Phone Calls (standard:horror, 1060 words)
Author: Justin_Mullins	Added: Jun 07 2007	Views/Reads: 3107/2189	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Tonight was supposed to be a fun night watching a movie for Nero and his girlfriend. Shortly into the evening, a series of phone calls turns the night into something else.

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Nero answered it. “Look, who the hell is this?” he asked with anger
growing in his voice. “Either say something or quit calling!” 

Silence. 

Nero once again discontinued the call. “This is getting ridiculous.” 

“Just turn it off,” Jane Claire said. 

“I am,” Nero said. As he was about to turn it off, the phone rang again.
Once again, it was the same number. “For the love of all things holy!” 

He answered the phone. “I thought I just told you--” 

“Never hang up on me again!” a voice screamed on the other end. “I'll
kill you! Both of you! Damn it, I will kill both of you!” 

Nero had never heard anyone so angry before. The person on the other end
was obviously a male and he was angry. The person on the other end 
screamed so loudly, even Jane Claire could plainly hear the 
conversation. 

“Look you son of a bitch,” Nero said, “I don't know who this is, but you
better quit calling before I call the cops! I don‘t know what the hell 
you are talking about!” Nero hung up and turned off the phone before he 
could call back. Jane Claire wrapped her arms around Nero's right arm. 
“Nero, I'm scared,” she said. 

“Don't worry about it,” Nero said. “It's okay.” 

“Will you stay with me tonight?” 

“Of course. Let's just turn the movie back on and not think about the
calls anymore.” 

Jane Claire, still afraid, rested her head against Nero's shoulders.
Fortunately, the night went on and nothing out of the ordinary 
happened. Soon enough, they never gave that particular event of the 
night another thought. 

That is, until two days later. 

Two days following the date with his girlfriend, Nero stopped by a gas
station to fill up his motorcycle. Once finished, Nero replaced the 
pump and pulled out the money as he walked to pay for it inside. As he 
walked towards the entrance, he noticed the tray of newspapers and saw 
a headline that made him stop. 

The headline read, “Girl Murdered Because of Cell Phone Call”. 

Nero placed the coins in the slot and grabbed a newspaper. He read the
article in the paper. With the information almost not wanting to set 
in, he read it again. 

“It can't be,” he said to himself. 

The article said that a man murdered his girlfriend in a fit of jealous
rage a few nights before. The boyfriend kept calling what he believed 
to be his girlfriend's cell phone number. The suspect claimed he had 
kept calling the number and another man kept answering the phone. 

The article said that, believing his girlfriend was cheating on him, he
went to her house that night and killed her before turning himself in 
the next morning after realizing what he had done. The article ended on 
the fact the man now awaited his trial. 

However, Nero's attention focused on another bit of information.
According to the press release, the police discovered the one fact they 
knew for certain at this point was he had told the truth about calling 
the number. However, the boyfriend had made a mistake. 

He had called the wrong cell phone number that whole night. 


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