Early Morning Calls

A Story by Bella Herondale

For you to get the full 100% feelings I had when writing this I recommend you listen to: I Never told you - Colbie Caillat, Little do you know - Alex and Sierra, or Superficial Love - Ruth B.

2:46 a.m.

“No you’re not!”

“Yes I am.”

“No.”

“Yes.”

“Okay, I am not going to do the no/yes thing again.”

Pressing the phone more towards my ear waiting for his response. But there was none. Just a comfortable silence. Just the soft breathing coming from him and evidently the same from me. Not knowing what to say next, I just wait. 1 minute turned into 2 minutes of silence when I decided to break it.

“So”

Another round of silence starts. Except this time, he decides to break it.

“We should talk about something important.” He says.

“Like what?” I question.

“I don’t know.”

“Me neither.”

My only idea, was to start humming, which then turned to singing. Singing ‘Halo’ by Beyonce, I didn’t care but I did have to dial it down because of my parents. Who were fast asleep in the room close to mine. Until I realised that I was singing to my now new best friend. As I start to die out my voice I start to pretend that I never even sang at all.

“Why did you stop?” he cuts in.

“I guess I’m self-conscious about my singing.”

“Well you shouldn’t be. By all means sing, I could hear you sing forever.”

Thank god, we aren’t speaking in person! He is just an amazing guy, he can be smart-a*s all the time. But overall, he is amazing. He may say he’s a monster, but I disagree. Yeah sure I’ve heard some rumors with your name in them, but that doesn’t mean I believe them. Also, you’ve told me before when you’ve gotten into fights and people may pay attention to the actions but I listen to your reasons.

“What are you thinking about?” he asks suddenly.

S**t! He knows me too well, and we’ve only talked for a solid two weeks.

“Stuff” I say nonchalantly.

“Like?”

D****t!!! I can’t escape this now. Come up with something!

“Like if any drama is gonna start once we go to school.”

There I wasn’t lying, subconsciously I was thinking about that too.

“Liar.”

“What, I don’t know--”
“No, don’t be like that.”

“But--”

“Please.”

“Fine, I just said that Rachel has dragged me in drama before, but I don’t know what’s gonna happen now.”

“You shouldn’t let people push you around. Just be your happy self. And don’t worry, I can handle her.”

At that though it I laugh slightly. And I bet in his mind he had a thought that told him to try and make me laugh because the next thing I know I am trying not to laugh. He just starts talking in a baby like voice and he already knows that I can’t take him seriously when he talks like that.

“Why are you laughing?” he says in the same voice.

Reaching for a nearby blanket I tug it towards my body to try and cover up my laughing.

Talking through the blanket I say,” You know very well why I am laughing!” I say while laughing in between words.

“No I don’t. That’s not nice.” he says.

Little by little he starts telling me a joke that he knows has me laughing hard by the end. That jerk. While laughing, a pain starts to slowly build to the side of my body. Probably from laughing to much. This is one of our many conversations that where we both act like ourselves.

“Stop it!” I say through my laughter.

“But why.”

“Because I kinda need to breath.”

“Nah, you’ll be fine.”

Damn, if I keep laughing like this my side is gonna kill me. SO….. the next 5 minutes just consisted of me laughing while he was the cause of it all. I actually never would have thought this could happen in a million years. We barely talk at school, but when we talk it’s like we’ve known each other for years. We know the others quirks and how the other speaks. When the other person is silent, we know their thinking. We share secrets and act as if the night helps us be better friends than during the day. Finally he stopped talking like that and I tried calming down.

“Hahaha. Maybe I should let you breathe. I mean I don’t want you to die.”

“How could I die from Laughing?” I breathe a slight chuckle.

“I don’t know. Maybe by not breathing you could die from laughing.”

“N-Now that is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of.” I say while laughing a bit more in between my words.

All that you can hear through the receiver was my laughing. My awkward like laughing. Calming down for the second time through this call I fan myself to get more air.

“Never stop laughing.” I hear.

“W-what?”

“I don’t know it’s just your laugh makes me happy. I love your laugh. I don’t know why i said that.”

“Well thank you.”

While saying this little butterflies swirl around in my stomach. And my heart beats faster, as I think about him. How can I not have seen this coming. No, I have to stop thinking like this.. soon he’s gonna be with someone else. Silence… we may talk about the randomest of things but overall silence can’t be helped.