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00:00Lennox Hale took my first time backstage after his final show, not in a bed, not in the dark, on
00:06a cracked leather couch, between his guitar case and his taft of amps was still on.
00:10I stayed quiet when it hurt, because I thought it meant man loved me.
00:16The next day, I heard him tell his bandmates I was only practice, a test run before Sienna Blake.
00:23Then, that same night, he stood under the spotlight and sang my unfinished love song to her, the song I
00:28wrote about him.
00:30The crowd screamed, Sienna live-streamed it, and Lennox kissed her before the last corn had even died.
00:38That was the moment I stopped being his shadow.
00:41Before midnight, I changed my college plan from New York to California.
00:45Then I locked away every song I ever wrote for him.
00:48Lennox Hale made me invisible, so I vanished.
00:53It was the last night of senior year.
00:55Lennox pulled me onto the couch.
00:57The leather was cracked and sticky.
00:58He wasn't gentle.
00:59He was fast and rough, and it hurt more than I expected.
01:02But I didn't care.
01:03I was so happy I could barely breathe.
01:05Lennox Hale was holding me.
01:07Lennox Hale chose me.
01:08When it was over, he zipped up and checked his phone.
01:11Can you get home on your own?
01:13I told the guys I'd meet up after.
01:14And pick up a plan B tomorrow, yeah?
01:16I'll go with you.
01:17Promise.
01:18I lay there for a long time.
01:20The leather was cold where he'd been.
01:22My back was sore.
01:23Something sticky was drying on my thigh, and there was nothing to clean up with.
01:27No tissue, no towel.
01:29But I was smiling, because I thought that was love.
01:32The next day, I went back for my charger.
01:34The band room door was half open.
01:39Dude, she writes your songs, edits your videos, runs your socials, and sleeps with you?
01:45Wait, wasn't she a virgin?
01:47Jesus Hale.
01:48It just happened, all right?
01:49She wanted it.
01:49She's been following you around since middle school.
01:51Of course she wanted it.
01:52Honestly surprised it took this long.
01:53So what now?
01:54You gonna date her?
01:54Wola?
01:55Come on, you know how she is.
01:56She'll write one sad song, avoid me for two days, then come back.
01:58Guys who sat beside me at rehearsal every week.
02:00Guys who had been singing words I wrote for three years.
02:03What about Sienna?
02:05Sienna's different.
02:05Sienna Blake the influencer?
02:07Bro, she has like 200,000 followers.
02:08Exactly.
02:09I can't show up to that looking cluneless.
02:11So Willa was what?
02:12Practice?
02:12Don't make it sound ugly.
02:14She'll be fine.
02:14She always is.
02:16I stood frozen in the hallway.
02:18I was practice.
02:19Six years of writing his songs, editing his videos, loving him in the quietest, most devoted
02:23way I knew how, and I was the warm-up before the girl he actually wanted.
02:26I ran.
02:27I don't remember which direction.
02:28I only remember the bathroom stall door slamming behind me and the lock clicking into place.
02:35Got band stuff tonight.
02:37Grab a plan B on your own.
02:38Can't make it today.
02:39Be good.
02:40He promised he'd go with me.
02:42He promised last night while he was still inside me.
02:46I walked into the pharmacy with my head down.
02:49I grabbed the plan B.
02:52In front of me, a woman was buying diapers.
02:55I still hid the bag like a crime.
03:01At home, I swallowed the pill with tap water over the kitchen sink.
03:10His gigs, his songs, his city, his future.
03:16I didn't know what my life looked like without him in the center of it.
03:20But I was going to have to learn.
03:23Why aren't you at the party?
03:24Lennox is here, and Sienna showed up.
03:26She's all over him.
03:28Show me.
03:32Sienna Blake was pressed against him, and Lennox was smiling.
03:36That lazy, tilted smile I used to think belonged to me.
03:39They looked like they had been touching all night.
03:45Then the stage lights kicked on.
03:47I'm surprised, guys!
03:48And there was Lennox.
03:50Center stage, alone.
03:52He made every girl in school lose her mind.
03:56That was my song.
03:58An unfinished demo I'd played for him in his bedroom two weeks ago.
04:01I hadn't even written the bridge yet.
04:03Every word was about him.
04:05Every line was a confession I was too scared to say out loud.
04:09He was singing it to Sienna.
04:12She glowing like she was the girl the song had been written for.
04:19My song was still hanging in the air when his mouth was on hers.
04:22I'm not showing you this to hurt you,
04:24but if you don't see it yourself, you'll never let go.
04:28I'm going to California with you, Mara.
04:31I opened my laptop.
04:33Deadline was midnight.
04:34For three years, my early decision application had been aimed at New York.
04:37Lennox's dream school.
04:38His city.
04:39His future.
04:39He'd study music performance.
04:41I'd be right there beside him.
04:42I deleted New York.
04:43He's going east.
04:44So I'll go as far west as I can.
04:46I logged into the band's social media accounts.
04:49Every video shot and edited by me.
04:50Every caption written by me.
04:52Every comment replied to by me.
04:53I didn't delete anything.
04:54Instead, I revoked my own admin access.
04:56Pulled every unpublished draft.
04:57Locked away every demo.
04:58The band account was still there, but there'd be no trace of me left in it.
05:02And I didn't care if anyone picked it up or not.
05:04And Mara, don't tell anyone.
05:05Not yet.
05:07Application submitted.
05:08Access revoked.
05:11Both reversible.
05:13And Lennox didn't know about either.
05:15That night, I filled the bathtub to the brim.
05:19When I undressed, the marks were still there.
05:22Now they just looked like proof that I had been stupid.
05:25I scrubbed until my skin turned raw.
05:28It didn't help.
05:29And the worst part was, I could still remember how good it felt when he touched me.
05:33His breath against my ear.
05:34His weight over me.
05:36Willa.
05:36His voice saying my name like I was the only girl in the world.
05:40But I wasn't.
05:41No goodnight text from Lenat.
05:43Six years.
05:44We had never missed a single night.
05:45Even when we fought.
05:47Even when he was busy.
05:48Even when I fell asleep first and woke up to three messages from him.
05:52Tonight, nothing.
05:52That hurt more than I wanted it to.
05:55So this was withdrawal.
05:56I hated him.
