8.1.23

as Jadon drives down the small service road out of his house and onto the main street, he gets a call from Marcus

he places his mate on his car speakers and answer the call

"hey marcus"

"hey Jadon, where you heading?" he asks hearing the sounds of the road from the call

"oh just taking a little drive"

"mmm yeah sure"

Marcus knew his best friend too well, he had learnt to know the exact tone Jadon used whenever he lied, and despite Jadon knowing how bad he was of a liar, he still denied it

"what?"he bites his lip

"so your not giving up on that note yeah"

Jadon had become obsessed with the note lately, he had been going to the library every day since to see if he had gotten a note back, as he had become intrigued by the girl who wrote the note. He liked the feeling of the suspense and mysteriousness the girl gave out, the more he waited, the more impatient he became and he wanted to find out even more

"last try marcus, last one" he lies knowing he'll show up again tomorrow if he doesn't get a reply back

"its been 5 days, lets be real you've scared her off"

"shush you plonker"

"well at least stay with me on the phone, i wanna see you get rejected live"

"im not going to get rejected mate"

"we'll see about that one"

Jadon parks nearby the library, leaves his car and walks into the library with his airpods connected to his call with marcus

the boy smiles at the librarian at the front desk and makes his way to the fiction aisle in the back corner of the library

"have you found it yet?" he hears marcus say through his ear

"nah" Jadon whispers

he traces his hands across the shelves looking through the books to find the one

"ah, here it is"

he flips through the pages of the book and the paper falls out

the boy picks it up from the floor, realising its not the original note, but a whole letter from the girl

"rejected yet?" marcus laughs

"no way! she replied marcus" he whisper-shouts

"oh well, my prediction was wrong"

"you suck at all kinds of predictions marcus, you should have known"

"im alright at FPL"

"no your not" he snorts knowing how bad his mate is at FPL as he can almost hear Marcus rolling his eyes at him

"anyways, ima go off and reply, see ya" he says pulling his phone out of his pocket and ending the call before Marcus could say a thing

with a huge smile on his face, he runs to the main desk, asking for a pen and a piece of paper, which he takes to one of the desks and begins to read the note

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'hellooo of course we can be friends!'

im actually really excited about the fact someone actually replied to my note lol i didn't think anyone would see it haha

umm since were like going by first name initials it seems from 'j', you can call me 'h'

i don't actually know what to say now so gimme a sec ima google it

yep so google says to ask you ur age, where ur from, and what u work as

yknow what, i may as well answer them too

so like im 22, and im from liverpool but i live in manchester though i think you could guess that one, and im a presenter :)

also im just guessing ur a girl cuz i don't meet that many guys who read but sorry for assuming if im wrong

so i dont even know if you'll actually bother to come back and reply but alr

and also why don't u leave the book with Suzan (the librarian) so we don't get any intruders on this little convo

also i dare u to leave it under the name dua lipa cuz why not, and i guess if ur a pussy then just leave it as j

-h

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 Walking into the library just a few minutes ago, Jadon was definitely losing hope of the girl replying to his note, the last thing he was expecting was a note from her. His feelings of how over the moon he was cannot be explained

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omg hi i cant believe u actually replied tho

so ig hello h

im j

uhh and to answer ur questions

im 22, im from london (but i live in manchester) my parents are from trinidad and tobago tho so ive been there a few times, oh and also i work in the football industry

oh and im a guy

i hope that doesnt scare u off because this is actually kinda fun

 i promise im not a weirdo

and u know what i cant have some random girl who left a note in a book call me a pussy so i will leave it as dua lipa but im not happy

so here's a dare for you now

it don't think its as embarassing as leaving a book as dua lipa with a 60 year old woman ig, but it may possibly get u kicked out

basically stick googly eyes everywhere in this library and like put so many that you couldnt possibly clean them all up so that the next time im here ill see them

also while your at it buy me a greggs sausage roll if you feel like it x

p.s why dua lipa? 

-j

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he folds up the note and places it back into the book then proceeds to walk over to the librarian 'suzan' at the front desk

"hello dear, can i help you?" she utters

"umm can i leave this book here for someone?" he says passing her the book

"yes, of course, could you just tell me your name? and they'll ask for it right?"

he begins to contemplate doing the girls dare

'i dont want to do it'

'should i just put it down as J?'

'nah i cant have some girl ive never met call me a pussy'

'come on Jadon its not that bad'

"yes it just for a friend of mine, and my name is" he takes a deep breath and say "dua lipa"

"pardon?"

"dua lipa" he utters again in complete embarassment

"could you just write that down for me?" the woman asks as she can't catch what he's saying

he nods as he writes down 'dua lipa' on the yellow post-it note which she places onto the book

"alright when your friend asks for it, ill pass it to them dear"

"thank you"

"no worries"

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