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I would miss him too. When I didn’t respond, Cal called me.
“Hi,” I whispered.
“Are you grounded from the phone too?”
I didn’t know for sure. I had only whispered because I didn’t want anyone else to hear me. I was reveling in the emotion that Cal was making me feel at just the sound of his voice. “I don’t know. I am feeling all mushy. That’s why I was quiet.”
He chuckled. “Mushy huh?”
“Yeah. I’ll miss you too. I really had a nice time at your sister’s apartment. She’s cool.”
“She is. We’ll go there again once you’re ungrounded.”
“Good, I’d like that.”
“Next time tell me what time you need to be home,” he said.
“Agreed.”
I sat in the window seat, my legs stretched out in front of me, my ear pressed against the glass helping to hold the phone while I talked to Cal. We shared silly things about our childhood. I even told him about climbing in bed with Ty when I was afraid of storms when we were younger. He told me he was afraid of snakes and spiders. Still was. I had outgrown my fears of severe storms.
It was getting late. I knew soon I would have to get off the phone and shower so I would be ready for school tomorrow. Mom and or Dad would check on me and I didn’t want them to catch me talking to Cal.
“I wish I didn’t have to hang up, but I do. I still have homework to do. I really like you Abby,” he said.
“I want to take a shower tonight.”
“What I wouldn’t give to be a bug on the wall watching you take that shower,” he groaned.
I inhaled sharply.
“Relax Abby. You drive me crazy, but I won’t push you into anything. I want you to be with me for a long time. I’ve never felt this way about a girl before.” He said more things that were like what I was feeling.
Overwhelmed.
Excited but I already knew that.
Falling hard.
Couldn’t wait to kiss me in the morning.
Scared.
“I feel all those things too,” I admitted.
“I won’t hurt you. Quit listening to the locker room gossip Abby. We all brag about shit that isn’t true.”
“All right,” I agreed.
“Abby,” Cal said.
“What?”
“Don’t break my heart either,” he declared.
I didn’t know what to say. I had never thought of me hurting him. Cal was a high school jock. Popular and cool. I wasn’t in his league. “I won’t,” I promised.
“I can’t wait to see you in the morning.”