05:58Every time I closed my eyes, I was back on that couch.
06:00Every time I opened them, I was back in that hallway.
06:02Hearing him laugh.
06:03She was just practice.
06:05I finally fell asleep right before dawn.
06:07Then, in the thin blue light between sleep and waking,
06:10I felt lips press softly against my forehead.
06:13Then, in the thin blue light between sleep and waking,
06:16I felt lips press softly against my forehead.
06:19I forgot.
06:20He's always known my door code.
06:21Morning, sleepy-haired.
06:24What, shy now?
06:25After the other night?
06:26You didn't say goodnight?
06:27You turned off your phone.
06:29My mom had to tell me you were home because you wouldn't pick up.
06:31What the hell, Willa?
06:32Calls?
06:33I blocked your number 12 hours ago.
06:35Dun-dun-dun.
06:36Ran three miles this morning to pick these up.
06:38Your blueberry pancakes.
06:39From our place.
06:40You want to eat first or get eaten first?
06:44For one awful second,
06:46my body remembered him before my brain did.
06:49Then I remembered what he called me.
06:53Full service.
06:54That's what they called me.
06:55Then I remembered sophomore self-defense class
06:57and drove my knee up as hard as I could.
07:00Lennox made a sound I'd never heard him make before.
07:03He doubled over and I scrambled off the bed,
07:05bolting for the living room.
07:06He came limping out,
07:07half-bent and furious.
07:08What the hell, Willa?
07:10Eat first.
07:11Throw your tantrum later.
07:13Your stomach can't handle skipping meals and you know it.
07:14The coffee tipped over.
07:16Brown liquid spread across the counter,
07:18dripping onto the floor.
07:19Why is half the band account empty?
07:21All the drafts are gone.
07:22What did you do?
07:23I didn't answer.
07:24Seriously, Willa?
07:25We hooked up one time
07:26and you're acting like I owe you my whole life?
07:27Do you know how suffocating that is?
07:29The tears came before I could stop them.
07:31Lennox panicked.
07:32He rushed toward me,
07:33tried to cut my face.
07:34I flinched away.
07:35Okay, okay, stop crying.
07:36Whatever this is about,
07:37can we just talk about it?
07:38You're being crazy right now.
07:39His phone pinged.
07:40One glance at the screen
07:41and his entire demeanor changed.
07:43I gotta go.
07:44Cool off on your own.
07:45You're going to college now.
07:46Stop acting like a kid.
07:47The door closed behind him.
07:49Within 30 minutes,
07:50Mara sent me a screenshot.
07:52Sienna Blake's Instagram story
07:54posted nine minutes ago.
07:55A photo of blueberry pancakes.
07:57Same packaging.
07:58Same bag.
07:59Same place.
08:00Said I was hungry
08:00and breakfast magically appeared
08:02when he tucks like bed.
08:03He sang me a song he wrote
08:04and then breakfast her bed.
08:06I must be dreaming.
08:07So, I lifted up the entire carpet
08:09and tossed it into the trash can.
08:12It was an Aspen souvenir
08:14from the Hales.
08:15Last Christmas,
08:16Lennox carried it
08:16through my door himself,
08:18grinning.
08:18Thought of you the second I saw it.
08:21Sure you did.
08:22Then I started cleaning for real.
08:24Not the carpet.
08:25Him.
08:25Every gift.
08:26Every hoodie he'd left at my place.
08:28Every matching keychain.
08:29Every sticky note
08:30from late night study sessions.
08:31When the apartment was empty of him,
08:33I picked up my phone
08:34and started pressing block.
08:35One account at a time.
08:37Instagram.
08:38Blocked.
08:39Snapchat.
08:40Blocked.
08:40iMessage.
08:41Blocked.
08:42I changed my door code.
08:44I called mom.
08:45She was in Dallas on a work trip.
08:46Dad was with her.
08:47I want to spend the summer
08:48in London with Aunt Claire.
08:49London?
08:50That's sudden, sweetie.
08:51Are you and Lennox going together?
08:53How romantic.
08:54No, mom.
08:55Just me.
08:56Can dad book me a flight?
08:57The earliest one possible.
08:58The plan was clean.
08:59Summer in London.
09:00When August came,
09:00fly straight to California
09:01for orientation.
09:02No Lennox.
09:03No band.
09:03No chance to change my mind.
09:05Mom didn't ask questions.
09:06She could hear something in my voice.
09:07Dad called back 20 minutes later
09:08with a red eye booked for tonight.
09:10I was dragging my suitcase
09:11out the front door
09:11when Mrs. Hale appeared on her porch.
09:13Lennox's mom.
09:13Sweet, clueless,
09:14perpetually convinced
09:15that I was her future daughter-in-law.
09:16Sweetie,
09:17aren't you two going to Aspen together?
09:19Lennox has been planning it for weeks.
09:20Change of plans, Mrs. Hale.
09:22Have a great summer.
09:23At the airport,
09:24I was scanning the departure board
09:25when I saw him.
09:27At the airport,
09:29I was scanning the departure board
09:30when I saw him.
09:31Sienna tilted her head up
09:32to say something.
09:33Lennox bent down to listen.
09:34He never met me halfway.
09:36I was 5'4".
09:37He was 6'2".
09:38The height gap was a running joke
09:39between our families.
09:40But for Sienna,
09:41he bent.
09:42There was only one path
09:43to the gates.
09:43I trailed behind them
09:45at a distance,
09:45praying he wouldn't turn around.
09:47He didn't.
09:47He was too busy
09:48being the version of himself
09:49I'd always wanted.
09:50attentive, gentle, present.
09:52Just not with me.
09:53He stopped.
09:53Pulled out his phone.
09:55Dialed.
09:55His brow frowled.
09:56Call wouldn't go through.
09:57Of course not.
09:58I'd blocked every number
09:59I had for him.
10:00He borrowed a friend's phone.
10:02Mine rang.
10:03Unknown number.
10:04I answered before
10:05I could stop myself.
10:06You blocked me?
10:06Real mature, Willa.
10:07I'm flying out,
10:08probably won't have signal.
10:09Don't cry about it.
10:09And have fun figuring out
10:10New York on your own.
10:11See how long you last without me.
10:12I said nothing.
10:13Powered off.
