The Voice Message
As I lay under my warm cotton flannel sheets that Sunday night, I pondered the reason why my cell phone had not rung the entire day. I had a strange premonition that something wasn't exactly right, so my instincts told me to investigate. I struggled getting out of the comfortable bed, but I managed to put on warmer clothes and head out my door. As I stepped out onto the patio, the gusty cold wind chilled my whole body. Dialing my voice- mail number, I heard "You have one new message." From the first second I heard my best friend's voice I could tell she was disturbed and irate about something. Her frosty voice said, "Andrea, it's me. I have to tell you this right now while it's fresh in my mind. I had $150 in my room and $60.00 in my wallet, and neither one of them is there any more. The only people who were at my house were you and my family, so I'm going to believe my family over you. Andrea, I don't know who's more of a fool. Me for trusting you or you for thinking you could get away with this. Don't try to call me or my family because now everyone despises you, and I don't want to have anything to do with you anymore. Have a nice life." At that very moment I felt my stomach churning and
Inevitably, the tears started coming down again, and my heart began to ache along with my entire body. I grabbed my worst enemy at the time, my cell phone and called her home. I fled back inside of my room and collapsed on my bed, shaking with hysteria and trying to gasp for some air. I parked on the cliff, turned off my music and just listened to the roar of the crashing waves. Whatever I did or wherever I went, I couldn't get her chilling words out of my mind. As I discussed it with more and more people a pattern began to emerge, and everyone said, "You don't need a friend like that. All I wanted to do was die; I couldn't believe this was happening. When I went to my classes, that was all I could think about, and when I drove back to the dorm that's all I thought about. I started telling my friends and family, about the message and they were all in shock because they knew that I would never ever do anything like that. Crying on her answering machine, I vehemently denied taking her money and that was all I could say because that was the truth, and there was nothing more to it. The feeling of betrayal was one that I had never experienced previously, and it was devastating. This has been one of the most traumatizing incidents in my life, but at the same time, one of the greatest learning experiences.
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