I know you feel helpless now and I know you feel alone
She realized that she probably scared him by calling he was probably thinking that something was wrong. „Hello?" the voice on the other end of the line said and she took a deep breath.
„Hey" she said staring at the ceiling, asking herself why she had called him in the first place, what did she want to say? She had thought about whether she should or shouldn't call him for so long, that she did not bother to think of what to say at all.
„Is everything okay?" he asked her and a tear started to run down her cheek, when she realized that he was the first one that asked her this question since she was here. „Uhm... sure..." she said and tried to sound like that. „I just... I ... uhm..." she hated herself for stuttering, but smiled herself when she heard him giggle a little.
Somehow she got herself together. „Uhm, Tom... I just wondered... I am new in Laguna... so you are like the only person I know... so I wondered if you ever wanted to... I don't know... hang out... show me some places...or something..." When he did not answer she added: „I know this is really weird, but... I don't know... I just thought I would ask..."
„Yeah, sure Jude... I would like to..." He hadn't realized that a long silence would make her insecure. He glanced at the receiver to find out what time it was, only to realize that it was only about five in the afternoon.
So much for his theorie that Chris was already out partying. He probably was still working. „Would you like to have dinner tonight?" He asked her. Suprised by how easy it was for him to set a date. „Sure... Pick me up at six thirty?" she gave him her adress and jumped off her bed, suddenly full of energy, she did not know she still had...
He stayed on the couch for a little longer. Wondering what had just happened. Did she really call. Was that a date?
Had he been dating Portia for so long, that he could not tell whether he had a date or not any more?
She probably was just asking, because she really did not know anybody in Laguna at all. That was what she was saying on the other hand it made him kind of insecure that he really did not know anything about her, but he would find out more than her adress later...