10:14And I stood there,
10:15watching from 30 feet away
10:16as Lennox Hale
10:17took Sienna Blake's hand
10:18and turned left toward gate B.
10:20I turned right
10:21toward gate D.
10:22Two backs
10:23moving apart
10:23getting smaller.
10:25Six years
10:26ending at a fork
10:27in an airport corridor.
10:28London was supposed to fix me.
10:29Aunt Claire kept me busy.
10:31Museums, markets,
10:32long walks along the Thames.
10:33I helped Nan reorganize
10:34her entire garden.
10:35I ate fish and trids
10:36until I never wanted to see
10:37another piece of battered cod.
10:38I didn't add him back on anything.
10:40But my friends weren't as disciplined.
10:41Every few days
10:41someone forwarded me
10:42one of his posts.
10:43Lennox and Aspen.
10:44Lennox on a lift.
10:45Lennox at a rooftop party.
10:46And in every single photo,
10:47Sienna
10:48pressed to get the exact space
10:49that used to be mine.
10:50At 2am when the 8 got bad,
10:51I'd scold myself in the mirror.
10:53Don't be pathetic, Willa.
10:54He'll only respect you
10:55even less if you crawl back.
10:56Three weeks in,
10:57I started making things again.
10:58Not for the band.
10:59For me.
11:00I cut together a short piece
11:01from footage I'd shot
11:02around London.
11:03Golden hour on Tower Bridge.
11:04Rain on cobblestones.
11:06Nan laughing in her garden.
11:07Scored it with a melody
11:08I'd been sitting on for months.
11:09And I quietly uploaded it
11:11to the incoming freshman forum
11:12for my California school's
11:13music collective.
11:14No expectations.
11:15I just needed to make something
11:16that belonged to me.
11:18Within a day,
11:18someone commented,
11:19Your audio mix is muddy.
11:21Especially the low end
11:22around 120.
11:23You're clipping on the left channel.
11:24I stared at the screen.
11:25Irritation.
11:26Flaring out of nowhere.
11:27I didn't know this person.
11:28I typed back,
11:29Thanks for the feedback.
11:30Next time maybe try
11:30saying hi first.
11:32Hi.
11:33Your mix is still muddy.
11:34One month of silence
11:35from the boy I loved.
11:36And somehow,
11:36a stranger 6,000 miles away
11:37just made me feel
11:38something other than sad.
11:39I fixed the mix.
11:41Spent two hours re-EQ
11:42the low end.
11:43Adjusting levels.
11:44Cleaning up the clipping.
11:46Happy now?
11:48Better.
11:49The reverb on the bridge
11:50is actually good.
11:51Did you do that intentionally
11:52or did you stumble into it?
11:54I saw red.
11:55Intentionally.
11:56Not everyone needs
11:57to be told what to do.
11:58He didn't respond.
11:59But the next day,
12:00I noticed he'd followed my account.
12:01I did not follow back.
12:03On principle.
12:03For two days,
12:04I had the most peace
12:05I'd felt in weeks.
12:06Then my phone rang.
12:07Unknown international number.
12:10So you just ditch everyone
12:11and fly to London?
12:12The silent treatment
12:12doesn't work on me, Willa.
12:13Come home.
12:14My mom keeps asking about you,
12:15by the way.
12:16She won't shut up about it.
12:16Is that Willa?
12:17Give me the phone.
12:18Willa, sweetheart.
12:19How's London?
12:20Are you eating enough?
12:21Oh, and congratulations
12:22to Lennox.
12:23He got an acceptance letter.
12:24New York,
12:24just like you wanted.
12:25Yours must be on its way, too.
12:26Mine already had.
12:27Mom video called me that evening.
12:29She held up the envelope
12:30with shaking hands,
12:31tore it open,
12:32read the school name,
12:33and went silent.
12:34You hate bugs.
12:35California has bugs
12:36the size of your fist
12:37and you're gonna FaceTime me
12:38at 3 a.m.
12:38screaming.
12:39It wasn't New York.
12:40Sweetheart,
12:41is this because of Lennox?
12:42He has a girlfriend.
12:43I need my own life.
12:45And please,
12:46don't tell anyone,
12:47especially not the halls.
12:48We won't say a word,
12:49but you're coming home
12:50before school starts.
12:51Your mom wants to cry
12:52on you in person.
12:53The remaining weeks
12:54in London passed quickly.
12:56I finished two more short pieces
12:57for the Music Collective Forum.
12:58O'Wells commented on both.
12:59His feedback got marginally
13:00less hostile.
13:01Your EQ is improving.
13:02Coming from him,
13:03that was probably
13:04the closest thing to approval.
13:07I still didn't follow him back,
13:09but I checked his profile
13:10more than I had met.
13:11No selfies,
13:12no parties,
13:13no personal posts,
13:15just audio files,
13:16lab notes,
13:17and one photo
13:17of a whiteboard
13:18covered in equations.
13:19Mom and Dad
13:20picked me up at the airport.
13:21They were dressed up,
13:22Dad in a sport coat,
13:23Mom in her nice earrings.
13:24Why are you guys so fancy?
13:25Sweetie,
13:26it's Lennox' graduation party.
13:27We came straight here.
13:28What?
13:29The Howells invited us months ago.
13:30We can't not go.
13:31They're our neighbors.
13:31I'm sorry.
13:32It'll be quick.
13:33I looked up,
13:34and there was Lennox Hale
13:35standing by the fountain
13:36in a tailored navy suit.
13:38The boyishness was gone.
13:39He looked like the man
13:40I used to imagine he'd become.
13:42My heart forgot
13:42it was supposed to be over him.
13:44He looked good,
13:45and I hated that it still mattered.
13:47Then Sienna appeared.
13:49Graduation party content
13:50coming soon!
13:51She was stunning.
13:52And even at someone else's celebration,
13:54she was working.
13:55She slipped her arm
13:55through Lennox's
13:56and came over smiling,
13:57like I was the guest.
13:58Willa!
13:59So great to finally
14:00meet you properly.
14:00I've always seen you around,
14:02on Lennox,
14:02but we never got the chance
14:03to actually talk.
14:04I'm not the main character tonight.
14:06Sienna pulled Lennox away
14:07to greet other guests,
14:08full hostess mode,
14:09waving, posing,
14:11making sure her phone
14:11caught every angle.
