Falling By Chance

Chapter - 5

Continuing...

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Goddamnit Roxy! Get out of your trance. Stop making a fool out of yourself, reply him back, Jesus!!

Fuck you inner voice!

“Umm Hello!” I squeak.

“Roxy?” He asks in a gruff voice. I'm going to swoon just listening to his voice!!

“Yes. I.. uh.. I just saw your missed calls so I called you back.” Yeah no shit Sherlock!

Shut the fuck up already!

“Yeah, I did... remember we decided to talk on the phone today? I thought you forgot.” He says in his oh so sexy voice.

I knew he was sexy and so handsome so I knew too that he must sound good too but this... I didn't expect his voice to be this good. He took me completely off guard. Stop drooling, you idiot for God's sake.

“Sorry, I was a bit busy so I didn't see your calls.” I reply, breaking out of my thoughts.

“So are you free now?” Jake asks.

“Yes. We can talk.”

“How have you been? How was your day? It's been so long since I last talked to you...” he whines.

“Jake we just talked this morning. Stop being so dramatic... ” I say, laughingly. “... You're already showing the tendencies of a clingy boyfriend”, I continue in a teasing voice.

“So?? I Iike talking to you, you're cute...” he chuckles softly.

“I thought I was ‘Gorgeous’ ”. I snorted.

He barks out a laugh, “Well you're that too, and beautiful, and such a cute little munchkin...” he says, still laughing.

“I'm not little...” I pout even when I know he cannot see me.

“Yes, you are. How tall are you? I bet you don't even reach 5'. ” He says, arrogantly.

I narrow my eyes at what he said. “I'm 5'5" you idiot. Not everyone can be towering giants like yourself.” I smirk.

“Jealous? Cheer up, Munchkin.” He teases.

I replied to him, annoyed. “So this is why you wanted to talk on call? To tease me and annoy me about my height?”

“No baby, I just wanted to hear the voice of the woman who is constantly occupying my mind with her constant witty texts and replies.” He replies, suddenly very seriously.

I. Forgot. How. To. Breathe.

This man will be the death of me. I smack my forehead while blushing.

“Umm sure...” I reply dumbly, not knowing what to say to that.

“You have a beautiful voice. You sing right?”

“Thanks, I guess...” feeling shy. I don't know how to receive compliments. It has always been like this with me. When someone compliments I become so shy. “...and yes, I sing a little bit.”

“Can you sing something for me right now?” he asks.

“Right now? Seriously?” I ask him dumbfounded. No guy has ever asked me to sing for him.

“Yes, why not? Only if you're comfortable...” he says, sensing my hesitation.

“Maybe when we meet? I can give you a live concert then.” I say, laughing softly.

He laughs. “Okay deal...”

I can imagine him grinning as he said that.

“So how was your day?” I ask him,  continuing the conversation.

“Just plain boring. Had lots to do at the office. Had to settle various accounts.”

“Okayyy, so what did you want to talk about?”

“I don't know. I thought maybe we can know each other even better. And I got to hear your voice which is a bonus.”

“Flirt.” I chuckle. “So what do you want to know? I guess you already know the basic things about me already...”

“Yeahhh... But you haven't told me one thing yet.”

“What?”

“Your favorite color...”

“Oh... I don't have a specific favorite. But I guess black, maroon, royal blue and sage green. What's yours?”

“Mine is pink.” I start laughing at his reply. “Nah I'm just kidding. It's black and red.” he says.

“Ooohhh. Nice.” Suddenly, I start imagining myself in a black or a red sexy piece and how he will react to it. Get your head out of the gutter!!

We talk like this about anything and everything for I don't know how long. He tells me about his life in Philadelphia. His office. He also mentioned he has a younger sister, Freya Valtor, who is my age and works for him as an accountant in his firm. He just started his own firm, which is doing pretty good. I tell him about my parents and that I'm an only child. We shared memories of our childhood days and college days, mostly funny bits, making each other laugh. We have never talked about these things on text messages and talking to him like this seems much more intimate. We were actually getting to know each other even better just like Jake said. So we loose track of time and only when my eyes start to droop because of tiredness, I check the time and see it's way past 2:30 after midnight. I have school tomorrow. And he has his office. I didn't want to stop talking to him but if I don't want to wake up late in the morning, I have to sleep now. I am not a morning person and waking up early always puts me in a grumpy mood, especially when I haven't had enough sleep.

“Jake? I think we should sleep. Its really late.” I say, yawning.

“I like the way you call me Jake. Nobody calls me that, not anymore. I don't allow them to, not after...” he murmurs softly.

I blush at that and wait for him to continue, intrigued at his slip. But he doesn't, so I leave it at that. It's his choice whether to tell me or not and I don't want to force him. I know how to respect people's privacy but I really hope he will tell me eventually though.

“But you don't mind if I call you Jake?” I ask softly.

“No. No I don't. It's surprising to me too. I like it.” he replies in a small voice.

“Okay, I will continue to call you Jake, Jakie... ” I say, trying not to laugh. He hates it when I call him Jakie.

“Roxy!!” he groans. “Don't call me that.” he warns, trying to sound annoyed but completely failing at it. I could hear him trying not to laugh at the name. Cute. He then yawns.

“Let's talk tomorrow. You're tired. Goodnight Jake.”

“Yeah okay. Let's go to sleep. Talk to you tomorrow baby. Goodnight. Think about me, okay?” he jokes.

“Right sure, your highness...” I roll my eyes, ignoring the way my heart flutters at the way he calls me ‘baby’.

Chuckling, he says,“Bye Beautiful.”

“Bye Bye” I reply and hang up.

As I head towards the bathroom to get ready for the bed, I look at my reflection in the mirror, and I just realised, I have a stupid smile stuck on my face all this time while I was talking to him.

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A/N: Finally, the phone call conversation is done. I really had a hard time writing this chapter as it is not easy to plan beforehand what dialogues to put in here. But I hope you all enjoyed.

Stay tuned for the next chapter.

Until next time
Love,
S❤️