Serendipity

Phone Call

Zarc woke up a few hours later to the sound of his phone ringing. Groaning, he reached blindly for it and checked the caller ID. Much to his displeasure, it was Kairi. Zarc groaned again and rejected the call. Unfortunately, his soon-to-be-ex-wife didn't seem to take a hint and called him again, and then again when he rejected the second call.

He had half a mind to just turn his phone on silent, but he didn't want to risk missing an emergency if something came up. What if something happened to his new friends and they had to call him for help? What if Kairi went to their dorms?

Groaning once more, he decided to take the next call. Which was a bit of a mistake. The moment he answered the phone, Kairi started screaming at him. "YOU TOLD MY PARENTS?!"

"Of course I told your parents!" Zarc snapped. "If I hadn't, you would've lied to them and tried to spin the story to make it seem like I'm divorcing you for no legitimate reason, or told them I was the one cheating, or said something else to make me the bad guy!"

"They're so mad at me now!" Kairi shrieked. "They won't let me stay with them! Daddy says he's going to disown me! You have to fix this!"

"I don't have to do anything," Zarc replied. "You're the one that cheated. You're the one that has to deal with the consequences of your actions."

"Well where am I supposed to go now?" Kairi demanded. "It's going to take me eight hours to get back home! I can't drive for that long! I need to sleep! I'm so tired!"

"Figure it out," Zarc said. "And stop calling me. I need to sleep. It's after 1 in the morning and I have work."

He hung up the phone, then decided to block Kairi's number until he was ready to talk to her again. She would have to get a hotel. Actually she probably wouldn't be able to get one. She'd made it a habit to bring no money or cards with her whenever the two of them went out or had dinner in a restaurant together so that Zarc would have to pay for everything, and it was unlikely that Kairi had gone home long enough to grab anything before heading off to her parents' house.

Oh well, it wasn't Zarc's problem! Kairi would have to sleep in her car or something if she didn't have money for a hotel. Zarc really didn't care. He went back to sleep and his dreams were peaceful.