Sliding Doors - 2 (English Version)

Chapter 76

Josephine

Quarantine - Day number 5

This room is too quiet.
I have finished reading the script for the umpteenth time and am staring at the white ceiling of my room.
It is almost hypnotic.

I look at the phone for the umpteenth time.
Nothing.
No call, no message.
Nothing at all. Cosmic emptiness.
Hero is busy, I know, but I'd like to at least get a message, like "Hey I'm alive! All good!"
I'd settle for less, really!

I sigh and throw my arms over my face, covering my eyes.
How boring, how endlessly boring in here!
I look at the time on my phone for the tenth time in the last five minutes.
It is 9.07 a.m.
The day is still long and I have been awake since about five.
I feel like I'm in some kind of strange time zone that I can't get used to!

Enough.
Maybe he won't read it, but I send him a message anyway.
I can't wait for him to decide to talk to me!

Jo: Hey what's up? Everything okay? Give me a sign that you're alive, please?

Message sent.

I read it again.
I sigh.
I could have written him something better...
I delete the message and try again.

Message deleted.

Jo: Hi! Are you awake yet? I miss you...

Message sent.

Hmm... I mean!
You can sense my cosmic boredom even from here!

Message deleted.

Jo: I miss you, I can't wait for you to be here!

Message sent.

No, it sounds like I want him to feel guilty because he's not in Bulgaria yet.

Message deleted.

Jo: Hey can you call me as soon as you're free?

Here, I like this better.
Simple, essential, without any special guilt that has no meaning to exist and above all at least he will call me.

I hope.

He will call me, won't he?
Oh God now I'll be staring at the phone all day!
I have to find something to do to distract myself.
Anything!!!

I pick up my phone again, huffing.
I open Instagram.
16,550 notifications!!!

Are you crazy?!?

I immediately close the app.
There's no way I'm going to waste time snooping around in other people's lives or seeing what others think of me.
Not even in my wildest dreams would I allow such a thing!
Life is mine, others can think what they like!
More than 16,000 notifications!!!
You've got to be kidding me!
I laugh to myself at the absurdity of it.
No mobile phone.
Too much chaos on the internet, it's not my world!