Hello, It's Me
Chapter One
Hey, you've reached Andre. You know what to do. Wait for the beep
and don't forget to leave your number." Clutching the phone between
her shoulder and her ear, Annie pipes another stripe of red icing
along a rectangular sugar cookie, wondering how many stripes an
American flag has, anyway.
Not that it matters. There aren't fifty white dabs of icing on the
square of blue to the left of the stripe. Who cares whether a flag
cookie is historically accurate, as long as it tastes good? Beep.
Annie sets down the tube of icing and presses a button to disconnect
the call.
Someday, maybe she'll leave a message, just for the hell of it. Even
though Andre's phone, its battery long dead, is lying useless in a
drawer, along with the other personal effects the hospital handed
her that awful day. Or maybe someday, she'll stop calling Andre's
cell phone just to hear the sound of his voice. Yes, someday, she'll
stop paying the bill just so she can do that.
After all, it's not as though she can afford it. She can't afford
much of anything these days. The Widow Harlowe is in dire straits,
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