In Emersyn's Light

8- You brought me paints?

11:12 AM

August: Hey, I should be round in five

*Incoming call: Emersyn*

"Em?"

"Hey, sorry to call you, I gather you're probably driving. Wait how did you text? What-"

"I just voice thingied it."

"Oh right, good, don't text and drive."

"Of course. What's up?"

"I took Rhett out, he was having a moment, oh bub don't look at me like that- you were. He needed fresh air, we both did so we're at the beach."

"Oh right."

"Yeah, I am sorry."

"No it's fine, I was just trying to let you know I was coming."

"Mum's waiting anyway, she knows you said like eleven ish so it's okay."

"Okay Em, have a good day."

"I am really sorry I'm not there."

"Stop, it's fine, of course it's fine."

"Thankyou for grabbing mum's stuff."

"It's cool, I'll talk to you in a bit, yeah?"

"Okay, drive safe."

*Call Ended*

12:38 PM

Em: You brought me paints?

August: Yeah they were on sale, thought might as well

I haven't painted in years

Well now you have stuff to paint with

My mum is an artist but I mean yeah

I sort of overlooked that, but I just saw them and thought you might like them

Thank you August, that's really nice, but um why?

It was that or flowers and I thought flowers were a bit too romantic for what I wanted the gesture to say

And what does the gesture say?

It just says hi, thinking about you

The just in that message has me confused

I am not trying to fuck with you Em, sorry, I just saw the paints and thought you'd like them

And I am very thankful for them

Yeah?

Yeah, I am just been stuck inside with an eleven-year-old for too long, plus my brain is fried right now, sorry I really like them

Are you okay?

Yeah, I've been hyper focusing on my book and so everything gets really blurry outside of that