The call you keep almost making

There is someone you think of often and speak to rarely. Not a falling out. Just a year of meaning to. Then a school pickup, and it felt late to call out of nowhere. It never is. The gap you are afraid of is mostly in your head, and they have the same gap, pointed at you. You do not need an occasion or 40 minutes. You need 3 minutes in the car before you go inside. Say it plainly: you came to mind, so you called.