“Ariana” he said softly into the phone, “it's me” he said again after a while of me not saying anything.
I hadn't said anything back in reply because the truth was, I was shocked to my bones.
‘Am I stupid?’ I thought painfully to myself, I had ignorantly picked the call from the one person I was trying to avoid.
“I know you can hear me,” Jason said again, a little louder this time.
I gulped nervously, finding the way I was behaving ridiculous. It was just a phone call, what harm could he really do over the phone.
“Jason?” I asked softly, holding my breath as I waited for him to respond.
“Yes” he answered finally, sounding a little out of breath.
“What–why are you calling me?” I said, slowly regaining composure.
It was all coming back to me, the lies, the stalking, the sending peopl
