Unknown Caller (Lucas) WayV 2

8. Meet Up

I stand on our balcony and look outside at the beautiful sight and it's summer, it just makes me happy.
“Hello?” I ask when I pick up the phone without looking at it since I was deeply into the view.

“It’s me Xiaojun, I was thinking about you,” he says calmly. Did he just say he thought about me? The Xiaojun I met ages ago tells me for the first time he was thinking about me after I got a wounded heart.

Hearing his voice makes my stomach tighten up, my heartbeat faster and all I want to do is ask why he called. “Hey Xiaojun, what’s up?” I say as I pretend to have my body and reactions under control.

Around him I have never been calm, hearing his voice makes my body tickle, seeing him makes me blush, and being around him makes me be the best version of myself.

“I haven’t gotten to see you, wondering if you wanna meet up,” he asks smoothly and I get a slight shock. I was going to ask him in a few days if he wanted to meet up since I came all the way actually to see him. “Sure, where?” I ask without letting my happiness show.

I know that if he heard me scream or that my voice got brighter, he would be suspicious of something. “The café XXX” he said and we ended the phone call.

It was thrilling to know that he wanted to see me, if I am being honest sometimes I feel like he just was suspicious of something. Xiaojun is a very emotional guy, I like that about him because so am I.

But from time to time, it's hard to read him well enough to predict the situation. “Alexandra, how about a break? For twenty minutes” I say as I get back from the balcony. It was much warmer inside and it was more lovely here, even if it looks like a mess.

“You think I can take a break?!” she yells when I suggest that she needs a break. She is overworking herself. I am selfish but I need here when I see Xiaojun so that I don’t lose my god damn mind when I see his perfect face with his sharp eyes. “Fine, but I might leave earlier,” Alexandra says and grabs her car keys.

It's so early in the morning that almost nobody is walking around the streets. I look at the foggy window, people holding hands, children running and cars honking. None of it was outside, it was quiet and empty.

“That’s the café,” I say when I see Alexandra parking, she smiles and knows that I have something on my mind. I don’t mind her knowing, but right now it’s a lot to take in and I already think she has enough.

“Who are we meeting? It’s extremely early” she says and locks the car as she opens the café door for me. “Just a friend of mine, the one I talked to before coming here,” I say slowly without letting out any secrets of my own. “That Xiaojun, the idol one?” she asks confused and I reply with a “He is here already”.