Chapter 24 The First Ones Breaks The Hardest

• The call never came. She waited for days. Days turned into weeks. She found herself grief-stricken, couldn't find it in her head what could've caused him not to call. She kept going over it in her mind, all the scenarios that lead to other possibilities and another and another, none of them resolved her anxiety, because the call just didn't come.
• The simplest explanation would be that he had lost her number, but it wasn't what she chose to believe. If she was important enough to him, he wouldn't have lost her number, not on the first day he arrived in Goldstone. If she was important enough to him, he would've guarded that number with his life. She believed that. So she concluded that she wasn't important enough to him. It wasn't the first time he had disappeared on her, he used to do that when they first knew each other. But this time, it was plain cruel. Her grief turned to bitter resentment towards Tommy.
• She was a mess, she cried, stared at the wall, she couldn't concentrate at school, couldn't eat her food. She looked for Samuel and Ryan, anyone she could find who might hear from him, but they all said the same thing, no words from Tommy. The more she tried to find out, the less she knew about his whereabouts or what he was doing.