to cry. they were beautiful, happy tears. she hadn't smiled in days, but she did, right then and there. she let the tears gently roll down her cheeks. her lips trembled, her hands shook. she was just so relived, so happy,
and ever so in love.

it took her a couple minutes to pick up her phone and begin typing again.

kate
i-

emaline-

you don't know how much that means to me

god, i love you too..

emaline
i-i can't wait to see you again.

we'll be back about a week from now

kate
okay,

emaline please

be safe..

i'm gonna go to sleep now

i-i love you<3

emaline
i love you too, kate

emaline's eyes were welling up, her cheeks felt hot and flustered. she held her phone close to her chest as she shut it off.

"ooooh why're you blushinnggg?" tyler sitting up on the other bed in the motel room. he was staring at emaline, raising his eyebrow with a curious smile.

her cheeks flushed even more. "nothing!!" she retorted. still smiling, she looked away.

tyler just laughed a little as he crashed onto his bed. he looked up at the ceiling, staring at it in silence.

"emaline?"

"yeah?"

"do you think we'll find oliver?"

emaline turned back toward him. she thought about all the places oliver had told her he planned on going in the city, places to make it big, places to eat, places to see. it was the place he dreamed of. besides emaline, and acting, back then, it was his favorite thing to talk about. she smiled again

"i know we will."