Anna's Pov;
First thing I did after I got home and threw myself on the bed, keeping my bag on the side was change Davis's contact name into "Dave😄." That's what I called him sometimes, out of affection. I contemplated if I should text him. Alice, my little cousin sister came and started talking about her day at school, but I could hardly relate to this ten year old girl who had a fight with a boy because he took her seat in the class, and her bestie gifted her a hello kitty key chain so her day went great overall.
I didn't know what the right thing to do was. I had caused a mess—a huge one. Davis went through so much because of me, and after much overthinking, I finally decided to text him.
"Hey Dave. Anna here, save my number :)"
I stared at the screen, regretting the overly formal tone the second I pressed send.
After a few minutes, my phone buzzed.
"You're really formal now, Marshall. What's up?"
I sighed, half relieved. It wasn't cold. At least, it didn't sound like it. I took a second and typed out the first thing that came to mind.
"The ceiling."
It was stupid, I knew it. But before I could second-guess myself again, a reply popped up.
"Hahaha."
"You can really laugh at the lamest shit," I typed back, shaking my head.
"You say the lamest shit," he shot back almost immediately.
"I know."
My fingers hovered over the keyboard before I quickly typed out the next message.
"How have you been, Dave?"
It took him a moment to reply.
"You guess."
I gave a thought, tapping out a quick response.
"Um, well... just fine, maybe?"
"How do you know?"
He was teasing me, of course. I couldn't help but lean into it.
"I just know ;)" I sent back.
"You know everything, don't you?" His message came almost immediately after, and then another popped up.
"Free after class tomorrow? We can hang out."
Well, how wonderful, I was thinking of the same thing. "Sure :)"
I hit send, feeling the smallest hint of excitement that I hadn't felt in a while.
...
My aunt called my cousins and me downstairs for lunch. We sat on the couch. "Seriously you guys are watching Zig and Sharko now?" I rolled my eyes. My days with my little cousins were like that. I watched all the stupid cartoons, listened to Alice's primary school experiences and kept myself from swearing in front of them so they do not learn any creative words but I always ended up cursing on something or a cartoon character who did stupid stuff.
As funny and weird as it may sound, I, as a eighteen year old grown adult in college, mixed up and related more with my little cousins of ten and thirteen years of age than with my twenty five year old sister. Shelly used to come home in the evening, after her medical practice. She was lazy, more than me, and she always kept the room messy, which I had to clean, so that kind of pissed me off. She once told my mom about my boyfriend when I was in seventh grade, that was embarrassing. But at the end of the day, we shared a room and we did have fun together.
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I rushed into class, late again. Waking up early had never been my thing, and catching the subway on time was even worse. Addy's classes were already over, and she'd left. I still had literature to get through.
YOU ARE READING
Invisible String.
Dragoste"She built a fortress around her shattered heart, each stone laid with ache of love lost. But someone knew her before the walls were raised, he knew her far beyond than anyone else. Even though, she always kept him at arm's length, he danced with h...