14:13Lennox went along with it.
14:15He glanced back at me once.
14:16I couldn't read his expression.
14:18I lasted 45 minutes
14:20of small talk
14:20with relatives
14:21kept asking about New York
14:22before I needed air.
14:23I slipped out to the terrace.
14:25The night was warm,
14:26and the city glittered below,
14:27and for a second,
14:27I felt almost okay.
14:29Then Lennox's voice
14:30floated through
14:30the cracked hallway door.
14:32He was talking
14:32to his friends,
14:33and I was in exactly
14:34the wrong place
14:35at exactly the wrong time.
14:36Again.
14:37So Willa showed up,
14:38thought she ghosted you
14:39for real.
14:41I knew that sound,
14:42the dismissive little huff
14:43he made when he wanted
14:44to seem unbothered.
14:45She's throwing a tantrum,
14:46she always gets over it.
14:46We go back 10 years,
14:47she can't actually cut me off.
14:49So what's the plan?
14:49You gonna make her
14:50your girlfriend or what?
14:51Lennox went quiet
14:52for a moment.
14:53Will's great,
14:54she really is.
14:55she knows me better
14:56than anyone.
14:56She gets my music,
14:57my family loves her.
14:59She'll probably follow me
14:59anywhere if I ask.
15:02But I'm 19, man,
15:03I'm going to New York,
15:04I've got the band,
15:04I've got options.
15:05And Will?
15:06Will doesn't matter.
15:07She's the girl
15:08you come back to
15:09when you're done
15:09being stupid,
15:10she knows that.
15:10You're an asshole,
15:11you know that?
15:12Lennox didn't deny it.
15:13Yeah,
15:14but she'll still
15:15leave the light on.
15:16The night air
15:16hit my face.
15:17I stood on that terrace
15:18with my hands on the railing
15:19and my eyes burning
15:20and I hated myself so much
15:21it was hard to breathe.
15:22Not because of him,
15:24because some stupid part of me
15:25had still waited
15:25for him to choose me.
15:27She always leaves the light on.
15:28He was right,
15:29I always had,
15:30but not anymore.
15:31I walked back inside,
15:32straight to the dinner table.
15:33I've got the matching
15:33bedding sets for New York,
15:35winter coats too,
15:35the thick ones,
15:36they'll need them
15:37when they move in together.
15:38And a humidifier,
15:39because Lennox says
15:39New York winters
15:40destroy your skin.
15:41Oh,
15:41and I found these
15:42adorable matching parkas,
15:43his and hers.
15:44My mom's smile
15:44was frozen solid.
15:46She knew,
15:46dad knew,
15:47none of these things
15:48would be useful in California.
15:49But the Hales didn't know
15:50because I'd made
15:51my parents promise.
15:53Sienna was across the table,
15:54scrolling her phone,
15:55half listening.
15:55Then she looked up
15:56with that sweet,
15:56camera-ready smile.
15:57Oh, but Willa isn't
15:58going to New York, is she?
15:59The table went still.
16:00Her name was on the
16:00California honor roll list
16:01at school.
16:02I saw set it
16:02with a sweet little smile.
16:03Every head turned to me.
16:04Lennox,
16:05Mrs.,
16:05Mr.
16:06Hale,
16:06Mrs.
16:07Hale,
16:07my parents.
16:08California?
16:09But the bedding,
16:11the parka-
16:11Mrs.
16:11Hale's face crumpled.
16:12Lennox grabbed my wrist
16:13under the table.
16:14Hard.
16:14You filed the same school
16:15and then I watched you do it.
16:16I changed it, Lennox.
16:16After you showed me
16:17exactly how much
16:18I meant to you.
16:19My wrist hurt.
16:19I yanked it free.
16:20Yes.
16:21California,
16:21deal with it.
16:22He snatched my phone
16:23off the table,
16:24found the acceptance
16:24letter screenshot,
16:25and zoomed in.
16:26Like if he stared hard enough,
16:27the words would
16:27rearrange themselves.
16:28Then he laughed.
16:29That hollow,
16:30disbelievable laugh
16:30that meant he was furious
16:31and had no idea
16:32how to process it.
16:32And before anyone could speak,
16:33he grabbed my arm
16:34and hauled me out of my chair,
16:35out of the dining room,
16:35down the hallway.
16:36People were calling after us.
16:37He didn't stop.
16:38He shoved open a door
16:39to some kind of hotel lounge,
16:40pushed me inside,
16:40and slammed it shut behind us.
16:41Then he stood in front of it,
16:42blocking the only exit.
16:44His chest was heaving.
16:45Suit jacket,
16:45a sew-y tie loosened,
16:46eyes blazing.
16:47He looked like a different person
16:48from the polished golden boy
16:49at the fountain an hour ago.
16:50You threw away everything!
16:51His voice cracked
16:52on the last word.
16:53You threw away everything.
16:54His voice cracked
16:54on the last word.
16:55Our plan,
16:56our promise,
16:56three years of working
16:57toward the same thing
16:57and you just trashed it?
16:58For what?
17:07For the first time
17:08in six years,
17:09Lennox Hale
17:09had absolutely nothing to say.
17:11But I did.
17:11I wasn't finished.
17:13You don't like me, Lennox.
17:14You like having someone
17:15who follows you everywhere
17:16and never asks for anything back?
17:18Someone who writes your songs
17:19and runs your accounts
17:19and shows up
17:20at every single thing you do
17:21and never not once
17:22asked to be seen?
17:23And be honest with yourself.
17:24I stepped forward.
17:25He actually stepped back.
17:26Are you mad about the plan?
17:27Or are you mad
17:28that you lost your backup?
17:29His face drained of color.
17:30He opened his mouth,
17:31closed it,
17:31opened it again,
17:32nothing came out.
17:32Because I was right,
17:33that I'd changed my school.
17:34He wasn't angry
17:35that the girl
17:35who was supposed to wait forever
17:36had stopped waiting.
17:38My voice was shaking,
17:39but I kept talking.
17:40You watched me throw myself at you
17:41since I was 12 years old
17:42and you thought it was cute.
17:43You thought it was convenient.
17:44His eyes turned red at the rims.
17:45You took a song I wrote about you,
17:47a song I trusted you
17:47because I thought
17:48you were the only person
17:48who would understand it
17:49and you sang it to another girl
17:50in front of everyone.
