Caleb had called, like he did in the afternoons when she went to campus. They talked about their days so far; Maddie told him about yet another encounter with a stranger on BART who touched her stomach—why did strangers like to touch other strangers stomachs anyway?—and Caleb told her that they were one day away from finishing the big restoration they’d been tirelessly working on, only to find out that their client had another car coming their way. The money was good, Caleb had told her, so of course they would take it. But it meant some more late nights and another few weeks of stress. They were ending their call and Maddie was distracted walking back to campus after lunch because a cyclist was trying to weave his way around her and she kept stepping accidentally into his path. So when she said goodbye, she almost didn’t register that she said, “I love you,” right after it. It felt so natural, so easy, that the words had slipped right out. It was only when her thumb was hovering over the ‘End Call’ button that she froze in the middle of the pathway. The cyclist cursed and flipped her off as he rode away but she didn’t even care. The call was still running, which meant that Caleb hadn’t ended it on his side yet. More importantly, she wondered if he heard what she’d just said.
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