"Honey what's wrong?" My mom frowned with concern.
"Nothing" I replied, "Why do you ask?"
"You've been so quiet lately and all you do is stay in your room. Did something bad happen with you and Rita?" She asked and stared at my face, trying to figure what the hell was going on.
"No." I mumbled as I fiddled with the double fudge cake on my plate that I would've normally eaten in a heartbeat, but I didn't have the appetite.
My mom was really trying to do everything to make me happy the entire but nothing seemed to be working and I felt bad about it, but I couldn't help it. She bought me Grand Theft Auto 5 on PC, rented all my favourite movies of all time, made carnivore pizza and made my favourite dessert; she even let me eat in the living room instead of the dining room.
But it wasn't working.
"Do you miss Alistair?" She cooed very gently because she knew it would be something I would hate to admit to anyone.
" Shdmd" I mumbled and shrugged and tried to focus on the movie The Maize Runner.
"You know its okay to miss him, right?" She sighed and sat next to me on the carpet, helping herself to a forkful of the double fudge cake I had trouble eating," I'm pretty sure he misses you more than you'll ever know."
"Hmm" I shrugged again and tried to focus on anything but my mom who was trying to have a deep meaningful conversation with me.
"You like him." She stated and ran her delicate fingers through my coarse, thick hair," I'm glad you've made a new friend you care about." She then stood up from where she was seated next to me and went to kitchen," I'm going to make a phone call, in the mean time please try and enjoy yourself baby, Alistair will be back in no time."
"Shdmd" I mumbled again and miserably ate my pizza.
The horrible horrible truth was that I really did miss Alistair and I really didn't want to. Its only for two weeks, I couldn't explain to myself why I was being so over dramatic about it. What really got me confused was that It didn't feel like how it normally does when I miss Rita or mom when I don't see them for weeks on end.
It was on a whole another level of longing.
And its weird and embarrassing because it feels like I could cry any moment and its stupid, totally, absolutely stupid to miss someone this much who you don't even know that well.
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I forced to go to Sean's the next day by my mom because I needed some cheering up, which I was grateful for since all I seemed to be doing was sulking in my room for no reason.
Sean could obviously see I wasn't feeling like myself, but unlike my mom, he didn't bombard me with any questions and we just spent the morning playing video games in comfortable silence; usually when there was no one home at Sean's he would throw a big house party but I felt pretty happy that he didn't this time.
"What do you do if you miss someone?" I quietly asked as I ate my McFlurry with little enthusiasm.
"Is that what's up?" He raised his head at me from where he was lying on the slide on the kid's jungle gym. We spent the rest of the day walking around everywhere, the library, the mall, the park; We didn't try any Parkour or skating boarding tricks, and Sean himself didn't try to pick up any girls.
"Yeah" I mumbled and stared at the sunset from the swing I sat myself upon, Sundream by Rufus playing softly on Sean's iphone 6.
"Like what, did you recently get in a relationship?" He sat up fully and walked over to me, sitting in the empty next to me.
"Pretty much" I stared at the grass beneath my feet.
"Well its totally okay to miss someone, or even something " He shrugged," Sometimes I miss you when I'm away, othertimes I miss my skateboard" He replied casually.
" I mean, I miss people and stuff all the time but this time its weird; its really powerful like I could cry." I cringed at myself.
"Well then you obviously care about them. I cry about my mom sometimes whenever she has to fly to Canada for like a week or something; It makes it more painful if its someone you spend almost every day with, or maybe it hurts less for others. Everyone's different; Plus its a pretty freshly baked relationship, so you're probably in the honey moon phase."
"Freshly baked?" I frowned at his terminology," Really Sean?"
"What I'm trying to say is," He rolled his eyes in irritation at me, Your relationship with this person is still new and fragile like a baby, and when a mom is away from her newly born baby then there's going to be more strain on the baby then when a mom is away once her child is 16 years old."
"Did you just use a metaphor for a relationship?" I gaped at him in surprise.
"I guess I did. Holy shit I should write a poem about it!" He told himself excitedly.
"Yeah don't go too ahead of yourself" I chuckled, the atmosphere immediately lightening up.
"Whatever; But really, if you really miss this person the first thing to do is call them or text and say yo, I'm missing you.' Problem solved. Don't be too clingy though because nobody likes that shit" He shuddered at the thought a clingy girlfriend.
"Thanks." I nodded and we watched the sunset engulf the sky in settled silence.
"Omg we just had our first Deep Meaningful Conversation" Sean gasped with delight, " I really feel like we're ready for the next step in this friendship."
"And what's that?" I sighed dramatically.
He cleared his throat and got down on one knee before looking at sincerely," Will you be a member of my clan in Clash of Clans ? "
"Wow" I rolled my eyes so hard it hurt," I'd thought you'd never ask. Yeah fine whatever." I sighed.
"He said yes!" He said out loud as he typed it out onto the group page.
"Wow." I deadpanned, glaring at him when he tried to take multiple selfies with me as we walked back to his house.
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"Kyler!" My mom shouted from the kitchen, "You left your cellphone here on the counter and someone is trying to call you!"
"Okay fine! I'm coming!" I growled as I stomped down to the kitchen in irritation as I grabbed the phone without looking at the digits, " What?" I hissed into the phone as I walked back into my room and slammed the door behind me.
"Kyler?" The confused voice replied and I felt my chest tighten.
"Oh hey Alistair!" I immediately cooed in a pleasantly surprised voice," Sorry, I didn't recognise the number." I apologised.
"Its okay" He replied more confident and and cheerful," I just wanted to let you know I've landed in Poland; I wanted to call you sooner but I had to take 2 more planes before reaching my final destination"
"No problem" I cooed gently and I didn't know why I kept talking in that tone," I missed you" I immediately blurted out and inwardly cursed myself.
"Really?" He sounded genuinely surprised, like he never knew I even possessed the ability to miss someone, let alone," I missed you too" and I could imagine him blushing as he said the words.
"That's awesome" I awkwardly replied and I couldn't stop smiling.
"Very awesome" He replied and I had a feeling he couldn't stop smiling either.
"So tell me, what's been happening so far?" I asked with as much enthusiasm as I could, anything to keep him talking; because as stupid and weird abnormal as it was, hearing his voice filled my chest with this weird awesome feeling I couldn't put a name, but whatever it was it felt pretty amazing.
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