FEBRUARY THE 12TH

"What now? What now? ..."

"Wake up boy. She doesn't want you. She's a pretty girl, so many guys are around her. Why should she listen to you?" was the reply.

"But I love her".

"Love? Does she even know who you are? Does she care that you exist? She's living her life. Why not just let her be?"

"But I know that we would make a perfect match. She's got everything I'm looking for in a lady. Why ask me to quit now?"

"So what do you want to do? Call her? After three days? After she kicked you to the curb? Have some self respect bro. Lick your wounds and move on. You have everything, you can get everything and anything you need. Pick a girl and with any effort she's yours. Why all this effort for this one girl?"

"Because I love her!!!"

Silence filled the room after that. He never expected that outburst from himself. But there had been silence in the room all through the conversation. He had been arguing with himself.

Sanity had forgotten him, three days after she rejected him.

FEBRUARY THE 8TH

"Hello. Hello. Can you hear me?"

"Yes. Good evening"

"You know who is speaking right?", he asked, his heart pausing in anticipation that she at least remembered him

" Yes. Of course I know you".

"Cool", he heaved a gentle sigh of relief, happy to escape the burden of  reintroduction.

"How are you? I...em...called earlier but you didn't pick".

" Oh. Sorry".

Her voice over the phone shook his confidence, running an electric pulse through his nerves.

"Helloooooo...are you there?", she asked as he went dumb over the phone.

" Yes. I'm here. I err, wanted to check up on you", he replied, cursing his lame excuse.

"Aww. Thank you".

" Okay then. Good bye"

He stammered over the phone, interrupting with long pauses occasionally. He found her alluring and dropped the phone, cursing himself for how his eloquence dried up when it came to this one girl.

One girl that he could no longer do without.