It was a rainy October Saturday afternoon and the phone was ringing. I knew it was Kelly. We had not talked in over 3 weeks and that was fine by me.
We met in our sophomore year of high school and hit it off right away. She is 5’ 5”, 120 lbs, and a NATURAL redhead. She was smart and an athlete but didn’t hang out with the “in-crowd”. We started out as friends but quickly become a lot closer. We went out to dinner, went to movies and attended high school games and dances together. But every private moment, we were all over each other and our relationship became quite passionate.
Time went by so quickly, and then it was time for her to leave for college. She told me that she needed her space and that we could still be friends. We talked regularly about classes, life in the dorms and parties. It wasn’t three weeks later that she started talking about Bill. He was a junior that she met at a party, an older brother of one of the girls on her floor.
About the third time that she started talking about him I worked up the nerve to ask her is she was dating him. She said “No, we’re just friends that have a lot of fun”. So I let it go but something told me that they were more than friends.
I was home alone and had already finished studying so I decided to answer the phone.
“Hey Eddie, how have you been?”
“Fine”, I wasn’t about to be a jerk but I didn’t feel like being nice either.
“I’ve missed talking to you, what’s it been…a couple of weeks?”