Until Eternity BxB

chapter 9

Chapter 9

I had stayed at the bookstore until late afternoon, the store was closing for the day since it was a Friday afternoon. I Entered my house, put my bag down by the door, went to the living room and faceplanted on to the settee. I was exhausted as I had been 'working' the majority of the day on very little sleep. I groaned and rolled over only to notice my phone on the coffee table.

I was slightly annoyed that I had forgotten it again as I was prone to do but that annoyance soon disappeared as I noticed that I had a message from Maddox reading "it was nice bumping into you today! I hope that you have a good day or evening and that your sleep are filed with sweet drwams." I smiled and laughed , Maddox was adorable like a little mouse or puppy who wanted his belly rubbed and was too afraid to ask . I decided that it was best to reply as I knew he could tell if I had seen his messages . "thank you Maddox , it was fantastic seeing you and meeting your mother perhaps we could go out together again sometime?" I had hit send before I had any time to re-think my choice of words. I hoped it didn't sound too eager.

After I had a bath I had decided to pick my book up again, even though I had been reading a lot today It is still nice and peaceful to read in comfort , not to mention a story which is not made for children between the ages of five and twelve.

' I stopped believing in love a long while ago, I had felt love before, the love of a child or mother or family member, yet I hadn't truly experienced romantic love . If I had experienced it before then I truly do not understand why people look for it so much . Romantic love us so superficial, they hug and they kiss for what? to show the world that this person is who they claim to spend their life with? Are we nothing more then simple animals who need to mark our territory? That's all romantic love is in my opinion. Our main purpose in life is to continue the human race and teach them how to do the same thing that we have done for thousands of years, survive. Perhaps a mother's love is superficial as well? and it's not just accurate for the mother but parent's love in general. Perhaps the love of a parent is just pride, pride that what they have put so much effort into has been moulded into what they wished to create. Though, I have yet to name the emotion that I have for my child '

The book confused me at times, it goes from deep and devoted love to questioning the existence of the love or even seeming as though another character speaking. Yet the 'child ' is always referred to as the 'child' which would be an odd thing. I could not recall if the child had a specific gender or any particularly strange characteristics which made them stand out.

I had decided that another lazy night was in order, I swear that I don't do this a lot but I've had a somewhat stressful week and wanted to just curl up on the settee. Preferably I would stare blankly at the wall but that is a rather strange thing to do so I put a random television show on and lay down. When you've lived as long as I have memories are almost like your very own show. Thinking about the memories that I hold as I held a hot chocolate in my grasp. I'm sure that I looked like an overgrown child at the moment , pouty yet snuggled into a large blanket .

A notification from my phone alerted my attention and I reached over to get it, placing my hot chocolate on the table so I could direct my full attention to the device. I wasn't surprised to see that it was Maddox , he was really the only person who had my phone details and that bothered with me. The notification was that I had been added into a group chat with himself and Amity, which was conveniently titled 'project' I could also assume that Maddox had gotten himself onto a computer as the spelling mistakes were much less frequent

Hello! has anyone put any thought into what our project is going to be? The proposal has to be in by Tuesday-M

Um, I hadn't really put much thought into it no, I've been quite busy...-A

Well we have already agreed that we are not doing phonetics, most of us want to go tinot the teaching profession...why do we not present something about language learning? -C

That's a great idea! -M

i'm pretty much okay with anything- A

Okay so we're doing something about teaching language to children, how about memory tests? that would be easy to measure- M

I think that is a wonderful Idea -C

Oh really? well I'm happy that you think so! -M

That caused me to chuckle a bit, Maddox seemed like such a people-pleaser . The fact also slightly worried me but I decided to ignore the nagging feeling and sympathy for him. He was too innocent for the world and didn't have much interaction with people . He has no reason to interact with those who would take advantage of him , knock on wood.

Okay so we need another element to it, why don't we use different types of learners? -C

OMG yess! That's perfect :) , we need to do the presentation , do you have any particular choices on what slides you want to do? -M

Not really, do you? -C

oh well I mean I would prefer doing the introduction or the method or both ? -M

well since there is only three of us, you can take the introduction and methodology and I shall do the results and the literary review -C

This had left Amity to do the conclusion , something simple yet quite hard to do if she wasn't here in the entire conversation. I could tell that she hadn't read our messages since she had last participated in the conversation. Amity seemed like a nice enough person but she also seemed rather busy and sociable . I had decided to leave the convocation and went to Maddox and I's private messages where I had an unread message that I hadn't noticed before

I would love that at some point! I'm going to make a group chat up now with Amity to talk about the assignment-M

I don't think that she is here anymore XD -C

nope! She hasn't seen our messages in a while! I wonder what she's doing, she does seem rather busy-M

How are you? and yay you used XD properly!- M

I'm rather well Maddox , curled up on the settee with a hot chocolate , how are you this evening?- C

I'm doing good too! Just on my laptop as usual, you could probs tell XD -M

welp I'm going to bed now! have a good nights sleep and I hope you had a wonderful day-M

Goodnight Maddox, sleep well-C

Like each time I finish a conversation with Maddox over the phone, I sighed and laid the phone on my chest, I lay down on the settee staring at the ceiling, Yes Maddox I had a wonderful day.