Athena

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We walk past some restaurants and shops. Colton shows me around, describing the places that were good to go and had friendly customer service, and which ones were the terrible places.

We walk for a couple of hours, taking breaks when needed. Almost every street we went to was empty. It was probably because it was when most people had to go to work. *RINGGGG* Colton's phone starts to ring. "Hey, I have to take this call. Wait here I'll be back." I stand in front of this boutique while Colton walks to another end and takes the call. He didn't walk far enough though because I can still hear what he's saying. "I know, I know I was supposed to come into the studio today. Anthony, calm down, I thought we were just going to run through the recordings and see if we had to redo the songs." I'm very much confused at this moment.

What does he mean studio, recordings, songs? I'm not stupid and so I came to the conclusion that he worked as a music producer. That seems like such a cool job, I always wanted to become a singer but I was never really good at singing. Instead I became an HR manager and got my master's in psychology. I snap out of my thoughts as I hear Colton walking back to where I was.

"Sorry about that. They need me back at my job. I have to go now. See you later?"

I smile at him. "It's fine, work is work you know? See you!" I start heading to my car when I hear,

"Athena!" It's Colton. I look back at him. "I had fun today! Also, you can keep my hoodie! It looks good on you." Thank god he's not near me because my face turns bright red.

"Me too! Have a good day Colton!" I go to my car and head over to the apartments.

When I get home I immediately put my sweater to wash. The guy literally just kept walking away. He didn't apologize, it didn't matter now. I'm a very curious person so I wanted to ask Colton what his job was and see if he would tell me about what it was because I was still a little confused about the phone call.

I order some Chinese takeout. It's 5:00 p.m by now and I'm starving. There are knocks on my door, I look through the peephole, it's just the Chinese food I ordered. I open the door, pay for my food, and tip the delivery girl.

I settle down to eat.

When I finish eating and watching Netflix, I get up to put the leftovers in the fridge. It's around 8:00 p.m now, I decide to watch some YouTube videos. I sit down on my floor since my couch hasn't arrived yet.

I hear a knock at my door. I'm very confused and even a little scared, I didn't order anything else, and I sure as hell did not know anyone here for someone to be at my door this late. I look through the peephole and it's a very tall guy. I put on my glasses and look again. It's Colton. I open the door, "Colton, hi. Umm what are you doing here?"

"Hey Athena, umm I didn't know you wore glasses, they look good, umm anyways, I wanted to apologize for leaving that early on." He gives me a weak smile.

"It's okay, everyone has important things to do, besides that phone call sounded important." I smile at him.

"Oh, you, umm, heard the phone call?" He asks with a bit of concern in his voice.

"Yeah, sorry I was listening a little, you weren't that far away from me so I was able to hear what you were talking about, I'm sorry."I look up at him and he's just staring at me now. "I can completely understand if that makes me a horrible person, I shouldn't have listened to your conversation, I just—" I'm cut off by Colton, "It's okay, I probably should've walked farther away." He gives me a smile.

"Oh umm, alright then, I should head into my apartment. I have a lot of stuff to do." I tell him, it was starting to feel a bit awkward.

"Oh yeah, alright see you tomorrow." He says and I turn away and head to my door. "Athena." Colton said, I'm afraid that he's going to yell at me and tell me off for listening in on his phone call.

I turn around. "Yeah?"

"Umm, could you give me your phone number? You know, in case of an emergency or something?"

I laugh a little. "Shouldn't it be the other way around? I'm the new one here."

"Yeah you're right, would you like me to give you my phone number, you know, in case of an emergency."

I laugh at that. "Sure, here put it into my phone." I hand him my phone and he puts his information in.
"Alright, well I'll see you tomorrow, goodnight Colton."

"Goodnight Athena." I slowly turn back to my door of my apartment and head inside.