17:53You let her believe you wrote it.
17:54Is that what this is really about?
17:55The song?
17:56Sienna?
17:56California?
17:57His eyes came back to mine.
17:58Or is this because
17:59we slept together?
18:00My stomach turned.
18:01You've been acting insane
18:02since that night.
18:03One stupid night, Willa,
18:04and now you're blowing up
18:0410 years like I killed somebody.
18:06I stared at him.
18:08Unfair, right?
18:09Neither was calling me practice.
18:10For the first time that night,
18:12Lennox looked scared.
18:13I didn't mean it like that.
18:14I was drunk.
18:15Tyler was joking.
18:16I was just saying stupid shit.
18:17You know how guys talk.
18:18We weren't drunk in the band room.
18:19His face went pale.
18:21I didn't know you heard that.
18:24That's your defense?
18:25That's not.
18:25You don't get to
18:26we were fine before you started.
18:27He couldn't finish
18:27because there was no way
18:28admitting what fine really meant.
18:29Fine meant I had to finish
18:30that sentence.
18:31Hook and everyone called it normal.
18:32The room went quiet.
18:33So quiet I could hear
18:34the champagne bubble
18:35dying in a forgotten glass.
18:37Then Lennox straightened up,
18:38put his hands in his pockets.
18:39You chose to walk away
18:40from 10 years.
18:41Don't call me a friend.
18:42Don't call me anything.
18:44He pulled the door open
18:45and walked out
18:45without looking back.
18:47Those were the last words
18:48Lennox Hole said to me
18:49a very, very long time.
18:52The next morning,
18:53Mara sent me a screenshot.
18:54I saw Lennox's name,
18:55Sienna's name,
18:56a heart emoji,
18:57and the edge of a photo
18:57taken on the hotel lights.
18:59I didn't open it.
18:59I didn't zoom in.
19:00I didn't read the caption.
19:01I just deleted the message
19:02and put my phone
19:03face down on the bed.
19:05Two days later,
19:06it was time to leave.
19:07Mom cried while helping
19:08me zip my suitcase.
19:09Your charger,
19:10your ID,
19:11emergency cash,
19:13and your port.
19:13Dad pretended not to cry
19:14by checking the weight
19:15of my bag
19:15and asking if I had
19:16packed my charger,
19:17my ID,
19:17my emergency cash,
19:19and somehow,
19:19my passport.
19:20I'm going to California,
19:22Dad.
19:22Still,
19:24passport?
19:25I laughed,
19:27and for the first time
19:28in weeks,
19:29it didn't hurt as much.
19:30Watch out for California bugs.
19:32Mom kept one hand
19:33wrapped around mine
19:33while Dad pushed
19:34the luggage cart.
19:35And absolutely no dating
19:36anyone who owns a motorcycle.
19:37At the airport,
19:38and kept warning me
19:39about California bugs,
19:41earthquakes,
19:41and how I was absolutely
19:43not allowed to date
19:43anyone who owned
19:44a motorcycle.
19:46Then I saw him.
19:47Lennox Hall stood
19:48near the first last line
19:49with a black duffel
19:49over one shoulder.
19:51Sienna was beside him.
19:52Good luck in California, Willa.
19:53I looked at her,
19:54then at Lennox.
19:55His face was blank.
19:56So blank,
19:57it almost looked rehearsed.
19:58Thanks.
19:59We moved toward security
20:00in opposite directions,
20:01and for once,
20:02no one stopped me.
20:03Then boarding started.
20:04Across the terminal,
20:05Lennox was boarding too.
20:06For one second,
20:06his eyes found mine.
20:07He knew we weren't just
20:08standing at different gates.
20:09We were heading
20:09toward different lives.
20:11Now he looked back.
20:11Too late.
20:12I picked up my bag
20:13and walked onto my own plane.
20:14Finally,
20:14I wasn't following him anymore.
20:17After that,
20:18for a very long time,
20:20I heard nothing
20:20about Lennox Hall.
20:23And he heard nothing
20:24about me.
20:26California was loud
20:27and bright
20:28and nothing like home.
20:29The campus was enormous.
20:30Skateboards rattled
20:31across every walkway.
20:32Music spilled
20:33from open dorm windows.
20:34Mara dragged me
20:35to three welcome events
20:36in two days.
20:37I smiled until my face hurt.
20:38But I was free.
20:41I joined the campus music
20:42collective the first week.
20:45Signed up with my own name.
20:47Not as Lennox songwriter.
20:49Just Willa Caldwell.
20:51I made a short film.
20:53Shot it on my phone
20:54around campus.
20:55Jarabina trees.
20:56Skateboarders.
20:56The way light
20:57hit the library windows
20:58at golden hour.
20:59Scored it with an original track.
21:01Cut it myself.
21:02Published it myself.
21:07It got picked up
21:07by the collective's page.
21:09Comments came in.
21:10One stood out.
21:11The songwriting
21:12in this is insane.
21:13Who are you?
21:15Three years of making content
21:16and nobody had ever
21:17once asked who I was.
21:21Then, first day
21:22of in-person collective meetings.
21:24I walked in,
21:25scanned the room
21:25and stopped.
21:27Back corner.
21:28Headphones around his neck.
21:29Arms crossed.
21:30Zero expression.
21:31A. Wells.
21:32Adrian Wells.
21:34Willa Caldwell.
21:36You know,
21:37most people clipping issue
21:38with Nice to Meet You.
21:39Good.
21:41Adrian Wells did
21:42audio engineering
21:43for the collective.
21:44He never used more words
21:45than necessary.
21:46Never smiled at anyone.
21:48In person,
21:48he was exactly like
21:49he was online.
21:50Except worse.
21:51Because now I couldn't
21:52close the tab.
21:55Vocals are buried.
21:56We worked on three projects
21:57together that first month.
21:59Too much reverb.
21:59The bridge work.
22:02The bridge works.
22:04Every time,
22:05he'd listen to my mix,
22:05drop one devastating sentence
22:06and walk away.
22:07Is that your version
22:08of a compliment?
22:09Yes.
22:12Lennox used to say,
22:13The intro's too slow.
22:14Can you recut the bridge?
22:16I don't love it.
22:17And I'd do it.
22:18Every time.
22:19Without asking why.
