Leah and Levi were sitting on their couch watching the local news when the phone rang. Leah got up to answer it, but she froze when she saw what the caller ID said. "Anderson, Conner" with the familiar number underneath that she had known so well in high school.
"Who is it sweetie?" Levi called from the living room.
"wrong number" Leah replied rejecting the call and rejoining Levi on the couch. But as soon as she sat down the phone rang again. Leah went over to the stand hoping it was someone else, but her stomach dropped when she saw the same name and number come up. She decided to answer it, and with a shaking voice she said hello.
"Leah?" Conner's voice was just as Leah remembered it, and with it came overwhelming memories that made Leah's eyes start to water.
"This is she" Leah replied, her voice still shaking.
"Do you know who this is?" Conner asked hopefully.
"Yes" Leah really didn't feel like talking to him right now with Levi sitting in the next room.
"I know we haven't talked since we broke up in high school, but I didn't know who else to call" Leah could hear Conner's voice start to shake, which she knew meant something was really wrong.
"Are you okay? What's wrong?" Leah was getting worried now.
"Well, it's kind of a long story" Conner's voice cracked on the last word "But I'm back in town, would you mind meeting me for a cup of coffee at the little diner we used to love?" Leah had moved back to the little town they had grown up in after she graduated college, while Conner moved to Jacksonville.
"Sure! I'll meet you there in 10 minutes" Leah hung up the phone and when directly up stairs to her room. Levi came in to find her sitting on their bed crying.
"What's wrong?" he asked
Leah looked up a him. "Conner's in town and he wants me to meet him for coffee, he sounded really upset on the phone"
"Conner? Your high school boyfriend? Why is he back here?"
" He didn't say, but he said he didn't know who else to call. This is the first time I've ever thought about him, much less talked to him since high school. Something terrible must have happened for him to call me" Leah was crying even harder now.
"Okay so where are you meeting him?" Levi was the jealous type and Leah could tell he wasn't to crazy about the idea of her going to meet her ex-boyfriend without him coming along.
Leah stood up and looked at him. "I know what your thinking. Don't worry everything's going to be fine. I'm going to meet him tonight so he can talk about whatever he needs to talk about and then we will go back to never seeing each other ever again"
Levi smiled at Leah's speech and gave her a kiss " How do you know me better than I do?" he asked playfully. She kissed him back and said " Because I'm your wife and that's my job"