Forgotten Souls

Chapter 10: The New Apartment

It was Saturday evening 17:45 when at last we found the perfect place for my girl. It was a 5 minute walk from my apartment and it was secured with only the best security company. Paying for the deposit was a nightmare. She was so stubborn, demanding that she should pay for the place since she would have to be living there. I won. Kind of. Okay fine, we compromised. We split the amount in half which at least saved her a large amount of money.

The furniture arrived not even 10 minutes later and we were able to set up everything for her before she had to go to bed. I honestly didn’t want to leave her at her apartment. Every instinct in me was screaming at me to demand that she returns with me to my apartment. I did understand her reasoning about why she wanted to move out, but I couldn’t shake the lonely feeling when I entered my apartment and realized that it would be only me again and that my beautiful girl won’t be waiting for me when I finish work anymore.

Suddenly my phoned alerted me that I had a message. I snapped out of my thoughts and fished my phone from my pocket to see who it might have been that messaged me. Zaylee. The smile on my face grew. She didn’t message me much so the fact that she was doing so now showed me that she obviously had something important for me to know. Opening the chat, I immediately scan over the message. Only she would be able to send me a simple 7 lettered text that would have my heart pumping faster and my grin growing bigger.

Thank you for everything Bray. Good Night Xx

It’s ALWAYS a pleasure. I miss you. Good Night Beautiful. Xx

Stop being such a flirt Bray!

You like it baby girl. I think that kiss proved that.

Bray!! Who said.. maybe I regret the kiss..

I stare at her last text for a full 5 minutes trying to tell myself that she is only joking and that surely she wanted to kiss me as much as I wanted to kiss her. Surely she didn’t really regret it.. Did she? I put my phone down and decide to take a shower. I need to just take a breath before I drive over to her place and beg her to tell me whether or not that text was a joke or not.

After standing under the hot water for about 15 minutes, I quickly was myself and get out. I leave my room, not glancing at my phone. I make myself a cup of hot chocolate with tiny marshmallows on it and then I hesitantly move toward my bedroom to see if there was a message from her perhaps. I walk painfully slow, trying to calm my beating heart. Taking a deep breath I unlock my phone and glance at the 3 unread messages before me.

Bray.. I know you read that. It has two ticks ;)

Bray??

I was joking! I promise I don’t  regret it at all Please reply.. Don’t be mad please. I’m sorry. I miss you too. Xx

I smile down on my phone and think about how she was probably already at the edge of crying, thinking that I might be mad at her. My innocent girl. Deciding not to text her back, I open her contact details and call her. Her voice immediately fills the silence the minute the phone starts ringing.

“Bray, I’m so sorry. I was only joking with you I promise. You know I lo.. love talking to you and I am really happy about the kiss. Please don’t be mad. I tried falling asleep, but I just couldn’t without knowing that we are okay.”

“Relax baby girl. I’m not mad at you, how could I be with you being so dramatically cute? I’ll pick you up tomorrow morning at 8:30 and then we can leave for assembly together alright?”

“That’s perfect. I’ll be ready by then. Thank you Bray!”

“You don’t have to thank me for anything baby girl. So tell me, did you mean it when you said you miss me too?”

There’s a minute of silence and I know that she must have fallen asleep because I faintly hear her slow and soft breathing. I guess she really was tired. Knowing she’s asleep, I softly whisper the words into the phone that I’ve been dying to tell her. “I love you beautiful.” and then I hang up.

After I hung up, it didn’t take me too long to fall asleep either. It had been a long day. Since we couldn’t find any apartment I approved of on Friday, we had to rush to get everything done today. If it were up to me she could stay by me forever without us crossing any borders, but I respected her choices.