22:21Adrian would say,
22:22Something's off
22:22in the second verse.
22:23You could just tell me
22:24what's wrong.
22:24Then you'd fix it for me
22:25instead of you.
22:26I wanted to throw
22:27my laptop at his head.
22:29But three weeks in,
22:30I realized something terrifying.
22:32I was making better work
22:33than I'd ever made
22:34in my life.
22:36For three years,
22:38every song answered
22:38the same question.
22:41Would Lennox like it?
22:43Would it fit the band?
22:44Would it make him sound better?
22:46Adrian just made it impossible
22:48to hide behind
22:48anyone else's taste.
22:51Why are you so hard on me?
22:52Because you're good enough
22:53to not need me to be nice.
22:57I walked home that night
22:58and cried for reasons
22:59I couldn't fully explain.
23:01Christmas break was coming.
23:03A high school friend visited.
23:04We grabbed burritos,
23:05sat on the grass,
23:06and caught up on everyone
23:06back home.
23:07Do you know how Lennox
23:07has been lately?
23:08Lennox and dumped Sienna
23:09like months ago.
23:10He's been kind of a mess.
23:11Different girl every other week.
23:12Partying all the time.
23:13Barely goes to class.
23:15You okay?
23:17Yeah.
23:20A week later,
23:21Mara and I walked to the pier
23:22for a New Year's countdown.
23:24The crowd was loud
23:25and warm
23:26and smelled like
23:26fuddle cake and sea salt.
23:28Make a wish.
23:34I opened my eyes.
23:36The sky was still exploding.
23:38Mara was hugging a stranger.
23:41Salt air was stinging my face.
23:43And I was smiling.
23:44I was searing.
23:45Not because of anyone,
23:46because I was here.
23:49Winter break.
23:50Dad picked me up at the airport.
23:51I was tan and happy
23:52and already talking
23:53about next semester.
23:54I got in the car,
23:55and Lennox Hull
23:56was sitting in the passenger seat.
23:58He was thinner.
23:59His hair was different.
24:00Darker.
24:01Longer.
24:01His jaw was sharper,
24:02with new shadows
24:03under his eyes.
24:04But he was still Lennox.
24:06Opened the car door.
24:07Got in.
24:08Hey Lennox.
24:08Big bro.
24:10Our families had tried
24:11to get me to call him that
24:12since we were kids.
24:13I never did.
24:14Not once.
24:15I didn't want him
24:16to be my brother.
24:17I wanted him to be mine.
24:19Now it rolled off
24:20my tongue like nothing.
24:22Dad started the car.
24:23I told him about California,
24:24the campus,
24:25the food,
24:25and the graduate seminar
24:26I accidentally wandered into.
24:28Dad asked follow-up questions.
24:29Nobody talked to Lennox.
24:30But I caught it.
24:31His mouth was curved up
24:32the entire ride.
24:33Not a smear.
24:34Not his stage grin.
24:35Something quieter.
24:36Almost sad.
24:39When we got out,
24:40he grabbed my suitcase.
24:42I come in for a bit.
24:44Catch up.
24:45We're actually pretty tired
24:47from the drive.
24:50All break,
24:51Lennox stopped by.
24:52Every time,
24:53I was out with Mara,
24:54friends,
24:55anywhere but home.
24:56Then Christmas Eve came,
24:57and the entire Hale family
24:58showed up at our door
24:59with gifts.
25:00Lennox brought nothing
25:01but himself
25:01and stood in our living room
25:02like he wasn't sure
25:03he was allowed to sit down.
25:04He sat next to me anyway.
25:05The relatives didn't know.
25:08So when's the wedding?
25:10So the teasing
25:10started immediately.
25:11You two are still
25:12joined at the hip, huh?
25:13Lennox,
25:13you'd better lock this one down
25:14before some California boy
25:16steals her.
25:20Midnight.
25:21Everyone went outside.
25:22Fireworks in the distance.
25:23Cold air.
25:24Someone's kids screaming.
25:26Lennox caught my wrist.
25:27His grip was gentle this time.
25:28He opened his mouth.
25:29My phone rang.
25:30I pulled free.
25:31Ducked to the side of the porch.
25:33Answered.
25:33Happy New Year, Willa.
25:34I laughed.
25:35We talked for a while.
25:37About nothing.
25:38About everything.
25:38I forgot where I was.
25:39Forgot who was watching.
25:40When I hung up,
25:41I was smiling.
25:42I turned around.
25:42Lennox was threeps away.
25:43Boyfriend?
25:44Not yet?
25:45Long distance guises aren't reliable.
25:46You should find someone
25:47you actually know.
25:48Why?
25:48You volunteering?
25:49You should find someone
25:50you actually know.
25:51You're right.
25:53Turns out you can't really know
25:54someone just from being around them.
25:56I walked inside.
25:58Lennox left through the yard gate
25:59without saying goodbye.
26:01When I got back to California,
26:03a message was waiting.
26:04New track.
26:05Need a vocalist.
26:06Interested?
26:06Since when do you ask nicely?
26:07I didn't.
26:08I'm telling you.
26:08Studio Thursday, 7 p.m.
26:09That was how it started.
26:11Adrian engineered the sound.
26:13I wrote and performed.
26:14That's it?
26:15That's it.
26:17The Campus Spring Showcase was small.
26:19Maybe 200 people in an auditorium
26:21that smelled like old carpet.
26:22I stood backstage.
26:23My hands were shaking.
26:25The last time I was backstage,
26:27Lennox Hale took everything I had
26:28and called it practice.
26:29This time, the stage was mine.
26:43Afterwards, someone uploaded a clip.
26:45It picked up traction overnight.
26:47Comments flooded in.
26:48Wait, this sounds like that song
26:50from Hale and the Fallout Secrets set last year.
26:52Same writer?
26:52Someone linked Sienna's old livestream.
26:54By morning, my clip had 50,000 views.
26:57The top comment read,
26:58So Lennox Hale's hit was ghostwritten by his ex?
27:01Someone tell Sienna Blake.
27:02Sienna's comment section exploded.
27:04Didn't you say he wrote it?
27:05So whose song was it?
27:05Delete all you want.
27:06We have screen recordings.
27:0720 minutes later,
27:09the livestream video disappeared.
27:10Too late.
