You sure you're up for it

Two days later.

It's been two days since I last talked with Mister Creep. He didn't call and I didn't call either.

I'm meeting wit Anna tonight at my place. Apparently she has something to tell me and it's urgent.

Not long after I got home from work Anna arrived at my place, to be more precise she stormed into my apartment just like a tornado, leaving her shoes , purse and jacket all over my house. Yep...just like a tornado. With just a few items on the floor everything looks just like a mess.

Sigh....luckily she's my best friend or else I would have kicked her out by now.

We both sit on the couch with ice cream between us and a spoon in our mouths, stuffing ourselves and having a very serious conversation.

"I can't believe my mom. She's at it again." Anna says angrily and shoves a spoon full of ice cream in her mouth.

I try my best to not laugh at her antics. I already know where this is going.

"I went home for dinner yesterday night and guess what I found sitting at the dinning table with my parents." She says pointing the spoon at me.

" What did you find?" I asked trying to entertain her a little and not to laugh at the same time.

" A barrel." she says with eyes open wide.

" A what..." I asked feeling confused.

" A living barrel. In my parents house, eating at our table, stuffing his mouth with food like there's no tomorrow." She says exasperated and throws her hands in the air .

"Pfffft...hahhahahha" I star laughing not being able to stop myself anymore.

Yep...this is Anna. A real drama queen right trough the bone. But I still love her .

Anna is the same age as me, a few months older to be exact. We are best friends since high school, since the day she pulled my hair and called me a bitch because apparently she doesn't like people with my type of brown hair. She said it doesn't go well with the color of the walls in our class. Of course I called her crazy and laughed in her face , then the next thing I know we were pulling our ponytails, we were at war. That until the teacher came and pulled us apart and we got detention for a few hours. That was the best day of high school for us. After that we became best friends and are inseparable.

Anyway, back to the present.

Anna is telling me about yet another failed attempt as how her parents are trying to matchmake her and marrie her off because apparently at 23 she is too old to be picky.

I'm laughing my ass out here at her explanation.

"I'm serious" she says, the fire apparent in her green eyes. " The guy was like a mountain. I literally saw myself being squashed to death and he was definitely in his late 30".

I let her vent all she wants and by the time she's finished with her explanation an hour passed and our bucket of ice cream is empty.

" You should make a blog or vlog or both about you experiences in matchmaking" I say to her still laughing.

"What's with your parents and matchmaking. Good thing I didn't get the short end of the stick with this matter with my parents." I say still amused.

" Yeah you're right. Uncle Mack would not let you date even when you're fifty not to mention marrying." Anna says and we both end up laughing.

Not long after Anna goes home and I debate if I should watch a movie or not. In the end I find myself watching some fantasy movie and romance and i'm so hooked on it.

Through the middle of the film my phone starts ringing. I pick it up without looking and answer the phone.

" Hellooo.." I say, my eyes still glued on the tv.

"Hy there miss Big Ego. What are you doing?"

I freeze at the voice that's familiar but can't exactly place it. I look at the phone and see the caller id 'Mister Creep'.

"Oh..it's you Mister Creep. I'm watching a movie. What are you doing?" I say but still keep my eyes on the screen.

"What movie are you watching?" He askes not bothering to answer my question.

" It's called XX. It's a fantasy with a lot of adventure in it and some romance. It's interesting.Have you heard of it?"

"Yes I heard of it but didn't watch it yet. It's a movie made based on a book. One of my favorite authors wrote it to be exact." He says full of pride in his voice.

I chuckle softly at his explanation.

"So you like books over movies." I say with a little provocation in my tone.

"Yes I do." He says curt and in a firm voice. "Books are better than movies."And then he starts a very long monologue on why books are better than movies.

"Uhuh..." I say not quit paying attention. At the same time watching the fight scene in front of me and drooling at the abs of the male lead. I love it when they star to show some skin, all shiny and stuff.

" And then there was a pig with a horn on it's head and calling your name from under the bed" I heard him say and my eyes loose focus.

"Wha..what what....what are you talking about. What pig, what bed?" I ask looking under the couch. I admit i'm a little scared. Horror movies are not my forte.

Mister Creep laughs and then says " You're not paying attention."

"That's not true. I was listening...ish." I lie a little, just a little bit.

Then the next thing I know we were talking about the movie and making comparisons with the book. As it turns out the book looks more promising , although the movie was great.

And then from movies we got to pancakes. Don't ask me how. I have no idea. I'm pretty sure I wasn't hungry since I ate that bucket of ice cream with Anna earlier.

"You can't put cheese on pancakes." I said indignant at the preposterous idea. "You're ruining the taste and the whole idea of pancakes."

" You never tried it. How do you know it's not good?" He says calm like a lake while I was fuming at the blasphemy that was coming out of his mouth.

Yup..we were in a full blown argument about pancakes. Well ... I was the one exploding while he was still like nothing could move him. I think his calmness and the fact that I couldn't win one over him was making me more angry than the idea in itself.

Then the weirdest thing happened. He was laughing at me cause I lost and apparently i'm poor at winning arguments when I couldn't take it anymore and I said " Arghh...you know what BITE ME!" I yelled in the phone not quite catching on the double meaning of what I said.

Mister Creep starts laughing "I don't mind. You sure you're up for it?" He says still laughing with no intention of stoping any time soon.

"...."

Speechless ..that's what I was. I turn bright red after the realisation of my words hit me.

'Arghh..stupid stupid . I'm so stupid. This is the second time i'm embarrassing myself while talking with this guy.

"Shameless" i whisper just enough for him to hear.

He stops laughing and clears his trout to calm himself. I hear him trying not to laugh again.

"Are you done?" I ask annoyed with a voice void of emotions.

"Ah...yes. Sorry about that." He says and I swear I could imagine him smile at the other end of the phone.

" I went a little overboard. Sorry. But I bet you looked cute all embarrassed after that." He says shamelessly .

Of course, I turned another shade of red at his words. ' Is this guy flirting with me?' I tought to myself feeling a little giddy without me realising it.

"Well...I need to go to sleep. I have work tomorrow." I say quickly trying to change the subject.

"Ok. Good night ."

"Good nigh....wait what's your name?" I ask him realizing I don't know his name and we've been talking on the phone for almost an hour.

"I'll tell you next time...maybe." He says on the other side his lips slightly curving upwards.

"Look at you all mysterious know. Okay.. fine. If you don't want to tell me then I won't force you Mister Mysterious." I say back and than after another round of 'good night' I hang up the phone and prepare for sleep. Drifting into lala land and dreaming about my mysterious guy with a smile on my face.