Lying there with Rianna on his chest he looked at the time. '6:37AM Well that's annoying. Thankfully the curse should go away sometime today.'
Logging out he slept till he heard a knocking at his door.
"Ryan are you awake." Kana asked through the door.
"I am now." Sounding a little groggy he replied.
Hearing her brother she entered his room and turned on his light.
"You do know what time it is right? You are supposed to go shoping with me and mom today like always! Remember?" Sounding a little annoyed after seeing he was still in bed.
Grabbing his phone to check the time he noticed it was only 10:13am.
"I'll be ready in 20 minutes" Getting up he stretches and proceeds downstairs to grab a shower.
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Watching her brother leave she noticed he left his phone. Wanting to see if he had changed his phone background or not she grabs it to see he has a missed call and a voicemail.
The phone call was from Elizabeth one of his old friends.
The voicemail was also from her. Clicking on the Voicemail she typed in his pass code and listened.
"Ryan, I know what happened was awful and I know coal was completely in the Wrong. When I found out what was going on i wanted to tell you but i was afraid you would think i was part of it. I guess I was right to be that way as I havnt heard from you since. Please call me, I want to explain and hopefully mend what we had as friends. Please Ryan, I miss talking with you. I want to hang out with you again. I miss you." Listening you could hear the girl in the message was in tears. You would think this would make Kana feel bad for this girl but it only made her furious.
Their whole group treated Ryan like trash and then made a video about him and posted it online. The whole school had seen it and now he is ostracized from almost everything.
Thankfully after he ignored it for the past 6 months the talking has died down but he hasn't had any friends since.
Calling the number, she waited to see if Elizabeth would answer. After a few rings she could hear a voice.
"Ryan, you there?." A voice could bairly be heared on the other end.
"No he isn't. Its his sister and I cant believe you would send my brother such a mesage after what you did. Do you even know what he has gone though because of you people." Kana couldnt stop herself from letting loose on Elizabeth.
"But, I didnt. That wasnt me." Elizabeth was trying to suppress her crying brought on by what Kana Said. She knew Ryan must of gone through alot because of the video Coal made.
"Stop calling my brother. He is better off without you, or any of your friends in his life." Kana hung up after saying what she wanted too and put his phone back were it was.
Walking to her own room to grab what she needed to go shoping. She felt a little better as she has wanted to tell off her brothers old friends ever since she had seen that video 7 months ago.
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Returning from his shower he got dressed and went to grab his phone when he noticed the light flashing to indicate he a had missed a call.
Looking at his phone he noticed it was from Elizabeth. Swipeing to send a message he taped a few times before deleting it and hitting the call option. He wasnt sure if he would talk but he could at least hear what she had to say.
When she didn't answer he ended up sending a message after all.
Ryan [Why are you calling me?]
Putting his phone in his pocket he went to grab his wallet and keys before heading down stairs to wait for his sister and mom.
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Sitting in the car waiting for his mom and sister he noticed his phone buzz.
Takeing it out he could see a reply from Elizabeth.
Elizabeth [Can I call you? If you dont ever want to hear from me again, I'll understand.]
Looking at the hair salon that Jasmine and Kana were curently in he tapped on the call icon next to Elizabeth's name and waited till the call went though.
"Ryan?" Asked Elizabeth who sounded like she was unsure if she should continue speaking.
"Yeah?" He finally replyed after she didnt speak again.
"I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry for what happened." He could hear her start to cry.
"I wanted to tell you about what Coal wanted to do but I was scared. I didn't want to loose you." He noticed she was trying her best to stop her crying so she could continue.
"But... I guess I lost you anyways." After hearing her say this he wanted to say something but wasnt sure what to say.
He knew not all of them helped make the video but that didn't change anything. None of them told him even though they all knew about it. How could they not know when even he found out do to overhearing Coal talking about it in the club room. By the time he found out it was already to late though as the video had already been shot and he was blamed for everything.
"I guess I just wanted to say I'm sorry and that i stopped being friends with the others after what happened. If there is anything i can do so we can be friends again then I am willing to do it." She managed to say while sniffling.
"Why did you wait so long to say all this to me." He couldn't help but ask.
"I tryed to call and contact you but you never answered me. So I thought you hated me." He heard her reply and he realized she must of called him while he was getting repeated calls from everyone who had seen the video so he must not of noticed.
"If you thought i hated you then why did you reach out after so long."
"Ryan, I never stoped. I tryed calling you, then i tryed social media, and when neither of those worked I tryed sending some letter's in the mail. I thought you were ignoring me so I decided to call and leave a voicemail as my last ditch effort but... you wernt the one to call me back." After hearing her he thought she might of gone a little overboard in trying to contact him.
"Why didn't you just come talk to me?"
"I was scared of what you might say." She said in a low tone.
"Ryan is there any chance we can be friends again?" He could hear that she was on the brink of a break down again.
"I need time to think about it." He wasnt sure if he should let her have a second chance. Letting her in would be hard after what happened even if she wasn't involved in the production of the video.
"I understand." She sounded down after hearing him.
"I will talk with you on Monday at school." Saying this he hung up.
'There is no guarantee I can trust her but I want to at least try. She wasnt like the others.'
Thinking this he thought of how she was one of the few that didnt treat him like trash. She would talk to him and they would even hang out from time to time.