Pointe of Breaking by Amy Daws & Sarah J. Pepper

Author:Amy Daws & Sarah J. Pepper [Daws, Amy & Pepper, Sarah J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781515005773
Amazon: 1515005771
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-07-12T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 27 ~ Adeline

It went to voicemail.

Again.

For almost a week, I’d left messages for Leo to call me back, asking him to talk, demanding to speak with him…begging. Ugh, I wished I hadn’t left any because what I really wanted to say—needed to say, got stuck in my mouth.

I loved him, and he couldn’t return a call. How had I misinterpreted his feelings for me so profoundly?

No matter how I analyzed the past couple weeks, nothing seemed to make any sense. I began to hate myself for thinking about him every spare moment. What was worse was that I couldn’t stop seeing the pained expression on his face, the torment he refused to share with me, the misplaced hate in his eyes.

It was in that moment that I’d gotten everything I’d ever dreamed of...but lost everything worth fighting for.

I’d fight, but I had no one to fight. Leo wouldn’t even so much be bothered to pick up the phone, much less to exchange blows when I stopped at Gamma Phi house.

In my dressing room at Focal Pointe, I stared into the vanity mirror, wishing my eyes didn’t look so blood-shot, wishing my cheeks didn’t appear so concave, wishing my stomach would stop grumbling. Evidence of the breakup was written on my face and on my body. I couldn’t hide the fact that the last series of never-ending days were killing me. They had mashed together into a marathon of constant torture. I’d thrown myself into every double shift at Cuppa, stayed late at the studio, anything to get Leo out of my head…and then when I finally dragged my ass back to the apartment, I’d be welcomed by unrelenting bills and notices, not to mention the fine for damaging the baseboards from my bathtub flooding over.

Ivan peeked his head through the crack in the door. “You ready?”

His face fell when our gaze met. He strode into my dressing room, sat down on the vanity bench, and wrapped his arms around me. He was kind enough not to say anything about my impromptu weight loss. It was all I could do to keep tears from escaping.

I was a mess...a fucking disaster.

“When you fall, you fall hard.” Pulling away, he tucked my hair behind my ears. Cupping my face in his hands, he dusted a light kiss on my forehead.

When I pulled away, he snatched my phone out of my hands. As soon as he had it, he moved away from me and scrolled through the call history.

“Addy girl, he has never called you back.”

I knew it. My patheticness was off the charts. I ran over to him as he circled around my room. I tried to get it back, but he just held it above my head.

“Ivan, I swear to God if you do not give that phone back to me I’ll—”

“You’ll what?” His eyes narrowed. “Stop eating? Stop showering? Pull double shifts? Show up exhausted to practice? Blow off your friend’s calls? ”

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