He said he wants to call me, he said he wants to call me, he said...he..wants...to...call...me!!! I've opened my notification for two days straight yet he hasn't called me since then. Every time my phone is ringing, I dash right away but all I see is Calvin's or Billy's messages or my family's. Again, with the same question, Calvin tries to know my day and Billy repeatedly asks me to hang out with him. What if I send James the screenshots of the messages from these guys to him? Will he call me right away? Seriously? Trust me, it won't even bother him! Prisca is all he cares about.
'Knock knock knock' someone is knocking on my door. I stop moving for a while, to make sure if someone is really knocking on my door. I don't expect any guests today or tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. "Who__."
'Knock__knock__knock knock knock' from the rhythm, I know right away that it is James. I open the door in a rush and find him, the one who stands in a weary heart. I drag him into my room and tell him to take a seat, of course on the floor. "How can you grow older just in one month?" I give him water. "Are you okay? Is the case you are working on the cause of your aging face?"
"What do you mean? I am doing fine! Why do you give water? It's the first time you serve me a water, do you know that?" He smiles. "Have you two__?" I just ask this question out of formality. though I know, if they reconciled, his face won't be worn out like this. He raises his eye-brow which means he has no idea what to do. "Do__," my phone is ringing. I should have turned the notification off right after James got into my room! "Wait," for the first time after I knew him, I never received his call, Calvin is calling me. "James," I call him fearfully and give my phone to him. I know I am kind of weird. Because I am telling myself that I want a boyfriend but when a guy chases me or calls me, I can't help but freak out and reject it then and there.
By good fortune, Calvin calls me at the right time. James is here and he'll take the phone for me. "Hello, this is Silience's phone," says James seriously, as a police officer. "May I help you? I'm sorry, she isn't available at the moment. May I ask who is calling?" The polite James makes my heart beats fast. How can someone be this cool? "I asked you who is calling. I am her brother and once again who are you?" He looks irritated. "Boyfriend? Friend?" He stares at me and I disapprove of it right away. I give him a code that he is not my boyfriend. He is far from being my friend how can he hallucinate being my boyfriend? "Are you sure that you are her friend? Don't call her again, please, thanks for your cooperation," he swiftly push the 'end' button. "Who is this guy?" He frowns. "I don't know, he is Billy's friend. I thought he just wanted to make new friends, I don't know he will go this far. I mean__look at our chat!"I show him our chat room. "I tried to ignore him, but he doesn't leave me alone." When James is scanning our chat room, Billy's message emerges. "Who is this? He wants to go to the night market, run?" He reads it and gives my phone back.
"It's Billy," when the phone touches my hand, my phone is making a sound. I take Billy's call. "What?" I used to receive the call by saying 'What' instead of 'Hello' to the person who is close to me and James is aware of it. I never use 'What' to James though, because I am afraid he will get angry. "Why? You want me to go out? Now? You are here? What do you mean? You are coming here or we are going out?" Billy desperately wants me to go out with him. "Run? You want to run with me, now?" He even willing to have an evening run with me. "All of sudden__what's wrong with you?" It turns out that he feels bored staying all alone in his room and he is ready to do anything. "Let's go to the market then, at six? Ok, bye!" The phone call is over. "Who is that?" sometimes I am confused by the overprotective James. Does brother always hold his sister over-tight like this? "Billy, we are going to the night market," I say and James is fixing his gaze on me without a word. "What? Don't say you can't let me go," ask me hesitantly. "I know you are my brother, but it doesn't mean you__."
"No, I'm not your brother and you know that," the vibe becomes tense. "Do you remember you said that I am the winner on the battle between him and me?"
"Yeah__oh James, you don't have to worry about that!" I just knew that he is a very overprotective man. Not only to his sister but also to his girl. "You are still the winner! You got her and she is yours! Prisca doesn't even care about him! She only cares about you! Calm down, man__are you thinking that Billy is__kind of cheating on you? I won't persuade her to choose him just because he is nice to me. You don't have to worry, he is nothing compared to you," James seems reassured. Why does it feel like I am the supporting actor in my own story? Why can't I become the protagonist?
"So, you are going?" Asks him after my long clarification.
"Sure!" I walk to my wardrobe and choose good cloth. "What should I wear?" I am talking to myself.
"What if I ask you to stay?" his word interrupts my movement. "Will you stay?"
"Why should I?" I make a joke. "Is it because you are my brother?"
"No, because I am losing from the get-go and I need to catch up with him."
"What do you mean?" I am making sure that he is talking about me. "You are the winner!"
"How can I be the winner if you leave me to hang out with him?" Chuckles James. "I don't wanna be your brother," the smile disappears from his face.
"Okay," I beam awkwardly. "You don't have to be my brother then, I'm fine with that," it's not like I was the one who begged him to be my brother.
"I'm sorry, but I have a feeling for you__I like you, as a girl."
En-Hui is broken by her guy who left her in the cold in spite of giving her the warm hug, James is saying that he regrets letting me go when Prisca is the one he adores, and I am the one who has always been waiting for James can't even utter a word and confess that I feel the same.
On the shore, the mermaid kept looking at the socks which were thrown away by the girl. She wanted it so bad, yet all she could do was staring at it, not knowing what to do.
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Jugendliteratur"Growing up" is every kid's dream. In their eyes, it is a bar of gold that can give them everything. So did I think that way. I left my country two years before my sweet seventeen which never happened in my life, with a hope to become the new mature...
