Hacking into my Hyper-linked Heart

Chapter 12- Not A Lazy Day

I turned around to glare at him, “No you don't.”

“Yes I do.” He towered towards me with his stupid tall height as he crossed his arms.

“No you don't” I repeated again. 

“How do you know?” He asked as he raised his eyebrow at me.

I crossed my arms smugly, “You never go the groceries and I know that for a fact so don't you dare come with me.” I glared at him and made my way down the stairs.

“How do you know?” He asked with a glare.

“Now that would be telling,” I stated while I made my way down. I remember when me and Sally first moved in Mark and his roommate invited to their place for a small welcoming party. That evening I remember commenting on the mouth-watering food and what was Marks response. ‘Oh I never do the female jobs around here’ and winked at me. Was the comment meant to make me swoon and jump into his arms?

Luckily he didn't try to come with me again which I was grateful for. As soon as I got to the groceries I picked up the ingredients that were on the list, before I went to the counter I decided to go where all the junk food was. I picked loads of stuff which included a bag full of doughnuts, few bags of different chocolates and sweet, oh how could I forget mint ice-cream ? I picked three small tubs and made my way to the counter. I paid for everything and carried the four heavy bags with food, as I got down the road I put the bags down on the pavement and tried to ease away the pain that the carrier bags caused me by shaking my hands. I guess I look like an idiot as I saw people looking at my direction as they drove past. Maybe I shouldn't have been harsh with Mark, I could have used his muscles for this situation right now, with all these heavy items. It would have been carrying-my-bags motion only, no talking or more like no communicating in any way. Wow I sound harsh and main reason I just want to use Mark is only for this reason but he does deserve to be used, he flirts shamelessly with anything on legs and he is annoying.

After an agonising half hour walk and many set of stairs after I had made it safely to our place. I unlocked the door and walked in as I swiftly closed the door behind me with my foot and made my way to the kitchen to put the food in its rightfully places. As soon as I was done I looked down at my palms to see all my hands were red due to the heavy bags, I ignored the redness and decided to make lunch. So I made myself a sandwich which is simple and easy for a lazy day, I picked up my plate and a glass full of fizzy drink and made my way to the living room and sat down. While I was eating I just realised it has been hours that I haven't thought about Chris, that is a new record. I usually go five minutes without thinking about him until my brain pops him back in.  I gathered since the encounter with the stranger I didn't even think about Chris, not even once well except when my mother mentioned him. At that exact moment It sunk to me that I haven't really checked my messages for nearly two days, what if he left me a message. I sprinted to my room and picked up my laptop and made my way to the couch, I took small bites of my sandwich as I waited for my laptop to log in. As soon as my screen lit up to my homepage, I instantly went on the internet and started to log in to my profile, as I waited my stomach started to flutter with nerves. Why on earth was I feeling nervous?

When my profile loaded up, my heart sunk with sadness and my stomach that was fluttering seconds ago was filled with hollow feeling. Yep you guessed it right, there was no messages waiting for me. I felt like sulking away but it occurred to me why shall I sulk about the fact that HE hasn't messaged me for a whole full week when he doesn't care about me or what I am going through. With a whole new determination I decided that if I just sit here I will bound to sulk so I need to do something, anything to help me not to think about this situation. I decided to go for a nice long run.