27:11Lennox didn't post anything,
27:13but I knew he was watching.
27:14The band was dead.
27:15The account was dead.
27:16And the only song anyone still remembered
27:18wasn't even his.
27:19Three days later,
27:20I walked out of my dorm
27:21and Lennox Hay was standing outside.
27:22I had no idea when he'd flown in.
27:24He looked like he'd slept in his car.
27:25He looked like he hadn't slept in days.
27:27I didn't know it would blow up.
27:27I'm sorry about the song.
27:28I should have told everyone it was yours.
27:30A lot of things.
27:31I should have told everyone a lot of things.
27:34You forgot breakfast again.
27:35Thanks.
27:37Is this the guy?
27:38This is Adrian.
27:38We made the showcase piece together.
27:40He's standing where I used to stand.
27:46Lennox, stop!
27:47Not because I was strong
27:48because he wasn't expecting it.
27:50He didn't take anything from you, Lennox.
27:52You threw it away.
27:53You threw me away
27:54on a backstage couch!
27:57On a backstage couch.
27:59His fists unclenced.
28:00His face crumbled.
28:01His lips pressed together.
28:03His chin trembled.
28:04Then tears spilled over.
28:05Fast and completely untrolled.
28:06I think she said enough.
28:07And I think you heard her.
28:10You want him to replace me?
28:12Is that what this is?
28:15You know I'm not giving up, Willa.
28:18You know I can't.
28:24Lennox didn't leave.
28:26He waited outside rehearsal.
28:27He texted that he'd drive me home.
28:29He bought breakfast.
28:30But I didn't have time to deal with him.
28:31Adrian and I barely left Studio B for three days.
28:34Coffee cups piled up beside the computers.
28:36By the time I clicked export,
28:37the room was spinning.
28:38You okay?
28:39I wasn't.
28:39The room tilted beneath me.
28:41The next time I opened my eyes,
28:43it was dark.
28:43I was in my dorm.
28:44Medicine and a bowl of soup
28:46sat on the nightstand.
28:47Adrian was asleep
28:47in the chair beside my bed.
28:49I must have tried to move
28:50because he woke up immediately.
28:51You're awake.
28:52The back of his hand
28:52brushed lightly across my forehead.
28:54Better.
28:54Get some sleep.
28:55What about you?
28:56I'll be there.
28:56Somehow, those three words
28:57made me feel safer
28:58than I had in a very long time.
29:00I closed my eyes again.
29:02The next morning,
29:03someone knocked.
29:04Adrian opened the door.
29:05Lennox stood there,
29:06holding a bag of breakfast.
29:07His smile disappeared.
29:09He looked from Adrian
29:09to the room behind him,
29:11then grabbed Adrian
29:11by the collar.
29:12What the hell did you do?
29:14She was sick.
29:14And you took advantage of her?
29:15Lower your voice.
29:16Will!
29:17I was still half asleep.
29:18He dropped to one knee
29:19beside my bed
29:20and pressed a hand
29:20to my forehead.
29:21You weren't in class this morning.
29:22I asked around.
29:23They said you were sick.
29:24Are you okay?
29:25Still trapped between sleep
29:26and memory, I frowned.
29:27You climbed into my room again?
29:29For God's sake, Lennox,
29:30stop sneaking in
29:31while I'm sleeping.
29:31The word slipped out
29:32before I realized where I was.
29:33My eyes flew open.
29:34Lennox, Adrian,
29:35the dorm room,
29:36the memories
29:36had crashed back Onyx's hand.
29:39Why are you here?
29:40I was worried about you, Willa.
29:44So that's how you show it?
29:45By waking up someone
29:47who spent the whole night
29:47burning with a thieve?
29:49She finally started
29:50feeling better this morning.
29:51Whenever you got sick,
29:53you'd only eat chicken noodle soup.
29:54I'll go get some.
29:55Wait for me.
29:57Only then did I notice his collar.
29:59It had been pulled loose,
30:00the fabric wrinkled
30:01where Lennox had grabbed him.
30:02You okay?
30:04So, you used to let him
30:05climb into your room
30:06you were asleep?
30:06Heat rushed to my face.
30:07That's not what I said.
30:08It was exactly what you said.
30:10Yes.
30:10How ridiculous.
30:12There was a time when
30:13Lennox and I shared everything.
30:14We grew up together.
30:16Back then I was stupid enough
30:17to believe loving Lennox
30:18was all I needed.
30:19The first time he pulled me
30:20backstage after a show,
30:21I used to wait outside
30:22rehearsal rooms for hours
30:23just to walk home with him.
30:25I overheard him tell his bandmates
30:26I was just practice.
30:27A warm-up before the real thing.
30:29I told him about the years
30:30I spent writing songs for Lennox,
30:31about how I thought
30:32he was the only person
30:33who truly understood my music.
30:34Then I reached the part
30:34about Sienna.
30:35He gave my song to her.
30:36He let everyone believe
30:37it was hers.
30:38Silence filled the room.
30:39Then he walked over.
30:40He sat on the edge of the bed
30:41and pulled me into his arms.
30:42It was the first time
30:43we had ever been this close.
30:44You weren't stupid, Willa.
30:45His hand rested gently
30:46on the back, back of my head.
30:47Not everyone will hurt you.
30:48It depends on who
30:49you choose to trust.
30:51What do you mean?
30:56My mind went blank.
30:59Do you understand now?
31:02Still not?
31:03Wasn't I obvious enough?
31:05The kiss deepened
31:06and before I realized it,
31:08Adrian had pulled me closer
31:09and gently pushed me
31:10back onto the bed.
31:11For once,
31:12I wasn't thinking about Lennox.
31:13I wasn't thinking about the past.
31:15I was only thinking about him.
31:17Wait!
31:18Adrian stopped immediately.
31:19His breathing was unsteady
31:20as he looked down at me.
31:21I looked at him,
31:22trying to remember
31:22why I had stopped him.
31:24I couldn't.
31:25So I pulled him back down.
31:26Neither of you noticed
31:27Lennox came back
31:28with the food in his hands.
31:32After that day,
31:33Lennox disappeared
31:34and the world went quiet.
31:35Just Adrian.
31:37The guy who never smiled
31:38at anyone
31:39now smiled at me
31:40for no reason.
31:41What happened?
