Gya had fallen asleep with her head in my lap a while ago. I reached onto the dresser and grabbed my dad's cell phone and called home.

"Hello?"

"Hey Avie, is Ike home?"

"Yeah, want me to get him?"

"Please." The next voice I heard was Ike's.

"What's up, Zac?"

"I've got a problem."

"Shoot."

"Okay, Gya's got this boyfriend and he doesn't like me for some reason.."

"You pose a threat to him. You are Gya's best friend and he is the lowly boyfriend compared to you. God, I'd be jealous too..."

"I wasn't done yet. The thing is that Gya's really stressed about it. She just finished balling her eyes out over my bickering with the guy. I don't know what to do. This guy is such an asshole and he doesn't deserve her by any means. Yet she keeps coming back to him and she keeps forgiving him. I don't know how I can stop her because every time she goes back she ends up getting hurt again and it kills me to see her in pain like that. She needs to dump his ass and soon."

"Well, it sounds to me that you're the jealous one, not him."

"That's absurd! I don't like him because he keeps calling me gay because of the band and because of what he does to Gya."

"What is this about being gay?"

"He keeps calling me and the band gay."

"I can see why you wouldn't like him. That's just not cool."

"Told you."

"Are you talking to Taylor or Ike?" I looked down to find Gya looking up at me with this tired expression on her face. I moved the phone away from my ear and whispered to her.

"Go back to sleep."

"I can't." she whispered back.

"Hold on." I put the phone back to my ear, "Ike, I'll talk to you later, I have to go." I hung up the phone and looked down at Gya. "Now why can't you go to sleep?"

"Because I just can't. I'm not tired.."

"You're still stressed about Kyle, aren't you?"

"No, I just can't sleep." I smiled and smoothed down her hair.

"Would it help if I went to sleep?" She nodded and I laid down next to her. We were both asleep within minutes.


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