Chapter 16

Every time my phone rang, I thought I would jump out of my skin. By the time he did call, I had lived with a permanent tension headache for four days, although the pain had become so entrenched behind my eyes and in the back of my head, that I was sure I'd been born with it and had lived with the agony all of my life. I spent those three days constantly on edge and popping pills every four hours. Thankfully, despite my almost-nervous-breakdown, Brandon believed my anxiety and my reluctance to talk was all because of the Clara fall-out and knew nothing about the fact I had agreed to see Harper. Despite that, I had convinced myself that somehow he knew. Every time he looked at me, I thought I saw suspicious glares. Every time he spoke, I heard an accusatory tone. Every time the phone rang or beeped, I was sure he would pick it up and he would have the proof he needed that I had deceived him. Eventually the phone was switched to silent. I could take the tension no more. And i