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Four

Zach knew he was bargaining too much with Giselle, asking her to be his whenever she was looking for a forever. She kept telling him that they were too old to play games that teenagers would. That this is the age to settle down. He told her that they both were only twenty five and she was just playing hard to get because no one actually got on dating apps to date or marry, especially the one they met on. On the last day (he didn't know it would be the last but he had it coming), he insulted her saying she should try getting registered on a matrimony app and find someone just as desperate to marry.

She went offline then. He tried calling her, thankful that he asked for her number before. But she wouldn't pick up a single call and eventually he got tired. He missed her quick quips, witty remarks and how the conversation flowed with her so easily. She barely gave him a chance to flirt with her, always keeping on rambling about something or the other that she found interesting.

But even then, he found them amusing. He learnt so many things from her, how matchsticks were invented later and there's a certain way of washing hands and a hell lot of random facts that she found amazing, her rants about how she loved ketchup but it had too much sugar just like cola.

She taught him weird things that somehow ended up making sense such as dipping French fries in cola and the right way of opening jars- no matter how tight they are and how she would never need a man to do it for her but she'd give her future guy them anyway, to open.

She loved mismatching things more than the ones that went well together and she made him love them too. She always found fun things to do, and she loved children's art projects so she always made them. She sent him pictures of little notes with cute doodles on them whenever she could at random times of the day.

He found her adorable but bargained with her, to be in a casual relationship with him. And one day, he woke up to one message after insulting her the night before, that she should be on matrimonial apps to find someone just as desperate and with that she was gone from his life.

It's been a couple of months and he recently deleted that app because no one else had the same feeling. They were good, great, wanted the same things as her but she was something else and he couldn't find her in anyone else. He knew, because he desperately searched for her in every other girl he matched with. And he felt so stupid because of that.

Now even if he fell to her knees with the biggest diamond he could afford, she wouldn't be back because Giselle Park could take anything, patience being one of her best traits but she wouldn't take the slightest amount of disrespect and he disrespected her, her wants, her needs and said so many awful things to her.

He could pick up his phone and ring her but it would keep ringing. He knew that. But he rang her once a day everyday. He rang her in hopes that she'd answer the call and was always met with a robotic voice of a lady telling him to try again later. And try again later, he would.

Picking up his phone, his fingers dialed her as if they knew what he wanted to do and he put it on speaker, knowing that she wouldn't lift the call and there's no point in holding the phone to his ear and listening to the disappointment as loud and clear as it could get.

“Hello?” The call was answered.