318 Midnight Chats (1/2)

Dylan had finally come to his room and fell face down on his bed without any care. He was really tired now after running around the whole day. He rolled over on his back as he picked up his phone and opened the photo gallery.

'What is she to you?'

Xiu's words rang in his mind as he stared at the photo on his phone. His brows knitted up tightly as he wondered out loud, ”What is she to me?” He sat up as he answered his own question, ”Isn't she just a friend? A really cool and amazing friend.”

'Didi, we don't keep a friend of a friend's photo on our phone for no reason at all.'

As Xiu's other words rang in his mind, his frown got deeper. ”But I have Dazi's photos as well...” he tried to reason with no one in particular as he looked through his gallery and realized that even though he had Darren's photos, it was either a group photo or a shot they took together.

But it was completely different when it came to Cali's photos that he had, after all, most of hers were solo shots and were taken personally as well.

'I think you either re-evaluate your relationship with her or delete those photos.'

Dylan chewed on his lips as he thought deeply about Xiu's suggestion. ”Re-evaluate my relationship with Cali? But there is nothing to re-evaluate.” He reasoned with himself and pressed the screen to delete the photo. However, his thumbpad only hovered above the confirmation box, he couldn't bring himself to press 'confirm'.

”This doesn't make me a stalker. Not at all!” He assured himself.

....

Cali had just taken a shower and lied down at the big couch in the sitting area. Her bed was occupied by Ying but there was another reason why she was on the couch, being on-call in the hospital had left her with a habit of sleeping at odd places. So, she found the couch rather more comfortable than the bed.

With her arm over her eyes, she closed her eyes. It hadn't even been five minutes when her cellphone's vibration made her groan in exasperation. She took it from the table and accepted the call, however, the other person hung up before she could even say hello.

Cali frowned and looked at the screen. Her eyes went round in surprise when she saw the caller id. But then a trace of doubt flashed through her eyes.

11:48 pm

She read the time and felt even more strange. After thinking for a good minute, she called back.

”Hello, who's this?” came a prompt reply as if the other person was holding the phone in his hand all this while. However, his answer made Cali raise her brow.

She really wanted to say that since he called first he must know who she was but chose not to. ”Cali...”

”Cali who?” came Dylan's reply.

”Regan's high school friend,” she really didn't know why she was willing to play this dumb game with him. She hadn't been this patient with anyone in her life.

”You called first,” answered Cali.

”I did?” Dylan pretended to be uncertain before adding, ”It was a mistake. Actually, I was gonna call... umm... a friend named... Cami. Yes. It was Cami but since your name Cali sounds so similar, I must have messed up.”

Dylan wanted to bang his head against the wall for such a dumb excuse. But his brain wasn't working very well. He could only think of this at the moment. Besides, he originally wasn't planning on calling her. It's just that he accidentally dialed her number but hung up as soon as he could.

Cali stayed quiet for a long moment and when he didn't hear a reply, he frowned, ”Hey? You there?”

”Yeah...” she replied calmly.

”So...” Dylan wanted to say something or perhaps wanted her to say something.

”So?” she retorted.

Dylan cleared his throat, ”I heard you're in my city.”

”I am,” answered Cali shortly.