Booming Reality

Screams were heard from every direction, cries echoing into his mind. His ear drum was pounding with pain. A dense feeling was tying around him, his own body tensing as it turned and twisted within it. Then there it was again the phone rang again and Chris shot up from his sleep. His snow white sheets tangled around his small body. The chestnut colored hair on his head was wet and matted to his forehead, his light pink lips parted as light gasps escape his lips.1

“Thank god…it was only another nightmare…” His voice came out soft; it was almost un-hearable, nothing but a sound in the wind. The wind that blew gently through the open window next to his bed, giving the white sheets that lay on his bed a gentle movement.2

Then the sound that awoke him shattered his dazed feeling. The phone was ringing loud, almost blasting his ear drums as the throbbed. Slowly reaching over he lifted the phone, pulling it to his ear. 3

“Mm…Hello…” His voice went into the phone, raspy sounding through his chapped lips. His voice was soft with the hint of tiredness in it.4

“Chris….Is that you…” The voice came soft, almost softer than his own had. It was different though, other than it was that of a girls, it was also in a voice of panic. A voice that had the hint that seemed like the girl was about to cry.5

“Uh…Well, yah it’s me.” After the words escaped his mouth, he let a yawn go. Then his hand slid up and raked through his brown seeming mop on his head. His hair damp and sticking together, really wasn’t too good looking at that time.6

“Chris…I …I…. Have something to tell you….Something that’s going to scare you as much as it did me. But I could never do what I wish I did. I feel like it’s too late.” As the words finished, Chris could have sworn he could almost feel the tears that were steaming down the girls face. The sobs were finally coming through; she couldn’t hold them back any more. Her voice was clear with them. 7

“Who is this? Kendra?” His voice was slow, calm, and gentle. He wanted to try to calm her down, what could be so bad that would scare him. Everyone knew him as a guy who was barely ever scared of anything. He went through all the two years of high school he’d been at and he had never shown fear, not even now was he. He was the cool, calm guy most everyone knew.8

“No…Who’s that? The girl you cheated on me with…This is Rene…You know…” She gave a gentle giggle, almost in a flirtatious way, but the sobs couldn’t be hidden by the fake laugh. And soon Chris was actually getting a bit nervous, not scared, but nervous. Rene, she was the girl he met at the club, and then had gone home with her. He never meant for what had happened between them to, and he had been with Kendra then, and still was. He never told her about that night with Rene, and never expected to.9

“Rene…We said we weren’t going to talk I though.” He replied to her gently, trying to regain all his cools. Nervousness can’t be hidden under his voice though, too many question were in his mind to help him forget. ‘Why would she be talking to me now, after almost four months?’10

“I know…but…Chris this is important…You know how we met…and how we acted and stuff. Did you ever think about it? It’s been almost four months, Chris! What reason do you really think I’d be calling for after all this time?!” Her voice died as she broke down into sobs, her hands letting the phone slip to the floor, and a loud thud was heard on Chris’s end. Then a muffled noise as the sobs became louder and clearer, but were now controlled. After they soon stopped to only a couple ever minute, her voice came out again. “I’m three months pregnant, and I’m keeping it.”11

His eyes went wide with her words, he almost dropped the phone. He thought it was going to slip through his hands from the sweat that came from his hair and was now on the hand holding the phone. Oh no, it would be from pure shock, nothing doing with water. “Lies…You can’t be, you’re lying!” Chris had almost broken down crying right there on the phone, he held it all back, all his emotions but the pure shock that was in his voice; as well as in everyone of his breaths. 12

“No…I’m not…Guess what…You’re a father…..” Her words slowly trailed off into a slight giggle, seeming almost evil.13

“Never! You’re just a little girl who sleeps with everyman!” His voice almost echoed through the house, but then he made it into a loud whisper. If his parents knew this, they would kill him; he would no longer have a home. He would no longer have a life.14

There was a click on the other line as Rene had hung up. He only sat there his eyes showing the pure shock and how scared he really was. Slowly he shook his head and looked around. “Damnit…God please tell me this is a dream.”15

Not to long after he heard a loud beeping, the phone was doing it sine he had never turned it off. What was he going to tell Kendra, and when? His thumb pushed down on the OFF button of the phone and he hung it up, getting out of his bed slowly. He had to tell Kendra, he was never a guy who kept anything from her.16

Quickly jumping into a pair of baby blue jeans and a white shirt he ran out the door. He had too many things running to his mind to really think of just one thing, like what and how was he going to tell Kendra this. Jumping in his car he took off, driving down the road on his way to make the biggest decision of his life, as well as a late correction to one of this biggest mistakes he ever made. And there was no eraser big enough in this world to take care of it.17