"Guesss whooo. :P" That was the subject line I saw when I opened up my email that night. A message from Kayla. I had given her my email address the last time I saw her. Honestly, I didn't expect her to email me after almost a week, but apparently I was wrong. It read something like this:
"Hey! Sorry I didn't email sooner, but I got sick right after I got home last weekend. How are you?" I was so excited. I could finally keep in contact with Kayla. I wouldn't have to wait through the long periods of time between each time we saw each other.
But as excited as I was, I was a little terrified, too. I had no idea of what to say back to her. I thought for a minute and came up with something, but as I was about to write it, I thought to myself, If I email her back right now, she might think I've just been waiting here for her email. She might think I'm clingy! So I resolved to wait a couple days to email her back. I was comfortable with that decision until I thought, Oh! Crap! If I wait to email her back, she might think I'm a jerk or something. She might think I'm trying to get back at her for not emailing me for a week. Even worse, she might think I am intentionally waiting to email her back for the precise reason I'm waiting to email her back! So then I decided to email her back right away. But, as you may have guessed, I changed my mind again and decided to wait. Then I changed my mind again. And then again. And again once more.
This went on for a long time. It went on for a very long time. But to give you a better perspective, it went on for a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, *gasps for breath* very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, *catches breath again* very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, *huff puff* very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very *GASP* very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very - even longer than it takes you to get through all these "verys" - long time. It came to the point where there was no reason in waiting to email her back, because I had already waited long enough contemplating weather I should wait or not. Unfortunately, by this time I had forgotten what I was going to say to her, so I was back to square one.
So, after very, very, very, very (okay, sorry. I'll stop) long time of trying to remember what I was going to say, I settled on, "Hey, what's up?" And so it began, my futile attempt at wooing her via cyberspace. Little did I know, the end had already begun.
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