On One Condition
Chapter 7- You're Worth More
She sat on the edge of her bed, not able to move a muscle. She took a deep breath to hold in her tears, afraid that if she let a single drop fall she wouldn't be able to stop. Her eyes wondered to her phone across the room, afraid to call the only person she wanted to talk to. Meanwhile, Zander was buttoning up his shirt, staring at himself in the mirror as usual. But instead of seeing a confident and attractive guy, he saw a loser. His day was miserable to say the least and before he knew it, it was time to go on his date with Lyndsey. He thought that making the date that night would divert his attention from the obvious fact that Stevie as well had her date with Justin. He was supposed to be excited, all his hard work finally paid off but his focus kept on getting skewed knowing he couldn't even celebrate the accomplishment with his friend, his best friend. But he can't fix his mistake, he knew she wouldn't want anything to do with him now. How could he feel okay knowing he might of lost Stevie forever?
Zander found himself parked in front of Lyndsey's house, realizing it was the last place he wanted to be. He wasn't entirely sure what he wanted, all he knew was that going on a date with a girl he barely knows wasn't a his first choice. So he sat there, contemplating whether he should call her and cancel or not. When he decided against the idea, he slowly got himself to open the car door and step outside. Just then his phone rang, he hesitated but them looked at the caller ID, Stevie. He quickly pressed the answer button.
"Stevie?" He asked in disbelief.
"Yeah," she answered, her voice raspier than ever.
"Are you okay?" Zander realized something had to be wrong.
"No," she replied at a whisper he could barely pick out.
"Stevie, what's wrong?" He demanded, slowly getting angrier.
"Can you just come over?" Stevie mumbled. Zander took a glance at Lyndsey's house realizing he's probably already a few minutes late.
"I have to..." he began.
"Please," she weakly stated. He gazed again at the house.
"I'll be there as soon as I can," he told her.
He got back in his car, started the engine and quickly drove off. He made sure to call Lyndsey, telling her he came down with some kind of virus. His mind raced with thoughts of Stevie, was she okay? Why did she call him of all people? A few minutes later he's at her house, the place looked deserted except for a small window that was lowly lit. As he makes his way to the door he wondered if he should knock, thinking it was the polite thing to do, he did so. When there was no answer he turned the handle, the door was unlocked. Zander had been to Stevie a few times, some for band practice or movie night with the band. The times he liked the most were when it was just him and Stevie. If she wanted to learn a new instrument he would come over and teach her, or they would sometimes just write songs together. This was the first time he was coming over that had nothing to do with music at all. Zander wished it was about music, wished they could go back to those simpler times. He finds his way through the maze of a hallway to reach Stevie's room. He knocks and again, no answer. He creeks the door open.
"Stevie?" He calls out in the dark room. He reaches over to his right, searching for the light switch. When he finds it he discovers Stevie sitting on her bed, phone still in her hand and staring straight forward. Zander didn't know what to say, she looked... paralyzed. What was he suppose to say? Nothing, absolutely nothing. He took a seat next to her on the bed, staring at the blank wall as well. They sat there, in silence. Neither knew how to began the inevitable conversation.
"You were right," Stevie finally spoke. Her voice was still a little shaky but she found enough will to talk.
"What?" Zander questions, turning his head towards her. She didn't move, not an inch.
"Justin, you were right about Justin," she clarified. Zander takes a long deep breath, barely able to keep his anger in.
"What did he do?" He asked.
"Nothing. He did nothing, it was all my fault," she says dropping her head into her hands.
"Stevie," Zander whispers closely to her face. "What happened?" She slowly brings her head up and sighs.
"Well, the date was going fine. We went to a nice restaurant and talked a little. Until he," she pauses unwilling to continue. Zander takes her hand and raps it in his, trying to make her feel better. Stevie took a second to breathe and spoke again. "He told me he had to go to the bathroom and never came back," she quickly blurted out. Zander's hand squeezes hers tightly not wanting to let go, not wanting to ever let her go.
"That was not your fault," he tried to convince her. She rolls her eyes and pulls her hand out of his. "That jerk," he started before Stevie interrupted.
"Zander, of course it was my fault. You even said so yourself, who would really want to go out with me?" She argues. Stevie lowers her head, keeping her eyes on her hands that laid frozen on her lap. "I'm just a joke to people like Justin."
"I never said that. Stevie, you know that's not true. Justin's just an idiot who can't see how special you are," Zander protests. A silence fills the room, Zander's anger builds up each second of silence, wishing he knew Justin's address so he could beat him up. Stevie replays the date in her head again.
"I'm so stupid," she lets out, finally bringing herself to look at Zander. Her eyes are teary but she fights to keep them in. Zander disagrees and raps his arm around her stiff figure. She soon lets herself lean against his body and positions her head against his shoulder. Zander feels a small drop of water land on his arm, Stevie was crying.
"You're worth more than him," Zander whispers.
They stayed there for a half an hour talking about everything from dogs to Nelson's poor fashion choices at the mall the other day. Zander got up and before he could open the door Stevie stopped him.
"Thank you," she says from her bed.
"No problem," Zander replies.
"I hope I didn't interrupt any of your plans for tonight," she admits with worry in her voice.
"Nope, nothing at all," he lied.
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