YANA: London (Part 1)

“He said he’s going to spend a penny and I thought he was talking about money. I think he saw how confused I looked and said, ‘The loo. I need to go to the loo.’ By that time I already knew what a loo is, so I told him where it was. Who would’ve thought ‘to spend a penny’ means ‘to pee?”

“Blimey,” Rin said, imitating the accent of the young wizards in a popular British movie. “I wonder how Britons can come up with such words.”

“I’m learning something new every day, I swear!”

Rin chuckled softly. “And I swear you’re sounding more and more like them every day.”

“Oh, do I?”

“M-hm. And I think it’s very sexy,” Rin said sluggishly, and I don’t know if she was teasing me or if she was just sleepy.

It had been two months since I arrived at Heathrow Airport but I still wasn’t used to the time difference whenever I talked to Rin. There was this app where we could make calls for a cheaper price as long as we had an internet connection, and it’s what we’d been using since then.