ADRIAN
During one point in the conversation, she smiled at something I said and I swear I felt my heart do a little flip. And what I realized too was that I cared about her.
Last week, when I had called her repeatedly and she didn’t pick up, I became worried, because one thing I've come to realize for the past months was that she was mostly awake around the time I was calling, so I had been genuinely worried.
Worried enough that I drove to her house unannounced.
The dinner continued peacefully. We shared laughs and stories. But at the back of my mind, the thought of the contract ending soon refused to leave.
In just a couple of days, this... whatever this was would be over. No more dates. No more excuses to see her. No more of these quiet moments that had started to mean too much.
