When I met you

Him - Chapter 10

I stayed in the studio until I finished all the drawings, so I could have the whole week off; I would deliver all the jobs very early in the morning. I looked at my cell phone watch, and it was 4:45 am. I went to the room to try to sleep for two hours, I left the alarm set to wake me up.

When I woke up, I took a shower, put the drawings in the folder, got my car keys and went to the office to deliver them. All of them were accepted, without having to redo any. Leaving the office, I saw a message notification received. The message was about the house I was interested in buying:

        "Mr. Foster, we need you to contact us; we still reserve the house for you. We need a position by the end of the summer."

Until the end of the summer I would have a lot of time to think and decide on the purchase of the house and my move. I took advantage and sent a message to her:

        "I have the whole week free. We can arrange some things to do."

I had to stop by the supermarket to buy some things, my house was almost empty of food. When I left the supermarket, I saw that she had answered the message:

        "Thinking of me? How cute! I only have free afternoons. Since I don't know much about the city yet, you are responsible for that. I'm going wherever you take me."

I giggled and put the phone away. When I got home, I would answer her.

***

Her

Two weeks. I had only been in this city for two weeks, and a lot was already happening. Yesterday, after he left and my head went back to work, I took a shower and packed up for the week's classes. I read a little, but sleep came quickly. I woke up today thinking: am I going to see him again or is he the type that after a kiss runs away, vanishes and disappears? I got ready, grabbed my things and left for work.

The classes were a way of distracting me, and not thinking about what had happened yesterday. In my last class I received a message from him on the cell phone, I waited for the class to end to answer. Class ended, and then I texted him. It took him a while to answer me:

        "I'll get you, and we'll spend the day together."

I had not noticed, but Ethan was on my side:

"Why that smile?

"Hi, Ethan. I didn't see you were here."

"I came to invite you to have lunch together."

"Sorry, Ethan. But it won't be today. I'm going to have lunch with a friend."

"Friend? And since when do you have friends in this city?"

"And why can't I have friends?"

"I thought it was just you and me, I made plans for the whole week."

"When I'm part of any of your plans, please let me know."

"Okay, tomorrow? I want to take you to the cinema to watch a French film."

"We'll see that later. I think my friend is coming."

Dylan's car stopped and he got out, looking a little irritated:

"Is there any problem here?", he addressed Ethan. One faced another - Ethan, very scared; Dylan - with fury in his eyes.

I was scared, I did not know who to talk to first:

"Ethan, we'll talk tomorrow. Dylan, you came to get me to spend the day together, didn't you?

Dylan looked at me as if he had come back from a trance: