History of You and Me

Chapter 34

A week had passed
I was still sending him calls- well voicemails cause he never picks up. And letters under his door.
He still won't talk to me. But I'm giving him space- sorta.

But the voicemails progressively got sillier from how I was getting tired of saying practically the same thing 3 times a day.

Once I sung a song through the phone with karaoke machine I found at a garage sale. Another time I just played a movie scene that expressed how I felt but more quote-y. Then another time I even just had dahlia help me with it.

So it had been a week and a day. I'd sent 24 voicemails and 8 letters.

I was at the supermarket getting some food and i was trying to think of more ideas to get Bucky to talk to me.

I could pretend to be a pizza delivery so he'd open the door and see me
I could wait outside Celias place to wait for him to walk out- but what if he takes more than a day or.. omg I would probably see Liam
Yuck

What else.. what else
I could tell him to meet me somewhere
But it would have to be somewhere of some significance
And most of "our" places are torn down, non existent, replaced, not able to get to.. or they're just lame.

Then it hit me
I can do where we first saw each other for the first time in forever

I quickly got to a self checkout isle to pay for my things and ran out to my car.

I looked inside the place, there was some people inside but not much. I looked up at the familiar blinking sign then went in

"Diane! It's been forever"
"Hi!"
The girl wiped her hands on his apron and walked over to embrace me in a big hug
"How have you been"
She asks me
"I've been.. ok.."
"Understandable"
She goes back behind the counter
"Well doll welcome to Izzy's Fizzies, want anything?"
She giggled

"No I'm good. I actually had a request"
"Ooh! Come to the back and we can discuss"
She took my hand and guided me to the back where drinks were being made by one girl and another was making some food

She took me into the office that they had barley used for anything but gossiping.

"Spill"
The girl commands and I do so
"Alright. So there was this guy that I used to know but we lost touch. But I found him again and I met him back here. I kinda messed things up and I wanted to try and get him to talk to me again and I thought having him meet me here would be great"

The girl thought for a moment
"So you wanna do a cute grand gesture"
"Exactly"
"We can close this place early for you. Hang some string lights up we use for Christmas and you could even get some candles and put them around me make it all cute"
"I absolutely love that.. but how early do you think you can close?"

She looks at the clock that hangs on the wall
"Eight?"
"That's perfect. And I will pay you guys for the time you're taking out for me"
"Of course anything you for you girly"
She pulled me into another hug then went off to tell her coworkers

I walked out feeling pleased and excited yet nervous to see Bucky.

I went home and found a dress I could wear. It was short, about down to my middle thigh. It was black and had a square neckline, then puff sleeves that covered just above the elbow.

I pulled out a piece of paper and wrote out.. basically an invitation to meet at 8:30 at Izzy's Fizzies. I didn't say why so we could talk, fight, or do whatever was needed when we saw each other. I just wanted to talk to him. However it may play out.

So then I put the letter in an envelope and drove to Buckys place. I slid the note under his door then knocked.
I saw a shadow pass the door and stop at the door so I went back down the stairs.

I went home and unpacked my groceries.
I couldn't stop looking at the clock. It would be seconds since the last time I checked but I still couldn't help but look.

I didn't know what my emotions were earlier but now I'm purely just nervous