She's been worrying about him since she was at her mum's eatery, now she can't sleep.
Well yeah, Alec. She's worried about him.
He said he couldn't breath when she left. She hope he was fine.
She couldn't call him because her phone was at his place.
Ugh! So embarrassing.
She turned to the other side of the bed.
She really hope he was fine. It's not like she had forgotten what he did to her though.
But she was just being human worrying, according to Andre.
It's human to care.
She needed someone to talk to as well about Alec.
She would have used her house line to call Emma but she doesn't know her number.
Besides It was late when she got home.
Ugh!
How is she ever gonna get back her phone Without having to set her eyes on him?
But that'd be impossible.
Maybe at the meeting next week, he'd bring her things.
But what if he doesn't bring her stuffs for her? What if he asked her to come get it herself?
What would she do then?
She'd needs a guys to go with her probably.
Ugh! How could he be so scary now.
Or maybe It's just her thoughts that's gone too wild.
Jeez, what has she been thinking?
Oh... damn it she can't sleep. She wouldn't be able to sleep like this!
She thought She'd be over this by now.
Maybe she should go and tell her mum about all these. Perfect.
She got down from the bed and strode out of the room.
*
"wake up." She tugged on her mum's shirt.
"Gracie, how old are you?" her mum asked sleepily.
They returned home late that night and it was now past 2am in the morning.
"I need to talk to you."
"it can wait." Her mum said.
"no... if I wait, I won't be able to sleep tonight.
Just listen to me." She muttered.
"uuh... fine fine fine." Her mum said sleepily turning to face her on the bed. Her eyes were closed still.
"make it brief."
"okay okay." She said. Thank goodness.
"uh earlier today... I mean yesterday, I went..."
Jeez... was she gonna tell all that to her mum?
How would she arrange things that it wouldn't seem so bad to Her mum but also portray her feelings.
What if after everything, her mum arrests Alec for harassing her?
No! Bad idea! Bad idea!
But she had already told her mum that she had something to say. How. Should she escape it now?
Maybe she should just tell her about Andre already.
Fine. She could just start from the beginning.
"Okay. I had..."
She noticed somehow that her mum was sleeping and not even paying attention to her.
She groaned tiredly.
"forget it" she said.
Happily her mum turned back to sleep.
she huffed and got up from the bed.
To hell with them all.
*
3 days later. *Saturday*
*
"boo boo... I said I, Emma is back." Emma shook her tiny butt in Gracie's face.
"I'm gonna puke." She muttered throwing her face away.
"did you miss me?" Emma turned to face her and raised a brow.
She scowled at her in reply.
"so tell me," Emma beside her in the sitting room.
She was watching a movie before Emma came.
"what's up with your Andre guy?
Any progress?"
Boys again.
She sighed. Whenever Emma is around all they talk about is boys and sex and.... blah blah blah.
But in this case, she was actually glad to talk about those.
"oh yeah!" Gracie turned to face her.
"he really is Andre."
"Huh? Tell me about it."
"that day when you went to see your Eddie guy, I decided to have my own party.
I ordered pizza from that CHESTNUT PIZZARIA, he ended up being my dilivery guy."
"huh?" Emma asked faking cuiousity.
"Oh damn, you know that part already." Gracie muttered.
Emma chuckled loudly and she hit her.
"so... is that it?"
"of course not.
Would you believe that he came to check up on me the next night."
"night?"
"mmn. And then... we ended up talking deeply into the night, and then I found out that he was Andre."
"how? Did he recognize you?"
"no no... can you believe he lost his memories. He has an amnesia!
He never abandoned me in the first place!"
"okay, calm down and tell me slowly or forget it."
"Okay this was what happened..."
*
"Awwwn. But you should have told him about you knowing him before." Emma leaned her head on Gracie's arm.
She pushed her off.
"... well. I think It's better if he doesn't know that part."
"all good. so when are you guys going to..."
"to what?" Gracie scowled at her.
"you know... That..." Emma got up and did the hip thrust move. "that..."
"shut up!" She earned a spank from Gracie.
"Here i am, still thinking if I should tell him about my disease.
What if he stigmatized me for real this time?" she shrugged.
"well you just need to get close to him to know his true self and what he is capable of."
Emma sat back down.
"yeah right." She flushed somewhat at the mention of 'get close to him'
"so that night was when you saw him last... have you called him yet?"
"oh no... I'm not done yet with talking.
So... you know I've been going to this cancer group meeting..."
"yeah.. you told me abou... the one you told me about."
"yeah, i met a guy who has lung cancer.
But very cute. I mean really good looking.."
"awwwwn. Who is more good looking? Andre or him?" Emma asked. Gracie eyed her.
Andre's cuteness was foreign.
"so he invited me for a party the first day we met, I agreed.
I was gonna go with you but you screwed me over." She said.
Emma's mouth widen.
"oh oh oh... ha a ha ha... That." She laughed and Gracie spanked her arm.
"shut up."
"fine." She did the zip close sign.
"so when i canceled in the last minute, I could tell he wasn't happy.
So I promised to take him to lunch the next day."
"mmn hmn?"
"when I got to the meeting the next day, i was feeling dizzy.
I passed out where they was only the both of us."
"Huh? Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. I'm fine.
But that pervert! I woke up in his car."
"huh? Did he touch you?"
"are you crazy! Not everyone is dirty minded like you!"
"what does that mean! You asshole! You just called him a pervert, that's what perverts do."
"hmp! You are the worst listener ever.
You talk too much."
"fine. I'm listening."
"so I ended up owing him two favours.
I took him for dinner which he almost rendered my account useless."
"lol." Emma chuckled and Gracie glared at her.
"He told me to attend a pool party at his place to pay back the second favour.
That's the next day."
"okay okay okay!" Emma moved closer to her.
