Silent Pact

"I am glad you came," The moment the words left his mouth, Derek wanted to grab them from the air, and swallow them before Emily could hear them. But it was already too late.

'I am glad you came,' Seriously?! That was all that he could come up with. After hours of agonizing, of waiting, checking his phone and actually having to hide it to stop himself from doing something embarrassing, the best that he could come up with was an 'I'm glad you came,'

It would not have been so bad if at first he had started with a greeting, 'Good evening, Emily. It is good to see you. I am glad you could make it.' There, that was the eloquent sentence that he should have led with, but instead Derek's brain had just fired off, 'I am glad you came' out of nowhere.