Amiss

Ava checks his phone.

[10:00am and still no text from Aya. What's going on?]

He goes to call her and her name isn't in his recent calls.

[That's weird. I call her almost every day.]

He goes to his contacts to find that her name is no longer there.

[Where did her contact go? I didn't delete it.]

He decides to call their mutual friend, Rei.

Rei picks up the phone, "Hey Ava."

Ava: "Hey Rei. Have you heard from Aya recently? I haven't heard from her since the other day."

Rei: "Aya? I don't even know who that is."

Ava: "What are you talking about? Stop joking. I'm being serious."

Rei: "So am I. Dude we've never met an Aya in our life. Are you feeling alright?"

Ava: "Aya? My girlfriend Aya? The girl we play with Aya?"

Rei: "Oh this is a joke," he laughs. "You don't even have a girlfriend. Good one. You almost got me there."

Ava: "…yeah. Haha. Funny. I gotta go. I'll talk to you later."

Ava hangs up the phone.

[What the heck? Did he really not know I was talking about Aya? It's almost as if he forgot about her.]