"so... I went 3 days ago. In the morning.
When I got there, they was no party. He made it all up.
He started telling me stuffs of how he likes me.
And the worst happened. He ordered pizza.
And guess who was the dilivery guy?"
Emma got up from the chair mouth agape.
"oh no!"
"oh yeah!"
"oh god.
What did you do?" she sighed and sat beside Gracie again.
"mn.
I don't even know how to start saying this.
Andre and I were talking outside.
Though i know he wasn't free with me, but we said more than hi.
That devilish pervert showed up and started touching me.
Just to spite Andre. I think."
"huuuh!"
"why didn't you slap him?"
"well... I was holding pizza."
"ouch. was he jealous?"
"who?"
"Andre... Rick... whatever! Was he jealous?" She asked anxiously.
"jeez, I... I dont know?
He wasn't. Of course he wasn't. He didn't even care."
"really?"
"mn.
So after Andre left, Alec and I both got inside, he kept ranting on how I was flirting with the delivery guy.
And then he forcefully kissed me."
"whaat?" Emma palmed her mouth laughing.
"what? It was forceful!"
"i didn't say anything.
what did you do then?"
"I was holding pizza."
Emma chuckled harder.
"so I told him that could be counted as sexual harassment if we weren't friends.
And then he..." she paused as her cheek flushed all of a sudden.
"he what?" Emma tilted her head.
"well... He squeezed my boob..."
"arrrgh!" Emma screamed letting herself lie on the chair.
She suddenly got up again. Gracie pulled her to sit down.
"Gee... that was close Gracie!
You should have just gone with the flow and who knows..."
"tiss. I knew you'd say that."
"oh please.
Come to think of it, will Andre accept you if he finds out you will die soon?
But that dude already knows yet he still wants you."
"what if he just wants to use me."
"who cares." Emma said. Gracie's brow furrowed.
"who cares? really?"
Even if she ever was gonna hook up , she wouldn't want to be with someone that has the intention of using her.
"I mean, the point there is that he knows that you are sick.
But he still said he likes you."
"forget it." Gracie said and focused on her movie.
"Everyday."
Emma rested her head on her shoulder.
"why dont you say yes to that guy.
He seems hot with the way you talked about him.
I'm sure he'd be good at that..." she did the hip thrust again.
Gracie pushed her off but she came back and leaned her head on her shoulder again .
God. So buggy.
And she must say, Emma seems a bit happier today. Maybe things are going well with Eddie.
"come on, I think he is more serious than Andre.
This is your opportunity to have the real relationship you talked about. since that's what the guy said he wants.
You know I always advised you not to date because of your illness.
But now, who could understand you better if not someone going through almost what you are.
You guys will be so much more compatible."
"forget it Emma."
"eh... Gracie," She raised her head from Gracie's shoulder.
"you just said the guy has lungs cancer. So he definitely has a heart.
So he of all people understands that It's hard to breath people cry, he'd never want to make anyone cry."
"oh please, not everyone has your heart.
Some of them will want to share their pains with the world if they could."
"how would you know if he is serious or not when you don't give him a chance?
Stop being such a coward.
Look here," She tapped Gracie's arm twice.
"Emma can give you some tips to test if he just wanna use you or date you." Emma said proudly.
"I... But... Andre.
I've originally set my sight on him since I now know he didn't abandon me." She said.
Emma sighed.
"you should have just said so earlier. And prevented me from talking too much!
But don't still forget, Andre doesn't know about your illness.
Think about the possibly of him accepting you for who you are, and then him rejecting you for who you are."
"mmmmnnnnn.... I don't want him to reject me." Gracie pouted.
She stretched to the table and took the left over pop corn..she started eating it.
"imagine it took you months to get Andre to finally look at you, and then he later found out you were sick, and he abandoned you.
You would have waisted much time, when you hardly have any.
You don't need to waste time on him.
When you hear, this life is short..." Emma spread her arm on the air dramatically looking into space.
"Only people like us, who is dying or who has loved ones that are dying knows the pain behind those words.
So there is no time to waste.
If you wanna experience dating before you die, you go for who's ready and who is ready you go for.
Period."
She was touched by Emma's carefully worded speech.
She sighed.
"You are right.
But I still need to think about it." She said.
"So... where are we hanging out today? The movies... arsh!
What about ice skating?"
"no where. I'm staying home.
and ah huh... yes... I'm not done talking yet.
So after Alec did that to me..."
"did what?" Emma asked feigning ignorance and Gracie pulled her hair.
"fine continue."
"I left hurriedly.
My bag, my phone, my everything is still at his place."
"what? I was gonna ask where you dumped your phone! you baby!
Been calling and calling but no one ever picks."
*
"I'm going to use your room's toilet." Emma said to Gracie.
"please don't." She muttered and they chuckled.
"what are you insinuating?" she stood up and walked past.
When she got to Gracie's room, she shut the door.
She had this crazy idea.
She called Gracie's phone. She's been calling through the week though, but no one ever pics.
So what made her think he'd pick up this one anyway?
She decided to text first.
"It's Gracie." She typed and sent it.
Soon she called again and someone picked. Wow!
She smiled to herself.
"Hi." She said.
"Gracie are you still mad at me?
Can you come over? Now? I want to see you."
"this isn't Gracie." She confessed smiling..
They was silence for a while.
But she must admit, he sounded like boyfriend already.
Since Gracie wouldn't bring her naive walls down yet, she was gonna do it for her.
"OMG.... are you Gracie's mum?" he asked. She gasped.
What the...!!!
Oh probably because of how Gracie saved her number.
She made a puking sound.
"God, no."
"then who is this?" the Alec guy asked.
"her best friend."
"uh... oh. is she there with you? Can I talk to her?"
"no. I want to make a deal."
TBC