Someone Please Call AT&T & Shut Off My Phone, I Need To Get Laid
"Right. That's what I said. That's what I said, Dee. " Jenna paused and frowned. She was pacing the foyer of the large house and grimacing. "Brandi had the BALLS to call me and say that she bought the exact same dress I have been covetting. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?" She nodded. "Yes. Can you believe that? What a flaming bitch. I thought she was my friend, but friend's do not do this to friends. No. This is so wrong, Dee. So very wrong on so many levels. Like OH MY GOD what a ho! I really can't believe-" Silence. Then a yawn. "Yes, Dee, I know you hate Brandi. Take this time to remind me why you hate Brandi. Please." Another pause. "Oh yes, go right ahead."
"Can I take this time to remind you that I am alive and listening?" came the voice of her fiance. Jenna glanced down the hallway and toward the sound of Paul's voice. He was sitting at the kitchen table with his cheeks in his palms. Growling. That meant he was pissed. Mad pissed.
"Dee? Yo, Dee, I have to call you back. Paul is pissed."
"Paul is NOT pissed," he groaned.
"Yeah Dee, from the look of it, it's bad. I gotta go."
"Paul is not pissed," he repeated.
Jenna nodded. "Okay, Dee. Love you too. And Dee? Dee? You there?" The next pause was followed by laughter. "Fuck, he is loud! What the fuck is he doing?" Silence. "Riding a what? A fire truck? Are you serious? No wait, I don't even want to know. I have to go. Love you, Dee." Pause. "I'll call you tomorrow." Pause. "Okay, bye babe."
Paul sighed with victory as his fiancee finally hung up the phone. This was a common problem in their relationship: he was never home and Jenna was always attached at the conch to a telephone. That meant, when he was home, he had to pry her pretty little hands off the handset if he wanted to spend quality time with her. At this rate, he'd have to plan the wedding. And the minister would be AT&T. Yes. It was that bad. He sighed again. "Thank fuck you're finally off that god awful phone."
"What died in your Cheerios?" Jenna grinned, taking a seat across the oak table. "I love you, Paulie, but you have been in a shitty mood all week long."
Paul shrugged and pushed his chair back from the table to stretch his legs. "I have three weeks vacation and my fiancee has spent the first week of that time attached at the lobe to a plastic electronic device."
"I sucked your cock last night," Jenna defended with a frown. "You said that was-"
"Jen?"
Jenna lowered her gaze and widened her pupils. Her puppydog face was in full effect. "Yeah, baby?"
"Sucking my cock is great, I'm not complaining but that's not 'quality time'."
Jenna ignored this, piping back into her animated mood and sitting up in her chair. "So did you hear what that flaming bitch Brandi did?"
Paul placed his head down on the table top and sighed. "YES!"
"OH MY GOD," Jenna exhaled. "She went to the store and INTENTIONALLY bought the dress that-"
Paul sat up at the familiar sound. "Jesus christ, here we go again."
Jenna wiggled her eyebrows and cleared her throat as she answered the ringing phone. "Hello?" Pause. "OH MY GOD. Yes, Tom. You heard? Dee called you? Yes, can you believe this?"
"Like oh my god, I cannot believe that she said that she said that he said that she said that…OH MY GOD," Paul mocked in an angered but amused tone.
Jenna paid him no attention, instead placing her elbows back onto the table as she spoke. "Yes, it's unbelieveable that she would do this!" Pause, silence. "No, I never would have thought she was such a two-faced whore." Pause. "Yes, can you believe it?"
"No," Paul groaned and placed his head back onto the table.
"She's such a lowlife, Tom. Seriously. Who does that?" Jenna barely paused before adding, "You are definitely right. We shouldn't invite her to the Baby Shower."
"BABY SHOWER?" Paul shrieked, jumping up in his seat, his voice cracking. "You're not…..not….."
Jenna cupped a hand over the phone and frowned. "Of course not, jackass."
"Then who?" Paul questioned, eyebrows still raised.
Jenna ignored this and returned her attention to the telephone and Tom. "Right. I say we vote her off the island, Tom. Seriously. She's no good. Did Dee tell you about the time she-" Pause. "Yes, Tom. I understand. Yes, homework is important." Silence.
Paul grinned. "Thank Christ!"
"Yes Tom. You do good on your Finals tomorrow, and we'll see you at the Planning Party. Yes. Okay, love you too. Night." Jenna pressed "End" and smiled. "Why on earth would you think I was pregnant?"
Paul was slightly taken aback by this and shrugged. "You said that…"
"Paul?"
"Yes, Jen?"
"Did I say that I was pregnant?"
"No," Paul smiled. "And thank god for that. I just bought this house and our belongings are still in boxes. I'd like to actually unpack them sometime before we birth any little-"
"Yuck," Jenna ignored her fiancé and frowned. "Can you imagine me pregnant? I would be so fat and hideous and…I'd have stretch marks and-"
Paul shook his head and sighed. "Alright, can we discuss this now?"
"Discuss what?"
"JEN!" Paul groaned, annoyed. "Jenna Renee Hastings, would you listen to me?"
"Maybe, Paul Joseph Thomas," Jenna grinned. "Maybe. What's in it for-"
The sound lit fury in Paul's eyes. He shoved his fists into his pockets, hoping against hope that, for once, Jenna would not actually be predictable and-
"Hello?" Jenna inquired, smiling as she answered the telephone that was still clutched in her hand. "Oh hey, Jules. Yes. OH MY GOD. Did Dee call you?" There was a pause. "Tom, called you? Yes, I just talked to her." Paul rolled his eyes and groaned. "Yes, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? What a skank. I can't stand her now and I-" Jenna nodded. "Yes, you are so right, Jules. I never should have allowed her to be my friend. I am too good for her. You're so right. Yes. WHAT?" Jenna shrieked and slammed her fist down onto the table. "OH NO HE DIDN'T! HE WHAT?" Her breath grew shallow. "JOEL PROPOSED TO HILARY?"
"WHAT?" Paul shrieked in echo of his fiancee.
Jenna glared at him. "OH MY GOD JULIA! OH MY GOD! That's not even funny. Do not do that to me EVER again! You are so not- JULIA STOP LAUGHING AT ME! That's not even funny." Jenna rolled her eyes. Paul sighed with relief. It was a joke, thank fucking God. "Julia Madden, you are bonkers! Entirely bonkers. That wasn't even funny. You got Paul upset." Pause. "Yes, he's sitting right here." Pause. "I doubt he wants to talk to Benji, because he's anti-telephone today." Pause. "Yes, he was just lecturing me on how I have the cordless attached to my ear at all times. Which is so not true, as you know. I do not have it attached to my ear." Pause. "Right. Like when we have sex, I don't have the phone on my ear." Pause. "And when I'm in the shower." Pause. "And-"
Jenna gasped loudly as Paul reached across the table and grabbed the phone quickly from her grasp. He smirked at her, slipping his tongue ever so slightly forward as he cleared his throat, and stated, "Julia? Yeah, hi. Look, I'm trying to have a serious discussion with my fiancee but she keeps interrupting me to answer the phone." Pause. "Yes, it's a bad time. Sorry, Jules. She'll call you back." Pause. "Tell Benj I'll call him back, too." Pause. "Yes, Julia, we love you both too. Take care now."
Paul pressed "End" with a sigh of relief and glared at Jenna. "I was speaking to you."
"I know," Jenna smirked. "And the phone rang."