I rolled over and over but I still couldn't sleep as my thoughts kept wandering back to Ryder. He was definitely the first boy I spoke to without being introduced to by Kody.

I kept on thinking about him and then I just admitted to myself that I couldn't sleep, so I took Ryder's phone out of my bag and went through his gallery since he didn't ask me not to see it. He asked me not to show Zoey but he didn't ask me not to see it.

As I scrolled down his pics I noticed that he barely had a photo of Zoey on his phone. Instead, he had pictures of his friends and random stuff like food. After a lot of strolling, Ryder and Zoey's image finally popped up. Zoey seemed to be laughing in the picture while Ryder had his arms around her giving the camera a tight smile.

I let out a small laugh escape my mouth as I examined Ryder's uncomfortable expression. 

Out of no where Ryder's phone started ringing and I furrowed my eyebrows. Who would be calling so late at night? I glanced at the ID and noticed that it was mine and answered it without any hesitation.

Thousand questions were flooding my mind. 

What if he wanted to say that he looked through my gallery?

What if he says that he accidentally deleted all the data of my phone? All my dance recording would be deleted then. Oh, please, please don't let that be true!

 I pressed the phone to my ear and he just sleepily groaned.

"Zoey's calling, I mean she's asking you to pick her up from Christina's house... her car broke down."

"Thanks, one second. Does she know you have my phone?"

"No, I just let her talk and then disconnected and then called you up."

"I don't even know why she has to go to those parties?" I muttered to myself.

"Sorry? Did you say something?" he asked.

"No," I quickly answered.

" Okay. By the way, does she hate you or something like that?" he asked.

" Yeah, you can think of it like that..."I answered trailing off.

" She was calling you an idiot and worthless now and then and she was screaming on the phone as if I couldn't hear what she was saying. Is she always like that?"

"Most of the times," I admitted, "She feels embarrassed to tell anyone about me Only her friends know about me and half of them have never even seen me. So I wasn't quite surprised when you told me that Zoey never told you about me."

"Why? You seem like a pretty sweet girl to be quite honest,"

I found myself blushing at his comment. "Oh. Thanks, I guess,"

"You don't get compliments very often, do you?" he asked.

"No," I breathed out.

"Why aren't you the party right now?"

"Sleep's too important,"

"Similar thoughts over here," I said chuckling as I shook my head.

"Listen, I'm going to go pick her up," I said as I slid off bed and put on a pair of red Vans on, "Bye," I said before ending the call.

"Bye,"

I grabbed the car and home keys when I realized that I had no idea who Chrissy was or where her house was. Or was it Casey? Chris-Cristen-Christina! 

Thank goodness, I just slept with my normal clothes on today. I was just too lazy to go change, and look it's paying off now.

I ended up calling Ryder once again.

"Sorry to disturb you, but where's her house again?" I asked.

"16 Street, Next to McDonalds."

" Thanks. Bye,"

" Bye. Actually, wait. One last thing!"

"What now?" I asked, irritated.

" This person called Kody has been calling you over and over again and I'm pretty sure she hit the thirtieth mark,"

" Please for the love of god, don't tell me you hung up on her," I asked hopefully.

"About that... I did hang up. Every single time," he admitted.

"You did not-" I was cut off. He seemed to have known me very well by now as he just end the call the time he knew I would explode.

He left me with my mouth open in astonishment. One thing was for sure, Kody wasn't going to be leaving me alive.

I mentally groaned for ,firstly, waking up at 2 a.m. just to get my stupid sister, step- sister actually, and two, I was still really mad at Ryder for disconnecting Kody's calls like that. Who in the world did he think he was?

Still furious, I rushed off to the address Ryder told me about. I heard loud music from a corner and just followed the beats. I looked outside but there couldn't find her. Oh please, no. I didn't want to get into that stinking house.

Seeing that I had no choice, I went in there, swarmed with loads of sweaty, drunk bodies. Gross.

I bumped into a load of people, swaying their hips to the music, muttering a few apologies along the way. 

There I saw Zoey sleeping in the couch with her phone in her hand making it obvious that she drank too much.

I shook her but she still didn't wake up, so I figured that I would have to carry her to my car. I sighed at the dreaded thought. 

I picked her up, and ran to my car. At the middle, I almost thought that I would definitely have dropped dead from exhaustion cause she was heavy! She was so god damn heavy!

Placing her on the back seat, I drove slowly back home as I was pretty sure that if I sped up, she would just roll and fall onto the floor.

Finally, we made it home. This wasn't the first time I was doing this.

I placed her on the sofa and put a blanket around her to keep her warm for the night. Exhausted by all the work, I sprawled onto my bed.

And just like that, I was out like light.

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Picture on top is Ellie Goulding I chose to act as Zoey (the mean and popular step-sister of Kylie.)

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