Kelanie sat quietly in her car, she had finally calmed herself down after crying for almost an hour. “Alex,” she sniffled, trying to hide the tremble in her voice as she picked his call. “Hey, I was wondering when you would be back, dad wanted to see everyone,” Alex said into the phone. Kelanie rubbed her throat in confusion, today just seems to be getting better and better. “I really can’t right now, but I’ll try to be home as soon as I can make it,” Kelanie whispered, a tiny sob breaking out of her. “are you crying?” Alex asked, in voice dripping with worry at the tone of her voice. “no, no, just my allergies acting up,” Kelanie quickly deflected. “okay, stay safe, and get back as soon as you can,” Alex said ending the call. Kelanie felt dejected, everything was moving too fast and she barely had control over it. Her phone rang startling her from her internal musing, “melody,” Kelanie picked up the call, trying to keep her voice steady. “hi Kelanie, so glad I could get to
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