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"Ranmaru Kageyama! Stop pacing around in your room, I can hear your footsteps from down here!"
A voice yelled out from below and that effectively stops Ranmaru in his tracks. "Sorry Mom!" he yells. He then flopped onto his bed, face buried deep into his pillow.
"It's okay Ranmaru, you can do this. I mean what's the worst that could happen? Sara's a nice person and wouldn't just hate me because of it. At most, it would just make the atmosphere awkward and we slowly drift apart and we just end up never talking again." He said, voice becoming more and more softer at the end, muffled by the pillow in his face.
The boy let out a groan as he rolled over, lying on his side. His hand reached out to his phone, he opened and read through a series of past text between him and Sara for what seems like the millionth time, trying find the slightest possibility of Sara reciprocating his feelings.
Some may say that it's quite difficult for a person to call another by accident and that people who does that might just be a tad bit stupid.
Well... some of Ranmaru's friends may tell you that Ranmaru isn't exactly a smart person.
Ring Ring Ring...
Ranmaru freaks out as the phone rings, a multitude of thoughts racing in his mind.
"Aghrggh how does a person just accidentally press call, hrggh Ranmaru you dumbass."
"Should I hang up... what if Sara thinks I'm stupid for accidentally pressing call, like who does that??!!?"
"I'm not mentally prepared for this..."
"Can the house just collapse on me right now."
"Chat, what the sigma!??"
"What can I say to her that sound plausible as to why I called her randomly."
"Why am I an idiot."
Before he could calm down, a voice came for his phone "Hello?"
...
He throws the phone.
It was at this moment that he remembers the scene from that one movie where the inner emotions of a dude going haywire when the protagonist talks to him, Ranmaru had call the guy a "boyfailure". Well, guess who's the boyfailure now?
"Umm hello?? Ranmaru? Are you there?" Sara's voice rang out through the phone again, this time sounding more concerned.
"Uhm YeahhHh I'm still here, just calling to tell you uh-" Ranmaru said, his voiced trailing off at the end as he was trying to get his phone from the direction he threw it,
A brief silence fills the room in which Ranmaru is searching for his phone.
...
"Uhmm tell me what exactly?" Sara says, breaking the awkward silence.
In a moment of panic, Ranmaru just blurts out the words "I'm in like with you, I have been since-"
Before he could finish that sentence, the sound of the other line hanging up could be heard.
Beep Beep Beep...
On the other side of the line...
Beep Beep Beep...
...
"SARA DID YOU JUST HANG UP ON HIM WHAT THE FUCK??!!" Joe, who was there for the entirety of that awkward phone call, yelled out.
"SORRY I PANICKED!!?" Sara retorted, still looking back to her cellphone, processing what had just happened.
Joe stared at her in disbelieve, the girl who mercilessly made fun of him for managing to fall into a ditch while on a date had just hanged up on her crush confessing his love to her in a panic. "Man, Ryoko is going to have a field day with this information" he thinks
...
"DID I JUST-" "I'm going over to his house right now," Sara said with half her body sticking out the window.
"I'LL BE BACK IN A BIT, DON'T LET KAI KNOW I WENT OUT!!" She yelled, her voice getting further away from the house.
"...Did Miss Sara forgot I was also present in the room" Kai said, standing near Joe, both looking at Sara's slowly disappearing silhouette.
"Yeah... most likely"