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Author: Ethel
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Ava

My phone buzzes in my pants as soon as I step out of my art history test on Wednesday. I reach for it, my pulse thrumming when I see the unknown number flashing across the screen.

I hesitate for only a second before answering, my hand fisting the phone tightly.

"Hello?"

"How are you, Ava?"

That voice. I knew that voice. I grew up with that voice.

"Aaron?"

"The one and only"

It's meant to come off as playful but there's a restrained edge to it. He sounds tired somehow and nothing like the boy I grew up with.

Whereas that voice was lighter and always playful, this voice sounded older, wearier—like life had taken its toll on him in ways I would never understand.

Why was he calling me? Now of all times. He abandoned me and now he's calling me like everything is just peachy between us when it's not. He knows it's not.

I open my mouth to tell him he's an asshole for ignoring me for months and then trying to joke it off like nothing happene
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