Quarantine swipe

I'm sorry

7 days.
A whole week had passed and not a single clue from Emerson. Not a sign of life.
Nothing.

For the last couple of days feelings were threatening me to come
Out, but I locked them. So every morning, and just for a brief moment I let myself think of Emerson, just for a minute. To feel heartbroken, to feel lifeless, like I couldn't breathe without him, to feel crushed, defeated, without hope. But after that minute, after I let my heart ache for a moment I shut myself again. I tried to distract myself, I go for a run, or make myself busy cleaning or making dares with Oliver. Calling my mother, or whatever keeps my mind occupied.

After I had the interview with the new firm I made my daily call with my mom
"Hi Mom!" I said more excited than usual.
"Hey sweetie, how was the interview?" She asked
"They hired me!" I said excited
"Really?? Congratulations sweetie that's amazing" she said.
"It is!! They offered me a great deal, not like the one I had before, but still, and I'll be working from home everyday"  I said.
"I'm so happy for you" she said.
"Thanks mom" I said.
"Sooo I got some news too" she was quiet for a second then said "I met someone"
"What? Where?" I asked intrigued
"On the app" she said Then added "I'm meeting him tomorrow at the park, he's also from New Jersey, and he loves wine just like we do".
"That's great mom, just be careful, some guy from the app already asked me for money" I said, my mom was so naive that she would be the perfect target for an extortion.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine" she said.

I was so excited that I get the job on the firm, they are not as big as where I worked before but at least they weren't closed.

The next day the firm started to send me tons of work. I had to design  a campaign for a new energy drink. And I couldn't be more thrilled to be working again.
I've really missed this. I was so good at what I did, I was so dedicated.

Ollie: dare?

I looked at my phone as it buzzed, i saw Oliver's text and ignored it, I was swamped with work. And that was my priority now.
After I finished working it was almost dark, and I sat on my couch to rest, my feelings were threatening to come out again,
No, I needed to find a distraction

Then I thought of Oliver.

Andy: sorry, working, ready for the dare
Ollie: hey, no worries
Ollie: soooo.... the next dare is to break an egg on your head

Thank god I haven't showered yet

Andy: Let's make this more interesting, how about we make a FaceTime call and we both do our dares the same time

Ollie: sounds good

Incoming FaceTime call from Ollie

"Hey Andy" olly said casually
"Hey" I said a little shyly
"It's nice to see you live" he said.
"It is" I said smiling.
"So what's my dare?" He asked.
"Your dare is to shave a part of your body that isn't your face" I said with a devilish grin.
"Whaaat?"
I laughed
"You're mean" he said pointing at me.
Couple of seconds later we were both ready, I with an egg in my hands and Oliver with a razor.
"What are you going to shave?" I asked
"My armpit" he said
"At the count of three, we do it at the same time" he said and I nodded.
"1" we sang together
"2"
"3"
And at the sound of three I closed my eyes hardly and crashed the egg on my head. The warm sticky substance dropped through my neck and forehead. Making me feel nauseated.

When I opened my eyes I saw Oliver laughing his ass off at the image. His was still trying to shave his armpit between laughs.

We both bursted into laughter. And just when we were in the middle of our craziness I heard a knock on the door stopping me cold.

"Wait, there's someone at my door" I said to Oliver as I went to open my door.

And just then when I opened my door, my whole life stepped in front of me.
Emerson stood there with his sad eyes looking at me.
And my heart started aching, pounding, wanting to come out and hug him, throw myself at him and love him, kiss him, devour him. But thankfully my mind stopped me cold.
Remembering how he left me, how he shattered me.

"Andy" he said out of breath
I didn't answer, I just stood there watching him watch me with his apologetic eyes.

"Is that... egg on your head" he said with disgust
"It's non of your business, what are you doing here?" I asked madly
He sighed.
"Every day I rehearsed what I was going to say to you, but now that I'm here I have no words" he said with honest eyes and then he said "I'm sorry". His words sounded truthful.
"About what?" I said coldly.
"About leaving like that, I ... I .. my brother had a problem, I had to go there and help him" he said stumbling with his words.
"Really you don't have to say anything, and truthfully I couldn't care less about you or your brother, and as you can see im busy, so please"
I said signaling to step backwards so I can close the door.
"Andy please, don't be like this, just give me one minute to explain" he said.
"There's nothing to explain" I said with a nervous laughter, then I added "Oh and someone called about your phone, you can pick it up at the airport"
And with that I slammed my door in his face, letting all out, sobbing, crying nonsense.
Maybe I should've listen to him. To let him explain. But I was so angry at him, so hurt.

And just then I heard a noise from my computer.
I forgot that Oliver was there hearing everything.
I approached the computer
"Is everything okey?" Oliver asked
"Yes just my neighbor, sorry about that"