“Alright, that’s it, I’m goi—”
“NO!” I yelled into the mouthpiece. “Please don’t go. I . . . I don’t like it here. I’m claustrophobic.” That was sort of the truth—ever since that elevator incident, anyway.
“You should have thought about that before you broke into private property.”
“I know, I know,” I said. “I should have thought about a lot of things before I did them, but I don’t. That’s my problem. I hardly ever think before I do things. It’s a disease or something. Maybe there’s a pill for it, or . . . I don’t know.” There was a long, silent pause and I couldn’t bear it. “So, what are you doing?” I asked.
“I’m busy trying to write up an incident report. You won’t believe how much paperwork there is to fill out when someone trespasses.”
“I could help you with that. I’m a writer, after all,” I said hopefully.
“I couldn’t let you write up your own report, Becca. That would be seriously illegal and, believe it or not, I’m not into breaking the law.”
“Except when you were a teenager and drew purple penises around town,” I offered up.
He huffed. “You know way too much about me.”
“Hey, it’s not my fault you live in a small, strange town that likes gossip.”
“I have to go.” At that, he hung up on me and I was all alone again. Shit, maybe I was in real trouble here—and for what? I’d seen the engraving on the tree, but I didn’t understand it.
I grabbed a piece of paper and a pen from one of the drawers and drew it as I remembered it. A symbol, like an eight . . .Wait!That was the infinity symbol.
I rolled my eyes when I realized that. I had been expecting something a little more—not an infinity symbol, which every person who falls in love gets tattooed on them.
Then I wrote the wordfoolin one side of the infinity symbol and drew a heart in the other side, just like I’d seen.
I sat back and looked at it.What the hell did that mean?Fools and hearts? Fools and love? I hated not knowing the answer and I folded the piece of paper up and slipped it into my bra, since my wallet had been taken away from me and my pants didn’t have pockets.
