Author's Note: Hey everyone! Thanks for the reviews I got for the last chapter! I would have responded individually but I'm not sure if/how you can do that. Can you respond to reviews individually? Anyways, I have decided to continue this. This is not the last chapter, it should have a few more. I hope you enjoy it :)
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Cath hadn't spoken to Levi since the party. She hadn't received any text messages from him. She hadn't gotten a phone call or an email or anything of the sort. She hadn't even seen him with Reagan. But she had thought about him. A lot. Possibly too much. Definitely too much.
Cath had tried to rid her thoughts from Levi in any way that she knew. She studied intensively and poured herself into Carry On writing a chapter every single day. But even getting lost into the World of Mages wasn't helping. Because every time she wasn't working on her fanfiction she was getting lost into her thoughts about Levi. And she just couldn't turn them off.
Reagan was sitting on her bed studying for an upcoming final and Cath noticed that it was the first time she had seen Reagan studying by herself.
Reagan's phone started ringing and she checked the caller I.D. before clicking ignore.
"Who was that?" Cath asked curiously.
Reagan hesitated. "Levi."
"So why didn't you answer it?" Cath asked confused. Reagan always answered Levi's calls.
"He was probably going to ask if he could study here. And that's not going to happen so answering would have been pointless." Reagan answered casually.
"Why not?" Cath asked even more confused.
"Because, you wouldn't be chill with that." Reagan shrugged.
"I could just leave. I don't really mind if you talk to him, you know."
"It's your room too, Cath. What kind of roommate would I be if I kicked you out of the room just so I could invite over the person you hate?" Reagan rolled her eyes.
"I do not hate Levi!" Cath exclaimed a bit too quickly and a bit too loudly.
"Whatever it is, dislike, hate, loathe, same difference."
"I don't dislike him either…" Cath whispered and she wasn't exactly sure why. Wasn't she supposed to not like him after what he did? Maybe she was, but she couldn't. Disliking Levi just seemed completely impossible.
"Look, I'm tired of trying to figure you two out so I'm just not going to think about it anymore." Reagan said uninterested as she returned to her studying.
Cath just sighed and grabbed her laptop. She was thinking about Levi again. Something she had told herself countless times to stop doing. She needed a distraction and she hoped Simon and Baz would help with that.
Reagan had just finished putting on her makeup and she was fixing her hair. "I'm heading to a party, you want to come?"
"No thanks. I'd rather stay home today." Cath answered not looking up from her laptop.
"Damn it, Cath. Is this all you do now, stay inside and write your fanfiction? Like, I know that is basically all you've ever done but at least you used to go out sometimes. And we would get lunch together or something. You haven't left this room at all for the past week except to go to class. Aren't you bored or something?"
Cath finally looked up from her laptop. "Is Levi going to be there?"
"Uh, probably. It is his house after all." Reagan said as if Cath were stupid to ask.
"I'm not going." Cath replied looking back to her laptop.
Reagan just sighed, obviously irritated, and left the dorm room.
Levi approached Reagan at the party. He looked a bit different. Maybe it was the bags under his eyes, due to the lack of sleep. Maybe it was the hair that was even messier than usual even though that seemed impossible. Maybe it was the fact that Levi wasn't grinning as he usually did. He looked like a complete mess.
"Hey, is Cath here?" Levi asked Reagan hopefully already sure of what the answer was going to be.
"Of course not. She wouldn't go anywhere that you are." Reagan said nonchalantly.
"Look, I've been respecting her wishes of me not talking to her, or anything like that. But I've still been thinking about her. Is she okay?" Levi asked worriedly.
"How the hell am I supposed to know? She's the same she's always been, so I guess she's doing just fine without you." Reagan shrugged knowing that that wasn't the whole truth but not wanting to get in the middle of it all.
Levi looked slightly surprised but smiled a small smile. "Oh…that's good. That's really good. I'm glad she's okay." Levi hesitated and looked like there something else he wanted to say but he just sighed and walked away, going up to his room away from the party people. He wasn't in the mood to party.
Cath wasn't asleep when Reagan got home that night. She was trying to study for a final that she had coming up but she had a hard time focusing.
Once Reagan got there she kicked the door open as she always did and walked in quietly, assuming that Cath was already sleeping.
"Hey, you're awake." Reagan said as she caught sight of Cath staring at her textbook.
"Yeah, just studying." Cath replied as she looked up from her textbook. "How was the party?"
"Oh, it was fine. Same old, same old." Reagan said as she put her stuff down and sat down on the bed.
Cath hesitated but couldn't stop herself from asking. "Did you speak to Levi?" She regretted it as soon as the words were out of her mouth but she still wanted to hear the answer.
"Yeah, a bit." Reagan answered.
"Does he look okay?" Cath didn't know why she was asking. Why she even cared. But she did, and she needed to know.
"Nope. He's a mess, it's kind of sad actually." Reagan replied blatantly honest. Cath immediately felt bad.
"Oh. Did you guys talk about me?" Shut up, Cath. Cath told herself. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Who cares what Levi was asking about at the party? You do…You care.
"A little. He asked how you were doing, if you were okay."
"And what did you say?"
"I said you were fine…but, I know you aren't."
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