Alexa opened the message and replied.
"Hey Shawn I'm fine, thank you for asking"
"Good I'm glad. What are you doing? Maybe I distract you from something"
"No, I'm just having dinner"
"Oh are you with someone?" "Sorry it might be not my business"
"No, it's OK. I'm at home alone eating pizza"
"Oh well" "Good"
Alexa was smiling when texting him back. She felt Shawn wanted to see her, but didn't know how to tell that. At least she wanted to see him so bad.
"You may join me if you want to" "Or if you have time for it"
*Oh my God what have you done?* – she thought
"Gladly! I already know where you live btw"
*Wait, he agreed really fast"*Alexa felt her heart started beating really fast.
"I'll be there in 10. Make sure you don't eat the whole pizza" "Or you can if you are hungry I mean" "I'm just joking" "I'll bring something with me just in case" "I mean food of course"
Alexa couldn't even type something that fast he was talking. She started laughing louder with every new text she got.
*He is so nervous* she thought.
"God I'm nervous"
She laughed out loud. *He is so sweet*
***
Just like he said Shawn knocked at Alexa's door in 10 minutes. She felt really very excited. When she opened the door there he was standing with a pizza box and a box from a bakery.
"Hey again"
"Hey. Come in"
Shawn came in and put everything he brought on the table. Something changed in between them. It was like they were three different couples: the first from the coffee shop, the second from her place earlier and the third from the same place in the evening. And every time the emotions between them were really strong however they changed from anger to romance within one day.
"I'm sorry I may have annoyed you with all my texts earlier. I was super nervous. In fact I chat a lot if I'm embarrassed in person as well. See now it's happening again and I'm getting more embarrassed. I can't help myself it's unstoppable. Please say something I'm getting really uncomfortable..."
"It's OK don't worry. I like it I think it's kinda cute. I am also a chatty when I'm nervous"
"Then why are you not talking like me right now?"
"I don't know. Maybe because you do it and it somehow calms me down I don't know"
"You know it's really calming. So what were you watching?"
"I don't know, I just turned it on about 15 minutes ago and was not really paying too much attention on it. I was on the phone actually"
"Oh with that guy you were facetiming earlier? Is he your boyfriend? Or it's not my business? Maybe I shouldn't have come?"
"Well yes I was on the phone with the same guy as earlier but no he is not my boyfriend he is just my friend and coworker. And you came after asking for a permission which I gave you so there is no reason for you to worry"
"He must be a good friend"
"Yes he is. He is like in fact the only one who stayed with me when I decided to change my life completely"
***
"In what way? I mean what happened?"
Alexa went to the kitchen to take some plates and glasses meanwhile Shawn stood at the kitchen door.
"Nothing really happened but at a certain point of studying at the University some of us were offered a job and not everyone could handle giving up the fun they were having as students and spend all their free time working. And when I say "free time" I really mean "all the time". The job goes along with studying so you have to do twice as much work and besides we have no benefits neither at the University nor at work, in fact we are valued as strict as it's possible. No indulgences"
"That's hard. How do you manage to do all that?"
"Sometimes at the end of the day I ask myself the same question. But I guess "having no life" is pretty much the answer" – she smiled.
Shawn calmed down as he was really surprised with Alexa's story. She was so not like the others. There was something about her that made him feel safe and free around her. They came back to the living room.
"Are you serious? Like "I had to reduce my shopping hours from 40 to 30 per week" kind of a strict scedule?" he said in a funny girly voice.
"Ha, that's funny but no. It's like we have classes where we have to study and than 10 minutes after we should already be working that usually lasts till late night. Than we have stuff to work at while at home plus the homework for the next day. So we barely have time to sleep. Of course we can't even think of anything else I'm not even talking about going places like movies or theatres or clubs. You can't even imagine how many extra hours I had to work for having a day off.
"Wow that's really an incredible story. I'm really surprised that someone else has such a life schedule"
"And who else has? Do you also have a crazy life?"
