Whispers

My Cell Phone Is Not How I Left It.

The next morning I ended up sleeping in because I went to bed too early. I woke and quickly ran to shower. After I dressed myself I quickly towel dried my dyed blue hair and sighed. My phone went home with Ezekiel last night and I didn't know how to get it back.

I quickly ate a cheese bagel and ran out the door with my bag hanging loosely off my shoulder. When I arrived at the school Ray was waiting for me with a triumphant grin.

"Safe!" He chanted as if he was cheering on a baseball player. He crossed his arms and leaned against the wall. "You've got 10 minutes to tell me why Zeke had your phone."

I was about to question how he knew when he pulled my phone out of his sweater pocket. I snatched it away quickly and unlocked it. I saw the missed calls and texts from Theo and sighed. It was safe. They were all unread which means he didn't snoop through my texts. Maybe Ezekiel wasn't so bad after all.

"You need a password on that, baby boy." Ray wrapped an arm around me. He pinched my cheek and laughed as I slapped his hand away. "You'll never believe the nerve of that boy. I snooped to see if he touched or went into anything. Maybe he left a naughty photo in your album! But boy was I wrong. Hah, go look in your history and see what he did."

Hesitantly, I double clicked the home button on my iPhone and sure enough, the only last open app was contacts. I clicked it and there in my contacts was none other than "Zeke" typed in with his phone number. I went into my messages and he had left me a message with only a single emoji. A winking face.

"That son of a bitch." I exhaled and ran my hand through my still damp hair. I felt as though I could laugh but part of me was really bothered by that. "He actually put his number in my phone and added it to the favourites list."

"Gonna delete it?"

"I'll wait for now, I'm probably gonna need to get ahold of him at some point." I held back a grin as I slipped my phone into my jeans pocket. It entertained me that he actually did that.  In fact, it intrigued me a lot. I found myself not minding this "secret friendship" just yet. If he still seemed determined after that rejection I could screw with his head.

When I texted Theo about the relationship between us, he only responded with a "lol". Halfway through lunch he told me that maybe I was crushing on Ezekiel I laughed then made a point in stating that it was Theo I wanted to be with and I had asked him out in the first place.

That night I had tutoring with Ezekiel and we agreed to meet at the library. While there, we worked on the history of Canada which bored me to tears. You think being my country it would interest me but I truly had no interest in world history, rather mythology was fascinating.

"Hey kids, how is the studying going?" Ray came over and ruffled my hair obnoxiously. "Zeke told me you were studying here today so I thought I would crash the party. I could use a few pointers too, my friend."

With that we began a three way study session on the boring ass history of a country that was practically ignored by the other countries, or so I got from it at least. I loved this country, I just wished it had more interesting history. Then again, life isn't a video game with some amazing storyline and crazy creatures. However, Japan had such an amazing culture.

Once it reached nine we decided to call it quits for the night. I walked with Ray and Ezekiel until Ray went his own way. I walked awkwardly next to Ezekiel and wrapped my arms around myself uncomfortably. He wrapped an arm around me suddenly and I flinched, backing away quickly.

"Oh shit, sorry. You seemed cold. Natural reflex. I have a little sister and I do that with her! Sorry, I know you're in a relationship, I wasn't trying to hinder that or nothing!" Ezekiel immediately apologized and put more distance between the two of us. He flushed deeply and turned away. "Oh, this is my street, guess I'll go now."

I waved goodbye to him only to shiver from remembering how uncomfortable his touch was to me. I wasn't one to welcome random people touching me. I went home quickly and went over the notes one last time in hopes of solidifying what I learned. Obviously I was doing this to get my grades up.  I wasn't enjoying it, but once it was done I got to game.

I laid in bed that night tossing and turning. I tried texting Ray and Theo but it seemed that they were apparently sleeping because they wouldn't answer. I stared at the new contact on my phone and wasn't sure if it was worth the trouble. Just then my phone went off and startled me, causing me to drop it on my face. I groaned and lifted it off my face to look at it. That kid really was something.

Zeke: hey thought I could check in and see if you were okay. Wanted to apologize again for earlier.

JoJo: yeah sorry about my reaction u surprised me

Zeke: so tomorrow... We doing a session?

JoJo: I actually have a date tomorrow so no.

Zeke: okay night have a great date!!

JoJo: night

I rolled over and plugged my phone in. I turned on a quiet mix of music to hopefully lull me to sleep. After a while I found myself lost in thought. Theo and I had a date, I was excited that was why I couldn't sleep. This happened often when we had dates. We don't see each other often since we go to two different high schools.

"I just need to relax and sleep. Geez me."

The relationship between me and Theo was a weird one. We had only been together a month by that point and hadn't done much like hand holding or kissing. It was Theo's first relationship with another male so we were taking it slow. It was all weird to Theo but we both agreed to give it a shot. It was the third relationship I had been in so I was trying my best to support him with my little knowledge of relationships.

It was an awkward but seemingly successful relationship thus far.