Late Night Call

Startled awake by a voice coming from my phone’s answering machine I rolled over slightly to my right in bed and listened in darkness. It was a female speaking. Confusion slowly lifted as she spoke. She told me all about herself, what she had been up to and where she was living. The woman said she remembered me and was surprised to get a call from me after all these years. After a few minutes I realized Jacinda got my call from a couple weeks ago and was finally returning it. When I left that message I was not sure it was her number anymore. When a week passed followed by another without receiving a call back I wrote it off. You never can predict how things are going to turn out though just like my original call to Oregon a while back.

Annoyed at the late hour of Jacinda’s return message I chose not to pick up the handset. Instead I listened in bed until she finished yapping and the phone went dead. Hoisting myself off the mattress I barged through the door into my bathroom to take a leak. As I returned to my room Autumn asked me what that phone message was about. In the few moments it took me to get up and come back I knew this was going to be an awkward situation. While Jacinda babbled on to the answering machine Autumn woke up too. She heard it all. I decided the best thing to do was come clean and simply tell her the truth. I had been looking for Jacinda infrequently over the years, finally got a solid lead from someone up in Oregon and followed through with it. There was some things that were bothering me about my breakup with Jacinda from so long ago and I wanted to get it off my chest. Get it off my mind and out of my system for good. That was it, nothing more.

Autumn didn’t say anything. Both of us went back to sleep.

~ by factorypeasant on April 13, 2008.