Chapter 22

"Oh my God. Are you that desperate?" Mei gasped with bulging eyes.

"Stop it. You're in a 55" LED TV. Can you imagine how big your eyeballs are?"

Mei pouted and retreated enough to fit half of her body on the screen. Erika was just telling her that day's happenings.

"Bold move , I would say." Mei said.

Erika sighed. "It's nothing like that. I just asked her without thinking."

"So? What did she say?"

"I don't know. I think she said yes?"

"What?" Mei lifted up her voice a little louder.

Erika hugged her pillow. "Ugh, I said I don't know. I was so embarrassed that I didn't get to hear the answer properly. "

"Such loser you are. Just call Andy already."

Erika gave her cousin a piercing look. "What for?"

Mei washed up her face with her hand. "Oh my God. If love will make me this DUMB then I don't want to fall in love anymore."

"What are you talking about?"

"Just call her and confirm your trip." Mei firmly stated.

"Ugh…" Erika just squeezed herself with the pillow.

Then her phone rang. She lazily picked it up and examine who's calling.

'KAILEEN ANDY LEWIS'

Her heart skip a beat. Then another beat, followed by another beat until she felt like it's going to come out of her chest.

She signaled Mei to keep quiet.

"Hello?" She greeted huskily as though she's on her way to sleep.

"Hey," Andy noticed it. "Did I disturb you somehow?"

"Oh, not really. I'm just getting ready to bed."

There was long pause.

"About our trip to my Grandpa," Andy started. "Is it okay if we stay there for five days?"

"Yeah, I don't have anything to do anyway."

"Hmmm, have you been to Green City before?"

"No, it would be my first."

Erika could tell Andy nodding on the other side.

"The trip would take eight hours by land so… I'm just saying to prepare yourself for the long ride."

"Right."

There was another long pause.

"Anything else?" Erika asked when Andy seemed not there anymore.

"Oh, yeah. Nothing. Hmmmm, I'm hanging up. Goodnight Erika."

Erika smiled. "Right. Goodnight."

Erika rolled over the bed as soon as the call ended while still hugging her pillow not realizing that her cousin has been observing her the whole time.

"I really don't want to fall in love," Mei interrupted. "You're becoming an idiot." She added.

Erika threw the pillow on her iPad connected to the monitor as if throwing it to her cousins's face.

"I forgot you're still there."

"Again, I think I don't want to fall in love if it would make me forgetful." Mei was grinning.

"Stop it! Will you?" Erika sat down, still hugging her pillow feeling annoyed.

Mei laughed. Then became serious.

"I'll arrange my schedule and come see you. I want to meet that Andy of yours."

"What?"

Mei smiled. That kind of smile one cannot define wether happy or worried. "I think you hit it hard this time. So I want to confirm it personally."

Erika just gaped there. Unable to speak a word.