Many Strings Attached

3- conversation

'hey, what's you dogs breed?' I texted him.

Shit. I am going nuts! But it was too late to unsend it because he probably has received the notification. I panicked and started to walk around my room like a maniac and the worst part of all this is that, nobody knows. As I paced ahead my phone dinged a message. I'm dead i opened it up to see that it was Emily who texted me whether or not i was going shopping with her, she's real mad about this because I've been postponing it since last weekend.

'steph, this is the last time I'm asking you decently if you're coming to shop with me or i drag your ass myself.' I chuckled upon reading the message. I think I should go. It may help me to stay distracted and better than waiting for his message.

'your place, be there in 5' i replied back and rushed out.

"So, where to begin?" Emily asked me as we took our first step inside the mall.

"I don't know, that depends on what you want to buy" I asked her, honestly, I don't know what is that she wants to buy.

"Umm, how bout we start from the food court first?" She asked me sheepishly as if I were going to say yes, hah.

"Are you crazy? We just came. No way I'm heading straight to the food court" i said.

"Mhmm the food here drives me nuts" Emily said. Yes, we ended up eating.

After that we decided to shop some lingerie for her because Emily is going out with her on and off boyfriend this weekend to the beach, which sounds crazy to me because this is my first time seeing somebody visit the beach during winters. I wonder if they were present while god was giving brains to us but nonetheless the only reason they're off to the beach is to have lots of sex. We took a stop infront of Victoria's Secret and spent half an hour, literally half an hour shopping lingerie.

Then we went to some other clothing shops where she bought her beach wear and I found some fits for myself too. We spent two hours nearly shopping at every store. Just as we proceeded to visit the food court, again, my phone dinged.

'Hey'

'Yeah, he is a Labrador.'

I panicked. It's was him. Nate. I opened up and replied back

'that's cool, what's his name?'

i definitely suck at this whole convo thing but it is the only thing I could think of right now.

'max' he said, quite common but it's cute.

I shoved my phone inside my bag before I could notice another message from him because I don't think I would want to tell Emily about him, not now atleast. After hours of shopping Emily finally was tired, and asked me if I had anything I'd want to buy or else we could leave, and obviously as I have no reason to shop in bulk, we left the mall.

"Woman, I'm very serious! Why don't you join us along? Caroline and Dan will be coming, you could be with them If not us!" Emily whined.

I don't even know why and how does she expect me to buy the fact that Caroline and Dan are also a thing. And I have no intentions of sitting or riding along with a couple- seeing a couple riding on each other, yeah, sounds real.

"Yeah sure, I'm leaving it's getting late now." I said.

Walking down three blocks sure did not sound like a very good idea, definitely not, after you spend half of your day on a crazy shopping marathon. I opened the door to my house and rushed straight to my room.

"Aahh" I sighed as my back ached in a relieving manner as I lay down on my bed symbolising how much it hurt after my all day run. I have to watch two broke girls' brand new episode, after all it's time Max bakes her cupca- Max I thought, shit,Max, Nate!

I quickly opened my dms to see a 'wow being left on seen does sound fun' oh god i should've atleast typed a cool.

'i was helping my friend, actually. So couldn't really reply :')' i replied.

'friend, I see. Wyd btw?' he asked. Is he trying to make a conversation here?

'im laying down, wby?' what else do I ask?

'yeah I'm actually gonna get down to take Max on a walk. you wanna join?' woah, thats very very fast of him to ask.

'i don't think one could walk with their legs at home.' i texted back. Hope he gets what I mean to say. I believe he's smart.

'huh wdym?' and here goes nothing.

'my bad, my legs are sore, can't walk' i actually moaned in pain while texting this, my back, i sweari can confirm my body is giving up and the fact that I'm just in my twenties yet I've managed to reach my sixties is the type of feel I'm getting.

'that is very heavy of you.' he replied. The fuck does heavy mean here?

'excuse me?' that sounds very offensive because I have no idea in what context is this man trying to speak, or is it just because I was being sarcastic a text ago?

'your sarcasm, the way you used it. It was very heavy.' so it is the sarcasm.

'yeah. Had dinner?' cliché but who cares? I ask him anyway.

' yeah you' he replied. Now, there, the punctuation. This is very twenty-twenty one of him but I let it slide because I blushed.

'seriously?' I played cool, okay, tried to play cool.

'well if that made you smile, then yes. If not then just put in a comma.' he is not supposed to be texting me this way! I don't like this bullshit.

Or maybe I do like this bullshit.

I did not realise how late it was now till my phone warned me about charging. Damn it's three a.m. and we are still talking. After a lot of stupid conversations Nate asked me to meet tomorrow, said he'd be around as he has some work to do. I agreed to meet him because I am very much free tomorrow.

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