━━ ↷ 🗒✴︎🔭∘ଂ🧺 DAMAGED!
[ 002. THE TABLE READ ]
𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒, 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚, 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠

𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐀 started to walk out of the airport and saw aubrey and max holding slushies. she started to run up to them and once they noticed her they all collapsed onto the floor as they met half way. the girls were squealing and they stood up. "GUYS I MISSED YOU" stella practically screamed at them. "WE GOT YOU YOUR FAVOURITE FOOD, BLUE RASPBERRY SLUSHIES BECAUSE YOU'VE EDUCATED US FOR HOURS ABOUT HOW SLUSHIE'S ARENT LIQUIDS" max beamed at her. "people are staring at us" aubrey whispered softly. "let's go and thank you guys". as they started to rush outside to get into a cab, photographers and reporters started taking pictures and asking questions.

𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊'𝐒 soft winter breeze blew around the girls. once they finally made it inside, stella started to check her dms. her phone buzzed and that's when she realised who the text was from, it was jaeden. stella's face went pale just as aubrey and max looked over to her. "hey stella, what's wrong?" aubrey asked concerned. when stella didn't respond, both girls looked down at her phone and saw the notification from jaeden. max immediately snatched stella's phone out of her hand and read what jaeden texted her. "the hell does he want?" max said frustrated. "guys let's not make this ruin our day please? we'll go have fun and once we get back to the hotel, i'll read it and deal with it". the girls agreed and decided to go ice skating.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐊 wasn't as crowded as they all thought it would be, but it was still busy. stella was happy but she couldn't stop thinking about what jaeden could have texted her. 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒? 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒? 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒? stella quickly erased the thoughts from her mind and tried to focus on having a good time with her friends.

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𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐀 finally got back to her hotel room. they all agreed on sleeping in seperate rooms, partly because they had their first table read the next day and if they were all in the same room, they'd be up all night but also because of the text jaeden sent stella. the girls all said goodnight to each other and parted ways. stella turned on her phone and read the text jaeden sent her.

𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠
𝐣𝐚𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧.

𝐣𝐚𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧.
hey, so the table read's tomorrow
and i was wondering if you had an
extra copy of the script for episode 1?
𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒕 11:30𝒂𝒎

𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 🤩
uhm no sorry
ask wyatt or jack.

𝐣𝐚𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧.
i did but they said that
they're not going to
help my dumbass for
forgetting the script

𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐀 look at the message he sent and smiled. she didn't know why and tried to stop but she couldn't. it was such a jaeden thing to forget important stuff but stella quickly remembered why they stopped being "friends".

𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 🤩
why are you even talking to me
do you need a memory refresher?

𝐣𝐚𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧.
about what?
𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒕 8:30𝒑𝒎

𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐀 was infuriated with jaeden's response. 𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡, 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 ℎ𝑒. ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒. she sat her phone down and shut it off for the night and turned on the tv and watched the office for a little bit before falling asleep.

𝐒𝐎𝐅𝐓 𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐑𝐀𝐘𝐒 peaked through the curtains of stella's room. she slowly woke up and opened her curtains. she peered over new york's gorgeous view and reality settled in, once again. 𝑖𝑚 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑗𝑎𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦. stella sighed and got dressed. stella wore black yoga pants paired with a red, white and navy blue stripped sweater and dr marten's.

𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝐚𝐮𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐲𝐣𝐚𝐲𝐝𝐞, 𝗺𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐞𝐜𝗼𝐥𝐞𝗺𝐚𝐧, 𝐣𝐚𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐲, 𝐰𝐲𝐚𝐭𝐭𝗼𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 100,682 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠

𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝗺𝗼𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞: table reads make me 😆
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𝐰𝐲𝐚𝐭𝐭𝗼𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐟 can't wait to see you again stella :)
↳ 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝗺𝗼𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 missing you 🥺

𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟1 aHH IM SO EXCITED TO SEE HSMTMTS S2 - THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR !
𝖼𝗈𝗆𝗆𝖾𝗇𝗍 𝗅𝗂𝗄𝖾𝖽 𝖻𝗒 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲

𝗺𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐞𝐜𝗼𝐥𝐞𝗺𝐚𝐧 STELLA HURRY UP, YOUR FOODS GETTING COLD
↳ 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝗺𝗼𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 OKAY IM COMING SORRY

𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟2 ^^ their friendship 🤝

𝐚𝐮𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐲𝐣𝐚𝐲𝐝𝐞 stella stop looking so cute and hurry up, we're going to be late 😤
↳ 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝗺𝗼𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 IM COMING DOWN NOW, CALM DOWN.

𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟3 jaeden keeps liking her pictures?

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𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐀 rushed all over her room, packing everything she'd need for the day and finally made it out of her room by 8:23am. aubrey and max stood up once they saw stella and hugged her as they exchanged goodmornings to one another. aubrey and max were hesitant to ask about what stella did with jaeden's text messages. "so how did everything go with jaeden last night?" max stomped on aubrey's foot for being so abrupt with the subject matter and aubrey gave an apologetic look at both stella and max. stella sensed how uneasy they both seemed, "it's okay max. he just wanted to know if i had a spare copy of the script for today and i said no". the two girls nodded and they all started to talk about how excited they all were for the day.

10:30𝐚𝗺 came around much faster than they all would have imagined. they finally made it outside of the building since traffic was much worse than usual because of the snow. the minute stella came out of the car, she saw wyatt and smiled. then, out of the corner of stella's eye, she saw who she dreaded to see since last week. jaeden. his signature beanie popped out of the cab while his hair was peeping just under it. his cheeks and nose were tinted a soft pink and he rushed inside. stella hadn't realised that her two best friends were screaming her name until jaeden got inside. she snapped back into reality and rushed into the front entrance. 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑖 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑚? 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑖 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚? ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑎- stella bumped into a tall figure and begged that it wasn't jaeden. fortunately it was wyatt and stella smiled up at him. "WYATT!" stella beamed at the boy and pulled him into a long embrace.

𝐀𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐒 the room jaeden saw the whole event happen. he couldn't help but feel a little jealous of his best friend, it's not like it was his fault but he just wished that stella would have been the one to hug him or she bumped into him instead.

𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐀 asked wyatt millions of questions ranging from, how he's been to what he's been working on to what his plans are for the future. aubrey and max noticed that jaeden was looking a little uncomfortable so aubrey started talking to jaeden. "on the script it said that jack was part of the cast?" aubrey said shyly, not wanting to admit that she really sort of had a crush on him. jaeden catched onto what she was doing, "uhm yea, he's going to be a little late today but he'll show up" jaeden smiled down at the girl. "okay" aubrey rushed away after their awkward encounter.

𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌 walked into the meeting room and sat down. stella sat in between aubrey and max and was across from jaeden. next to jaeden was wyatt and an empty seat for jack. next to jack was joshua, olivia and matt. next to wyatt was sofia, julia and frankie. larry sat next to aubrey and dara sat next to max. they all started to chat to one another but as wyatt was talking to jaeden, jaeden was stealing glances at stella. max noticed and kept a note of it to tell stella later. the room broke into a silence the minute jack walked into the room. he awkwardly shifted to his seat and the chatter started to fill the room again. aubrey was practically drooling in her seat the minute jack sat across from her. stella and max giggled each time they looked at aubrey since she looked like a lovesick puppy.

𝐋𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐇𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 came around and after reading half of the script for episode one, everyone was starving. "how about we go get italian food?" olivia suggested. everyone agreed and got up.

━━━ authors note! 
this chapter is so
long but ngl i kind
of like it 😔✋🏻
xoxo, angie!