"Hello?"
(whisper) "Hi"
"Hello???"
(softly) "Hello"
"Look buddy! Its 3 in the morning what the fuck!?!"
- Click.
Thats how it all started. An anonymous phone call in the middle of the night. He knew how it went. Get her number, call her late when she isn't thinking straight. Ask her what she is wearing. Talk softly so she might think it is her guy calling for a little cross town booty talk. He had done it a few times. It was all innocent wasn't it? Nobody got hurt, no harm no foul. But this time was different. He wasn't a horny college kid anymore. He didn't get hard just seeing a pair of nipples trying to poke through a t-shirt anymore. He understood why that didn't happen to him anymore, though part of him wished that it did. What he didn't understand is why SHE was calling HIM! Who was she? What did she want?
The next few nights she called. Each time she spoke a little more, and each time he tryed to keep her on the phone. She said her name was Mandy. She did not ask his name, perhaps she already knew. "Thats how this works, right?" He asked himself after the fourth call in as many nights. "Somone you know, you see but are afraid to approach. Maybe someone that you want to get back at for something stupid so you call and call until they don't answer the phone anymore"
His phone didn't ring for two straight nights. He could hardly sleep. Every time his eyes fell closed he heard her voice.
It was soft and low, maybe it was a guy just fucking with him. Next time she called he was gonna give her a listen. Just wait...
"Hello"
"Mandy? Is that you?"
(whisper) "Yes."
"Good. I have been waiting for you to call"
- Silence.
"I am lying here naked stroking my-"
- Click.
"Haha. Fuck off and die" he cracked to nobody at all.
She called right back.
"Hello"
- Silence.
"Mandy? I'm still stroking"
- Breathing.
"I am lying here naked, rubbing my cock for you"
- Gasps of air, erratic breathing.
"You like that don't you?"
Then he heard her clearly. She was sobbing. Words came between sniffles and breaths as she struggled to say -
"I'm sorry. You must think I am a terrible person" she sobbed.
"Look, you call me in the middle of the night. Barely speak a few words to me. Then tell me goodnight and hang up." "Am I supposed to think your a nice person?"
"No, I know I have been bad. But I had to speak to you"
"Let's start over, ok?" he asked.
"Hi, my name is Symon. With a Y"
"I know who you are, Symon with a Y. My name is Amanda."
"How do you know me?" he asked, still unsure where this was all going.
"We used to work out together" she explained.
"Well... I mean at the same place."
Long silence.
'Used to?"
"Yes, up until a couple weeks ago. I changed jobs and my membership was through work."
"Oh, where do you work"
"They won't let me become a member now."
Hmm. She dodged the question, or did she not hear it. Obviously the woman is unstable and irrational!
"Well, good luck with the new job. I have to get some sleep"
(softly) "Don't go. Please"
"Ok, I will stay but only if you tell me why you are calling me?"
(whisper) "You are my inspiration. My guiding light. I knew it
the first time I saw you. Our eyes met, we smiled.
I just knew"
"I don't understand" he replied, more puzzled than ever.
"You see, I'm fat"