Love Aint Always Pretty novel Chapter 64

Evanesce

- to dissipate like vapor

64

"Tell Nick I miss him." Ingrid says to me.

I nod. "Yes. I'll tell him that. I'm sure he misses you too."

Ingrid throws herself at me.

"I'll miss you Savannah." She says.

"I'll miss you too little angel." I say.

I pulled myself away from her and dad hugs me quickly. I hugged him back too.

"Just forget about him Savannah. Forget about that ex-convict guy. He's no good for you." Dad says to me.

"Dad. Please stop with the ex-convict thing." I pulled myself away.

"Look, my close friend offered me a spot for you at NYU for next semester. Same course but then you'll have to get easier access for your internship right away."

"Dad, I told you I need to stand on my own feet without you backing me up that's why I picked WSU. And if you're also doing this to get rid of Nick out of my life, no. It's not working." I said.

"Savannah he's an ex-convict!"

"Dad please! I hate it so much when you judge him like that. I love him and if you don't accept him for who he is then that's gonna be your problem dad." I raged.

Mom holds my arms. "Baby, listen to me. Okay? You're so so young. You'll find some new guys in NYU and--"

"Mom. I just said I love Nick. I don't need new guys. I'll get going now." I say as I step on Cameron's car.

Cameron starts the car. "You really didn't have to say that to mom and dad."

"I had to. It felt good."

•••••

When I arrived back to the dorm room, I was expecting Tracy would be there already but I guess she wasn't. I started putting out my clothes and placed it back to my closet. The door opens wide.

"Savannah! I really missed you!" Tracy runs towards me and throws herself at me. I hugged her back as tight as I could cos I missed her.

"You've gotten even thinner since the last time I saw you." I say.

"Really? I take that as a compliment!" She laughs it off.

It has been six days since I saw Nick after New Year's Day and I haven't heard of him since then. I don't know where he is and he haven't even tried to contact me anymore. He's gone again. I hate it when he does that to me and he knows I hate it but he's doing it again.

"Do you know where Nick is?" I asked.

"Oh." She snaps but looks away sadly.

I looked into her eyes.

"No. Sorry. He didn't tell me where he was after New Year's Day. Weren't he with you?" She says.

I paused. "He was but then he left me and haven't contacted me."

"But on the bright side, you're both finally together!!" She chimes so happily.

I smiled at her and I'm so glad that she is happy for me, that she is happy for us. But one thing I hate about Nick is that he leaves me alone without letting me know where he is. I just hate that the most.

"You don't really know where he is?" I asked Tracy again.

She looks at me pitifully. "No. Sorry. Have you tried calling him?"

I nod vigorously. "But he's not answering my calls. It's just ringing. He's hiding from me and I don't know why he is doing that. He told me he loves me but then he leaves me out of the blue."

"He's not hiding from you. Why would he? Look, wherever Nick is Im sure he's just... I don't know. Busy? He's for internship next semester remember? And he still hasn't found a company to work for. I'm sure he's still busy looking."

I sigh. "He knows I can always help him with my dad's company."

Tracy smiled ruefully. "Look, let's just go out tonight? Both of us just got back here and we need to spend our post Christmas and New Year's Day celebration."

I smiled.

"But I've got finals to study." I pout.

"Just tonight, I promise. Then after tonight, you're free to study all the weeks left you want before finals."

I smiled. "Okay. I need to party before finals week."

"Yes!! We'll go out tonight."

"Where?"

She hums for a while. "The frat house is hosting this party tonight. Wanna go? Maybe Nick is going to show up there."

"Oh I'll beat his ass when I see him there and he hasn't texted not called me."

Tracy laughs.

•••••

A week has passed after that party I went to with Tracy and I haven't seen Nick! A week! A goddamn week! Almost three weeks in all that I haven't seen him or even his shadow or heard his voice since. He hasn't texted me or called me or asked how I was and Tracy doesn't even know where he is. Neither does Alec. Nobody knows where Nick is. Where the fuck is he? I don't fucking know.

Now that we're officially together, he's not around? At least if he's busy hunting down companies to work for his internship, he could tell me about it. He would let me know where on earth he is.

But he is not fucking here. He's nowhere to be seen and I'm going insane thinking about it.

"Yoh!"

I turned around and found Billy sitting down right next to me. I smiled at him to be nice but I wasn't really in the mood to talk cos one, I'm mad at Nick for missing for three weeks and two Im failing my finals cos I'm thinking about Nick.