10th October 2014
Unknown number: Good morning, beautiful.
Unknown number: Have you ever heard that poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
Unknown number: ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.’
Unknown number: And then you have that movie, ‘Ten Things I Hate About You.’
Unknown number: Anyway, because you refuse to talk to me, I’ve been coming up with a list…
Unknown number: So, here’s a list of everything I love and hate about you.
Unknown number: I love your name. It’s unusual. And the way it sounds when it’s whispered… Well, you’ll hear that for yourself someday.
Unknown number: I hate the way you bite the inside of your lip.
Unknown number: I love the way you laugh. Best sound ever.
Unknown number: I also hate the way you laugh. Mainly because I’m not the one who made you laugh.
Unknown number: I love the way you start humming songs to yourself when you think no one can hear you.
Unknown number: I hate the way other guys look at you… although that isn’t something you can control. You’re that beautiful, Anah.
Unknown number: I love the way you don’t give a damn. If only I could be more like that.
Unknown number: I hate the way you’re always tapping the tip of your pencil to the beat of a ticking clock. So annoying.
Unknown number: I love no one has a bad word to say about you.
Unknown number: I hate that you’re stubborn.
Unknown number: I lov-
Anah: I am NOT stubborn!
Unknown number: You haven’t spoken to me for days, so yeah… you ARE stubborn!
Unknown number: And I hate the way you’re forever interrupting me!
Anah: I do not interrupt.
Unknown number: I’m trying to give you a list of all the things I love about you, and you’re interrupting!
Anah: Yeah, well. Your list also includes things you hate about me. Of course I’m going to stop you!
Unknown number: I love the fact that you get so worked up.
Anah: I don’t.
Unknown number: It’s like watching a kitten try to be a lion.
Anah: Lioness.
Unknown number: Hate that you correct me…
Anah: You should try to not be wrong…
Unknown number: That doesn’t make sense.
Anah: Well, in my head it does.
Unknown number: Does this mean we’re friends now?
Anah: Begrudgingly, yes.
Anah: By the way- Wednesday.
Anah: Do you really want me to forget those messages?
Unknown number: Do you want to forget them?
Anah: No. I thought they were adorable.
Unknown number: Adorable, huh? Well, there’s an ego boost for a guy.
Anah: Want to hear my list of thing I love/hate about you?
Unknown number: If it means you’ll keep messaging me, sure. Why not?
Anah: I hate that you get under my skin. I hate that you get me riled up. I hate that you won’t tell me your name. I hate all of that…
Unknown number: If you’re just going to be mean, maybe you should stop texting me. Again.
Anah: If you had let me finish instead of you interrupting me-Talking to you is what I love the most.
Unknown number: Now I feel like a jerk.
Anah: You are what you feel.
Unknown number: Pretty sure that isn’t how that saying goes. Anyway, I love talking to you too. I hope we never stop.
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Short StoryWhen Anah Miller, agony aunt to the whole of Hastings Academy, replies to Clueless and Useless' e-mail about his unrequited love, little does she know that's she's opened Pandora's Box. A few days later, when she receives a text from an unknown numb...
