Love & Time (AshRald)

Love & Time - Chapter 3

Chapter 3

After hours of the “getting-to-know-you chat” which was mostly me getting to know her, I’m finally lying here in my new bed inside my new room. I thought it would never end because she even cancelled her night out with Frank, which she forgot, after he called her to ask where she is.

 ‘Jeez, that girl could talk for hours without getting tired but anyway she’s fun to talk with, I’m sure we’ll be good friends. Oops, I forgot we’re already best friends.’ I smiled at the thought.

I looked around the room and saw my clothes scattered on the floor after looking for my pajamas which I failed to find that I just ended up wearing a shirt and sweatpants.

 ‘I’ll fix my things first thing tomorrow.’ I thought. ‘But for now I really have to get some sleep.’

‘New day, new beginnings.’ I thought before finally falling asleep.

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I was awaken by the sound of an alarm ringing, still sleepy, I quickly searched for it in the nightstand to turn it off without opening my eyes and just using my hand.  After a minute or so, the alarm is still ringing because my hand haven’t found it yet; irritated, I sat up and looked at my left where my nightstand is supposed to be but I saw an unfamiliar nightstand instead.

That’s when I realized that I’m not in my favorite bed, in my room in our house in the Philippines but rather in California, in my new apartment, in my new room and in my new bed; and the sound I thought was my alarm was actually my cellphone notifying me that someone is calling.

After that realization, I quickly stood up to searched for the phone but then the ringing suddenly stopped.  Standing, I waited for it to ring again but it did not after some moments later. Thinking that it’s still early, seeing my room still dark, I decided to disregard the phone call and just go back to sleep.

My butt was just an inch away from the softness of the bed when the phone rang again. Annoyed, I scrambled back to my feet and switched the light on to continue my search.  I was about to topple the bed so I can search under it when I saw my pajama, the pajama that I wasn’t able to find last night.

“I was looking for you last night but you didn’t show up and now you appear out of nowhere when I don’t need you, so cliché.”  I said to the pajama.

So I just ignored it and was about to continue looking for the phone when it stopped ringing, again.

“Arggh!” I said, throwing my hands up because of so much frustration. “Really?”

Thinking that the phone might ring again, I waited and sat at the edge of the bed while staring at my pajamas. But instead of ringing I just heard a short beep, a message alert.

“How am I supposed to find that freaking phone now?”  I said bitterly and I added, “What a way to start the day..”

Sleepiness gone, I stood up and just decided to start the day with tidying my room. With that thought I decided to pick my pajamas first that was under the closet; how it got there, I don’t know. As I was picking up my pajamas I saw something white under the closet near the wall, curious to what it is, I reached for it. When I was already holding it, my arm and hand still under the table, I thought the white thing feels like my phone.  To confirm it, I pulled my arm out and saw that the white thing was really my phone.

“How?!” I asked myself, baffled as to how my pajama and phone got under the closet.

After some moments of finding answers to the question, in which I failed, I finally noticed the unopened message and saw that it was from my brother.