31:42Then why are you calling?
31:42Keep talking.
31:43The guy who hated small talk
31:44now called me on the way home
31:46just to hear what I had for lunch.
31:47He'd pull me onto his lap
31:49while I was editing.
31:50Chin on my shoulder,
31:50arms locked around my waist.
31:53Adrian, I need to finish this.
31:54Finish it here.
31:58So you two are finally official?
32:00Took long enough.
32:01What do you mean, finally?
32:02Girl, he's been looking at you
32:03like that since September.
32:04You're the only one
32:04who didn't notice.
32:05He was very focused
32:06on his laptop screen.
32:07His ears were red.
32:08Anything you want to tell me?
32:09No.
32:11That night,
32:12lying in bed,
32:13I thought about it.
32:14So this is what it feels like.
32:16To be loved,
32:17not in theory,
32:18not in maybes,
32:19but loudly,
32:20stubbornly,
32:21completely.
32:22Then Mrs. Hale called.
32:24What was the school fight he does?
32:25He's missed so many contacts
32:26as they're talking about expulsion.
32:28He won't listen to us.
32:29He won't listen to anyone.
32:30Maybe he'll listen to you.
32:31I'll talk to him, Mrs. Hale.
32:32Okay, I can't believe it.
32:33She texted me.
32:33Then I found out Lennox
32:34a short term never went back
32:35near campus.
32:36He'd been that close
32:36this whole time.
32:38I found him the next afternoon.
32:39The door was unlocked,
32:40curtains drawn,
32:41lights off,
32:41the air smelled stale,
32:42but no one had opened
32:42a window in days.
32:43Takeout boxes stacked by the door,
32:44phone on the floor,
32:45screen in dark,
32:46and Lennox didn't look angry.
32:51Then he saw me.
32:52Something flickered
32:53behind his eyes.
32:54He sat up slowly.
32:55His eyes were red,
32:56his lips pressed together hard.
32:58Then he smiled anyway.
32:59That stupid, broken,
33:00boyish smile,
33:01the kind that was happy
33:02to see me
33:02and already knew
33:03it didn't matter.
33:04Willa,
33:05you came to find me?
33:09Does this mean
33:09are you willing to talk to me?
33:11Actually talk?
33:12I'm sorry.
33:13I know I messed up.
33:14I know I did everything wrong.
33:15Just tell me what to do
33:16and I'll do it.
33:17Anything.
33:18Just tell me what to do
33:19and I'll do it.
33:20Anything.
33:21You need to go back
33:21to school, Lennox.
33:23What?
33:24Your mom called me.
33:25You're about to be expelled.
33:28That's why you're here.
33:29You didn't come for me.
33:31She sent you.
33:33Lennox.
33:34Why does he get a chance?
33:35He's known you months.
33:37I've known you 10 years.
33:39You knew me, Lennox,
33:40but you never once
33:41took me seriously.
33:42You're talented.
33:43You're magnetic.
33:44You don't need my songs
33:45to be somebody,
33:46but you have to stop
33:47chasing what's already gone
33:49and start building
33:50something that's yours.
33:51His head dropped.
33:52He pressed both palms
33:53over his eyes
33:54and held them there.
33:56But I had one more thing
33:57to say.
33:58You liked that I followed you?
34:00You liked that I'd show up
34:01every single time
34:02no matter what you did?
34:03That's not love, Lennoxen.
34:04That's convenience.
34:05I loved you.
34:06Maybe not the way you wanted,
34:08but I loved you.
34:09You loved having me.
34:10That's different.
34:13And for the first time
34:14since I'd known him,
34:15Lennox Hale looked like
34:16he had nothing left.
34:18No charm.
34:19No easy grin.
34:20No clever thing to say.
34:23Just a boy in a dark apartment,
34:24sitting in his own wreckage.
34:26Too late.
34:28When did you stop
34:30loving me?
34:31I thought about it.
34:33Really thought about it.
34:34I don't think it was one moment.
34:35It was every moment
34:36you didn't show up.
34:38Every time you let someone else
34:39claim my work.
34:40Every night you didn't text back.
34:42Every time you reached for her
34:43while I was standing right there.
34:46He leaned back into the couch,
34:47tilt his head up,
34:48stared at the ceiling
34:49like it might tell him
34:49what to do next.
34:50I'm sorry.
34:51I'm sorry.
34:51For the backstage,
34:52for all of it.
34:53I know it's too late.
34:54It is.
34:54I know.
34:56The apartment was so quiet
34:57I could hear the fridge humming.
34:58Then I stood up.
34:59Go back to school, Lennox.
35:01Finish what you started.
35:02You're good enough
35:02to make it without my songs.
35:04You really believe that?
35:05I do.
35:06But you have to believe it too.
35:08I walked out of that apartment
35:09and didn't look back.
35:11Adrian was leaning against the wall
35:13outside the apartment building,
35:14hands in his pockets,
35:15face unreadable.
35:16He didn't ask what happened.
35:17He just looked at me
35:18and opened his arms.
35:19I walked straight into them.
35:20He held me right there
35:21on the sidewalk.
35:22One arm around my shoulders,
35:24chin on my head.
35:25I didn't say a word.
35:26You did the right thing.
35:28It didn't feel right.
35:29It never does.
35:31But I'm here.
35:32And I'm not going anywhere.
35:35I laughed.
35:36And then my eyes sting.
35:38He took my hand
35:39and we started walking.
35:41We were halfway across campus
35:42when my phone buzzed.
35:43A notification from
35:44the Music Collective's
35:45official account.
35:46They'd reposted my showcase clip
35:47with a full feature credit.
35:48Written and performed
35:49by Willa Caldwell.
35:50My name.
35:51On my work.
35:52For everyone to see.
35:53I stared at the screen
35:54for a long time.
35:55About time.
35:57Somewhere behind me
35:57in a dark apartment
35:58with the curtains drawn,
35:59Lennox was probably
36:00still staring at the ceiling.
36:01I hoped he'd get up eventually.
36:03I hoped he'd fly home,
36:05go back to class,
36:05write his own songs.
36:07But that wasn't my story anymore.
36:09My story was right here.
36:10Walking forward,
36:12hand in hand,
36:13into something I built myself.
36:15Not his backstage girl anymore.
36:17Finally,
36:18just Willa.
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