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“Nice try; you know I sleep like a rock!” I yell back before opening the door to my room.
The first thing I do is kick off my shoes and feel the carpet. Nice and soft. I then get undressed down to my underwear and grab my phone from my jacket in order to start installing my apps and make sure it’s working.
Once I finish setting up my phone, I find a ton of texts from Kiera and three dozen texts from Elsa and Parker, all in the vibe of‘Where are you?’and‘We need to talk.’
I then go read Kiera’s text.
On our way to Italy! Yay!
Mom and dad said that Elsa came over!
Say what?I type and text it to her but knowing she’s not going to answer for at least twenty hours, I give up on her and go straight to the source.
What were you doing at my parents?I text it to Elsa.
She views it but doesn’t answer.
I then go to the only other steady source of information in my life, and video call mom to figure out what’s going on.
“Got the new phone already?” Mom says. She has the phone way too close. “George! It’s Harvey!”
“Mom, adjust that camera. I’m seeing your brains!” I joke with her.
She turns the phone from vertical to horizontal, bringing none other than Elsa into the view. She’s sitting calmly with a cup of tea in her hand.
“Elsa, what are doing there?!” I blurt out without thinking.
“I… I needed to talk to you,honey,” she says, awkwardly, her face turning red.
“Couldn’t you just wait for me to pick up the phone?” I ask, way sterner than I’d like.
Dad arrives right at that moment and gives me his own scolding. “Son, that’s no way to treat the woman you love!”
I huff, exasperated, and Elsa looks like she feels the same way.
“Mom, let me talk to Elsa. Elsa, go to the bathroom or something.”
Mom looks at Elsa and nods, handing her phone to her. Elsa scrambles away the next instant.
Locking herself in their washroom, Elsa looks at me, already making me feel bad with her teary eyes and flushed cheeks.
“What were you thinking? Do you wanna ruin everything we did?” I ask her, unable to think of anything else to say.
“I… I just needed to talk to you, Harvey!” she says, holding back a sob.
“That I already know…” I roll my eyes. “What is so important, anyway?”
Elsa looks down, sighs, looks to both sides and sighs again. “I need to give you back your money,” she finally says after a long while.
And I spit out laughter. “That’s it? That’s what you wanted to tell me? If you say just one thing out of place to my parents they will know my lie, and you’ll risk everything.”
Now she’s full-on sobbing and suddenly I feel terrible.
“You’re wrong in this too, you know!” she defends herself. “You were wrong in the first place for creating this lie!”
I take a deep breath, count from one to ten, then open my eyes and look at her. She is so freaking beautiful; when Parker talked about introducing us, I could never have imagined how pretty she’d be.
Now she’s finding her way into my heart and I’m here, acting like a jerk in front of her, pushing her away.
