Eden’s Old Phone
Eden : Today I got my very first phone. Dad says at fifteen and a half I’m old enough to have one now. Yay! There are only two contacts on it so far, his and yours. So, I just wanted to say, hi.
Eden : Hi!
F: Hi back haha
F: This feels so weird.
Eden : I know! I am giggling, it’s so cool.
Eden : I want to tell you so many things now that we can text each other like normal people.
F: Is that what normal people do, in your opinion?
Eden : I guess.
F: Fine. What do you want to tell me?
Eden : About my books, for one thing. I have no one to talk to about my books.
F: Oh, lord.
F: Fine, books it is. I can’t stop you, since it’s your first day on that phone. But after that, I’m picking the subject.
Eden : Deal.
Eden : So, I’m rereading Jane Eyre.
F : Ugh.
Eden : Yeah, I know. It’s the fifth time this year.
F : I don’t know if ‘fifth time’ or ‘this year’ is the most pathetic part of this sentence. Which part are you reading right now?
Eden : The beginning. About Jane not going for a walk because the rain was too heavy that day .
F : Rain, heavy, no walk. Got it. Why do you have to read it five times this year alone for that?
Eden : I don’t know, it feels comforting. Familiar.
Eden : Also, the way she says it, ‘there was no possibility of taking a walk that day’… It makes me think that she usually went for a walk. Every day. Maybe she went on a walk even in the rain sometimes, you know?
F: Do I know? Do I need to know?
Eden : What must it feel like to walk in the rain? To get soaked all the way through, and to not mind? Is it a good feeling? Is it weird? Does it make you feel alive? That’s what I’ve been wondering.
F: Super interesting.
Eden : Hey, would you stop making fun for a second?
F: Sorry, I’m listening.
F: I’m here.
Eden : Yeah, you’re here. You are the only one who is, you know. (You do know). So, for all your snide remarks, thanks for that.