You wake up abruptly to the sound of your alarm. You reach over with your eyes still closed. You feel around for your phone. You bring it to your face and open one eye and shut it off. You place it next to you on the bed. You lay there for a moment. You finally open your eyes and look over to the end of the bed. You can't help but picture Steve laying there in your robe scrunching his face at you. It's been a few weeks since you've heard from him.
"I need to stop." you sit up.
You pull the blanket off and walk over to your window and pull back the curtain. You breathe in and breathe out before turning around and walking out of your bedroom out to the kitchen.
You reach the fridge and the drawing Steve gave you is there with a cow-printed magnet holding it up. A small note you hadn't noticed before on the edge of it reads *I will always come back to you*.
"Damn it, Steve." You rub your eyes before pulling the fridge door and grabbing the Brita.
You pour water into the coffee machine and turn it on. You stand there with an empty stare at the backsplash before being snapped back into the room to your phone ringing.
You run to your bedroom throwing your blanket around till you grab your phone. It's your new client.
"Hello?" you gasp.
"Hi Y/N, sorry to call you so early but I hope we can reschedule today? Something has come up." The voice on the other end says.
"Yes, of course, Is everything ok?" You rush over to your desk
"Yes everything is ok, I didn't remember my fiancé's surprise wedding brunch was today. I hope it's ok to cancel so last minute." Your client responds.
"It's no problem Brian, it was just a lunch to go over the plans I had been emailing about. I like lunch plans just to be a bit formal but we can either reschedule or I can work out a Google doc to share with you guys and maybe schedule a phone call to go over it. I don't want to pressure you into figuring all that out right now but let's just make a placeholder appointment for now?" you set your phone on speaker as you wake up your computer.
"We can totally do lunch next week? For now, let's just make an appointment and we can get back to you tomorrow if that's ok?" He asks.
"We can totally do that, how does Friday or Saturday at 3 sound?" you say as you sit back in your desk chair.
"I'll take Friday. I'll talk to Claudia later tonight and get back to you tomorrow morning. Thank you so much talk to you soon." He responds
"Alright have fun, talk to you later bye." you end the call.
You sit back up and you type out *Lunch with Claudia and Brian @ 3*. You watch the text cursor blinking and begin to zone out again. When your downstairs buzzer goes off startling you.
"Who the hell could that be?" you walk over as the buzzer goes off again.
"Gees." you rush over
"Who is it?" you buzz down
"It's Natasha, we met a few weeks ago. Can we talk?" she replied.
"Yeah, umm come on up." you buzz her in
You begin to panic. * What happen? What's going on? Is Steve okay?*
You pace in the hall before catching a glimpse of yourself in the mirror.
"Omg, I haven't even brushed my teeth," you mutter as you try to tame your bedhead.
Then there is a tap at the door. You take a deep breath before opening the door.
