Chapter 14

I pick up my phone to FaceTime Zayne. I was wearing his shirt. He picks up after 3 rings. He's still at work wearing his scrubs.

 "Hey handsome" I say as soon as his face pops into the screen.

 "Hey babe" he says as his face lit up in recognition "aren't you looking delicious in that shirt"

 "You bet I am" I take a seat on the couch "How's your day?"

 "Good. Yours?"

 "Good too. Had lunch with Sophie, baby Juliet and Kayla"

 "Sounds nice" he says looking away from the camera "how's Sophie and the baby?"

 "They're both well, Sophie sends her greetings" I say flashing a grin " and Kayla accuses me of keeping you of been busy and not calling her"

 "She'll be fine. She understands how busy it can be here" he says spinning slowly in his chair. "We both know she wants to probably quiz me about us. And besides what has that got to do with you. It's my personal life" I smile sheepishly. He has been too busy to reply his sister but here he is making out time to talk to me. "you know what she wants, just an update in my personal life" he says with a shrug.

I contemplates that for several seconds, to realize that Kayla is the only person I know in his life. He hasn't brought up me meeting his mom and I'm not mentioning it either. I then come back with "I want to know who the people in your life are. Who are your people, Zayne?"

He didn't know how to respond to that with anything but laughter. I smile in return, not knowing how to react.

 "Why'd you ask?" He asks

I shrug. "All you ever do is work. Makes me wonder if you have a life outside of it, and who are the people"

 "I have friends" he says "a few, I have Kayla and my mom. I like my career, and my life" he pauses, and then "I have you and I'm happy, if that's what you're wondering" he says sounding very honest. I felt a tug in my heart. I'm supposed to feel bad about Kayla. Here I was feeling special.

 "And I'm happy too" I pause not knowing what else to say "I tried to find you on social media, but I didn't have any luck" I had searched for him all over social media but he seemed non existent. Although I found his clinic page on instagram "I only found your clinic handle"

I see the corner of his mouth lift in a smile "I don't use social media much, I employed a social media handler for the clinic, it's important. And besides you private all your social media account when I looked you up" he lets his head fall back against the chair rest.

 "Yeah I did, send a request and I will add you" I say gently tugging the tip of my hair. "which could have been your Favourite social media?"

He thinks for a while before responding"I'm not sure which is. I downloaded TikTok a few months ago, but that was a mistake. Sucked me in for hours one night, and I almost missed a meeting the next morning. I deleted the app later that day"

I couldn't help but laugh at that. Zayne! TikTok? "Just so you know, I would do just about anything to watch you make TikTok videos."

 "Never gonna happen."

My attention is stolen away for a moment, and then I start to lift up on my couch, but pauses. 

 "Hold on a second. I need to set my phone down." I drop the phone, I'm sure I heard a knock on the door. I hear a door open and shut as I pick up my phone. "Sorry, I heard someone at the door"

 "Must have been a wrong call yeah?"

 "Yeah. I get that quite often" I say adjusting adjusts the pillow under the arm I'm using to support my head and settles back into the couch. "When're you leaving?"

 "As soon as I'm done with you" he says looking around. "I should continue tomorrow"

 "Okay. This is the first time we're FaceTiming" I say warmly.

 "Of course it is." I remember what my mom said about keeping memories, so before she ends the call, I take a quick screenshot. It makes an obvious screenshot noise, I had no idea that the screenshot would make that noise and that she would be able to hear it. Jodie tilts her head curiously smiling.

 "Did you just take a picture?" she asks

 "I wanted a picture of you in my shirt remember?" he begins to say quickly.

 "It's fine." I say as I take a screenshot too "just took a screenshot of you too, This is actually the first picture of you I have. And I'm keeping this" I grin.

 "Where exactly are you right now? Is that your office?" I ask.

 "It is" he spins the phone around so I can get a glimpse of it. "It's not so big"

I bet my office is way bigger than his "it's not bad, it's tidy"

He nods with a smile at the"yeah, it is" he looks closely at the screen "I'd like to see what your studio looks like" he says

 "Then you should come by, I'd even give you a facial treatment"

 "Is there a discount going on?" He asks

I laugh "of course not, that's a silly question, it's just a special treat for your busy ass"

 "Oh" I look forward to it. He looks more closely at the screen "Bye, Jo. Gotta run"

 "Bye Zayne. I'm going to read a book now. I will text you before I sleep."

 "Okay. If you don't sleep off" he ends the call before I could respond. I check the time it's almost 11. I open the book to where I stopped and realized I've not gone past the first two chapters. I start reading, determined to read at least two chapters tonight.