"I'm so excited." Ellis is sitting on my bed Indian style with his elbows on his knees and eyes gleaming. "Your eyes will just meet across the airport then suddenly you'll be in his arms and all will be perfect."
"I don't think it'll be like that," I reply, tossing some underwear in my carry-on-size suitcase, the only luggage I'm bringing.
"You guys will be fine once you see each other again - and actually talk."
"I don't know." My chest feels tight with anxiety, as if slowly, inconspicuously asphyxiating me.
"These are cute." He picks up one of those silk-lace combos and waves it around. "Risqué."
"I'm worried."
"I know." He drops the underwear and pulls on my arm so that I sit down next to him. He curls his arm around my shoulders. "It'll be okay, I promise."
"How do you know?"
"I just do. I have psychic powers." He smiles in that sparky way of his and strokes my hair. "Don't you know that if it's not okay it's not the end?"
"That's the biggest load of crap. Everything ends not-okay."
"I believe it'll be okay."
"Thank you."
"Anytime, Katherine. Anytime."
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I feel like every time I get to chapter 69 something big is happening
(Mwahahahahaahhahaha it wasn't that funny oh wheel I'm snickering i only realized it was april fools day at like 11 smh)
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Conversations From Afar
Storie breviSEQUEL TO BALCONIAL CONVERSATIONS | In which Katherine and Cambriel suffer the ups and downs of a long distance relationship | Wattys 2016 | cover by the fabulous @kdkellow
