Surprise!
Copyright© 2019 by Writer Mick
Chapter 1
I punched in the number and waited.
Jane, my wife looked at the caller ID on her phone, then at her partner.
“Hang on I need to get this. Hi John. I’m kind of busy.”
“Busy? At lunch?”
“Yeah, I’m having a working lunch.”
“Are you at the office? It doesn’t sound like the office.”
“No, we are at a little restaurant down the street.”
There was a pause, and in the background, I could hear a different phone ring through my wife’s phone.
My cell phone rang. She was talking on the phone, so I picked mine up and walked away from her and towards the restroom.
“Hello?”
“Hi Steve.”
“Susan! Hi. I can’t talk right now, I’m in the middle of a working lunch.”
“OK. I was just calling to ask you if you needed anything from the house. I left something there and I’m going to get it.”
“What did you leave?”
“Something that is going to be a very special surprise for you.”
“For me?” He asked.
“Yep. I’m going to hang up and run inside. I’ll call you back later.”
Susan cut off the call.
“John, I’m not at a restaurant on Bud Street.”
“Oh. Well you said you were at a restaurant and the phone finder app I installed on our phones says that you are at 1234 N. Bud Street. Let me pull it up on the maps program.”
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