Every day, for the last three months, have been incredibly boring.

I had my little run in with the PSA at the end of December.

Turned nineteen in February.

Now I'm sitting here, at my desk, staring at the computer. Worthless work in front of me.

The schemes to stop those annoying parties and everything. Sometimes I question myself.

Is it stupid? Childish? What am I thinking?

Of course, I know what I'm thinking. like I said I want to get rid of the noise. To have peace in quite.

Sure, parties are okay, I could go for one like every year or two. It's just... the locals have parties every month!

And to make it even worse, it's freezing! I think I've said that before, haven't I?

It's like hell, only hell is much more warmer then this ice box.

Anyway, I'm on my computer and haven't used the Internet at all. I have an email address, but I haven't accessed it since last year, before I left.

I logged on to AOL, then I heard that AOL guy's flat, uninteresting voice: "You've got mail."

I opened my mail box. Three emails. All from my cousin, Chloe.

Chloe is six years older then me, at twenty-five. She was always so caring to me, especially when my parents passed. I don't think Chloe has ever had a bad side.

Two of them were sent in the same month, last year in March. One was sent in November of last year.

The ones that were sent in March were emails asking where I was, and call me as soon as you get this. November was the same as the ones in March.

So that's exactly what I did. I flipped open my cell phone and dialed her number.

A few rings. Then a click.

"Hello?" It felt good to hear her soft, quiet voice.

"Hey, Chloe, it's me."

"Herbert! Oh my god, where are you!? What happened!? Are you okay!? I thought you were dead!" Chloe's voice was frantic.

"Chloe, calm down. I'm fine, I am alive," I spoke clearly and slowly, "Remember how I left that note for you in your mailbox?"

"Yeah."

"Well, once I left, I ran into some... uh... technical difficulties and ended up in Antarctica."

"What have you been doing all this time?"

"Oh, I earned my degree, and became a lawyer." I lied.

I heard her laugh, "And what college did you go to?"

She knew I was lying, "University of Antarctica, of course."

"There's no such thing. I can hear it in your voice. You're lying."

Then I felt my phone buzz, meaning I got a text message. "Listen, Chloe I'll call you later. Bye" I hit end before she could reply. "

I checked my inbox on my phone, I noticed it was from the girl I met at the masked ball a few months ago. Mystery Girl was her title, I never knew her real name. She said if we didn't know each others real names, it would be more mysterious and romantic.

I read the text.

M. Girl- Hey, we haven't talked in a while...

I replied back,

M. Guy- I know, how'd that happen?

M. Girl- I've just been caught up in my work

M. Guy- What's your job?

It took her a while to reply, almost six minutes.

M. Girl- Nothing special, I just work part-time at the coffee shop. You?

M. Guy- I don't have a job.

I suddenly realized the text I sent. Why did I send that? Girls hate guys that don't have money. Well, I did have money. Actually it was Klutzy's money her mother left her when she died. But she said I could take whatever. Does that count?

M. Girl- How do you make money?

M. Guy- My parents left me quite a bit of inheritance cash.

That was true, except that money was forever lost when my boat sunk. I was referring to Klutzy's money.

M. Girl- I'm sorry :-(

M. Guy- about my parents?

M. Girl- yes

M. Guy- don't worry bout it.

M. Girl- let's change subjects. Anything else on your mind?

M. Guy- You :-)

M. Girl- You know how to charm a girl, that's for sure.

M. Guy- Can I ask you something?

M. Girl- what

M. Guy- have you ever been with someone before?

M. Girl- yes. In high school. I dated Zac Allen. I didn't work out, so I dumped him after a week. Can I ask you something?

M. Guy- go ahead

M. Girl- Have you ever kissed a girl?

That was a difficult thing to answer. Saphira did plant one on me one time, but only to try to seduce me into not doing the things I was doing. So I guess the answer was yes.

M. Guy- yes, I have. But she came onto me.

M. Girl- I see...

M. Guy- have you ever kissed someone?

M. Girl- yes, but I didn't like him.

M. Guy- then why'd you kiss him?

This kept me puzzled. Why would she kiss someone if she didn't like him? And I wondered if it was current... did she still like me?

M. Girl- It's nothing. Hey can you call me? the texts are expensive, and its cheaper to call.

M. Guy- K, hold on.

I went into the contacts section of my phone, found M. Girl, and called her.

"Hey..." she answered casually.

"Okay, I want you to tell me something," I started, "When and why did you kiss that guy?"

"Can we please not talk about this?" The more M. Girl tried to resent my topic of conversation, the more I wanted to know about it.

"Just tell me, when was it?" My voice was shaky, I was nervous about her reply.

"It was in... early... november." Her answer made me tense up, and my blood boiled. She had diffculty saying it. That was last year, but we knew each other before November.

"You don't like me anymore, do you?" I asked. M. Girl was really the only girl I ever liked. To think that she kissed another guy... it was... to hard for me to think about. When I kissed Saphira, that was totally different. Even though I liked it... No! That was as worse as she kissing that guy. I really hoped she wouldn't bring that up.

"No! Well, when was your kiss?" Crap, she did bring it up.

"It was around the same time," I confesed.

"And she came onto you, right?" she asked.

"Yes, can we just forget this ever happened? Start all over?" I proposed.

She sighed, "I guess so, but let's promise that we won't... er... see anyone else."

"Okay," I agreed, "Oh, hey do you think... maybe... we could, like, you know- reveal our identidies?"

She paused, "Maybe."

"Is that a yes... or a no?" I asked.

"It's a maybe, if we can figure eachother's names out." she suggested. Sure that sounded a lot better then staring at the computer all day.

"Okay, my name starts with an 'H' " I hinted.

"And mine starts with an 'S' " She also hinted.

I thought of a bunch of names- Sarah, Sari, Sage, Selina, Sam? I suggested them to her and she rejected all of them.

She suggested Harry, Hadley, Halden, and Herman- which was very close. Then it hit her.

"I-I know what your name is," she stammered.

"You'll never get it, it's an really old name," I discouraged.

"Herbert. It's Herbert! Out of all the flippin' people in this town! It had to be you!" she shouted.

Click.

"Are you still there?" I asked.

Nothing. A dead line.

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God, that was easy. Probably the easiest chapter I've written. Is the relastionship done? NO!!!!! Saphira just knows the Herbert is her dream guy... that sucks for her. Herbert is still clueless. It's going to be interesting to write the next chapter when mission 11 comes out. This chapter is based after the song- "Kiss Me Thru the Phone"- by Soulja Boy Tell 'Em. My fave songs. But all the boys in my class hate that song.

R&R please!!!!

-TayTay