Personal Journal

August 8, 2021

Day 11 – August 8, 2021

I didn’t hear from Lewis most of the day. I sent him a text when I woke and another later in the day. I was a bit unnerved by it at first, but I pushed my concerns aside. I said a prayer, asking God to keep him and Pico safe. Then I thought that maybe he was tired of me already. That I had said or done something the day before that put him off. Then I looked back at our conversation and didn’t see anything that would set off alarm bells. I know that sometimes I have the habit of being too forthcoming.

Over the past few days that we have been texting each other, he’s been very consistent. I told myself that there was a good reason that I hadn’t heard from him. Later in the evening, my Whatsapp alert sounded, and I was like, what the hell. I’ve blocked the two guys that were contacting me through the app.

It was Lewis. His phone got wet, and he finally thought to put the Whatsapp on an old iPad to contact me. He was afraid that I would be mad because he hadn’t contacted me all day. We had a good chat. This is very different than my usual experiences.

Lewis and I are getting to know each other slowly, but deeply. We talked about God and spirituality among other things.