Three Words, I Love You ✔️

33: Clementine Li

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|33: Clementine Li|

"What are you doing?" Nemo asks, his voice deep and husky through the speaker of my phone. His voice is an indicator that he just woke which makes me feel a bit bad but hey... he's the one who called me.

"Just doing my eyebrows," I answer with a smile as I watch my reflection through the mirror, carefully drawing on small strokes of dark eyebrow gel.

Nemo yawns in response, "Oh... very interesting,"

I chuckle and move onto my next eyebrow, being steady and careful.

Last night I went to bed with butterflies... my stomach was doing flips and turns and... all sorts of stuff. It took me a good hour or two just to let the feelings die down so I could sleep.

Even in my sleep I could feel the light flutter of the butterflies that Nemo Kademan left.

For a while there I thought that... maybe Nemo had lost his feelings. We really haven't had the whole boyfriend-girlfriend talk... or even gone on a date. I don't want to sound like I'm being impatient... I'm more paranoid than anything.

Does he want to be in an actual relationship? Does he want to go on a date? Are we just a fling? Why do I keep sneezing?

(A/n: guys my allergies are out of control rn- ok I'll stop interrupting LMFAO ok bye-)

For years, I've been single as a Pringle, ready to mingle with someone who wants to jingle. Can you blame me? I have no experience with things like this!

I'm more experienced with baking or... wrangling Juju when he has something he's not supposed to in his mouth.

To 'end' my thoughts... maybe I'm overthinking. That's something I tend to do. I guess I'm so used to seeing everyone around me get into relationships within a snap that... I've always thought that's how it works.

And it doesn't help with all the books and movies I've read or seen. So much for that.

But this... heh... this is so much better than that. So much better.

"Hurngh..." Nemo groans and I hear soft shuffling, "I'm exhausted..."

I chuckle while setting my brushes back into their jars, "You're the one that wants to go see Chuck-Chuck this early in the morning,"

"Don't remind me," he grumbles before sighing, "So... what are you doing now?"

I laugh while standing up and grabbing my phone. I hold the speaker end closely near my mouth, "I'm about to put a shirt on,"

Nemo groans, "Why do you need to speak directly into the microphone?"

"I gotta wake you up some how," I tease while tossing my phone onto my bed, picking up the shirt I had picked out earlier.

It's a nudish pink, regular t-shirt that's a bit too big for me. I thought it would go nice with my black leggings. Usually, I like to 'dress up' a little, but today I'm feeling lazy. Even my makeup is simple! Just foundation, eyebrows and mascara. I kinda feel good.

"Wait, so you're shirtless right now?" Nemo asks with a snicker, "Wanna switch to FaceTime?"

Even though he can't see me, I roll my eyes with an embarrassed smile and blush as I slip over the shirt.

"You're a perv," I tease will fluffing up the hair that got trapped under the shirt, "Toryn doesn't say stuff like that to me,"

"... that'd be pretty weird if he did, Ada," Nemo replies and I raise a brow, smirking lightly.