i almost dropped my phone when i saw the caller id! "helo?" i said. "ehy starry!" he laughed out. i kept quiet on my end. i didnt know what to say as i had no idea why he was calling me. there was silence for a couple moments until he spoke again. "so hey, i heard you werent feeling well.." he said in his thick french accent. i stopped for a moment, lookign around confused. "..how?" i asked cautioulsy. "because, my dear, we're vampires, remember? we always sense when i loved one in under the weather." he said. i sighed heavily, rolling my eyes. "i dont knwo about you, but i dont count you as a loved one." on the other end he gaseped. i knew he was being overdramatic, he always ways. "im hurt, dear, i thought we left off on a good page!" "i dont think leaving one day and never writing is leaving off to a good page.." he said something, but i blocked him out, until everyone was returning from lunch. "uh hey ill talk to you later okay?" and i quickly ended the call at the moemnt seirra walked in. she grabbed her chair and sat beside me. "hey everything alright?" she asked. i laughed and told her i was fine, then turning to get back to my work, only to see athos left me a text message to meet him on saturday for lunch, as he was in town for the weekend. i didnt know how he knew i was in austin, but he was here and somehow really wanted to see me.
the rest of the afternoon went by with a breeze. charlotte and gavin didnt bother mey, which was nice, but gavin did give me sad looks once and awhile. i felt kinda bad about screaming at him, but he didnt believe me about charlotte, so it evened out. when i was packing up, ray came up to me. "hey winter, seriaa lindsa michael and i are going out fro pizza tonight. do you annna join?" i thoguht about it fro a second. i really didnt want to go. i jusy wanted to go home and wear pyjamas for the rest of that night, but i brought myself to go with them. i got in the car with linsdy and mciahel and we met up with seirra and ray at the pizza place. during the car ride we sat in slience. i was thinking about bringig up athos's call from earlier up, but i decided to wait till we got the place, and once we did seirra and ray were already there with a table. once we all finsihing ordering, i brought up arthos call, and about us. "so why would he want to see you? especially since he hasnt talked to you in years?" lindsay asked. "i dont know! thats the point. i just dont understand why he would get back in contact with me!" "thats def suspicious" seirra added. we all talked about it until our pizza came. when we were leaving, seirra midnight wolf pulled me aside. "i think you should meet up with him, just to see what hes up to" i nodded, agreeing with her. "he said this saturday, ill find out where and when. ill update when i have ths info." "k cool".
when i got in cantact with anthos, he gave me the details of where to meet up. he sounded almost relived that i agreeed to meet him. i wondered why. i told seirra and ray that id be at the dark wind cafe. it was a very expensive cafe. but anthos has always had expensive taste. when it was time to leave, seirra drove me to the place, she had some shopping to do or something. "alright ill be done in a hour or two" i said to her before leaving the car. i walked to the door and opened it. once i was inside i saw anthos. he looked almsot the same when i saw him many years ago. but his dark brown hair was now a dark blueish black. he didnt notice me come in, he was on his phone and his head on his arm. when i got to the table thats whe he noitced me. he smiled and greeted me. "hey star! long time no see!" he said. i nodded. i pulled out the chair and sat down. i tried to not ave eyecontact by looking through the menu but he pulled it away from me. "star gazer, we havent seen each other in like what 90 years? tell me what youve been doing lately?" he smiled again. i rolled my eyes and took the menu back to look at it. "you're the one who didnt contact me, theres not much to tell you." i continued to stare at it, i could tell he was cofnused from the corner of my eye. "what do you mean i didnt contact you? i wrote you a letter that i had to go back home.. for reasons... even then i wrote to you every day for a couple years, but you never replied to just accepted you hated me" i looked at him and he was looking off to the side. i thought for a moment. i was so cofnused at this point. we sat in quiet for a moment and i spoke up. "i didnt recieve any letters.." i said. anthos took my hands and looked into my eyes. his eyes were a golden amber, it reminded me of the moon on a full moon night, the brightest day in the dark. he continued to look into my eyes. "star, let me make this up for you. ive really missed you and i want to get back with you." when he said this, my eyes widened and i looked away. "i dont know.." i said quietly. he brought his hand to my face to make me look at him again. "please..." he said. "ill think about it.." i said and with that i got up and left. i went home and laid in my bed for awhile. i was so cofnused about everything that had happened. i called seirra about it. we talked about it for awhile. when we finished i fell asleep. when i woke up in the morning, i had an idea. i picked up my phone to call anthos. he quickly picked up. "hey anthos, i thought what you said, and yes ill get back with you."
