chapter 12

Helen narrates.

I woke up with a start; a strong headache made me scream and take my hand to my temple to massage a little and thus dull the pain.

I sat up in bed reminiscing about the night before, and smiled right away as scenes from my dinner with Dylan came to mind.

"Oh, my God! What had she done? How would I manage to see him face to face after saying all those things about his package and that I really liked his face? I thought, as I took a box with a note that was on the nightstand and that caught my attention.

"I hope you enjoy it and it's the first one you call."

I opened the box excited imagining the content of the gift.

It was a last generation gold vish phone, the most expensive. My high school friends talked a lot about that phone and how difficult it was to acquire it. I never had one, because my father wouldn't let me, but he was dying to have it; so, I got so excited that he wanted to jump, to the point where, if he hadn't had that bad migraine, he would have.

I took