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"Ella. Ella." she hears someone shout from behind her. She turns and it's Matt.

"Look, Matt, I can't do anything right now, I can't handle anything. I'm not in the mood for you to rub into my face that things with Tucker weren't going to work and how right you were, so, please. Save it till the morning." Ella says.

Instead of speaking back, Matt just hugged the girl immediately.

"Ella, what happened?" Matt asks quietly as he stroked his hand up and down her back while she sobbed into his shirt.

"I don't wanna talk about it," Ella answers knowing that she would begin to cry even harder if she had told him.

"Ok, that's totally okay. I'll drive you back to mine. You can stay there tonight if you want. If you don't I'll take you back to the hotel. I am driving you though." Matt offers.

"Can I stay at yours?" Ella mumbles, pulling out of the hug. "Yeah, of course, I'll give you some sweatpants to sleep in cause I doubt you wanna sleep in jean shorts and a hoodie." he laughs, attempting to lighten the air as he walks around the car to get in the driver's seat. Ella cracks a small smile at the boy as she sits in the passenger seat.

Ella instantly connects to aux and plays 'Don't Blame Me.' by Taylor Swift.

"This is the literal only Taylor Swift song I like," Matt comments as he begins to drive.

"Hey, Taylor has some bangers, shut the fuck up." Ella claims, "Mm okay." Matt replies.

"DON'T BLAME ME, LOVE MADE ME CRAZY IF IT DOESN'T YOU AIN'T DOING IT RIGHT. LORD SAVE ME MY DRUG IS MY BABY I'LL BE USING FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE." Ella shouts at the top of her lungs.

She continues to sing the song, not shouting unless it's the chorus, with Matt peacefully singing along.

"Every time you're, every time you're lovin' me. Oh Lord, save me, my drug is my baby. I'll be usin' for the rest of my life. Usin' for the rest of my life, ohhhh." Ella sings, too caught up in the song to recognize that she was using her real singing voice.

"Don't blame me, love made me crazy. If it doesn't, you ain't doin' it right-doin' it right, no. Lord, save me, my drug is my baby I'll be usin' for the rest of my life-oh. Don't blame me, love made me crazy-ooh. If it doesn't, you ain't doin' it right- you ain't doin' it right. Oh, Lord, save me, my drug is my baby I'll be usin' for-I'll be usin'- the rest of my life -I'll be usin'." she resumes, just screaming the lyrics.

"I get so high, oh, Every time you're, every time you're lovin' me, You're lovin' me, Oh, Lord, save me, my drug is my baby I'll be usin' for the rest of my life." she finishes, bowing in her seat while 'Die First' by Nessa Barrett plays.

"Deadass, no wonder your fans want you to release a song. Bro your voice is amazing." Matt praises, referring to when she had accidentally let her real voice slip. "Thank you, Matt," Ella replies, a little embarrassed that he had heard and noticed it. "Mhm, yeah of course." he grins at her before looking back at the road.

"But if one of us dies, I hope I die first, 'Cause I don't wanna live without you, I don't wanna ever learn how to fall asleep without you. Tell me what's worse? Losing you now or later. Maybe I can break the curse. And I can be in love forever. If I die first, I hope I die first" Ella 'sings' but really kinda just voices it.

"I thought you were sad?" Matt questioned with a chuckle, "I was, I am. Music just makes my mood better, so I may not be bawling my eyes out at the moment, but I'm still upset over everything." Ella answers. "Ah. Well then continue then, if it makes you happy." Matt replies.

Matt makes it to his house and he and Ella walk to his room. While he's looking for some sweatpants, Ella scans her eyes around his room.

"I've never said this, but I really like your room." Ella comments, "Oh thank you. What's funny is that like almost right before you and Baylen came down, it was like literally plain as fuck." Matt responds while Ella skims her finger across his smallish photo wall, her finger stopping at a picture of just those two at the park.

"Hey it's us." Ella says, turning to Matt who had already been walking towards her with a pair of sweatpants in hand. "That, it is." Matt replies, handing her the sweatpants, "Thanks." Ella says quietly before walking into Matt's bathroom. 

She changed then checked her phone, noticing she had 2 unread messages from Tucker.

Hey Ella, you're probably mad at me right now, but

I need you to know that the break up was for the best.

Ella you were great girlfriend towards me and I'll savor

all of our memories we made. But I can't help but

 always think that you'd give up with me and try with

Matt. I know that you guys are meant to be. Again Ella,

 I'm so sorry. I really am, hopefully we can still be friends. Read 10:55 pm

Instead of answering, Ella just broke down into tears before checking her other message.

"You comfortable?" Matt chuckles at the girl who had just thrown herself on his bed. "Very." she sniffles, smiling at him before getting under the blankets, as did he. He wraps his hands around the girl's head and pulls her closer to him.

"I know you're not ready to tell me what happened earlier, but I need you to know I'm here for you." he whispers, "I know." Ella sighs.

"Tucker texted me a little bit ago." She speaks quietly, "What'd he say?" Matt asks.

"Ok so basically earlier after you showed everyone your phone and me and Tucker needed to talk, what we had to talk about was me and him. He broke up with me because he thinks me and you are meant to be and not me and him. He kept saying how I like you and how I'm not meant to be with him, but you and so he broke up with me. So that's why I started crying. And then he texted me saying how he was sorry and how we were a good couple but I'm meant to be with you. Then he finished saying how he hoped we could still be friends. And he lied to me. He said that the thing he was doing was dance classes like what the fuck type of bitch ass pussy excuse is that?" Ella rants.

"That's so stupid of him, literally. But honestly, if I'm being honest, I think Tucker was a good boyfriend for you. You guys could have worked on everything but he chose to break up with you? That's an idiot move right there. Big mistake." Matt replies.

"Wait so what is he doing then?" Ella asks, "River told us that he does a shit ton of drugs." Matt answers simply, "But... he told me that he's completely sober and has never drank or done any of that." Ella replies with a saddened tone.

"Yeah, maybe he wasn't the one for you," Matt whispers, rubbing her back.

KIERA SPEAKS: first of all, thank you all for 1k reads on this book and for 50k on summer sweetheart (bro that bitch is #1 in team conrad and #2 in both conrad AND belly wtf), second of all don't blame me by taylor swift is such a banger