He Loves the Way He Lies

It was 6:37 am… He just woke up and as the normal routine dictated, he picked up his phone repeating the same words to himself every day, “My Bible is on my phone”… He dealt with all notifications first before muttering a quick prayer, reading a couple of scripture-based posts shared on his facebook timeline and deceiving himself that his spiritual needs for the day had been met. He felt his phone vibrate and suddenly started thinking of going to get a massage but the notification which was about to be read was not close to been as blissful as his thoughts.

He woke his phone up to see a message from ‘Bae’ which read, “Are you having feelings for anyone?”…. He confirmed that it was just the notification he had read to be sure that it would not be marked as read on her phone. He knew they had not been the same in recent times; a lot had happened and a lot of back and forth flinging of words that they would both come to regret… He took a brief moment to think about the fact that in the beginning it was not so… He reminisced about the endless conversations, the selfless service from both of them, the fun activities they engaged in… and how the ‘them’ of now paled in comparison.

Bae was not wrong in her suspicions; he had been a not-so-awesome boyfriend in recent times but I guess it was time to pause the thinking and reply the message as it seems to rot and stink a little more with each passing second. He had let it fester for too long and he feared that only an adrenaline-inducing reply would suffice.

He picked up the phone and typed the words, “No?!,… well, no one except you :*”… keeping fingers crossed. It was therefore a great relief when she replied with, “Awww :*”…To himself he whispered, “Save of the decade”… He had lived to fight another day. He closed the chat and opened his contacts to search for ‘Po10tial’, tapped the name and typed the words, “Hey beautiful, do you wanna hang out today?”. She replied, “Yeah, we could meet up at XYZ at 4 pm”. He smiled and went back to the chat with ‘Bae’ then he typed, “I love you :*”…..

Then he gave himself a hypothethical hi-5 for the skill with which he said those words knowing fully well that his heart was gradually being taken by another…

Signing Out,

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