the next morning when i got to the office i was in great mood. and gavin noticed it the moment i walked into the office. i sat down in my chair and got to work to ignore him, i knew he noticed, but that didnt stop him from coming up to me. "hey winter, whats got you in a good mood?" he asked. i glanced to him but looked back to my work. "oh nothing, just got a new boyfriend thats all..." i said with a smile. gavin looked hurt by the words i said, i pushed back the guilt the best i could but his face made me so sad. "oh" was all he said then walked away. for the rest of the day everyone asked why i was in such a great mood, i told them, they all appeared happy for me, but gavin still looked sad. suddenly my phone was ringing, playing teh madoka magica theme song! the caller id was anthos. i looked around to see if gavin was around, and he was. he wasnt looking at me, but he did when i answered the phone loudly. "oh hey anthos!" i said cheerfully, glancing at gavin. "a date tonight? yeah sure! you can come pick me up after work if taht works! yeah okay!" i made sure i was loud to make sure gavin could hear. when i turned to him he was staring at me. "oh hey gavin, that was just my boyfriend, anthos, hes coming to pick me up in 20 minutes." and with that i walked out of the door, brushing by charlotte. i smirked at her and looked away. she stopped to look at me and to gavin inside the office. "whats with her?" she asked and gavin just turned away angerily.
i waiting for anthos by the door, and when he pulled up i ntoiced gavin storm up next to me. i had to look away to cover my smile from his super noticable jealously. "im just here to make sure you leave safely? oh that him?" gavin asked pointing to anthos who was leaning against the hood of his car, looking off to the side. gavin motioned for me to go first and i did. anthos looked to me then to gavin when i walked out to him. "hey anthos!" i waved smiling. he smiled back then look towards gavin. "whos this?" he asked, straightening his posture and runninga hand through his hair. gavin tensed hwen he noticed how tall anthos was. gavin was 5'10" at most but anthos on the other hand was 6'3", mpre than a foot taller than me. gavin coughed and scratched his neck. "i was just making sure winter here would get to you safely. just been some crime like activtiy here lately." i held in a giggle, there had been no crime activity but that didnt stop anthos from speaking up. he wrapped an arm around my waist. "i dont think id want you working here, starflower, if its that unsafe your coworker has to walk you 3 feet away from the building." i laughed and told him not to worry about him. "bye gavin." i waved to him goodbye.
weeks past and gavin just kept getting more and more jealous. anthos and i called eachother daily, and i made sure gavin was nearby at all times. i had just finished a call with anthos when charlotte pulled me aside. she looked angry, more than usual. "i cant believe youre that low" she said with disgust. "what do you mean?" i asked. she rolled her eyes. "youre so low that you tossed away gavin so quickly and founda new boyfriend just to make him jealous. thats unbelievably digsutsing." she spat. i gave her an offended look. "youre the one who made gavin not like me!" i yelled crossing my arms. charlotte sighed and looked away then looked back at me. "i only did it because i was jealous of you, okay!" my eyes widened. i was supoer confused at this point. "what do you mean?" i asked. charlotte sat down at the nearest chair and looked up at me, leaning back and arms crossed. "look, i only did it because i was jealous of you. you're so popular here at roosterteeth, everyone liks you and you were dating gavin. i only got this job because burnie is a friend of my dad's, and my parents favourited my brother more than me, so i was forced out of the house and here i am." when she finished she was looking to the side, eyes filled was tears. my only reaction was to hug her. "im sorry" i said. i let go of her. "how about we start over?" i asked. charlotte looked up at me surprised, but smiled. "yeah itd like that!". and from the moment on , we were friends.
a couple days latr, it was morning and i was at anthos apartment. i had just slept over and i had woken before him. i was walking arond his house, i walked past his office, but i couldnt help but go into it. i sat down at his chair. it was definetley super old. it creaked when i moved slightly. i looked around at his papers his desk. just random work pieces and sticky notes. it was boring so i moved to the next location in the room, the fireplace. there were more papers on them. they looked at lot older than the ones on his desk. i looked through some till i found one letter addressed to anthos back from our old house. that was defineltly dstrange. i thought. i opened it up, i skimmed it slightly but what caught my eye was my name. before i could read over it, anthos was at the door sayign my name. "star.." he asked with caution. before strutting over to me. "what are you looking at?" he asked again. "i- uh- oh nothing" i stuttered. putting the paper back on on the firepalce. but he darted his eyes towards it. he ripped it from my hands. he knew exactly what it was. he threw it onto his desk and pulled at my arm. "hey!" i shouted. he threw me out of the room, locking it. "never go through my stuff." he growled, turning to walk towards the kitchen. i started to follow, but stopped for a ssecond to look at the door,tehn jogged to catch up. "that had my name on it, why?" i asked pointing towards the office. he stopped, sighed, and turned around to catch eyes with me. he softened his expression and smiled. "its nothing alright? its just a letter from a friend from awhile ago, he was jsut asking how you were, thats all." i didnt believe him, but acted like i did. i had to get back into theoffice and read that letter. anthos was def hiding soenthing from me, and i had to find out what
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