Its 2 AM, and I know you’re alone.
The whether here has been just ghastly, I have my laptop on my lap and I am busy at work, trying to write the great American novel from the confines of a greyhound bus. At least it leaves me some play space to try and think of something.
My mind is a blank, and it keeps returning to what an abysmal time the business meeting was. Why I would want to be in a room with four other men in a hot, stuffy office, discussing whether the Chicago Bears wanted emblazoned mugs to use as souvenirs, I’ll never know.
I’m crammed in the seat next to a fellow that must weigh 400 pounds easy, and sounds akin to a tranquilized bear.
I stand up and pull my coat aside from the compartment that it’d been shoved in when I sat down.
I pull out my raincoat and place it over my torso, trying to use it as a blanket of some sort. I look at my laptop, and disgusted, close it back up. The muse has gone to sleep like I should have. There are intermittent lights flashing back and fourth as I see drivers on the other side of the road. I try to shut my eyes once more, just as my seatmate decides that he wants to open his mouth and snore!
With a sigh, I lean my seat back as far as it will go, and try to snooze…
We both know that this is a losing battle.
My Cell phone is still in the pocket of my jacket and I flip it open. I see it as it lights up, a warm, fluorescent green.
I stare at it a few moments before I go ahead and press the memory button for our number.
It rings twice before you pick up on the third ring.
“H-hello?” Sleep has clouded your voice and made it hard for you to speak, and I smile to myself.
“Hi baby!”
You brighten up as soon as you hear my voice, instantly coming awake. “Hi there sweetie…”
“Hi. How was your day?”
“Ok.”
Ok?” I ask, what went wring?”
“Oh Jamie had a bad day at school today, and I think that Caleb has the flu or something?”
“Really, what makes you so sure?”
“Well the fact that he vomited and had diarrhea, might have had something to do with it…” I hear you say wearily.
“Ok, ok sorry. I’m sorry. That was wrong of me…”
You laugh to yourself, but I can hear it over the phone. “What?” What’s so funny?”
“I sent them to stay with mother.”
I can’t help smiling to myself, “that is funny.”
“There’s one more thing…” I hear you whisper to me in your sexiest voice.
“What’s that?” I ask.
“I’m naked right now.”