Haunt Me (Heartbreaker Duet #2)

Isaiah’s Phone

Faith : It’s gotten bad again, Isaiah.

Faith : I don’t know what to do.

Faith : I’m sorry, I shouldn’t be bothering you with this.

* Messages deleted *

Isaiah : NO! Don’t EVER delete your messages to me, Faith.

…

Isaiah : Are you there, Faith?

Isaiah : Please don’t ever delete your texts.

Isaiah : Please don’t stop sending them.

Isaiah : Faith?

Faith : This is inappropriate.

Isaiah : Like hell it is.

Isaiah : Talk to me. Please.

Faith : I’ll ask her if it’s ok first.

…

Faith : She said not to bother you.

Isaiah : I want to be bothered. Also, it’s been two hours, wth?

Faith : Aren’t you busy with tour stuff anyway?

Isaiah : I am. I have an assistant just carry my phone around when I’m on stage or rehearsing, checking it every thirty seconds.

Faith : Are you kidding?

Isaiah : I am not.

Faith : Ok, I’ll ask her again.

…

Faith : She said it’s ok to talk to you about whatever I want, as long as I don’t tell her what we said afterwards .

Isaiah : Well, what do you want to talk about?

Faith : Eden.

Faith : Also, when are you going to collab with Weston Spencer in a music video?

Isaiah : What.

Faith : Sorry, got derailed.

Faith : It got bad with Eden for a few days. She had a bad episode and it took a while to peter out.

Isaiah : Can you talk about what the trigger was?

Faith : Manuela was using hair dye. Eden smelled it and it just… It took her straight back, Isaiah. It was scary. I didn’t know what to do, she was completely frozen.

Isaiah : I know how it is. I’ve seen her like that a few times.

Faith : Yeah. Well, I hadn’t.

Faith : She’s better now. She sometimes needs to be alone in her room, but Pooh goes in there with her.

Isaiah : That’s good.

Faith : Manu and I usually stand outside her door, bugging her until she lets us in. We text her and each other instead of talking.

Isaiah : Why

Faith : Just to annoy her, I guess.

Isaiah : Nice

Isaiah : Is she applying to any colleges?

Faith : Did you know she has already taken her SATs?

Isaiah : What ?

Faith : Yeah, Dad arranged it. He got her tutors and she studied very hard. She aced every single exam, got a brilliant score.

Isaiah : Of course she did.

Isaiah : She’ll have her pick of schools, I’m sure.

Faith : Her extracurriculars list is empty. Well, except for your letter of recommendation, of course.

Faith : She is not giving up, though. She says she will fight.

Faith : But it breaks my heart to see how much she is struggling.

Isaiah : You text me whenever that happens, and I’ll be there for you, since she won’t allow me to be there for her.

Faith : I don’t want your heart broken as well.

Isaiah : You know what’s happened to my heart, Fee.

Faith : I just… I don’t want you to be in pain because of what is happening to her.

Isaiah : I’m always in pain. You learn to live with it.

Isaiah : You’ll see.

Faith : …

Isaiah : I gotta go. Talk to you soon, ok?

Isaiah : It goes without saying that you have free tickets for any or all of my shows. Just tell me when. All three of you.

Faith : Ha! All three of us… Right.

Faith : The way you sang Saint Hope last night in the livestream lowkey broke me, Zay. You don’t… You aren’t still hoping, are you?

Isaiah : You should know by now that I am profoundly stupid.

Faith : What kind of an answer is that? What does it mean?

Isaiah : It means that the day I stop hoping is the day I am no longer alive.