18. Surprise

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I'm sorry if there are mistakes on the grammar or anything. I made this at 2 am.

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It has been exactly a month since the Valentine's. Ezra and I have gone to several dates in that amount of time and two weeks ago he finally asked me to be his girlfriend, which at first I'm about to reject because of my fear of commitment. I felt bad that time so I decided to tell him the answer by the next morning. At that time, I didn't want to bother Edwin or Noah or Olivia because they probably already asleep and they would tell my sister which I didn't want that to happen. I planned to tell her when I'm one hundred percent sure about it. So I went to knock on Nick's bedroom door that night.

Flashback - 2 weeks ago

I put on my glasses and get up from my bed. For the thousandth times I can't sleep again because of my mind keep running and searching for the right answer. I put on my fluffy sandals and walked my way to the front of Nick's bedroom door. I knocked it a few times before he finally opened it. He looked taken aback when he saw me standing in front of him.

"Am I bothering you? If yes I could go back to my bedroom and count the sheep inside my brain.." I rambled. To be honest, he looked tired and this making me even more guilty for waking him up.

"No, it's okay." He said before closing his bedroom door. "I know you can't sleep, and I'd rather let you waking me up than taking those sleeping pills again."

Since Valentine's day, I tried to stop taking my sleeping pills when I couldn't sleep and Nick told me to just wake him up whenever I couldn't sleep. One time, Nick asked me to sit down with him and search for ways to cure the insomnia other than using medication, cause apparently based on the sites Nick told me to read, medication could make it worse. Every late afternoon, he took me for a run around the blocks, on weekends (if I don't have anything to do) he tried to drag me out of my cave and just walk. He signed me up for yoga classes too which at first I refused to go, then he dragged me there and go with me to the class. I feel like a child who gets drag around by their parents.

Oh and through that yoga class which consisted of all women, he got lots of numbers from some of them asking him to call them. Good for him, he won't no longer fifth-wheeling Edwin, Olivia, Ezra and me, sometimes there's Noah too but most of the time is just him. Noah has been busy lately because he got an intern in a television company which I really envied.

"So what's up? Did you forgot to do your routine? Did you drink coffee before bed? Did—" His ramble got cut off by me, "It's fine, I didn't forget anything, I didn't drink coffee."

"Then, what happened?" He asked.

We sat on the couch in front of the television, "My mind can't stop thinking." I mumbled.

"What is it?" I could sense a tiny bit of worry in his voice.

"Ezra asked me to be his girlfriend."  I could see that he tensed a bit before relaxed.

"And you said yes?" He asked.

"No, I will give the answer tomorrow because I kind of debating my decision. You know I'm afraid of commitment. The fact that settling with one person for I don't know how long scares me." I looked down on my lap and I'm sweating. "He seems too good to be true, Nick."

"Hey, relax." was all he said. I guess he could feel the uneasiness I'm feeling right now.

"He checked all the box in my dream boyfriend type—" I stopped mid-sentence because of his sudden laugh. I give him a stern look before he stop laughing.

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