Ring ring. Ring ring. Ring ri-
Espio picked up the phone mid ring. It was early in the morning, and the other two detectives were still asleep, with Espio being the only one of the three to get up at what he deemed as a normal time.
"Hello, Chaotix Detective Agency, may I be of assistance?" He asked, sitting down in Vector's large office chair and grabbing a notepad and pen that had been thrown on the desk amongst the piles of paperwork.
There was no voice on the other end for a couple of moments, and Espio considered hanging up, before he heard giggles on the other end.
"Heheh, hey is your refrigerator running?" A voice laughed down the line. A prank call? This early? Espio frowned.
"If you don't have a serious case, I'm hanging up." Espio tried to recognise the voice on the other end of the phone, but he couldn't quite place the voice. He doubted it was anyone that knew him personally, though he wondered where they could have even gotten the number from. They hadn't been able to pay the money for the billboard advertisements, so they had been taken down a while back, and they had been relegated to a small section in the yellow pages.
"No no, I do, promise! I have a serious case of ligma"
"I…" Espio hung up at that. He shook his head, placing the phone back on the desk with another weary sigh. He had a feeling it was going to be a very long day.