Straight to You by Moody David

Author:Moody, David [Moody, David]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-05-28T17:22:01+00:00

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The remainder of a lonely, worrying Friday was spent making hurried preparations to leave home and attempt the difficult journey to Samantha and then, ultimately, to my family. I had thought that there would not be much I would need to take with me but, as is usually the way, once I had collected together all that I might possibly have needed, a huge pile of possessions lay waiting on the living-room floor to be packed tightly into my unsuspecting car.

The kitchen cupboards were empty and, as midday approached, I resigned myself to the fact that I would have to leave the house to make an inconvenient trip to the local general store. I had been loath to leave home until Samantha had called to let me know she was safe but this was an emergency. With the prospect of many scorching and dehydrating hours at the wheel of my car ahead of me, I knew that I needed to make sure that I had enough provisions to see me through. I ran to the little shop (it was only a few hundred yards down the road) and returned quickly without having bought anything. The shelves of the shop had already been stripped bare and the little food that remained on sale was so highly priced that I decided to wait and make do with what little provisions I could gather together for the journey.

In the unbearable heat, and with the safety of the ones I loved at the front of my mind, the day passed slowly and it was not until four o’clock, when the scorching sunlight had finally started to steadily fade away to darkness, that the telephone finally rang. I was loading my bags and belongings into the car when the shrill ring of the phone pierced the evening air and sent me scurrying into the house to answer it.

‘Steve?’ Sam’s unmistakable voice asked, ‘Steve, it’s me, Sam. Are you all right?’

‘I am now,’ I replied as calmly as I could although I was breathing deeply and my heart was racing at an incredible rate. ‘I’m fine now that I’ve heard from you.’

The relief I felt at having heard her voice was almost impossible to disguise and, for a brief moment, I was lost for words. In my mind I had rehearsed and prepared for the phone call throughout the day but, now that I was finally speaking to the girl I cared for so much, all of the questions I had prepared disappeared from my mind. After a lengthy, awkward silence, I was able to speak again.

‘How are you?’ I asked. ‘Did you manage to get to your gran’s place okay?’

‘Eventually,’ Sam replied. ‘The traffic has been horrendous today, I’ve never known anything like it. Everyone who owns a car must have been out on the roads.’

‘Everybody except me.’

‘Haven’t you been to work?’

‘I did try to get there but it was a waste of time. I turned back before I got to the city and went over to your house but you’d already left.

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