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CHAPTER 3 -AVALON and MILES

Avalon

It's 8:30 and I just finished dinner, I have been stressing about what to text him the entire time throughout our dinner.

I race up to my room to grab my phone and decide to text him "Hey, it's Ava

I'm Sorry about today and thank you for that beautiful observation" as soon as it said sent I threw my phone away and started panicking. Less than 10 minutes later he calls me and says "Was it me? Did I say something wrong? "

OH, GOD! I mentally exclaim.

" No, look the "I'm sorry" was just overwhelming.

I didn't mean to react that way I just didn't know how else to react. The entire day I felt okay, I felt like more than just a kid whose life was derailed by cancer. Then when the cancer subject came up it was like I was reminded that I'm not going to live very long. I'm not going to have all the experiences normal teenagers have. I guess that just really got to me. " I say without even taking a proper breath in between. Well, that was a mouth full my subconscious tells me. (Yes, my subconscious and I have conversations, deal with it).

He's quiet for a while.

"Hello??" I say to make sure he's still there.

"Still here, and just to clarify I see you as more than a person whose life was derailed by cancer, look I don't know how long you're going to be around or how long we're going to be alive before the alien invasion but what I do know is this, I don't believe in coincidences, I don't believe that we crossed paths today for no reason I honestly don't care about the Reason I'm just glad we did but there's a silver lining in all of this and we are going to make the most of this uncertainty. "

I am stunned, utterly speechless. I'm pretty sure he can hear me crying through the phone.

"Hello?" His voice breaks me from my thoughts, "still here" is all I managed to let out.

"Would you like to go to the park tomorrow? We can have one of that romantic drives in picnics, we'll eat junk food, watch trashy movies and laugh about it. What do you say?"

" I would love to" I'm blushing, ew.

He responds "Awesome, pick you up at 7?" I'm internally screaming " yeah, that sounds great".

"See you tomorrow." He says

And I replied "See you tomorrow" before hanging up.

I cannot believe what just happened...

It's the next day and I can't contain my excitement.

I do my normal routine, ended up at Starbucks again. Ah, Starbucks. That's where it all began. I take a seat and I write in the book of observations again. I'm so busy writing I hardly notice Miles standing in front of me. He's looking at me with those cat-like eyes AGAIN... It's so seductive and intriguing.

He just stood there looking at me without interruption. When I finally noticed him I couldn't help but smile. "You love that book don't you?" He says with a smile and I giggle a little, "maybe a little too much" I say and we both laugh.

He brought a basket and some snacks but he bought the drinks at Starbucks because we both have an unhealthy obsession with the place and its drinks. We pack the drinks into the basket and we're off to the park.

He drives the cutest red Peugeot I've ever seen in my life. I play Taylor Swift's Wildest dreams and he looks at me like I just stole his heart, bedazzled it and gave it back.

After some therapeutic carpool karaoke, we reached our destination.