Departing Normal

Chapter 4

My eyes widen and I jerk myself awake. The clock below the tv in front of me

reads 1:07. I quickly grab my phone and look down at the caller I.D. That's weird,

its a blocked number. Me, being my curious self accepts the call and puts my

phone up to my ear. "Hello...?" I whisper into the phone, scared some freak is

on the other line. The smoothest voice I've ever heard replies back to me.

"Elena, no need to be frightened, it's me Marco. I just wanted to give you a call,

make sure I have the right number. Did you receive my gift yet? I hope you

like it, it's beautiful like you."

Taken back I think, briefly I come up with something that doesn't make sense.

Was the bracelet from Marco? "The bracelet was from you? It's amazing truly,

but how do you know where I live?" Someone, not Marco starts coughing near

the phone and I hear shuffling, a door open, then close. From outside the door

more voices are talking in a foreign language, a language I don't understand.

"On your Instagram post, your address was tagged, I have a friend in

Pennsylvania and I had them drop it off. It was nothing don't worry."

"The box was on my desk, someone put it in my house... But whatever, it's amazing

thank you. Who are you with, I hear voices." It takes him a few moments to reply

then I get a response, that I wasn't expecting. "Elena, you don't know a lot about

me, but I know more about you than you would ever know. I am going to explain

something to you. I hope you completely hear me out. Are you in?"

My mind was telling me to put down the phone, call the police, or do something

smart, yet it was again as if my realistic, smart mind was cut off of me and

my words came out so quickly I couldn't take them back. I reacted like a stupid

hormonal teenage girl, desperate for attention.

"I'm listening, I want to

know everything." He chuckled a bit then explained. "Ok, I guess now is as good

time as ever. I'm from Italy, and visit there a lot. I live though near the Arabian

Peninsula, which a group of people, who you know of. Any way I came in contact

with you for one main reason, well a few. The big thing is, I want you to fly to

Saudi Arabia, where I will pick you up and bring you to Yemen, to live with me

and be with me. There's a huge political aspect to this. You'd have to practically

sneak out of America. No one can know where you are going, why, or that you

contact me. Elena, together we can be powerful, make this world something

new where people are all the same. Please say you'll come. We need you. Please,

if you have any questions... Ask them." Shocked I start coughing, and then

chocking. My body has weird ways to react to things.