When I Think of You (The 80's Baby Series) by Dee Ellis

Author:Dee Ellis [Ellis, Dee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hummingbird Press
Published: 2021-01-31T16:00:00+00:00

Mandi

I feel as if I’m living my own romantic comedy after all.

After standing me up and making me wonder if romance truly existed in the eighties, he proved it did. Not only did he come to apologize the very next day, he got my number from Bobbi and he calls me every single night. And every single day while I tried to ignore him, he came back to order popcorn and more of my attention.

By day two I was ready to forgive him because how could I not? He wasn’t done at apologies and attentive flirting, though. On the third day he showed up at my second job—something else I figure Bobbi told him—at Tape World. He asked me to recommend the best new album, just like he teased about the movie that very first day.

“Here, I made this last night after we talked,” he said almost shyly as he pushed a cassette tape across the counter, “just some songs that made me think of you. Most songs do but.... these especially.”

Noah made me a mix tape—the swooniest mix tape ever to be mixed.

Listening to that tape that same night, I knew I was in big trouble with this guy. Songs by Phil Collins, Billy Ocean and Journey filled the tape and flooding me with the hope of finding romance just as the songs promised. It made me think maybe something special really is happening with us.

“I came back for you,” he told me just last night as we talked on the phone as I listened to another mix tape of songs asking for forgiveness and second chances, “I swear to you I came back that night, it was too late and that kills me. My mom.... it’s not good, and she had a bad night,” his voice was heavy with pain as he tried to explain.

“I’m so sorry, Noah. I can’t even imagine. I should not have been so awful to you after,” I sat in my apartment listening to his mix tape and talking to him until almost dawn.

“You had a right to be. I panicked and rushed to the hospital, but once I got there, and I knew it was okay, I wanted to see you. I’m going to lose my mom this summer, I realized it that night. I wanted to be with you because I just met you, but I felt like you could make me feel okay about it all,” he admitted gruffly.

Today I knew he was going to ask me out again. I knew I was going to say yes because what he said feels true. We are inevitable. Even if it’s just for the summer before he goes to Boston and never looks back. Even if I’m just a girl, he fondly remembers when he thinks of his last summer home—we’re happening.

It feels as if nothing can stop it.

Sipping at my can of Tab as I work on my script, I find myself thinking of what comes next. Not just tonight, but in my life.

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