My Second Chance at Love

New phone bill

Andrew’s POV…

I know it’s coming. Around 9:30 I get a call from my buddy at Verizon.

“Hey man, so your girl called. I can get her stuff swapped over no problem but the other company won’t release her number because her ex is behind. Here’s your options. You can approve it and I can have her half of the bill transferred over or you can call him and force his hand. What do you want to do?”

“He’s already giving her hell man. Just transfer her half of the bill.”

“Alright so that’s gonna be about $180 plus you’ve got to pay the transfer fee.”

“Look, I don’t give a s**t how much it costs. You see the card on file that I pay all my bills with? Charge it to that. Okay?”

“Yeah I see it. Okay. I’ll get this all done and I’ll email you the paperwork. Be expecting it in about fifteen minutes.”

“Alright. Once I sign this and send it back her phone is off?”

“Ummm about an hour later.”

“Okay. Hey what kind of phone does she have?”

“An iPhone but it’s four models behind.”

“Set her up a new one. When’s your lunch break?”

“Andrew, what the hell are you doing man? She’s not just a f**k buddy is she?”

“Nope. She’s the one.”

“Okay. Look, If you want to get her a new phone and have it delivered, I can do that on company time. Where does she work?”

I tell him and we hang up. Sure enough about fifteen minutes later, I got the paperwork and there was more for her new phone.

I sign it all and email it back.

A few minutes later Emma calls me.

“Hey girl.”

“I got some paperwork from Verizon and my old phone company. Do I sign it all?”

“Probably. Read it to be sure or email it to me and I’ll check.”

“I didn’t agree to a new phone. What’s that?“

“Maybe a typo. Do you have to sign anything on that page?” s**t!

“Oh okay. I mean that would be nice but I can’t afford that. No there’s nothing to sign there.”

“Alright. Just email it all back. You know your phone will be off in about fifteen minutes to an hour. Right?”

“Yeah.” She sounds so sad.

“Babe, why are you sad?”

“I’m gonna miss talking to you. That’s all.”

I smile so hard because within ten minutes of her phone being turned off my dude will be there with her new phone.

“Awww girl! I’m not that interesting, am I?”

I can hear the smile in her voice when she replies, “oh you’re something. I’m not sure that I’d call you interesting, though.”

Yeah girl. Keep that same energy.

“Alright, go get busy. I’ll talk to you tonight.”

“Bye Andrew.”

I disconnect the call and text my Verizon friend. I tell him everything is in motion and to make sure to get her iPhone login so he can swap phones. His plan is to go have the office get her out of class and bring her phone. He’s gonna tell her he has to swap SIM cards. For that he will need her login information. However, when she goes back to class he’s gonna finalize the set up of her new phone by logging in. Once it’s done, he’s gonna walk it down to her class with me on a regular call. Her old phone is hers too. I told him if he looked through her photos he’d see pictures of my d**k and he’d have size issues the rest of his life. He should stay out. He laughed but there was no curiosity there. No guy wants to see his friends d**k, especially if it’s hard.

I go about my day working. I hate working for this foreman. I’m ready to move on. Emma’s divorce needs to hurry up. It’s been two weeks so we’ve got about six more. I’m almost done with a cross arm when I get a text that he just got to the school. I gotta hurry the hell up. I’m finishing up just in time. I’m on the ground when my phone rings.

“Hey man I’m walking down the hallway to her class. I’m looking in the window. s**t! She’s smart. You should see this math she’s doing.”

“Yeah I know she’s smart. She picked me. Dumbass.”

“Hahahaha good one. Oh here she comes.”

I can hear him talking to her but I’m not on speaker.

“Okay Emma. Here’s you phone. It’s finalized.”

“Wait, Trey, that’s not my phone. Mine wasn’t pink.”

“Nope Emma. This is your phone.”

“I don’t understand.”

“Here maybe this will help.”

“Hello?” It’s Emma.

“Hey babe. You didn’t want to,” I don’t even get to finish telling her.

“What did you do?” There’s irritation but no real anger. I hear Trey laughing.

“You didn’t want to be without your phone until tonight. You were sad. Now you’re not without it.”

“Andrew Miller. Stop spending money on me.”

“I will. When I’m dead. Get used to it babe. Go teach with you’re fine ass.”

I hang up. I know she’s speechless anyways.

I also know that she’s grateful.

I get back to work. I have Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and half a day on Wednesday. Of course Sunday is our off day. I’m wondering if we can all get together and agree to work Sunday and go home a day early.

I ask Zac and he’s all over it. He misses his wife like crazy and for the first time since I met him, I understand completely. I don’t give him s**t for it anymore. I ask the other two and they don’t care one way or the other. Now it’s up to the foreman.

“Hey man, why can’t we work Sunday and then half a day Tuesday and go home?”

“Nope!”

“Okay, I’m all for a compromise. What about we work Sunday and all day Tuesday, show up on Wednesday, then go home?”

The foreman looked at me like I lost my damn mind. “You know, they don’t give a s**t how we get our hours as long as we’re here 18 days and work the right number of hours. That would work. Let’s do it.”

Shit! Yes! If we show up at 6:30 and leave immediately, I can be at Emma’s apartment when she pulls in since I gain an hour on the way home. She’s gonna flip.

How am I gonna explain working Sunday to her? She knows my schedule. I’ll tell her the truth, the schedule changed. It did. I just will leave my influence of it out of the picture.

As soon as we get in the door I’m gonna be inside her. I’m standing on the side of a damn road on the outskirts of Orlando with a raging hard d**k thinking about my girl.

At lunch she calls and says thank you again. I tell her it’s no big deal and that I’m full of surprises. Her response is, “you’re full of something.”

I know she’s wanting to say I’m full of s**t but I take the opportunity to mess with her.

“Yeah I’m full of come waiting to blast into you. Don’t worry. I’ll keep building my supply. Just a few more days.”

She just laughs and hangs up. Sassy little ass.

She doesn’t know I’ll see her as soon as she gets home Wednesday rather than in the middle of the night. I’m gonna tell her to set out enough to cook so I can eat when I get there, but really we’re gonna cook together.