After Maya Spencer fell asleep exhausted, he finally closed his eyes and slowly drifted into slumber.
That night, Ella Turner was sleepless. She thought about how she would leave the city she had lived in for five years the next day, about how she'd no longer have her brother, and would never see Elijah Reed again. Her heart felt blocked and suffocated with a lump in her chest that made her cry.
Holding the pillow tightly in her arms, she sobbed softly, asking, "Why don't you like me? What's wrong with me, I can change!"
She still cared about Elijah Reed, hoping for a good development with him, but eight hours had passed since Maya returned, and she still hadn't received a call from Elijah.
Ella was afraid, afraid that she wouldn't even get to see him one last time tomorrow, afraid he wouldn't come to send her off.
As she thought about things with Elijah Reed just trailing off like this, she cried more and more sadly, wetting the pillow with her tears.
