The next two days crawled on by for Lily. Wednesday she had a sleepover with Parker and…Parker. Parker had totally slipped her mine. She hated having to lie to her, especially if she did hit it of again with Travis.
'I'm looking to far into the future', she thought.
Friday came with sun and heat. The high was far over 90 degrees and she keep sweating. It was almost 6 o' clock and she was getting ready when the phone rang.
"Lily", she said.
"Hey Lily, it's Robbie, Kim and I are going to the movies to see the new slasher flick, wanna come?", Robbie asked.
"No thanks Rob, I actually have some other plans", Lily said.
"Oh…what plans", he asked.
"I, um, I have to go to the dentist", she said.
"…at 7:30 at night", he asked, sounding very annoyed that he was being lied to by his best friend.
" I gotta go Robbie, Byeee", she said swiftly hanging the phone up.
Then she got ready and checked the time. It was 6:55 pm. She pulled out her cell phone and dialed Travis's cell phone number. It took three rings before he picked it up.
"Hello?", he said.
"Hey Travis, it's Lily, I was just calling to see how your flight was and to make sure you weren't flaking out on me", she said.
"Why would I flake out on you, I'm coming home for you, and only you", he said, the tone of his voice like a lullaby to Lily.
"Really..", she said.
"Of course", he said. "Buddha once said 'All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.' what that means is nothing is whole on it's own. I'm just not whole without you.", he said sweetly.
Those words filled Lily with so much feeling.
"Travis I-", she was interrupted by a woman on the other line saying "sir can you please put your phone away so we can land, please".
"Hey Lil, I gotta go, I'll see you soon, Bye", he said
"Bye…", she said back, that was to icing on her cake. She wasn't sure before, but she's sure now. She is undyingly and uncontrollably in love with Travis Strong.
She went back into her room and stared at the clock and the picture of her with pink hair that he took with his camera phone. Then she looked at the picture of him and her at Mickey's taken a few years ago. It's funny how time flies when your madly in love.
Before she knew it, it was 7:50. She grabbed her house key and got her bike, and drove to the abandoned studio where magic used to happen. She wondered how it would look. Her first kiss with Travis was there, but so was her first kiss with Ray…..
