When Avery arrives home, she went straight to the bathroom and took a shower. Avery turned in her playlist while brushing her teeth and started humming to the song. Her music suddenly goes quit and she realizes she got a text from Merritt.
The text read; "Hey, Avery. I'm still really sorry about what happened tonight at band and I really hope you can forgive me." Avery looked at the phone and remembered all that had happened that night. Her first kiss was stolen, her best friend ran away to God only knows where, and she still had school the next day. She forced all those thoughts to the back of her head and picked up her phone and replied; "It's ok... I'll forgive you for now." Merritt then texted; "I'm glad you forgive me and I hope we can still be friends?" Avery laughed at what he sent, "Of course Demon, we can still be friends." She was about to put her phone down when she realized that she was getting a call from him. She picked it up and said, "Hello?" "Hey! I just wanted to hear your voice before I went to bed tonight. I know that might sound weird but it's the truth," Merritt had said. Then a question popped into Avery's head that she had been thinking about all night, "When did you start liking me?" There was a long pause and the he finally responded, "Every since we meet last year. I actually tried many times for you to be my girlfriend but you always either ignored it or didn't realize what I had said." Avery thought back to when they meet and realized that he was asking her out that whole time and that she never noticed. Avery's father then came into the room telling her to go to bed. She nodded and said, "Bye, Merritt, I have to go to bed now." "Ok goodnight!", he responded. Avery hung up her phone and went to bed.
Across the school to the church was where Belle had ran off to. She was hiding in the bathroom stall crying her eyes out. Someone walked in and knocked on her stall door. "Do you want to talk about it?", the voice and asked. Belle came out of the stall and nodded her head.
Avery couldn't sleep that night. She stayed up all night thinking of Belle and wondering where she was. She noticed her phone had lighted up and checked who texted her. It was a text from Belle and it said...