My Addiction

My Addiction: Chapter Two

"I'm Ed. Ed Sheeran." the fairly attractive ginger man said. I shook his hand and said "I'm Analee Array." For the second time, the ginger man, or Ed I should say, looked at my now shattered mobile screen and said "Uhm, about your mobile, I am really sorry about that." His remark reminded me that I now had no phone and I could thank him for that. "Yeah, me too." I said sounding much bitchier than I had intended to. "It's not that big of a deal, it was an old phone anyway." I added, feeling like a bit of an arse after my last remark to him. Ed looked at me and tilted his head to the right and said "Okay, I'm going to make this up to you, let's go inside and I'll buy you a new drink, and then I'll go buy you a new mobile to make up for my lack of human interaction skills, yeah?" I was in complete shock. Strange attractive men did not ever offer to buy me coffee and a new mobile, especially not in the same day. But then again strange attractive men rarely spill coffee all over me and break my mobile in one day too. "Oh no, really it's fine. It's not even a big deal, I was going to go buy a new one anyway. Now I have a valid reason to go do it though." I lied. Ed raised an eyebrow and said, "But if you go get a new mobile without me, how am I supposed to secretly and smoothly put my number in your mobile so you can ring me?" I starred at him and then the reality of what he saying finally sunk into me and all that I could say was, "Oh. Yeah, uh that makes sense I guess." Ed looked at me expectantly and for the life of me I could not figure out what else I was supposed to say so I continued looking at him. Ed's face was quickly overtaken by confusion and he stuttered "So ar-are you gunnu say yes, or?" Oh yeah! "Yeah sure. I mean, yes! I would like that a lot!" Ed looked slightly skeptical but the look was quickly overtaken by a grin that stretched across his entire face and he said, "Alright, let's go inside then, it's fucking freezing out here." He opened the door for me and we both walked into the warm cafe and took a window seat towards the back of the cafe. "So, where are you from?" Ed asked me, trying to make small talk. My smile faded. I did not like to talk about anything involving my past, what-so-ever. But he was going to buy me coffee and a mobile, so it would be morally wrong of me to lie. Despite my past, I still had very strong morals. "I'm from Addington. You?" "Halifax." "Oh my god seriously? I have always wanted to go there! That's so cool." Ed laughed at my reaction and said "Let's go get our stuff, yeah?" I smiled and nodded. We walked up to the desk and unfortunately got the pissy blonde waitress again. Her attire seemed to change from our last encounter since she said "Hi, what can I get for you guys?" with a smile. Ed ordered a black coffee and an apple pie, and I ordered a half caf, extra shot, venti, two pump non fat, hold the whip, caramel macchiato and a blueberry scone. Ed and the waitress looked at me with total bitch faces. "What?" I asked timidly. Ed smiled then looked to the waitress and said "You heard the lady! That nonsense it is!" We smiled and walked back to our table after Ed paid. "So what do you do for a living?" I asked Ed. Ed looked at me quizzically and said "So you don't know who I am?" I racked my brain for any indication of who this Ed Sheeran character was, but I came up blank. I shook my head and Ed said "All the better. I'm a singer/songwriter."

"Oh my god that is so cool! have I heard any of your songs?"

"I don't know. Maybe. Have you heard 'A Team'?"

"No."

"Lego House?"

"Not ringing a bell."

"Give me love?"

"Sorry."

"Interesting."

I laughed and said "Sing me something?"

Ed got very nervous and said "Uh, maybe another time. I don't have my guitar with me." I nodded my head. At that moment the waitress came over with our stuff and said mostly to me "Is there anything else I can get you?" "No we're good, thank you." The blonde looked at me and I mouthed 'much better' at her, and she smiled. Ed and I continued talking while eating our food. Ed looked at the watch I hadn't noticed he was wearing and said "Um we may have to get your new mobile tomorrow. It's 9:45" my eyes widened and I said "Yeah, I think we will have to wait." Ed smiled. "What?" I asked. "This means I get to spend more time with you."