Past Life Lessons (A Lams Fanfiction)

Hey It's Eliza

A week and a half had passed. A week and a half with no sign of John at all.

It seemed as though he was ignoring Andrew just like before, or maybe it was Andrew trying his hardest to stay as far away from John as he possibly could. He was scared, scared that more "memories" would resurface and that would mean more nightmares. More nightmares meant less sleep which meant more time to think about said nightmares and.... He was spiraling.

The only exciting thing to happen in those ten dreadful days was Eliza, from the coffee shop, had began to text him. The two would have a couple conversations a day. At first they were really awkward and Andrew had no clue how to interact with her. After a while though, probably after the week had passed, it felt natural. Some days he'd wake up to a good morning text other times he'd be the one to send it. Talking with Eliza felt natural, maybe too natural.

He didn't want to look too much into that though because he was already dealing with the mental freak out of one stranger. Maybe it was harsh to call Eliza a stranger. Sure they hadn't gotten down into the nitty gritty, let me tell you my entire life story parts of their friendship, but they still talked about friend things. Things like what are you studying, did you have an exam, hey you want to facetime because I have nothing better to do? They were normal things.

It was all a natural progression, meeting John felt very abrupt, commanding attention. While on the other hand meeting Eliza felt like a drifting sea floating from one conversation to the next.

Long story short talking with John was hard, speaking with Eliza was easy.

The women had even told Andrew about her girlfriend Maria. That caused a little panic in Eliza because she didn't know if Andrew would accept it or not. He did, of course, and Eliza had even shown him pictures of the two of them.

Maria felt familiar too.

What was with all these strangers and making him feel a sense of déjà vu? It seemed as though every single one he met through his brain in a blender. All of it was causing him quite the headache.

He pushed through though. Andrew hadn't been able to make friends in such a long time that he was almost desperate at this point.

He also told Eliza about John, like Lin this was a complete and utter mistake. Eliza had begun to push him to talk to the other man. Mostly it was harmlessly teasing him about John, sometimes it was straight up telling him to talk to the other man.
Andrew swore to whatever god was out there, please for the love of all that was holy please make this end. Sure Andrew did want to talk to him, it had consumed his every waking moment, but he was so scared. It was like opening up Pandora's Box, who knew what was going to come out of it.

Maybe it was all just a joke, it was just John's personality. There were a million reasons that Andrew just couldn't bring himself to knock on that door. He thought about every single one for hours. He thought about every possible conversation that could happen. You'd think that by now he'd expect anything but Andrew still couldn't bring himself to knock on that door.

He'd thought about writing a note and leaving it in the bathroom. Something simple with his phone number. But wouldn't that make it seem like he really wasn't invested in the possible friendship that could hypothetically happen between John and him.

This led him to another conversation with Eliza.

Andy- Liza how am I supposed to do this

Eliza (coffee shop girl)- i've told you a million times, all you have to do it go up and knock

Andy- but isn't that a little too forward??

Eliza (coffee shop girl)- it would be considered forward if you didn't wait a whole week