It’s 1 p.m. I put aside my dino stuffed animal and get out of bed. Mom will come into my room again soon and I don’t want to deal with her sourness so I’ll just leave before she does. 

After Demetri had left, I stayed there seated for about 5 minutes just staring at one of the paintings hung on the wall. Paying attention to every detail it had. It was a painting of a koala, Demetri’s favorite animal. It reminded me of the koala stuffed animal a few days ago. It was going to be a gift for him for today. 

Soonly, I left the cafe and decided to go home. At times, I would start to tear up while other times I just laughed at my own patheticness. I’m sure the people that noticed probably thought I was on something. 

Staying home all day would’ve been nice, except my mom makes it hard to want that. I’ve never been close to my mom before, not because I haven’t given it a try. She always seems to want to see me down. Once, I came home with a dress I had bought at the store. I was so excited to show, especially since I practically don’t own any dresses. As soon as she saw it, she started making comments about how it wasn’t going to fit me because “it is more for a girl with a body, you don’t have one”. I cried myself to sleep after that. Similarly, when I arrived home, she started to comment on the way my arms looked like. I went straight into my room and cried. I knew that staying locked up in my room was not going to do any good so I decided to just go for a walk anywhere. 

I grab my shoes from my shoe rack and slip them in without tying them. 

“Where do you think you’re going?” my mom says from the living room.

“I’m just going to take a walk.”

“Okay, I was just going to come to your to get you out of there so alright, bye.”

“Bye, mom.”

I walk out the door and make a turn to the left. I stop when I hear a sound coming from a bush. 

I think about just ignoring that and walking away but I decided to might as well stop and tie my shoes. Who knows, maybe the thing could come out all of a sudden and attack. A hospital wouldn’t be a bad way to spend the rest of the day, hah. 

“Lime, come here!” a voice calls out. 

A cat jumps out of the bush and runs to a girl standing in a driveway. It jumps into her arms and she holds it while laughing. I stand up and stare at their bonding. The girl is a short-haired brunette with glasses. She seems to be around my age and has this smile that can make anybody feel safe and comfortable. She’s wearing a grey t-shirt with some black cargo pants. 

“Oh hi, I didn’t see you there,” that girl says.

“Sorry to ruin the moment,” I respond and start to walk away.

“Wait, sorry for the randomness but you look familiar.”

“I live a few houses away from here,” I respond.

“Ohhh, now I remember. You’re that girl with the boyfriend. I see him often walking to your house I think.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, I’ve seen you two walking together and I have wanted to talk to you but I thought it would be weird.” —She starts to walk towards me— “I know this may sound weird since we barely met but, do you want to hang out?”

“Right now?” I ask.

“Well, I’m not really doing anything today, just playing with my cat, Lime, so sure.”

“I had plans with someone today but that probably won’t be happening and I want to get to know you.”

“I’ll take that as a yes,” she says with a smirk. “Come inside, don’t worry it’s just a regular home, no traps.”

“That’s really reassuring, I’ll be making myself at home.”

I follow her inside and decide to start getting familiar with the surroundings. The first things I see are the plants either standing on a desk or hanging from the ceiling. The walls were painted white with most of the furniture being black. Books were stacked on top of a cabinet.

“You can take a seat anywhere you’d like,” she says leaving the cat on top of a cat tree. “Oh wait wait, I’m so dumb I forgot to even introduce myself. I’m Eli.”

“Oh yeah, I’m Danie.”

“You followed me inside a house you’ve never been before and with not even knowing my anime either. Hah, I like that.”

“I didn’t think anything of it.”

“Well okay. Anyways, greetings and salutations,” she says extending her arm.

“Greetings and salutations to you too” I dab her up and sit on one of the couches.

“Wanna watch a movie?” she asks.

“Sure, I’ve been wanting to watch the new Spiderman movie, I heard it’s—”

“Let’s watch it then.” She grabs the TV remote and starts to put it on.

I was going to watch it with my boyfriend today but we got into somewhat an argument. Today was supposed to be a day for us to hang out. It’s our second year of being together, but he left me in the morning earlier. I just watched him leave and I haven’t even tried to communicate with him yet,” I say in the spur of the moment.

Eli turns to look at me, “oh I didn’t know that, I am not him but if I’m honest, I want to have the position he has in your life. I’ve formed somewhat of a crush a whole ago but don’t worry, I won’t do anything. I can offer you some company and maybe popcorn too though.”

“I’m up for that,” I say.

She ends up making some popcorn for us and we watch the movie. I decide to tell her about my relationship problems and she listens. At the end of the day, I decided that I’ll end things with Demetri and have more fun, just like I had today, with Eli.