EVA
Eva had stopped looking at her phone every few seconds after about two weeks of silence. By that point, she had told herself that she should let go of her experience with Barrel entirely and chalk it up to just that, a learning experience.
But her heart was saying otherwise. It whispered to her in the dark moments when she cried in the shower, stared blankly through one of her parent's rants, and fell asleep at night. It told her that there was certainly something there. It wasn’t just s*x.
So why hadn’t he called, or hell, even messaged her if it was meant to be?
Her mind tossed and toyed around with the same thoughts, never coming up with a satisfying answer. She tried to prepare a syllabus to return to work, thinking it would be a worthy distraction. But she had found that her p
