Boy Out Falling (3 page)

The next few days when I checked online everyone was talking about me in the tabloid even people at work. The tabloid hadn't put anything else up since that Saturday. I didn't like to go online since I didn't like what people were saying to me that I knew. My phone started to vibrate. I knew it wasn't Meridith she was still at work. I looked down it was a number I didn't recognized.

I answered the phone.

“Hello?”

“Is this Jen Erikson?”

“You figured out the last number.”

“This is your number. Now that I have it can I ask you out on a date?”

“Mr. Patrick I have to say that you are not the first guy that has had those dreams about me. All I am is a step before you meet the right girl.”

“You don't have to call me Mr. Patrick, just call me Steven. Please go out on a date with me.”

“Does it have to be a date? I'm just not sure if I want to be out and have all those paparazzi be around. Everyone I know is going crazy about the beach meeting.”

“I understand. I do want to get to know you better.”

I started to laugh.