Sleeping With The Telephone

And I try not to think he won't come home.
But I'm sleeping with the telephone
Something wakes me from where he should be.
I reach for him; the telephone rings.

~ Reba McEntire & Faith Hill

Patricia tossed and turned in bed, she hates how empty it is. The only thing next to her was currently a phone. That side hadn't been occupied by another person since June and it was now October. She hated it. She was mad at him for leaving her. She pretended she didn't miss him. She pretended she didn't care but she was going insane. She grabbed the phone only to check the time it was going on 4. It was appearing to be yet another sleepless night. She made her way across the room to the mirror. Pictures stuck up on it, bring back good memories. She frowned, she really needed someone to talk to but the world around her was asleep. Then she remembered she was 5 hours behind her friends and family who were in England still. She went back to her bed and called Joy hoping she was awake. The ringing was driving her slightly insane as she began to walk downstairs to the kitchen.

"Hello," she heard a voice saying finally through the phone.

"Joy you're up," Patricia said excitedly.

"Yeah I'm trying to make Mick breakfast. It's his birthday today you know," Joy muttered.

"Oh well tell him happy birthday."

"I will. Is there a reason you called, we haven't talked in like two weeks," Joy said into the phone. This was true Patricia had been disconnecting herself from her friends and family in England lately.

"I couldn't sleep and needed someone to talk to," she said honestly.

"Look I gotta go I'm about to burn breakfast we can Skype later yeah?" Patricia sighed as the phone clicked. She had needed someone to talk to and Joy had just said goodbye. She could call Piper or Mara maybe. She realized a lot of her friends were mad at her, she took off for America three years ago and had barely kept in touch. Then she and Eddie had eloped which caused a rift between her and her family.
'Maybe when he gets back we can move to England,' she sighed out loud. Her stomach growled and she made up some cereal. Around 6 she found herself almost asleep on the couch. She was awoken at noon by her phone ringing. She answered it quickly.

"Hello," she mumbled groggily.

"It's me," she heard a voice say. Upon hearing his voice she shut up from the couch.

"Ew it's you," she said very Patricialike

"Missed you too Yacker."

"Yeah yeah I missed you slimeball."

"It looks like I should be coming home next month," he said cheerfully.

"Really," she said way too excitedly.

"Yeah."

"Good because I really do miss you," she sighed.

"I'll call you when I know more okay?"

"Sounds good," she sighed knowing their conversation would be over soon and who knows when they'd talk again, soon hopefully.

"Look I gotta go, we'll talk soon. I love you."

"Love you too," she said her voice cracking. She heard the phone click. Setting her phone on the table she began to cry. She knew a month was a long time and she could still possibly lose him. She couldn't bare to think of that. She was going insane.

Two weeks passed and she hadn't heard anything about him coming home. He said he'd be coming home soon. So here she was laying awake again. Suddenly she feels something stir in the bed next to her. Groggily she reaches across the bed. As if on queue the phone rings. She freezes she has no clue who would be calling her and she instantly fears the worst.

"Hello," she said swallowing hard as she places the phone to her ear.

"Mrs. Miller I'm General Conard, I'm afraid I have some news about your husband," it was with those words she knew. Eddie wasn't coming home to her. He promised when he left he would be. He wasn't.

"I'm so sorry for your lose," she heard the man say. Did she need to say anything?

"Thank you, um for letting me know," she said crying into the phone. She hung up and just sat and cried. She lost him. The love of her life was not coming home.

anyways I had like 4 hours with no laptop so I typed this up on my phone and will prolly type another tomorrow too xD but I have a special one planned the 2nd so maybe I'll just write it tomorrow and then not post it...