All Along

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

It was already 1 in the morning when I felt the vibration made by my phone. I opened the lampshade beside my bed and went to find my phone which, if I remember correctly, was on my side a while ago.

After tossing my pillows and blanket away, I finally found it. I pressed the unlock button and five notifications are already on my home screen. Three text messages and two missed calls, who could that be?

I opened the call log. The missed calls were from Ria. It was already two hours ago so I didn’t bother calling back. I opened my text messages next. The first one was from an old friend of mine, some quotation of some sort. The second message was from Ria again.

Are you still awake? I think you should see your email. I got a letter from Iya.

I’m too sleepy to think of Iya for now. I want a nice peaceful sleep.

I moved on with the last text message. The text message which woke me up in the middle of my sleep.

Hello Mikhael, can we be friends?

I got pissed for waking up just to have this kind of text so I replied.

Sorry. I don’t want to be friends with someone who doesn’t know the time.

I went back to bed and turned the lamp off. I was about to go back to sleep when my phone vibrated again as a sign of an incoming message. I didn’t bother to sit up and turn the light on. I grabbed my phone from where I left it and read the message. Next thing I knew, I was already replying to his messages.

But you see, I do know the time. It is already one o’clock in the morning. –unknown person

That’s great, yey! *sarcastic*. Now that you do know the time, would you mind letting me back to sleep? - me

Oh sorry. Someone told me you are probably not going to reply to my message if I texted you on normal hours. He said you would just delete it.

And now I was just wondering why I haven’t done that already.

I don’t know. If you have done that, I would just text you again anyway. And maybe....You are either just curious or interested in me.

I’d rather have the first choice. On second thought, I think it was neither of the two.

Oh come on, I think you are both. After all, I know lots about you and you know nothing about me except this phone number.

I’m going back to sleep and maybe after I close my eyes this would all stop and I would realize that I was only dreaming.

 

Then you are having a good dream.

Why won’t you just stop and sleep?

Because talking to you would be better than having my dreams. Wait, don’t you wanna know my name first?

I don’t.

You are cruel, you know that? Here I am, trying to be friends with you.

Yes, I’ve been told. I am cruel so you need not to befriend me. And besides, I also don’t want to be friends with someone who doesn’t value my beauty rest.

You don’t need to. You are already beautiful.

My curiosity about this mysterious text mate of mine grew. I don’t even know if my text mate is a boy or a girl.

It took me some time to think of what to reply to what he said.

Don’t you want to know my name? My text mate asked.

Nope. I would just give you a nickname. What about ‘MysteryGuy’?

Bleh. No thrill. Think of other names.

Hmm. How about ‘sleeptaker’?

You’re so bad at making names.

Fine. Tell me your name.

I just realized that I was actually getting interested with this guy.

I waited for his reply but he didn’t reply with his name at all.