Trapped in Ophelia's Body

Missed text...

Song: I do Adore by Mindy Gledhill

We just lay there in awe and listening to the universe around us and I feel like I'm not even on Earth. I have never felt so relaxed. I can barely hear him breathing beside me. I'm quickly interrupted by my phone buzzing like crazy. I have to rise up some to pull it out of my back pocket.

When I pull it out to look at the screen, I start to panic. No...no...no...stupid me. I didn't tell them I was going off and now my parents are freaking out because this is so not like me. I can see them pacing back and forth and calling every hospital within a twenty mile radius.

I pull myself up into sitting and frown. "Everything ok?" He sits up and looks down at the phone and back up to me.

I shake my head frantically.  "No...it's my parents they are freaking out...I...I...I forgot to text them to let them know I would not be home." I quickly text my mom and then my dad to let them know that I am alright.

"Guess I need to get you back...uh..." His mouth forms a soft smile and there is a light twinkle in his eye.

"I...I...I'm sorry." I feel so bad that I am making him leave.

"Don't be. I hope you liked it."

I nod my head in agreement. "I did...thanks for bringing me here."

"Any time." He grins wider.

We stand up at the same time and I follow him back down the steps. I didn't notice that my shoelaces were undone and I step on the one and nearly fall over crashing into his back. I thought for sure I had died as the world went blurry all around me. Thankfully he doesn't fall and he holds my arm the rest of the way down to make sure that I am alright. "Are you alight?" He looks me over to see if I'm hurt.

"Yes...thanks for ca...catch...catching me." I blush. Dear Lord Ophelia how much clumsier can you be; I yell at myself.

When we get all the way down he has to stop to put the sign back up that I did not happen to notice earlier. "Wait, we were not supposed to be up there?"

He brings a finger to his lips and winks at me. He is just a little devious.

"Kodiak we could have gotten in trouble."

He just smiles and turns to walk out of the gardens. I follow close behind him. When we get back to his bike he puts the helmet on me and makes sure it is secure before putting his on and hopping on the seat. He holds his hand out for me and I get on and then hold on to him again while he takes off. On the way home a part of me just doesn't want this day to end. I place my head against his back and breath him in.

By the time he drops me back off at my car the sun is going down. I think he wants to kiss me however he runs his hand through his hair and smiles at me awkwardly. He starts to clear his throat. "I really had a lot of fun...maybe we could go out again sometime...I promise to keep my hands to myself."

I find myself smiling again. "Yeah...maybe. I really did have a lot of fun...th...tha...thanks for ta...taking me."

"Anytime."

I wave bye to him as I walk closer to the car. He watches to make sure I get in my car and even waits for me to start it up and leave before he actually leaves. Awe, he was making sure I was alright before leaving me there, how sweet.

I drive all the way home with a smile and thinking of him. How could he do this to me; how could he make me feel alive? No one has ever made me feel the way he makes me feel. The smile was still there as I opened up the door to my house but quickly went away as I saw my parents staring blankly back at me.

"Ophelia where have you been?" My mom gets out before I even have the chance to close the door behind me. I rarely ever get see my mom upset with me but as she stands there tapping her foot and her hands on her hips with this angrily worried expression, I feel like this is over ten years worth of frustration built up.

"I...I...I'm sorry I wasn't thinking." I start to stutter and it's been awhile since I've full blown done that in front of them.

Her voice softens up a little. "Ophelia we were just worried about you this just isn't like you."

"I...I know...Kodiak just wanted me to see something."

"Kodiak!" My dad says his name like the boy is just trouble but he is actually a good guy. "This boy you been talking about, we told you to introduce us first and then we would go from there. You can't just go off with..."

"Dad...I...I...know." I interrupt him. "I said I...I...wa was sorry."

"Ophelia you just can't go off like that without telling us."

"Mom...I...I...said I was sorry ok."

"No it's not ok. We didn't know where you were alright." She paces the floor back and forth 8n front of me while exaggerating with her hands. "We were worried."

"I...I...I'm fine...see." I twirl around so that she can see all of me.

My dad exhales deeply and it's very noticeable that he is not happy about this. "So what did he have to show you since you could not text us?"

"It was a garden, the Botanical Gardens."

"We don't have one of those close by." He looks at my mom for reassurance. "You went out of the city without our permission."

I didn'trealizethat it was reallythat far away until now. "I'm safe alright. Nothing happened...you...you...you two are always telling me to...to...go out and the moment I do you tw...two get upset...seriously." I sit down on the edge of the chair.

My mom changes her tone, "It's not that we don't want you to go out; this has to do with you not telling us about it."

"I'm telling you now and I said I was sorry." I stand back up and stomp out of the room to head towards my room. I shut the door behind me and toss my backpack to the floor. It topples over and everything practically comes out including all the little folded up notes from Kodiak earlier in the week.

I bend down to pick them up but then slide down to sit on the floor and I decide to read them. He is crazy. Note after note stating that he is sorry and then a mix of faces, sad, silly, one crying all begging me to just forgive him. I think I already have or else I wouldn't have gone off with him. I hate the way he folds up each one but then at the same time admire how he folds them all with perfection.

My phone buzzes with a text. It takes me a second to find it. I smilw when I see his name flash on the screen.

Kodiak: Hope you're not in too much trouble. Sorry if I got you in trouble.

Ophelia: They will be fine

Kodiak: So...want to hang out this weekend???

Ophelia: let me see what happens around here first with the parents

Kodiak: OK...I hope you had fun today

Ophelia: really enjoyed it!

Kodiak: Good night!

Ophelia: Good night!

And just like that, I feel at ease with messaging him on the phone.