Page 55 of Clichés & Curses

Take your time! And drive safe.

She must have already started her drive, since she didn’t reply to my last message.

I got off the couch and went to the kitchen to put the chicken back into the freezer. Because my phone was on silent, I didn’t realize I got a new text message until I sat back on the couch.

And to my surprise, it wasn’t from Nina.

It was from Colton.

Colton:

Missing me already?

I read it once.

Then, twice.

And once more for safety measures.

Guess I wasn’t hallucinating.

After my mind was officially satisfied that what I was seeing was not a dream, a slight panic came over me.

How am I supposed to respond to this?

But thankfully, I was saved from thinking of one, when the three dots appeared, followed by another text from Colton.

Colton:

I’m not sure what time we’ll be back on Friday, and the baseball team wants to hang out that night.

And we have to attend a charity event on Sunday.

What about Saturday?

I quickly went over my calendar on my phone to see what I was up to that day. I was pretty confident of having nothing ongoing. But it seemed that the past-me had already made other plans, when I saw an all-day event titled ‘Girls’ Day Out!’

Oh right.

Nina, Claudia, Lily, and I finally had a Saturday where we could all hang out together. After that baseball team party, we hadn’t gotten around to spending a day with all four of us. But with Nina’s training, it meant I had the morning off.

I started texting Colton to tell him I was free on Saturday morning, but stopped before I could finish.

If he’s hanging out with the baseball team on Friday night, then he probably wants to sleep in on Saturday.

Clara:

I’m free on Saturday morning! But I totally understand if you want to sleep in, so we don’t really have to practice this week. I think we’ll be fine skipping a week.

Colton:

Cool.

Cool.

That’s it? That’s all he has to say?

‘Maybe he’s not much of a texter’, the logical part of my brain pointed out.

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