Chương 2: Chapter 2: Surprise
Warren was surprised.
A random decision to answer an unknown number this late at night turned out to be more interesting than he had expected.
He was testing out a new game and had just finished a round when he got a call. He was so distracted on how easy the game was that he had already answered the call before realising it was from an unknown number.
He had a millisecond of regret answering the unknown number since he realised he could be expecting creeps calling at this time,
"Shooshie... Hey girlfwend!" (The f-! Is she...) "... drunk greetings lift your shpiritsh, oh pardon," (Yeah, she's drunk)*hic*(that sounded like it hurt!) "..., sorry, where was I, oh yeah! (Yes, drunk girl, where are you?) Wish you were here! I m-wiss you and hope you feel better soon! (Aw shucks...) You better be saving your game (wait, how did she know I was playing? Am I being punked?! No one's been allowed in here without me knowing... hmm... fine I'll play along...)
"Heh, thanks, but this uh, 'girlfwend' still wants to play. And now I do wish I was there"
"Uh, Shell, did your voice change?" (Ah, she was supposed to have called this Shell... who names their kid, Shell?)
"Sadly, no, I'm not Shell, you've just called someone else instead." (Hahaha, I really do wish I was there to see her face!)
"Oh... my... crap... Thank you! No! I mean, I am so sorry! Sorry for calling so late! Ah, bye now! And err... sorry for disturbing. You. Oh and you may go ahead and play and may you win ever on your favour and all that. Uh, yeah I did say bye.... yeah, uh, bye!" (*snort* cute)
"Hey don't worry about it. I wa-"
"Hahahahahaha "oh my crap"?! Haha, ah, my ribs -haha- hurt -haha- so much-norted my drink! Hahaha-checks hurt! Haha... Well, that's one way to get sober! ... You fools! Now I remember why I rarely go out drinking with you lot ... water!"
(Uh, I guess she doesn't know she hasn't hanged up...) There was more laughter and he can clearly hear a lot of people teasing drunk girl for panicking. (...wait, why am I still listening to this? I should-)
"... end up calling? ... some hot sexy rando."
(So I'm a "hot sexy rando"... nice) Further basking on his own greatness ensues...
"his voice was hectic deep... and husky, like a makes-you-wanna-melt kinda husky... such a sexy voice..." (Aw shucks... The lady has good taste.) "... had to enjoy it when it lasted, ... moment! ... anyway. I mean, I'm pretty sure I annoyed him already... so I will enjoy my little daydream, thank you very much! Now you lot had dared me and I delivered! Y'all ... fun from me, ... start sobering up ... -ganised ... go and make ... nothing is forgotten ... left behind! ... Yiss, marishja-"
There was too much background noise that Warren was only able to here bits and pieces of the conversation.
She was a bit of a funny one but hell, her voice kinda got to him. It went from playful to cute and adorable to sexy boss voice. He has this sudden urge to play with her. And he did tell her that he still wants to play...
But how to approach... He picked up his phone and started typing.
"Hey sexy..." (too forward?)
"Hey girl..." (am I still in highschool?!)
"Hey sultry goddess..." (too much?)
(God! Why am I struggling with this?! Dude you've done this a couple times before! Get a grip! ... ok maybe just keep it simple... maybe dare her a bit? guh... the hell man where is your game?...)
But his gentlemanly upbringing had inconveniently popped up and reminded him to mind his manners with ladies. He can just hear his Gi-gi's (great-grandpa) voice threatening to haunt him all his life if he ever mistreated any lady. He was thought to always treat women with honour an respect. God, he missed his Gi-gi. He was an original and way ahead of his time.
After much struggle and further checking and re-checking of spelling and grammar and further editing for the appropriate length, he was finally happy with his constructed draft message.
(Ok, that should be playful enough and polite enough that she won't resist answering back... I hope...
... The hell man! Be a man! If she ghosts you no big deal!... Right?...)
Warren got impatient with himself and just hit the send button and decided to let it be and finally sleep... well maybe, right after his review on the game. And it would be a few more hours later until he finally went to bed.
The next day, in a small cozy apartment, early in the morning.
Lisa is tired. As in TI-IRED!
(Why? Why do I still insist on going out to party like I'm in my early 20s when I'm already a decade older?!) Inner crying and pity party ensues...
(Must water and then coffee... then Alive! Why me morning person for?! Doushite-bakit-why?)
Yeeesh! Even her thoughts are disjointed. And is overly dramatic today. She must be that hungover- wait! Nope, nah-uh, not hungover, just very tired.
According to Lisa, if she doesn't get a head splitting migraine, she's just tired, NOT hungover, thank you very much!
She did a pretty good job staying hydrated while she gyrated the night and alcohol away on the dance floor last night, if she does say so herself! (Sassy hair flick!)
And she was definitely sober by the time she had to herded her 'Drunken Fools', which she decided will be her personal collective noun for those particular individuals from now on, off to their respective car, station and place.
Now to start her usual morning routine, she's organised her glass of water, cereal that's just waiting for milk and the freshly ground coffee beans just waiting for the hot water.
While she's waiting for her kettle she decided to look through her phone and see if her bestie Shell, shortened for Shelbourne, has woken up by now to message her back.
Lisa completely forgot to call her bestie last night. Not that it was any use, since whenever Shell gets in a mood, that's it!
"Whoa!", Lisa was surprised she got so many notifications. But realised she did leave her phone in her bag for the rest of the night so it makes sense she gets like a bajillion (25) notifications.
She first checked her work friend chat group. A lot of them where snaps of the shenanigans they got up to last night. (Mostly, expertly taken by yours truly.) And couple of them were trying to out do each other with the memes from the photos. (Wait, this was mostly last night...)
*!!!!!!!!*
Lisa didn't know if she made her own sound or if it was the timing of her whistling kettle, but it was so-ooo appropriate on how she felt when she saw a message from an unknown number...
[Your call may have been a surprise, but it made for a more interesting evening. I couldn't help overhearing your very flattering compliments. Thank you :) I hope you got home safe. - hot sexy rando ;)]
Author's (Rant) Note:
Hello reader! Thanks for uh reading haha*ahem
So, I forgot to mention I finally took the plunge in finally writing because of the Love at First Sight challenge. You might be thinking, "2 chapters in and still no love at first sight?" Worry not my dears, delayed gratification will be awesome! (haha... I hope *more nervous giggles) btw does the phrase "delayed gratification" remind anyone of Tom Hiddleston? ("I LOVE YOU TOM HIDDLESTON!!" still echoes in the background) just me? *ahem* Moving on!
A BIG THANK YOU for the love you have sent my way. I'm still quite new to Webnovel so please pardon my newb-ness and chatter and thank you for your patience🙏🏽
Edit: I was writing this chapter half-awake by the end of it and I have seen and fixed some errors. Sorry for any confusion!
Also I realised some of the words may be too slang or too foreign for some, so here's a couple that may help your reading experience,
rando = random person
Doushite = Japanese "why"
Bakit = Tagalog "why"
Hopefully it's less confusing now😅
Another Edit: I have a mistake! I re-read the competition details and my mistake was not reading the word count requirements?! I will make further improvements and will post a message on the competition and chapters once I am happy with them
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