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Shawn smiled as he scrolled through his recent messages. Messages he shared with Sara.
It had been almost a year since the night they hooked up in Nia and Scott's basement. It had also been almost a year since Sara went home and got engaged to her boyfriend a few hours later. Sara had sent Shawn a message after adding him as a friend a week earlier.
Sara: Can you call me?
It took Shawn a few hours to reply that he would and then a couple more before he called the phone number Sara had sent immediately after.
"Hello?" Sara asked on the other end of the line. She sounded distracted.
"Hi Sara, this is Shawn. I was just calling like you asked but you sound busy..."
"No, no, no! Let me get somewhere quieter." Shawn looked out his apartment window nervously while he waited. A light rain seemed to match his mood. After what seemed like an hour, Sara brought the phone back to her ear.
"Sorry, I was on the stair climber at the gym. I assumed this was a spam call.
"Nope, just me," Shawn half grinned at hearing her voice again. Less nervous, he sat on a nearby chair. "You said you wanted me to call?"
"Right," she sighed. "Look Shawn, I want to tell you I'm sorry."
"Sara, you don't owe me..."
"I do," she cut him off. "I wasn't expecting to have this conversation in my gym or expecting you to find my Facebook and like my post." Her breathing started to return to normal.
"I thought you were cute so I went downstairs that night. Nia was talking you up every chance she got all weekend so I went and saw for myself."
Shawn chuckled at the thought of Nia and Scott conspiring to hook up their friends.
"Kenny and I hadn't seen each other in a month. We had a huge fight and I ended it. I hadn't heard from him at all until the day I came home. And you know what happened from there."
"I think it's great you two are engaged, I really do," he lied.
"Thank you, but I wasn't asking you to call so you could congratulate me. You seem like a really nice guy..." Sara's voice got lower. "...and you were fantastic. I was willing to actually see what would happen. But Kenny and I were together for over a year and..."
"And life happened," Shawn deadpanned.
"Yeah. It really did." Sara's voice trailed away. "I'm sorry. I just wanted to clear that up."
Shawn sighed as he stood back up. "Thank you. And I'm sorry too. I could have not liked your post and left it alone."
"Nope, you don't get to be sorry. This one is all me." They were both silent for a few seconds. "I'm going to go back in and finish my workout. Thanks for actually calling. It was good to hear from you."
"You too Sara. Take care."
Since then, there hadn't been any more phone calls. No more chance meetings when he dropped in on Nia and Scott. Twice.
However, Shawn did send a video to Sara, something he found funny, about two weeks after their call. She responded with a voice note that he
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