☆ Serendipitous Love ☆ - Joost Klein

☆ 3. Diner ☆

"Are you taking song requests?"

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The next morning I had woken up feeling refreshed, like a new person, maybe a good sleep was all I needed. I sat up on the bed realising I hadn't even gotten under the sheets. I picked up my phone that had fallen onto the floor in the night.

8 unread messages from Max. I chose to ignore them, a response is what he wants. He wants to scare me into going back home but I won't, not again. Not this time or any other time.

I zoned out for a moment, the phone still in hand. When I eventually drew myself back to reality I looked back down at my phone, it made me think. I wonder why I didn't think to ask Joost for his number? Or an even bigger question that took over my mind, why didn't he ask me for mine? He made it clear to me that he liked talking to me and hoped to see me again yet he didn't give me his number or even told me his last name? Hm, odd.

I'm not sure why Joost has become such a big part of my mind, after all, he's just some guy I just by happened to be sat next to at the airport. Really speaking, it's not anything special at all yet I was still thinking about him?

These thoughts were interrupted by my phone vibrating. I looked down to see someone ringing me, to my surprise it wasn't Max. It was my sister Keighley?, and it wasn't very often that she called. In fact, it wasn't very often I spoke to any of my family, Keighley was the only one that checked up on me every so often. I looked around the dull room contemplating if I should answer. What if it's to do with max? I thought.

"Keighley?" I said while putting her on loud speaker. "Everything alright?" I added as she didn't reply straight away. She filled the silence "Rhiannon where are you, Max was at our house just now, searched it high and low for you until daddy threw him out. He said something like you've gone for good? Did something happen between you two?"

I was quiet for a moment, a wave of anger washed over me knowing that Max had searched my parents house and most likely without their permission. "Right" I paused, "If I tell you where I am you absolutely cannot tell Mum, Dad or Max. ESPECIALLY max" I emphasised. "Uh I won't, Rhiannon what's going on I don't like this?" She responded sounding genuinely concerned, which was a shock to me.

"I'll tell you just promise me that they will not find out" I said sternly. "Okay okay I won't I promise, I'd pinky promise you but I don't know where you are", she was silent, waiting for me to respond. I sighed "Don't freak out, I'm in Friesland". "Okay, where the fuck is Friesland" I could hear her laughing slightly, did she think I just made that up or something.
"It's um, it's in the Netherlands. Don't freak out I'm fine I jus-".

"What the fuck are you doing in the Netherlands? Are you with anyone??" She cut me off, her tone had changed. I began to explain to her why I was here, missing out any physically abuse I had received from Max. I also explained to her that I didn't know how long I was going to be here for and the fact I have no idea what I'm actually doing with my life right now. It was a lot of information to take in so she didn't speak for a while. "So you ran away to a whole different country because you and your roommate had a disagreement?" She eventually said, sounding unserious, almost trying to me make me sound stupid in a way.

I started to pick the skin around my thumb thinking of a response. "No keigh, it's m-more complicated than that" I was now trying to hold back tears knowing that I wanted to tell her the real reason I had left max. "There's more to the story but I can't tell you, not just yet. Just trust me on this one, I'm fine" "Hmm mkay" I could hear the suspicion in her voice, "As long as your alright, right?" "Oh I have never been better" I lied.