A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Chapter 195 A Sweet Girl

"Hmm… Yes," answered Emily.

"You shouldn't leave me alone after making use of my help to get out of the hospital," said Anne, then she sneezed.

Emily sighed, as she took off her coat and draped it over Anne's shoulders. "Take good care of yourself," she said in a concerned tone.

Anne burst into laughter, revealing two beautiful dimples on her cheeks. She said,"Cutie, you are so sweet, just like Victor."

Emily couldn't help but laugh, as she said,"I have to go now. I'm going to meet my lover, goodbye."

After bidding farewell to Anne, Emily turned around to leave, but Anne caught Emily's sweater sleeve, and asked,"If you go, what shall I do? I don't know how to get back to the hospital. I will be lost without you."

Frustrated, Emily could not think of a solution that would be mutually beneficial.

'If you know you have no sense of direction, why did you come out?' thought Emily.

Anne stared at Emily with puppy dog eyes. With a soft tone she insisted,"Can you take me with you? Please, don't leave me here alone …"

Emily hesitated, but she couldn't deny that, without Anne's help she would not have been able to escape from the hospital. In an act of desperation, Emily decided to bring Anne along with her. In truth, Anne had no sense of direction, if she stayed back, she could have been in danger.

Besides, Ann was a pretty girl. If she had fallen into the wrong hands, she would be too weak to fend for herself. Emily may have been desperate and circumstances may have made her hard-boiled, but

there was no way she was going to leave this harmless girl alone.

"Hmm… Okay, you can come with me," said Emily. She figured, the least she could drop her off at the police station, which would have been the safest place to leave her.

"Great!" Anne cheered like a little kid, with a beautiful innocent smile, and she said,"Cutie, you are so kind. I like you!"

'You are so easy to please, ' thought Emily.

However, soon Emily would come to learn how wrong she had been about Anne.

Since, Anne had rarely gone out of the hospital, she was very curious about everything she saw in the outside world. When she saw something that stimulated her interest, she would touch them with great pleasure.

In the beginning, Emily asked Anne to walk slowly as she was afraid that Anne would suddenly fall down because of her weak body. However, as time went by, she was proven wrong. "I admire you," she said to Anne.

Soon after, Emily saw a public phone booth in front of her, and she felt like every fibre of her being was vibrating with excitement and anticipation. She rushed to the phone booth, ready to make a phone call, when she soon realized that she had no coin.

"Hey Anne, can you lend me some money?" asked Emily in a wishful tone.

Anne shrugged and answered,"Sorry, I don't have money with me."

Emily and Anne, the two penniless girls looked at each other silently for a long time inside the public phone booth.

"I know where we can find coins," said Anne excitedly. She knelt on the ground, leaning over a narrow chink at the bottom of the phone and looked inside. Anne squinted as if she were a cat looking for a mice.

Emily didn't believe that Anne would find some coins inside the chink, so she bent down to help Anne up, and urged her,"Get up, the ground is cold."

Before she knew it, Anne burst out laughing, and she yelled as her eyes glowed like two stars,"I found some coins!"

She reached out and put her hands inside the chink. After a few seconds, she took out some coins and handed them to Emily with a smile. "Is that enough, cutie?" she asked.

The coins must have rolled into the chink, after they were accidentally dropped by people who had to leave in a hurry.

Surprised, Emily gazed blankly at the coins on Anne's hand. After a few seconds, she looked at Anne and praised her,"Miss Anne, you are so clever! Thank you very much!"

"You are welcome," Anne replied and urged,"Please call your boyfriend. He must be worried about you."

"Miss Anne…" Emily whispered. She gazed into Anne's eyes with gratitude. After all, Anne had helped her get out of a difficult situation, however, when she thought of how Victor had planned to take her heart by force to save Anne, she suddenly calm herself down.

"What's the matter?" asked Anne.

"It's nothing," Emily shook her head and answered, then she used the coins to dial a number. When she caught a glimpse of Anne who was getting out of the phone booth, she reached out to grab Anne's

arm and asked,"Where are you going?"

"I just wanted to give you two lovebirds some privacy," she replied.

However, Emily was worried about Anne's physical well-being. She held Anne's hand and didn't let go, then she said,"It's cold outside. Just stay here."

"Okay, I'm all yours," replied Anne. Upon Emily's insistence, Anne obeyed and reminded,"But if I end up listening in on your conversation, don't blame me."

"You are so…" 'cute.'

Emily broke off in the middle of a sentence. She held the phone tightly, waiting for it to connect. However, after a long wait, she found that there was no signal.

'This place is not remote. Why is there no signal?' Emily wondered, with a puzzled expression.

Emily tried several more times, but, there was still no signal.

"Why?" said Emily, as she put down the phone, feeling a little disappointed. Everything seemed to have been going perfectly for her, up until now.

Anne looked at Emily's depressed expression, and asked in a caring tone,"What's wrong? Did you get through to your boyfriend?"

"No. The signal over here is really very weak," answered Emily.

"That's all right. We can find another phone booth. We'll be able to get through eventually," Anne comforted.

"You are right." replied Emily. She cheered herself up and walked out of the public phone booth with Anne, hoping eagerly to find another phone booth.

However, after going through several phone booths, the results were the same—no signal! Emily even borrowed a cell phone from a passer-by, but that didn't work either.

"It doesn't make sense!" Emily yelled. She nearly went crazy, as she pressed her throbbing temple and said to herself,"Maybe it's because I didn't do enough good to deserve good fortune?"

Confused, Emily wondered why she was having such bad luck trying to get through to Jacob.

"Don't worry. There's no signal now, but maybe it'll get better later. We can go somewhere else and wait for a while, and then come back to try again," suggested Anne.

In truth, Emily was not in the mood, having run out of strength and energy. However, when she thought of Anne, she decided to find a suitable place, in case, Anne needed to rest her legs.

Emily was absolutely disheartened as her face looked tired and glum.

"Don't be upset. Let's go and buy some candies, okay?" Anne coaxed Emily in a soft tone.

"But we don't have money…" Emily said. But before she could finish, she was interrupted by a cunning look from Anne. Suddenly, she understood what Anne had meant——they could look for money from the chink under the phone, just like Anne did in the first public phone booth.

Emily looked at Anne's expectant expression, and soon gave in. She bent over to pick up some coins from the chink under the phone, and gave them to Anne. "Here you are," she said.

Anne held the coins in the palm of her right hand, excited at the thought of buying candies. She said in an eager tone,"I want more."

Emily stood up and then patted her hand, then she said,"Don't take all the coins; just leave some, okay?"

A look of bemusement spread across her face, as Anne tilted her head to the side, looking like a lovely beautiful doll. She asked,"Why? It would be a waste to leave them there."

"If we leave some coins there, it may help someone else who might be in desperate to make a phone call," answered Emily.

Anne nodded, as she finally understood what Emily had meant. She was impressed by Emily's thoughtfulness, so she replied,"I understand."

'What a sweet girl! She is as sweet as Victor.' Anne thought again.

Anne took the coins and walked in and out of the candy shop fairly quickly. When she came

back, she hesitated for a short while and then gave Emily some of her favourite strawberry flavoured candies. The two girls sat side by side, on the steps of the park, and enjoyed their candies.

"Cutie, what's that?" Anne asked curiously, while she pointed her finger at a pool which was not far away from them. With a candy in her mouth, Anne struggled to utter words properly. Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.