The Heartbroken - S01 E193

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The Heartbroken - S01 E193

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 193

In fact, I wouldn’t even have the

chance to disappoint him because

he wasn’t even here anymore.

Sighing, I gave up and closed the

blank document and turned the

laptop off.

—

I’m not doing the writing contest

anymore. I feel like you’d be

disappointed if you knew this, and

I kind of want you to know,

because disappointed is better

than indifferent; better than

nothing.

Unsent.

—

Friday was pretty much uneventful,

which seemed anticlimactic to me

at first.

It’s been bugging me for days now,

and the fact that it went by like any

other day seemed like I hadn’t done

my thoughts justice.

I suppose it had something to do

with the fact that I’d given up on

joining the writing contest, and the

truth was that I felt disappointed in

myself for not being able to write

when I wanted to.

Instead of beating myself over it, I

decided to come over Hail’s house

to visit her mom. Cedric went with

me and we stayed there until

dinnertime.

It felt like the old times, but I knew

that everything was different now.

We had all grown, not apart but

closer, somehow, in a way that was

different from our closeness back

then, and it was nice to be there

with the two people I’d always

relied on as I grew up.

I was already halfway home when

my phone rang.

I expected it to be Hail, calling to tell

me I left something or to thank me

for coming over, and I was

surprised to find that it wasn’t.

I couldn’t process this at first as I

stared blankly at the screen, feeling

like I was simply imagining the

name blinking back at me, and

when it was clear that I wasn’t, I

swallowed and forced myself to

answer the call, pulling over to the

sidewalk before bringing the

phone close to my ear.

“Hello?”

Silence. My heart sank to my

stomach

“Hello?” I repeated. “Seth?”

Nothing.

I waited, wondering if he might

have just dialed it accidentally, and

felt a stab of disappointment shoot

through me. Just when I was about

to end the call, his voice broke the

static silence.

“Can we talk?”