Chapter 41 : Different

I wasn’t dumb. Or maybe I was, but not enough to not know it wasn’t Conrad. Because who else could it be?

I checked my messages, and saw that it wasn’t his first and last message. He’ve sent me a hundred, since the time I lost Alice. I was pre-occupied to even check it then. I didn’t know.

I read it all, one by one. There were imissyous. Questions about what I was doing, when I was going to visit next, and why I wasn’t answering the calls. I’ve realized how long it took me to know that he was indeed waiting for me.

It felt good… strangely.

I comfortably sat in my bed and typed for a reply.

To : Unknown Number

Tomorrow, Conrad. I’m sorry, I wasn’t able to respond to your texts.

I breathed hard, and sent it.

If it was that easy to tell him everything, I would. I wouldn’t have to wait and settle things on my side, and just flood him with all that ahd happened to me the past days. But it wasn’t. It might be even easier to touch the sky with these hands than telling him I was gettin