Isolation by Jenni Regan

Author:Jenni Regan [Regan, Jenni]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-14T22:00:00+00:00

Alice

27 September 2018, 2 p.m.

I knew ideally I should leave a few days between my phone encounter with Stan and contacting him again, to keep him interested, but as I could see the freezer contents dwindling, I knew I would have to throw usual rules out of the window, so I contacted him the next day. I almost rang him—after all, we had shared such an intimate time online, I felt like I knew him so much better—but then I decided that it was easier with the aid of a computer screen. Unlike Stan, I wasn't good at persuasion and didn’t really know how to pitch it as though this would be a good thing for him rather than just helping me out. In reality, I wanted to beg him to come and save me, needing someone else to take over and be in control once more. I had tasted independence, and look where it had got me: possible starvation.

Finally, I messaged him, trying to sound casual and alluring. It took me at least twenty minutes.

‘Hey Stan, I really enjoyed our time on the phone yesterday and I wonder if you want to make things more real? Let me know if you fancy visiting?’

I knew I was risking a lot sending this message; after all, he thought of me as a hot, sleek air hostess. He may well be shocked when he realised my true identity as an overweight, ugly homebody, but he did really seem to care and I had excited him over the phone. I was also prepared to do the same in the flesh if it meant that he would help me. Besides, there was something in his voice that really made me want to trust him. He was a real man unlike all those horrible little boys at school who had called me names.

I could see that he was typing and waited expectantly.

‘Yeah baby, you are so hot of course I would like to see you in the flesh, wot time & wot postcode r u?’

I suddenly remembered that he probably presumed I lived in London. I tried to break it to him gently. ‘Thing is I am staying at my gran’s house at the moment so you would need to come down to Dorset! I can pay your petrol money. I have been a bit ill lately so resting down here.’

There was more of a delay this time, and I guessed he was weighing up how much he wanted to see me against a long car journey. Luckily, I guessed his urges won out.

‘Guess it might do me some good to get some fresh air, hows about I come 2moro and take you for lunch?’

This sounded so grown up, and I had never been asked out on a date before, but I knew I wouldn’t be able to leave the house, even because of this.

‘Still feeling poorly so how about you bring lunch here?’

‘OK cool ping me your address and I will see you tomorrow,

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