Sin City Adventures (A Zak Bagans FanFic)

Chapter 3: The Text

"So Jay and I kinda talked a lot at lunch," Kelsey started, almost as if she was nervous to tell me what happened. I give her a wide-eyed look and slowly nod for her to continue. "And we exchanged numbers." Well, great. So they scored each other's numbers and I couldn't get Zak's?

"Are you trying to tell me that Zak and I didn't hit it off like you and Jay did?" I immediately regret that I said this to my best friend. But why was she telling me this? Kelsey snaps her head in my direction shocked.

"No! Not at all! I'm trying to say that I also gave Jay your number," she pointed to me.

"Okay, what does that matter? Why?" I shrug and shake my head, still not understanding what she was getting at.

"Jay and Zak are together all the time! He can give Zak your number, dummy!" Kelsey laughs that I didn't catch on to her very thought out plan.

"Yes, right," I slowly nod my head in agreement. "But will he is the question." I bring my knees up to my chest and rest my head on my knees, getting lost in my thoughts. Zak didn't personally ask for my number so did that mean he didn't actually want it? Or was he just as shy as I was? What if Jay gave it to him and Zak doesn't take it or does take it and never calls me? No. I can't keep thinking like this. If he takes it, great, and if he calls me that's even better. But I wasn't going to dwell over this or make it upset me. I let one guy upset me over stupid shit in the past and I wasn't going to let that happen again. Meeting Zak and the crew felt like a once in a lifetime opportunity to begin with and we got lucky enough to spend the afternoon with them at lunch. "They must've liked us to some degree, right Kels?" I ask her, doubting the entire situation.

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know. I just really want this to work out, I guess. Even just to be friends with Zak would be amazing, you know?"

"Hun, it will. They wouldn't have invited us to lunch or paid for our meals if they didn't like us." Of course she was right. I was thankful for my somewhat watery right eye not dropping a tear down my cheek. I stay there on the couch with my blanket and watch the TV guide flip through channels. Go figure, Kelsey would stop it on the Travel Channel and of course Ghost Adventures would be on.

"Really?"

"What? You don't wanna watch our sexy guys?"

Oh boy.

All I could do was laugh but my serious thoughts suddenly took over. If this thing we had with them went any further, there was a good chance they would be "our guys". "Our sexy guys" to be exact.

Oh wow. "No, we can watch this. It's fine." I let out a big sigh. A few minutes into watching "our guys'" hunt down some spirits, I hear the text tone on my phone coming from the kitchen. My brain instantly trailed to this mysterious message being him. There's no way. But what if? No it's not him. I don't bother to go get it. I turn my attention back to Zak on our tv. Precisely two minutes later my phone sounds again.

"Don't you wanna get that?"

"It's probably just my mom or something."

"You sure?" Kelsey smirks, like somehow she knows it's not my mom.

I brush off her look and toss the blanket over the back of the couch, "Yeah, I guess." I mosey over to the kitchen island where my phone is and slide up the screen with my face unlocking the phone. "A Vegas number?" I quietly question to myself. I open my text messages to reveal the entirety of the message.

"Hey, Shawn. It's Zak. I hope I'm not bothering you, but I just wanted to see what you were up to. I had a really nice time at lunch with you earlier today."