Free Wanting You by Danyell Wallace Page A

head downstairs, I hear Kellen's phone going off in his room. Thinking nothing of it, I continue to make my way down, when it starts ringing again. I decide that whoever was calling, it must be important, so I turn around and walk up the few stairs until I get to his room. I open the door and see his phone laying on the bed. As soon as I step foot inside, it chirps, alerting that he has a missed text message. I walk over and pick it up and I see that he has 6 missed calls and 3 unread text messages. My heart drops when I see they're all from Ashley. I'm staring down at the phone in my shaking hand, and I swipe my thumb across the bottom of the screen to open and view the text messages, but it immediately prompts me to enter a passcode.
     
    “Shit!” I whisper to myself. “Why is she contacting him?”
     
    I lay the phone back down on the bed and stare at it trying to figure out what to do next. I could ask Kellen about it, but then he'll know I was trying to go through his phone. Taking a deep breath and releasing it, I decide that there wasn't anything I could do at this point, and hoping and praying that it was nothing to be concerned about.
     
    I walk out his room and go downstairs to meet my mom. Before I can make it to the final steps, I'm halted by the sound of Kellen's phone going off again.
     
    “Ready?” My mom asks coming out the kitchen.
     
    “Um yeah.” I say. “Let me see if the guys need anything, and I'll meet you in the car.”
     
    “Ok sweetie, I'll be in the car waiting.” My mom says walking out the door.
     
    I make my way to the den and find my dad and Kellen engrossed in a conversation about the game that was currently playing.
     
    “Mom and I are going to the store.” I interrupt. “Do you guys need anything?”
     
    “I'm good baby girl. Kellen?” My dad responds.
     
    “I'm good baby.” He smiles, then turns his attention back to the TV.
     
    “I went upstairs to grab my purse a minute ago, and heard your phone going off several times Kellen. You may want to check it. To make sure it's not an emergency.”
     
    “Okay.” He says not taking his eyes off the TV. “I'll go up in a minute and grab it when I call my dad to see what time our flight leaves out tomorrow.”
     
    “Alright, we'll be right back.”
     
    ~ ~ ~
     
    Kellen
     
    At halftime, I make my way upstairs to get my phone to call my dad. I pick my phone up and press the button to light my screen up.
     
    “What the fuck!” I say to myself.
     
    I look down at the screen and see that I had a total of 10 missed calls and 7 missed text messages, and most of them were from Ashley. I sit down on the bed and enter my passcode, and begin scrolling through my messages. There was a group text from Katie, then the rest were all from Ashley. I first click on the group text:
     
    Kate: Hey guys! Guess who is turning 21 this weekend? Tamia!!!!  We so need to throw her a surprise party.
     
    Tasha: I so agree. Once we get back to campus tomorrow we need to plan ASAP.
     
    Jay: I'll be the stripper. LMAO. Kellen I was kiddin' man if you're reading. But yeah let the planning begin.
     
    Kate: Boy you are so crazy!
     
    Jay:   ;)
     
    After reading the group text I close it, because at this moment my mind is trying to figure out why Ashley keeps calling and texting me. When we broke up we agreed we would try and remain friends. Friends text each other right?  But the shit she was texting me, told me she wanted to be more than that. I scroll through my phone again and pull up the texts sent by Ashley. The first text.
     
    Ashley: Kellen I miss you. I know we both fucked up, I've forgiven you since then, I hope you did the same for me.
     
    Second text:
    Ashley: Can we start over?
     
    Third Text:
    Ashley: I miss you.
     
    Then the last several texts consisted of naked pictures of Ashley and others of me and her when we were together.
     
    I close out the texts and delete every single one of them. “This shit is getting out