Author's Note

Celestia receives a call at the right time and this is how it turns out

if you’re wondering what UP 4141 looks like look it up by typing in UP 4141 (this wasn’t an insult)

More Than A Phone Call

4/15/08

Celestia’s fingers trembled as she sat the not on her pillow holding the razor blade in her right hand she was now sobbing loudly she was surprised that her neighbors didn’t hear, or at least care enough to check on her. She shakily placed the razor on her wrist and slowly pressed it down. She jerked it up as her phone rang she put down the razor blade it was still light outside the light barely shining through her curtains. She wore a red t shirt that fit tight around her, black slip on pants, and white socks with her hair tied in a ponytail. She answered the phone

“h-hello” said Celestia nervously wiping a tear from her eye.

“Hey can you come over? We ought get to know each other a bit better if we’re gonna be buddies.”

“S-sure but my car isn’t fixed yet so I can’t drive.”

“Don’t worry i’ll be over in about 20 minutes hope ya don’t mind riding in my truck.” Said Arron following with a laugh.

“N-no I don’t mind not at all.” said Celestia happily.

The phone line clicked as Arron hung up the sun was now setting and it would be dark by the time Arron reached her house and got her to his but she didn’t mind she was just happy that Arron had called at the right time. Arron walked out to his truck and got in starting it, he pulled out of his driveway and down the road leading to highway 23 tuning the station to 105.7 Classic Country and continued on to the sound of Alabama. Celstia lay curled up in her bed when she heard a knock at her door it was Arron the sun having already set it was now dark outside. Celestia quickly got up and ran to the door nearly slipping on the hardwood floor she opened the door and greeted Arron smiling.

“So you ready to go?”

“Sure just let me get my shoes on” Celestia grabbed her blue tennis shoes and walked over to her couch

Arron was wearing a black Amon Amarth shirt, a red work shirt unbuttoned, bluejeans, and brown boots with aviator sunglasses hooked to his shirt.

“Alright i’m ready” said Celestia smiling, she was noticeably shorter than him at around 5’7 tall as well as noticeably lighter Arron weighing in at 213 lbs while she weighed only 140 lbs.

They both walked outside to the truck Arron climbed into the drivers side and Celestia into the passenger side, Arron backed his truck out of the driveway heading down her street.

“Thank you” said Celestia quietly.

“What was that?” said Arron keeping his eyes on the road

“NOTHING......nothing just talking to myself” said Celestia nervously.

“Now that was an outburst” said Arron chuckling as he reached for the gearshift .

They finally reached his house and Arron stopped the truck, he got out the dim overhead cab light barely lighting the cab. He slammed the door and Celestia followed him out and to his house the sound of his 2 German Shepherds barking as he walked over to steps lit dimly by the porch light a car passing on the road behind them its headlights the only thing visible but Arron knew it was the same car that had been passing for the past 2 weeks at the same time between 5:30 PM and 12:35 AM everyday. Arron opened the door to be greeted by Woofer, he rubbed his head and walked over to the couch and motioned for her to sit down which she did across from him on the couch as he reached for the remote and turned on the TV.

“Alright you wanna watch a movie? All I really got that’s good is Saving Private Ryan and 300 it’s your choice both have a lot of killing but I prefer 300 it’s just fucking awesome.”

“Um.....what’s 300 about?”

“It’s about the Spartans the best damn ancient army in fucking history!”

“Okay and what’s that Private Ryan movie about?”

“Its about a group of soldiers just of D-Day sent after a US Army Private it’s also fucking awesome.”

“The first one I guess.”

“Alright Saving Private Ryan it is.”

He walked over to the the DVD player and grabbed the case opening up he put the DVD in and set the TV up to play it.

Before sitting down he said “Wanna drink or something?”

“Y-you got any water?” said Celestia nervously

“Sure” Arron walked into the kitchen “you seem pretty nervous what’s wrong?” said Arron as he sat back down holding a bottle of water and a bottle of Coke

“Arron can I tell you something?”

“Sure why not” said Arron as he paused the movie

“Before you called......I was....going to kill myself” upon saying this she burst into tears.

Arron wrapped his arms around her in a hug she had been expecting him to react the same way her abusive mother had acted while her dad was away the many ties she had attempted suicide before even being diagnosed with depression but this came as a shock. She felt as if Arron was to only one to really care.

It’s alright just let it all out” said Arron patting her on the back.

Right as he said this his cellphone rang and he answered it finding it to be Blake, he unwrapped his arms from around her and answered

“Howdy howdy howdy.”

“Hey Arron can you come down here? I need your help working on my car.”

“You had to ask me right now? I’ll be there by 7:45 see ya then.” Arron hung up “So you wanna come with me or go back home?”

She thought for a second before saying “I’ll come with you I wanna meet your brother.”

“Alright lets go.”

They both walked outside to Arron’s truck as the same car passed by his house yet again heading in the opposite direction, he got in the truck with Celestia getting in beside him as he began to start the truck. They backed out of the driveway and Arron reached for the radio and turned the radio up

“Well hell Christmas in Dixie I was about 13 when this came out it’s a motherfucking classic my friend.” Then Arron began to sing along “Christmas in Dixie it’s snowing in the pines.”

“Can you please stop i’m not in the mood”

Arron turned down the radio “alright if you wanna talk we can I know you’re in a bad spot and if ya wanna keep talking about it maybe we can it’s gonna be about 2 hours till we get to Meridian.”

“F-fine my mom was abusive and never showed me any love unless my dad was around but it was all fake like my smile I hadn’t been truly happy since I was 10 when the abuse started and even my ex was abusive it lasted 4 years and he’s still trying to get me back.” She began to quietly sob as the truck rolled to a stop in front of a railroad crossing with nothing but a cross buck and 2 red lights flashing over the sound of a Nathan K5LLA air horn as a freight train lead by Union Pacific 4141 and 2 M&D SD60 wide nosed diesels followed by 67 mixed freight cars.

“Well looks like we could be here for some time that things moving at around 39 miles per hour may as well pass the time.” Said Arron reaching into the the glove box and pulled out a round whetstone “So i’m gonna sharpen my knife.”

Arron pulled his pocket knife out opening it he began to sharpen it rubbing each side against the stone as the train rumbled by.

Celestia sighed “why do you like trains?”

Arron stopped sharpening and turned to her chuckling “how can ya not?”

“aren’t they kinda....loud and annoying?”

“Well yes they are annoying on occasion like if you’re tryna sleep or concentrate but not when you’re wanting to see them or when you’re inside, also they’re supposed to be loud to warn people but of course idiots can’t understand that you’re supposed to stop I’ve seen well over 100 drive in front of me and at least 20 of them got hit AT LEAST!” Arron was now sounding angry “sorry about that I occasionally have outbursts but those people are idiots” Arron was now calmed down by then the train was clear.

They pulled into Blake’s driveway the property being an old single story ranch style house and a metal building inside the metal building sat a red 1969 Camaro with the hood open. Arron shut off the engine and got out walking over to Blake.

“Howdy bruh.” said Arron shaking Blake’s hand

To which Blake responded with “Sup dude”

Celestia nervously walked over to them both

“Oh yeah this is the girl I was talking about a couple months back her names Celestia and that’s about it.”

“H-hi” said Celestia nervously

“Howdy” responded Blake “anyways dude we need to check out my car.”

“Sure thing bro” said Arron as they all walked over to the shop.