The Snapchat Mistake That Lead To Ethan Wacker

Chapter 3 The Phone Numbers

Ethan and I have been snap chatting, video snap chatting and Instagram messaging each other for a while now.(a couple weeks) We have gotten to know each other a lot. I grew on the only messaging and talking online thing, it's pretty neat. I've never been able to tell people how I feel and what I think, I just end up keeping everything to myself.But with Ethan and the, not in person thing I have been able to tell Ethan about a lot of things that happen in my life and other things that I never told anyone before.

It's the middle of the summer and there are only 2 more months of summer break left and I want to make the most out of it, and do the most that I can before I have to go back to school. I am with the goats in the goat pen messing around with them when I get a message from Ethan. I love when I talk to Ethan, it makes my day a whole lot better. When I open up his message on Instagram it's quite long and I get kinda worried because he wrote a lot then he usually does. His message states, "We have been messaging and talking for quite a while and I really like you and I think your smart, funny, pretty, and talented and I can talk to you about anything and almost all the time you get what I'm saying even though it's weird and stupid and I get what you're saying even when your weird and goofy. Anyway, now that I think about it I shouldn't have written all this just to ask you this but I will anyway. I don't have a lot of people's phone numbers beside my family and work and stuff but I think that I want your number. This is way longer than it needed to be but whatever, Do you want to switch phone numbers?"

When I read this I am kinda happy because it sounds like he really likes me and I really like him and he wants to trade numbers and I don't have that many people on my phone. And this might sound lame and stupid but to me switching phone numbers is a big thing because that shows that someone wants to be able to talk to you and call. When it's over social media, it's like anyone can talk to anyone on social media but with texting and stuff, you can only talk to the people you choose to talk to.

The only problem, well it's not really a problem is that nobody knows about Ethan or that I've been talking to Ethan. I didn't tell them about him because I thought that they would disapprove or make fun of me for it so I just kept it a secret so that I wouldn't get hurt.

I still haven't replied back to his can I have your number dm, so I go outside and start to think while I sit by the baby calves. Then, when I least expect it Cody comes from behind me and says "Who's Ethan and why does he want your number?" I got scared and jump back a little freaked out that out of everyone it had to be him who found out about Ethan.

Cody is a guy in my class who lives in the culdesac next to where I live and he comes over almost every day to help outside in the barn. I kinda ignored him when he talked to me in 6th grade. Then after that, he just stops trying to make me talk to him and we kinda didn't really talk anymore until this summer. At the beginning of the summer, Cody's mom came over and asked if Cody could help out around the farm and now he does. We set our past behind and I guess you could say, friends, I kinda liked him for a while in 7th grade. But I don't anymore.

I knew that if I tried to lie to Cody, he would find out because when I lie I always like start tapping my legs and Cody knows that. So I decide that I am just gonna try to avoid the question and thankfully that is a success so I go to my room and fortunately nobody is in my shared room. I sit on my bed and play some music while I think about what to reply to Ethan. I finally decide that I will give him my number but I have to tell him that I haven't told anyone about him yet. I go onto Instagram and reply with, "Thanks, I like you too and I totally think that we should switch phone numbers." He replies with his phone number and I text him

(C is Callie or me) (E is Ethan)

C- This is Callie

E- Cool, I'm glad that we finally got each other's phone number

C- Yea but there is something that I have to tell you

E- Is everything ok

C- Everything is fine it's just that we have been talking for awhile now and I know I should have done this already but I haven't told my mom that I am talking to you.

E- Why haven't you told your mom about me yet

C- Well my mom thinks that everyone online is bad or fake and if she found out that I was talking to you she would probably make me stop talking to you so I just didn't tell anyone. But I will tell her tonight.I promise

E- Ok. I hope that she doesn't get mad because I love talking to you

C- Me too.

We go on texting about a whole bunch of stuff and then it comes around the time when someone has to stay inside and watch Adee and the rest of us have to go outside and help in the barn. I decide that I will quickly go outside and talk to Cody and then come inside and watch Adee and make dinner so that my mom will be in a good mood.

When I find Cody, he asks, "Why did you leave earlier and who is Ethan?" I state in a serious tone, "I left earlier so that I wouldn't have to tell you who Ethan is but I will now. Ethan is a guy that I've been talking to online. Nobody knows about him but I'm telling them tonight so could you not say anything?" Thankfully he agrees. I go back inside to watch Adee and start making dinner.

I make shake 'n' bake chicken with mashed potatoes, green beans, and corn. Once everyone gets in and is at the table, I want to tell them but I am super nervous and scared on how they will react. I just want to blurt it out but I can't my mouth won't let me. So I tell myself that I will tonight once everyone is left and I will just tell mom when we are alone.

Once everyone has gone to get ready to go to bed. I sit at the counter while my mom is doing the dishes and I start to tell her.