For the rest of the day, I want to tell you that I do amazing productive things. I do not. I wait for Danny to call. If I even remotely hear something that sounds like a phone alert, I check mine. Mum has given Rod a whole heap of new jobs to do. Lauren and Mum think he’s hilarious and, yes, at times, he is. When he develops Dave: The Musical with big numbers including “I’m the Star (Not Millie)” and the haunting ballad “I’ve Got Fleas,” he is really funny. However, when you are trying to speak to your boyfriend in a completely separate time zone, things are not as fun.
Danny finally calls at about 2:00 p.m. our time. We have a good chat … and then he casually drops into the conversation that he is going to stay with his uncle and that his uncle is a survivalist. He then explains that his uncle lives in the middle of nowhere in a log cabin that he built with no running water.
Even the thought of it gives me a tight chest.
Danny, though, “really can’t wait to go” to “catch fish and watch the raccoons.”
His grandma is going, too, as she likes to hunt.
And he will have no phone connection. For a few days.
“So, what shall we do?” I ask.
Danny looks at me with a very confused face. “We just won’t talk for a few days. We often were like that when I lived near you! It’s no different!”
I nod, but inside I am thinking very differently. Danny just seems to be picking up his Canadian life where he left off. I know I should be fine with that, but where do I fit into it all? I don’t think I can go to stay in a house in the middle of a forest, unless I can take my Zen Loo with me.
A horrible thought creeps into my head. Is this REALLY going to work? Do I want it to? I’m not really a hanging-around type of girl.
Put the thought away, Millie. Positive thinking. Yes. I can make our relationship work. If Rod and Mum can, anyone can!