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14. we're cool, we play roblox

(june 2019)

awsten

It's only the end of June, but I'm already stressed.

I prefer to get things done sooner than later, and though everyone was yelling at me to stop, I just couldn't. If I wasn't working, I felt useless.

My phone started ringing, and I groaned when I saw the caller was Geoff. He's been calling me all day, trying to get me to stop working, and I either ignore him or don't answer the call at all.

This time it's the latter. I stare at the phone, waiting for the call to go away. Eventually it rings out, and my phone lights up with a notification:

6 missed calls from Geoff

I sigh and shove the phone away in my back pocket. I need to get this done.

After what I think was about 30 minutes, I feel it buzz in my pocket again. I try to ignore it, but the guilt was eating away at me.

I guess I'll call back Geoff this time, he deserves an explanation.

I take out my phone, and surprisingly, the caller was actually Willow. I hide my smile even though there's no one around and answer the call.

"Hey," I say, leaning back in my chair.

"Hey," she responds.

On the day of the hike, we had exchanged numbers and we call each other basically every day. I love calling her, it's nice hearing her voice.

"So.. what have you been doing?" She questions casually, and I can immediately tell she knows what's going on. Geoff definitely told her to call me, I think. It makes sense.

"Uhhh, writing songs," I answer.

She snorts over the line. "I know that, dumbass," she says. "How long have you been doing that, sir?"

My heart does weird flips whenever she calls me sir. I don't know why, it's a stupid nickname and she told me she calls everyone sir, ma'am or coward. But it's cute and it makes me smile, so y'know.

"Definitely not for the past 5 and a half hours," I say.

I can hear her laughing over the phone. "Maybe you should consider taking a break?"

"But I have so much to do," I frown.

"Awsten, the album doesn't come out till mid fucking October. You have time. Take a fucking break," she demands.

"But if I take a break I'm still gonna be thinking about work," I contradict.

She scoffs. "Well then come over if you're that worried."

willow

About 20 minutes later, I hear a knock at my door. When I open it, I'm immediately engulfed in a bear hug, and I jokingly try to squirm out of it but it makes him hold onto me tighter. I lead him in, and he sets his stuff down and plops on the couch.

"So.. what d'ya wanna do?" He asks, looking out the window over my sofa.

"I actually have no idea," I reply. "I literally just invited you here to get you out of your stinky house."

"Hey, it's clean!" He whines, pretending to be upset.

He sat and talked for a bit, but soon I noticed him getting fidgety, so his mind was probably going back to his work.

"Have you ever played Roblox?" I want to know.

He gives me a weird look. "No... isn't that the game for ten year olds?"