Someone is following and calling C.J. and hanging up on her or so she thinks. Anytime she goes anywhere she gets an uneasy feeling,like she is being watched. A few times the phone has rang either at her home or at the office and if she answers the person on the other end breathes a heavy disturbing breathe and then hangs up. The part that is disturbing the most is the fact that all of this just seemed to happen out of nowhere since Matt has been gone on his business trip.
Houston was on business in Texas,which is ordinarily not a big deal. He goes for a week or two and then comes home. So far this trip he had been gone almost a week. C. at the office doing her normal mundain paperwork, that lawyers do when they don't want or have anything else to do. She sits there thinking at her desk made of sweet smelling pine. She missed Houston even more than usual, she had always felt safe and secure when he was around. Just then the phone rings and noone is on the line. C.J. repeatedly says "Hello!", to no uvail, the person on the other end says nothing and hangs up. C.J. slams the phone down in anger and a little panic as well. "Who was doing this? And more importantly, Why?
Later that afternoon, C.J. was out running errands, and again got the same uneasy feeling that she was being watched. Trying not to feel sppoked she went ahead back to the office and got caught up on more paperwork and filing. It was rather tidius work and needed to get done, because when Houston was around for one reason or another,that kind of work rarely had gotten done unless one of the secretaries had done it. It was usually never dull with him around, she thought as she quietly chuckled to herself about the way he always would do or say anything to get out of doing paperwork.
As she is walking out the door of the office, the telephone rings, and she looks at it and fills silly for being a little nervous about answering it. So she picks up the phone"Hello", again "Hello". She hung up. Completely irritated seconds it rings again, without thinking she screams in the phone"What do want? " The voice on the other end startled her. "C.J.??? What's going on? It was Houston, feeling relieved, she apologized and told him about the annoying phone calls. "When are you coming home?" "I miss you". Houston could sense she was a little unnerved by the calls. He didn't like the sound of it he said to himself. "I'll take the first flight out tomorrow". "Ok good". she replied feeling better he was on his way, but trying not to seem overly concerned.
When she arrived home that night she went to get in the shower, thinking a hot shower would relax her. She was still feeling a bit on edge and flung back the shower curtain but of course there was noone there, she felt silly for feeling so on edge. So she gets on in the shower letting the hot beads of water roll over her body. Standing in the shower, what seemed like forever, had relaced her. But the water was turning cooler. Knowing she had definitely been in there too long, she turned the water off and got out.
She went over to her dresser drawer and pulled out her favorite pink silky pajamas and put them on. As she was walking out of her bedroom to go to the kitchen to see what she had to eat in there, that's when she saw him……..