Hush, Baby
I curse myself with every single bad word I know, and funnily I remember a lot, it surprises me for I am told I was a nurse, not a sailor.
I run both hands in my hair, which needs an urgent cleaning, before intertwining my fingers on top of my head, I tell myself to live up to my decisions, that I am an adult and need to start acting so, I look at the phone as it is a poisonous snake before reaching for it and dialing the number again.
He picks up from the very first ring, and I blurt out an urgent sloppy hello before I chicken out and hang up again.
“Natalia, it is really you.” I hear his voice, dripping with surprise, relief, and…longing?
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