"Hello?" I answered my phone.
"Hello, is that Nikki?" asked an accented voice on the other end of the phone.
"Yes it is," I said, my heart skipping a beat. I didn't know many people with accents and if this was who I thought ... well, then, wow!
"I don't know if you remember me Nikki, but I am Daniela." The words confirmed my suspicions and I was sure that she would hear my heart thumping through the telephone. Daniela Hantuchova was calling me!
"Oh my God, you are the last person I expected to call!" I said.
"Yes, well I can understand that, but believe it or not, I've thought about you often. And then I was talking with Maria the other day and your name came up and I haven't been able to get you out of my mind since."
"Wow, I thought that you were going to put me on your staff and have me tour the world with you ... but I wasn't surprised when you didn't. Aren't you in the middle of Wimbledon? I watched you play on telly the other night."
"God I'm sorry about that, it seemed so easy at the time and then everything happened quickly and we left Australia. I should never have told you that I would do it because I should have known that it wouldn't work out. But, now I am indeed at Wimbledon and that's where I'm calling from and I don't want you to watch me on the TV, I want you to watch me live."
"Ha, well I'd love to but there's this little bit of ocean in between us at the moment."
"That's why they have aeroplanes. Would you come and be my guest at my next game. Its in 2 days, you'd have to leave this afternoon to get there. Say yes, pack a bag and someone will be at your door with the ticket in half an hour."
"Holy crap, are you serious?"
"Yes I am serious. I want to look up into the stands and see your wonderful smile and then after my game, I want to see all of you again and I want to make up for not taking you with me last time."
"Wow, I can't get my head around this ... like you really want to fly me to London?"
"Yes, little Nikki, I want to fly you to London, have dinner with you, entertain you ... I want you Nikki."
"I must be dreaming surely ..."
"No my sweet, this is not a dream. And I can tell you that its really me, because you are one of only two people other than me that know that my fist fits in your pussy! Please say yes Nikki."
"Yes!" I exclaimed then squealed. "Oh my god, what do I pack, I need to think about this."
"Nikki."
"Yes?" I said, brought back to the conversation as my mind began to tumble in all directions.
"Pack enough clothes to get to London. After that, I'm going to buy you everything you'll need."
"No, that's too much Daniela, I can't accept that."
"Nikki, I have lots of money, I want to do this for you ... I left it too long to call and I want to spoil you ... you can spoil me in your own special way later."
"Well, ok then. Tell me though, how have you been?"
"I've been great, winning lots of games, though no tournaments yet, but that will come ..."
"And romantically?" I asked, wanting to know where I stood before getting on a plane to go see her.
"Nothing sweetie. I've had a couple of encounters, a bit of fun with Maria on tour, but nothing with any connection other than a need to satisfy an itch. And no one satisfies that itch like you Nikki."
The conversation drifted off to small talk as we caught up with what had been going on in our lives since the Australian Open where I'd met her when I worked as a ball girl.
"Hang on, someone's at the door," I told Daniela, walking to the front of the house to see who it was. I opened the door to find a courier standing there. He saw that I was on the phone and smiled, handing me an envelope and asking me to sign for delivery.
I did so and he turned and left. I opened the envelope and squealed into the phone. Inside was a ticket to London! Daniela was laughing on the other end of the line.
"I wanted to only get you a ticket here, but they told me you might have problems with customs if I didn't get you one going home as well," she laughed.
"Oh my god Dani, my pussy is wet just looking at the ticket!" I told her, not even registering her comment about one way versus return flights. "Oh my god, this plane leaves in like 2 hours! I have to go Dani, I'll call you when I can!"