Design of the Heart

26

After I left the house I drove myself back to work.  Once I got to work I took care of some new messages that had came in while I was out.  Next I called the landlord of the house I had stayed at in California to give my review and talk about some other things about the property.  I then went and checked on my parents to ask if they needed help with anything.

After I was done helping my parents and made it back to my office it was only 4:30 and I had at least another thirty minutes left before I was technically off, and while I could leave early since my family owned the business I hated leaving work early.  I decided to take into consideration what Jossilyn had said earlier about calling Katie back; however, I found it impossible to actually pick up the phone and dial her number so I just sat there staring at the phone.  I also started thinking about Kimber and Ashley who had reached out in the past, and after staring at the phone for 5 minutes I decided to pick it up and call the front desk.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Kim, it's Anna and I was wondering if you could call someone for me and then patch them through if they answer."

"Yes, that is not a problem.  I'll need to know the number and name of whom I'll be speaking to."

"Of course, and actually to get ahold of them you will have to call the company they work for and ask for them."

"Not a problem"

"Great thanks, I need you to call French's fashion and ask for Kimber please."

"I will get right on that, and if she isn't available do you want me to have her call you back when she is?"

"No, if she's not available it's not a big deal, also if they ask tell them it isn't business related."

"Ok if she's available I'll have her patched through and if she isn't I'll call you back and let you know."

"Thank you so much Kim.", I said and hung up the phone.  I decided that I couldn't in good conscious call Katie back if I didn't at least try and get ahold of Kimber and Ashley first since they did reach out first.  I wasn't really expecting either of them to want to talk to me since I had put off calling them back for so long.

My phone started ringing and I started to panic a little bit inside so I let it ring a few times before picking it up.

"Hello", I said with a shaky voice.

"Anna?"

"Yes"

"You called?"

"Oh, right, sorry I was just thinking you might want to talk if you're not too busy.  If you are then I totally understand, or if you don't want to talk to me then that's fine too I was just hoping...", I trailed off and stopped mid-sentence.

"Hoping for what Anna?"

I hesitated again before speaking, "You know what this was a terrible idea I'm sorry for wasting your time.  Have a great day."

"WAIT!", Kimber yelled from the other end.  "I've actually been hoping that you'd call me for a while now."

"Oh, I figured you hated me by now since I waited so long to return your call."

"No, Anna", she laughed, "I could never hate you, and I knew you needed time after what happened so I just didn't want to pressure you by calling a lot.  I knew you'd call when you were ready."

"Yeah, sorry it took so long."

"It's not a problem.  So, was there a specific reason you called, or did you just want to catch up a bit?"