Chapter 12 - Uninvited?

Text conversation between Ryo and Oliver

Come outside for a minute

Patient O

I look at my phone screen and smile. I get out of bed so fast my brain shakes in my brain. “Whoa!” I say stopping in my tracks. My heart is beating over time and I have to brace on my bed to stop from falling. I need to slow down. I can’t let this boy drive me crazy like this. I saw his text and didn’t even think twice.

Here he is making me act like some love sick puppy. I want to take things slow with him but he has so much pull over me I can’t help it.

“What’s wrong?” My mother asks from the hallway. I didn’t think she would hear me.

“Nothing.” I say standing up right. She pokes her head through the door with a look of concern on her face.

“That didn’t sound like nothing.” She says and she raises her brows at me in question.

“It’s nothing big I just got up too