Why did I ?

Shit !

What the fuck just happened happened ?

Should I go after her ?

I should.

I should also apologize.

What the fuck is wrong with me ?

I ran out of the restaurant and looked around.

I couldn't see her anywhere. Obviously she knew this town better than me and must have disappeared somewhere so I couldn't find her.

Five minutes back.

She'd just screamed at me about ten minutes ago. I should have left but I couldn't bring myself to do that. I could've also said something but I couldn't do that either.

I should know my boundaries sometimes.

She'd just said she was fine, why did I insist ?

I wanted to apologise when she turned to look at me. Her piercing brown eyes were on me and I wanted to run away but then my legs were unable. My heart pumped really fast. She let out a heavy breath.

" Troy can you look at me " she said or more like commanded.

I deliberately turned to look at her.

And damn if I was at all mad at her I wasn't anymore.

" Look Troy, I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have shouted at you. Something was troubling me. "

she sighed again.

" Can I make it up to you " she touched my hand.

Electric pulse went from my hand to all parts of the body. A normal response to me when a girl touches me.

I nodded slowly.

She leaned towards me our eyes looked a dimpled smile on her face.

I probably misread the reaction. I leaned in and pecked her on the lips.

She let go of my hand and looked at me unbelievably shocked.

" What did you just do ? " she looked furious.

" I thought. . . "

" Fuck you Troy " she pushed me out of the way.

I was, confused. Did she not want me to kiss her, clearly not.

*****

Rays of sunlight passed through the window, which I hadn't drawn the curtains. They collided with my closed eyes and I turned but it didn't help they were allover my room. I slowly opened my eyes and the light hurt them. I yawned and then sat up on the bed.

I picked up my phone and checked the time 9:30am.

Sunday was a my. sleeping day how can I wake up at 9. I wondered.

I ate breakfast with mom, told her I would be in my room and came back to my room.

I didn't have any plans for the day I watched a movie instead.

" Troy, can you go and buy groceries " she said pausing my movie.

" Hey I'm was watching that " I whined like a kid. I wasn't anyway. The movie sucked for a high school movie the actors seemed a decade older than the age they claimed in the movie.

They showed highschool was a great place, you fall in love, make friends, play around, have fun, Clearly whoever wrote that script for the movie didn't attend highschool shit sucked take it from me.

" Go buy groceries quickly then come back and continue with your movie " she said sternly.

" Whatever " I said and stood up.

" Oh and go to the pharmacy and buy these, you'll need them " she passed me a paper.

The handwriting was farmiliar and so we're the names, I hated them.

" I don't need these mom " I passed her the paper.

And then she gave me a look.

I put it in my pocket.

I entered inside the supermarket, I had always wanted to go to that supermarket, it's the first thing I admired in this town. I had taken a photo of the list. Intentionally, I wanted mom to notice my cracked disaster phone, she had, I noticed how she flinched and that was all I needed.

" Flour " I read on my broken phone as the first item I looked around and spotted the area for bakery. I walked there still looking on my phone trying to calculate whether mom miscalculated. The remaining amount would go to my pocket if she had.

I led my hand to the packet of floor infront me.

I felt touching something soft and turned my eyes to see what it was. It was a hand, it was smooth, soft and small and definitely belonged to a girl(I figured). I traced with my eyes to see whose it was.

I almost had a heart attack.

Tess ! she wore a red dress with short sleeves and red flip flaps. Our eyes met and we first looked at each other. I looked away embarrassed.

" Hey " she said after that short gaze which seemed to be long to me .

" Hey " I said removing my hand from hers. I freaked and dropped my phone.

That thing suffered.

" Sorry " she said and I went down to pick it up but she had also dives for it. Our heads knocked.

" Sorry " I said and picked up the phone.

" It's okay. sorry " she said and touched her fore head. I'm sure it hurt her more than me I ha e a hard head. Kids at my primary school once told me.

Awkward silence.

" What are you doing here ? " she asked

" I. . . I came to buy some groceries " I said and looked everywhere except at her.

" Okay ." she said.

" What. . . what about you ? " I asked her to just create conversation.

" Oh I'm here. . . to buy. . . flour " she hesitatingly said hand picked up the flour abruptly.

I didn't buy that, I looked at flour and at her then looked away.

" Ok, okay you got me. . . I'm hiding from someone " she finally admitted.

" In a supermarket ? " I asked her.

" Best place I could think of " she said.

I couldn't help but wonder why she told me all this.

I didn't have any words to say to her. I thought hard and the only that came to me were concerning an assignment they'd given us last week that was definitely inappropriate.

" Will you be shopping for long ? " she suddenly asked me .

" Yeah. . . I mean I have all these on my list " I said and hesitated to show her scrap phone.

" Can I help " she said and I drew a blank.

" with the shopping " she said and picked up a shopping basket-thingy.

" I just want him to get tired and leave, shopping with you will keep me busy " she added.

So it was a guy.

I just nodded.

I handed her my broken phone.

" Sorry about your phone " she said.

" It's fine it was already broken "

" The next item is. . . uhm. . . cooking oil " she said.

***to be continued.....

Buckle up it's about to take a turn.