"Wait… so you're telling me he actually said he was coming this week?" Ella turned to look at me properly this time, her eyes narrowing like she was trying to read something off my face.
I didn't answer immediately. I was already staring at my phone again. I didn't even know what I was expecting to see at that point. No new messages. No missed calls. Just the same blank screen I had been checking since morning.
"Anna," Ella called, snapping her fingers lightly in front of me. "Who are you waiting for?"
"No one," I said quickly, locking my phone and dropping it on the desk like it suddenly annoyed me.
She raised an eyebrow. "Yeah right."
"Yes na," I muttered. "He said next week."
She didn't reply immediately. She just kept looking at me like she had already figured something out I was
