Soft Confessions Part 2

[00:00:06.08]Hey there. These are those stories
that are never told. Those stories
[00:00:11.76]that I just felt. Those stories that I
always remembered but played in silence.
[00:00:23.68]So 3 days later I get a text says hi and and
I was like wow. Then I go like hi had a safe
[00:00:36.80]flight to Netherlands and uh he says
no I didn’t leave. I’m still around.
[00:00:45.84]Oh my goodness. I go like I I go quiet
because I don’t know what to say.
[00:00:53.84]Then he says, “Um, I can’t
stop think about Wednesday.
[00:00:59.52]This is at 11:03 p.m. and my phone has just lit
up like it knows where this doctor is coming
[00:01:05.12]from.” I read it five times. I typed me too,
then deleted it. I typed same then deleted it.
[00:01:18.32]I stared at the ceiling for 10 minutes before
I wrote back. What part? He replied so fast.
[00:01:29.28]The way you laughed at nothing. The way the
night felt unfinished. My chest got tight
[00:01:38.00]because it was unfinished. We’d said
goodbye like we’d see each other the
[00:01:44.40]next week, not like he was leaving the
country. So he goes like dinner Friday
[00:01:53.68]before I really fly out if you’re free that is.
[00:01:59.68]if I’m free. I said to myself, I
canled everything. Then I responded,
[00:02:06.16]um, yes. And for two days, so it was just
what it was that evening. I I am wondering,
[00:02:19.68]oh my god, what do I wear? I I I felt so nervous.
In fact, even more nervous than the previous date.
[00:02:35.52]I was trying to replay Wednesday, wondering if now
Friday was a beginning or just a better ending.
[00:02:46.40]So, we’re in the same corner seat, same
bar, but the air was heavier. He ordered
[00:02:55.20]it for me without asking. She takes hers dry.
He remembered it again. He looked at me longer
[00:03:03.28]between sentences. He laughed quieter
like we were already keeping a secret.
[00:03:12.64]Then uh he walked me out same street, called an
Uber. He hagged me longer this time. And right
[00:03:26.48]when I pulled away, right before I got in the
taxi, he said it. The thing I wasn’t ready for,
[00:03:36.48]the thing that made me sit in that
box seat crying all the way home.
[00:03:45.04]Let’s meet on Soft Confessions episode 3. See you.