[ Thanks for taking so long to reply, Ellie. Joel has been sitting on the couch, staring down at his phone and fidgeting with it with increasing unease for the last fifteen minutes. When it chimes with a new message, he kind of hopes Ellie has replied with another dumb joke - and instead it's... that. Took her fifteen minutes to reply with that?
He heaves a heavy sigh. Any hope he just had that texting her those dumb jokes would have her talking to him or something crushes in his chest a little. ]
knocked off work about an hour ago home now
[ Hoping you'd be here he starts to type, then hesitates, then deletes it. ]
no subject
He heaves a heavy sigh. Any hope he just had that texting her those dumb jokes would have her talking to him or something crushes in his chest a little. ]
knocked off work about an hour ago
home now
[ Hoping you'd be here he starts to type, then hesitates, then deletes it. ]