I decided to just go ahead and text Loki. I definitely didn't feel brave enough to call, I mean, I couldn't sustain a call with his voice at the end. Hey, what are you up to? I flicked through some of my old messages hoping to pass the time. They were all boring ones, mostly between my sister and I, talking about work and the cute boys she'd meet in England. My sister's in England at the moment, where Loki was born, I thought dreamily.
I scrolled back to the top of my messages but there weren't any unread ones. It'd been two minutes since I'd checked that text. I really needed to calm down a bit.
I went out into the kitchen to start cooking dinner. Maybe that'd put my mind off of him for a little while. I put the pasta on to boil and I walked back into the lounge room to check my phone again. Still no new messages. I sighed and went back to the kitchen.
Every time I felt the need to check on my phone I exercised a bit of self-restraint and stopped myself. After I had finished cooking, eating and cleaning up I decided to go back into the lounge room. I turned on the TV before sitting down and reaching for my phone. The screen lit up as I pressed the button. My heart was beating quickly. No new messages. I threw my phone on the ground in frustration. Loki was probably working now, not thinking about me. It didn't seem fair how he had so much to go on with while I just had this lame job and stupid apartment. No one was here to keep me company apart from the TV and laptop. I felt like I needed my sister at this moment. She'd be able to give me a dose of common sense. I was just over reacting, as usual, Loki was just at work. He was busy. Ellie, he was busy, he didn't have time to even check his phone, I try to reassure myself.
I enter the number for Bree's mobile and it dials. I smile when I hear her voice at the other end of the line.
"Hey Ellie, what you up to?" she asks, in her usual cheery manner.
"Uhm, well nothing. That's sort of the problem, Bree, I'm bored as hell," I whine.
She laughs before replying, "Why are you bored, you've got a man now, how on earth could you be bored, unless of course he's busy ."
"Yep, that's why, I texted him an hour ago and still no reply, I mean, wouldn't he get time to check his phone at work?" I ask, knowing how ridiculously anxious I sound.
"First of all, you can't let this make you feel miserable okay? You're not allowed to base your emotions on whether or not he had time to check his phone in the past hour, it just makes you feel worse than you should," she says, not unkindly.
"I know, I know, just we had such an amazing night last night and well I just really want to see, or at least hear from him again. I hate living by myself Bree, I absolutely hate it!"
"Well why don't you tell me all about it?" she asked, sounding excited.
"Okay." I said, smiling.
I tell her everything that happened, how I met him, our first kiss together, the story he told me about how he met Selly, even the part about his brother and the painting of the superheroes.
"Wow Ellie, you're so lucky! Loki, he sounds amazing, really amazing. Definitely deserving of my sister from what I can tell," she praises, and I feel a rush of pride for Loki, and a blush rising to my cheeks thinking of our time together last night.
"Why don't you call him Ellie?" she asks.
"Well, you know I'm not exactly the most confident speaker on the phone…" I say hesitantly.
"Who cares? He'll probably find it cute, most guys do, just call him, that way he'll definitely pick up unless he is truly busy," she insists.
"Fine, okay then. I'll call you back later okay?" I hang up the phone and start typing in Loki's number. My fingers are trembling, I half hope he picks up but the other half of me hopes he doesn't, what am I going to say to him?!
I press call and put the phone up to my ear. Ring-ring, ring-ring, ring-ring, ring-ring, ring-ring, ring-ring. He doesn't pick up but I do get to listen to his delicious voice in the voice message.
I call back Bree and tell her that he didn't pick up.
"He's busy sis, he wouldn't ignore your call unless it was really important, who knows he may have even left his phone at home," she says reassuringly.
"Yeah, okay, thanks Bree, you're the best sister you know."
She laughs, "Thanks Ellie, you are too, just promise me you won't try calling or texting him again. You don't want to look like a try-hard, no matter how much you think this guy likes you."
"Yeah don't worry I won't, but can we talk for a bit longer, there's nothing good on TV and I feel like I haven't spoken to you properly in ages," I ask.
"Sure Ell, would you care to know about my latest date?"
"Of course," I reply, just like her to have another date when she'd only just broken up with Dean a few weeks ago.
"Well he's got longish, blonde hair, blue eyes and the sweetest accent. He's a total gentleman Ellie, I can't believe it. I feel like I've gotten as lucky as you!" she always talks really loudly about the guys she's dating at the moment but I feel like she's practically shouting about this one. He must be pretty damn good to make my sister this joyful after one date.
"Wow Bree! You sound absolutely amazed about this guy, what's his name?!"
"It's a pretty unusual one, rather like your Loki, it's Thor. Like the name of that god isn't it? He's like a god himself pretty much! Unbelievable, no one his parents named him that. If they knew he was going to grew up to be so awesome."
I didn't reply for a while. I was speechless. Thor. The name of Loki's brother. Thor definitely wasn't a very common name. So it had to be him. My sister was dating my boyfriend's brother. I repeated this phrase over and over again in my head trying to make it sound truthful.
"Bree," I said very calmly, "You are dating Loki's brother."
She screamed out, "OH MY GOD! ARE YOU BEING SERIOUS ELLIE?!"
"Yes! I can't believe it, out of all the people you could have gone on a date with it just happens to be Loki's brother. Holy shit this is amazing Bree!" I shouted, feeling a lot happier all of a sudden.