RubyMars:….
AHall80:That’s my number.Callme.
RubyMars:Did you even thinkaboutit??
AHall80:That’s why I’m giving you mynumber.
AHall80:You said sometimes you know immediately if you hit it off with somebody. We get along already on messenger. I’m notworried.
RubyMars:…..
RubyMars:Are youserious?
AHall80:Yeah. Call merightnow.
RubyMars:Do you know what you’re askingofme?
RubyMars:I’m still asleep,aren’tI?
AHall80:Forsure.
AHall80:You’re awake.Callme.
RubyMars:You’resure?
AHall80:Yes.Call.
RubyMars:Fine, but if there’s awkward silence and we never recover from this, I’ll never forgive you. We had a good thing, youandme.
AHall80:It’s too early for the sass tobeout.
RubyMars:……
RubyMars:I barely slept thankstoyou.
RubyMars:You better answer the phone and that better not be one of those numbers you give strangers when you don’t want them to know your real number. I’ll never getoverit.
AHall80:Just call,Rubes.
Chapter14
Aaron wantedme tocallhim.
Aaron wanted me tocallhim.
Aaron wanted me to freakingcallhim.
Because he was inviting me to go toFlorida.
Because all of a sudden, he’d decided he wanted to meet me. Spend time with me. And he didn’t want to wait until the next time he hadleave.
Nopressure.
I gulped as I sat there at the kitchen counter, picking at a bowl of Fruity Pebbles with my heart in my throat and my stomach attempting to do somersaults. I should have been freaking out at the idea of traveling with someone who, in a tiny way, was a stranger, but I wasn’t. Notreally.
It would be the first time I met someone in a different place for a purpose that didn’t revolve around fittings for dresses or costumes. I wouldn’t be Ruby in work mode. It would justbe…me.
That was the terrifying part. Just me and my poor heart that seemed to pick the worst people to have feelings for. People who didn’t see me as anything other than someone’s little sister and afriend.
