Maybe her chest wouldn’t burn so much if he would just call? Maybe even text?
Adrian did, after all, say he would talk to her soon, and taking his word to heart, for the entirety of yesterday after he left her in the rain and the moment she woke up today, Ari kept her eye on her phone like a hawk.
Clearly, his interpretation of soon didn’t have the same definition as hers. Since she and Adrian hadn’t ever exchanged phone numbers, Ari had answered every damn incoming call that hit her cell phone, and she had never been so annoyed with spam callers in her entire life! And Aunt Eva had never been more annoyed with her, either. Because she was completely focused on her phone, Ari stopped anything she was in the middle of doing whenever her phone started chirping, whether it be
