~*~ Chapter 10 ~*~
One thousand things crossed my mind as I stood in front of the computer waiting for him to show up online. I was so worried, I actually couldn’t stay in front of the computer, so I set my Messenger as ‘Appear Offline’ and tried to get it off my mind by watching some TV. A few minutes later, I got a cell phone message:
“I lost my flight and you’re not online. What now? Am I gonna get bold?”
I chuckled and sat in front of my computer again, setting it as Online again. It was 12:46 a.m.
He had a “deal” with an airplane company (something he never actually explained clearly to me, so I can’t really tell you how it works. Sorry! Josh’s fault!) and he thought he would be able to travel that night, but they couldn’t arrange him a seat in that night’s flight, so he’d probably go in the following night’s flight.
We chatted for a long time before logging off.
The next day would be terrible for us to chat because I was going to my place in São Paulo, to get some things done. I wouldn’t be able to get online for too long because I shared the computer with 4 other friends that lived with me.
So... when I went online, he was almost leaving to the airport already. He told me he’d call me from the airport as soon as he had an idea if he was flying that night or not.
It was 9 p.m. when I decided to leave the house with one of my friends and go have dinner at McDonald’s. When I stepped foot at McD’s, my cell phone rang. I smiled as I saw an area 21 code on the ID (F.I.A., I’m from São Paulo, our area code is 11; he is from Rio de Janeiro, area code 21).
He told me he was in fact leaving that night. I didn’t get any sadder. I was as sad as I could get.
He told me nice things... we talked like we were a couple that was saying their goodbyes. That’s what I loved about our conversations. We did sound like a couple. A real couple. It seemed like we cared a lot about each other. Reciprocally. And I really thought we did.
I didn’t even have too much to eat that night. I got home and soon got to bad. Why would I stay awake for? I knew for sure that now he wasn’t gonna be online, I wouldn’t be able to talk to him, so why stay up until late?
The next day he’d be in the U.S. and I’d be in Brazil, totally lost, not knowing where our relationship would go from there.
What else did I have to do, but wait?
~*~ Chapter 9 ~*~
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