Chapter 38: Everything All At Once (II)
Just when I thought the day couldn’t get any crazier than it had already been, I got a text from Levi.
Hey, are you free?
I looked at the screen for a bit and thought about whether I wanted to put myself out there, socially, but something in me wanted to be distracted, and also wanted company that came without contracts and other agendas. So, I replied yes, and not five minutes later, he texted me asking what was wrong because I, apparently, "sounded off."
I told him not to worry about it, but of course, Levi wouldn’t let it go. He asked if I wanted to go out for dinner with him. And, it could’ve been my fatigue, could’ve been the emotional roller coaster that had been today, but I said yes.
I stepped outside of my house, and there was Levi casually resting against his car like he owned the street. I blinked. He grinned. I asked how the hell he knew where I lived and he just said he might’ve "tracked" my location like it was so socially acceptable to admit to.
I couldn’t even be bothered to argue.
He asked me where I wanted to go and I told him I just wanted a pizza. Something greasy and cheesy and simple. He nodded and opened the door for me too.
Once we arrived at the restaurant and ordered, he leaned back a little, gave me that look, you know the one that says talk to me, I can handle anything, and so I told him everything.
I told him everything fell apart on the same day. I told him how my student loan company had called me to immediately pay back the whole loan, within twenty-four hours. I told him how my dad’s vet’s office was probably going to be locked up because he didn’t pay his landlord, and my brother was warned against hiis tuition fees being overdue, again. Everything I told Levi just came out in a long, worn-out sentence that I never realized I had been holding in all this time.
He never interrupted me. Levi just listened and nodded.
I told him how Aria offered to help because of course she did. That woman is a superhero in a fashion goddess disguise. She said she would figure out my dad’s vet office, and my brother’s tuition, and I was too exhausted to fight her.