Chapter 37: Please Be Safe

|| Theo || From the moment Ara left this morning, I had been on edge. There was a churning feeling in my stomach that told me something would go wrong today, and I couldn't stop fidgeting as I worried about her. "—Theo? Theo!" I snapped out of my trance and looked up to see my friends staring at me. "Ah, I'm sorry." "Where are you lost, bro?" Jeremy asked. I shook my head and said, "Nowhere." "I bet he just misses Annabelle," Taylor commented and laughed by himself. "Yeah, I'm just gonna check up on her for a bit," I said and got up from the living room floor. "Hey, that's the fifth time you're calling Annabelle after we came. Won't she get irritated?" Jackson said. I huffed and sat back down. "I know, but I'm just getting a bad feeling." "I never thought a day would come when I would see Theo's nose buried in his phone for his girlfriend during a math session," Rose commented, and everyone laughed from my team. I checked the photos that Ara sent me last from her lunch, and