Chapter 38 - 38: Texting II (1/2)

(Michelle POV)

I nervously unlocked my cellphone to see the message. Apparently, it was only from Andy.

[It's ok. Goodnight!]

Oh, ok, I typed, 'goodnight!' and pressed send. What? I'm keeping my options open but of course, if Andy's just being friendly, it's no biggie. I don't have to go out of my way to flirt with him.

Anyway, why was there no reply from Anthony yet? Do I cry now?

I looked at my sent items to reread my text. Oh, good! I forgot to key in my name! Valid reason to text again! So, I typed, 'This is Michelle by the way. ^_^' then pressed send.

After 15 minutes, there's no reply yet… I wanted to cry… did I get rejected? I mean, maybe he saw my text and did not think that he needs to reply? Huhuhu!!!! Why am I being like this?

I shook my head. I better take a shower first.

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(3rd POV)

”Hey Lara, did you get a reply from Michelle?” Andy asked after Lara answered the call.

”Oh wait, haven't checked, let me see.” Lara replied as she put the call on loudspeaker as she looked through her messages. ”Yeah, she did. Apologized and said that she only saw her phone now. That's good. I would have felt offended if she didn't reply at all. Anyway, did you get one?”

”Yeah. What time did she send you, her message?”

”Hmm… 9:35pm.” Lara said, then thinking that she should be more important to reply to than Andy, she asked, ”how about you? What time did she reply to you?”

Andy smiled on the other line seeing that he received the message at 9:33pm. That's great! So Michelle thought it better to reply to him first or she chose to open his message first. He's not telling Lara that of course. It's good to earn brownie points for Michelle amongst his friends. ”9:37pm. But maybe she just saw your message first because you texted later. So don't tease me.”

Lara laughed from the other line. ”Good! I should be top on her list before you! Anyway, it's getting late, I still have swimming early tomorrow. Nyt!”

”Goodnight!” Andy replied.

He felt so much better now. Anyway, he texted Michelle, 'it's ok. Goodnight!' he wanted to include sweet dreams, but then he didn't want to make her feel like he really likes her already. He knew he was being contradictory, but he didn't want to make his move too early.

When he received a goodnight back after a minute. He smiled contented.

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