Page 11 of Pierce Me

Faith: What now?

Manuela: Tell me that what’s trending now on twitter isn’t where you are?

Eden: I am. It is.

Faith: What? What’s trending? Where is she?

Manuela: Forget everything I said. You won’t need any protection or help, because I’M JUMPING ON A PLANE TO COME MURDER YOU MYSELF.

Faith: What? Why? Guys, I’m feeling left out, especially if there’s going to be violence. It’s my thing, you know?

Eden: Sorry, sis. I’m at the Issy Woo Christmas Show and there’s nothing you can do about it. I’ll send you video clips if you’re good, though.

Manuela: YOU’D BETTER, YOU LITTLE-

Faith: *a hundred crying emojis*

Manuela: Yeah, I’m crying too. Imagine her having tickets for Issy Woo and never telling us anything.

Faith: I’m not crying about that, you absolute dork.

Manuela: Oh. What, then?

Faith: Sis. She called me ‘sis’.

Manuela: …

Manuel: …

Manuela: Oh. Right. No big deal.

Eden: I’ll call you ‘sis’ too, if you stop murdering me for a second.

Manuela: I’ve not even started murdering you. Ok, I guess you gotta go. Be safe, sis, ok?

Eden: I will. I’m… I’m happy, you know?

Manuela: Of course you are, you’re at an Issy Woo concert!

Eden: It’s more than that. It’s… I need to tell you in person, but this is so much more to me than a concert. It’s a second chance. One I never thought I’d be given.

Faith: Oh, Eden.

Manuela: I don’t like it when you say things like that, En. You have nothing but second chances ahead of you now, do you hear me? First ones too.

Eden: I know, but this is different. He and I… There is this sort of history between us.

Manuela: History, you say? I’m trying to ask this calmly.

Faith: What’s the history? What what what what

Manuela: Tell us before we burst.

Eden: I broke him once—

*message deleted*

Eden: I liked him so much it scared me. I wasn’t allowed to like things back then. People, whatever. I wasn’t allowed to love and I fell in love with him—

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