The bad boy

Your dad misses you

I look at my phone and see 3 missed calls and 10 missed texts from Liam. All saying how sorry he is, and that he would do anything to make it up to me. Make my trust him again. He kept saying that he fell in love with me and that he then and there stopped the plan, but if he loved me he would have told me. Instead I had to find out from Lexi. Lexi of all people. I block his number not wanting to hurt more. Drake, Emma, Toby and Tony also all texted me saying that they were here for me if I needed anything. I appreciated i, but I wasn’t sure I wanted anything to do with the gang. I felt humiliated to be honest.

I put my phone away and sit down on the sofa. Jonas comes in with ice cream and hand me one. He hand me the remote and asks me to put on whatever I wanted. I just put on a random show and look at him and say ‘you were right!’ He looks at me with a questionable look, not quite understanding what I meant so I elaborate ‘Liam he just used me to get information or at least that was what he did in the beginning. He told me he fell in love with me and stop it, but I still feel used and humiliated. He didn’t even have the guts to tell me himself..’ At this point I am crying again. Jonas moves closer and pulls me into a hug. He tells me that he didn’t want to be right about Liam, and that he will always be here for me as friends. We proceeded to watch movies and eat ice cream. It is just what I needed.

We are suddenly interrupted by Jonas’ phone ringing. He hurries and answers the phone away from me. Kinda telling me he doesn’t want me to hear what it is about. He comes back and looks at me. I give him a questionable look showing him to speak. He goes on to say ‘You know your dad is really missing you!’ I look at him confused and Jonas adds ‘He calls me about everyday to hear how you are, don’t worry I haven’t told him anything about you know. But have you considered calling him?’ I shake my head and say ‘I wouldn’t know what to say to be honest. The way we left things of just kinda broke me a little..’ Jonas nods but tells me to give my dad a call when I am ready. The rest of the day we just spend eating ice cream, talking and watching movies. It is kinda like the old days. Or at least kinda. I can sense something is up with Jonas and I need it out of the way! ‘Jonas are we okay?’ I ask him. I need to know that even after everything, me falling for Liam, Jonas and I being friends and me kinda ditching him the past few weeks, that it hasn’t done anything to our friendship. Jonas looks at me and takes his hands through his hair and says ‘Look Ella it was hard for me to get over the fact that I was too late. I liked you a lot, and then you go and fall for this guy. The complete opposite of me. It was hard, but I want you to know that I met someone.’ I look at him and smile ‘who is she’ I ask.

‘She goes to our school but I am not sure you know who she is. Her name is Rose. She plays for the womens football team and well is the girl version of me’ he explains. I hug him and tell him how happy I am for him and that I have to meet her soon! That means our friendship is good! That there are no hard feeling between us! Jonas keeps my mind of off what happened with Liam and well the gang too. And not before I head to bed I think about it. That night is hard, but I think I am coming to turns with it. I should forget what happened and focus on school for a while. That’s what I am going to do! I also think about what Jonas said about my dad. Maybe I should call him. It wouldn’t hurt right?

Even though it is late I pick up my phone. I see messages from the gang, but I just ignore them all. I go into my contact list and find my dad. I take a deep breath and push the call icon. As it is ringing I feel my heart beating fast.

Dad -‘Hello, Ella are you there?’

I have a hard time speaking but I manage to say ‘Hi dad’

Dad - ‘Ella tell me you are okay? I miss you!’

Ella - ‘I miss you too dad, and I am okay. Something happened between me and Liam, but i will be okay!’

Dad - ‘Ella I know. We have been surveilling Liam for some time and he seemed off. I saw how happy you were with him the last couple of weeks and I am sorry. I haven’t seen you like that since before your mother passed. I..I am sorry. I can see the good he brought you!’

Ella - ‘I loved him dad!’

Dad - ‘Ella my boss is calling me into a briefing but can you do breakfast tomorrow morning?’

Ella - ‘I would love to dad!’

The next day:

I get dressed as I am meeting my dad. I haven’t seen him in a while. I just hope we can mend things. I am still going to say with Jonas for a while, but I really hope to mend things with dad. I go out and I walk to the bus stop. Dad and I agreed to meet up at a diner close to his work and not so far from Jonas’ house when taking the bus.

I get there and see my dad sitting and waiting for me. I walk to him, and to be honest my heart is pounding. I am still nervous about the whole thing.

Dad -‘Ella it is soo good to finally see you in person! I missed you!’ He pulls me into a hug and I hug him back. I sit down and we start talking. During the talk dad asks what happened between Liam and I.

Dad - ‘All of yesterday Liam seemed off. Like he was hurting. Still today he hasn’t left his house. Not even to go to the hideout.!’

Ella - ‘I would rather not talk about it dad!’

Dad - ‘I know I was hard at the beginning, but it was really only because I didn’t want anything to happen to you! But seeing you in the pictures and just seen how happy he made you. Training you even. It made me miss you and rethink everything!’

Ella - ‘Dad it is okay. I understand why you hesitated. To be honest I am not sure I should have trusted him.’

Dad - ‘What are you talking about Ella? It seemed like he loves you so much?’

Ella - ‘Seemed like is the right word.’ I say while rolling my eyes. I don’t really want to offer dad any other information but I am however curious to how close they are to solving the case.

Ella - ‘How is the case going?’

Dad - ‘Well that was kinda why I had to leave the call yesterday. Captain told us to back down. Something about not enough evidence. We only had evidence on the boss and Lexi. But I don’t know now we have to fully stop the investigation’

Ella - ‘Ohh.’ Is all I said. I didn’t really know how to react. I still love Liam and well the gang are my friends so I don’t really want them to get caught. Lexi I wouldn’t mind but the rest not so much. Dad and I spend a couple of hours just talking. He had taken the day off just to be with me. He really did miss me and he told me he regretted every word he said that night. It finally felt like some parts of my life was getting back on track at least. Now I would just have to focus on the last two months of school.