My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

I nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

Heather and I returned to the compound, and as expected, Hendrix wasn't there. There were several missed calls on my cell, all of which were from Sawyer.

I suddenly remembered that he had mentioned that he would come to Jarold City.

I called back, and he answered the phone after only a few rings.

"Arianna, if I hadn't called, you would just forget us, wouldn't you?" the person on the other end of the line questioned loudly once the call got through.

I was confused, "Who's us?"

There was a moment of silence before Sawyer finally said, "Monique, lan, and me." "Ian and me," I repeated his words and teased. "Sawyer, have you listened to yourself? You sounded so wrong. I don't even know how to convince myself that nothing is going on with you and lan."

"Bullsh*t!" he cursed. Then, he decided to change the topic, "I'm already in Jarold City. Give me your address later. I'll come to visit you."

Sawyer the address after

noticed that there were other missed calls on my cell phone, and some of them were from Aaron. I didn't bother to

was sitting in a trance in the living room, he frowned and draped a blanket

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upwards at him and noticed his stubble. Combined with

seemed to have aged a lot since the last time I saw him, but it was only a few days ago. Hendrix hummed, but he didn't reply to me in a coherent sentence. He only closed

to tell him. However, seeing him in this state,

stare at the coffee table as I had before

in the room. It was Hendrix's incoming call ringtone. I nudged him with my shoulder, but he didn't give

and went back to sleep. It seemed that he was

was still surprised at seeing her name on Hendrix's phone. Not planning to answer it, I parted my lips again, "It's Andrea." A moment later, Hendrix opened his eyes and took the ringing phone from

out to the

as I thought I would be when I watched him leave. I only looked on without many expressions fora