InsaneJournal

"Come on... it's got to be here somewhere..." Jessica had been hunting for her brother's hidden key for almost ten minutes now and the search was getting on her nerves. Oh wait! She felt it! Yes! Her fingers clasped the little key and she drew it down from its hiding space on top of the door and pushed it eagerly into the door. Her brother was definitely not home, otherwise he would've let her in ages ago. Opening the door, she groped for the nearest light switch and sighed heavily at the sterility of the environment around her. "Oh Richie," she muttered to herself, entering the apartment and pulling the door shut behind her. "it's a wonder you even have and apartment, for all you live in it." Seating herself on one of the strange, white couches, she took her cell phone out of her purse and pressed two on her speed dial. "Come on Richie... pick up your phone this time."  As she listened to it ringing, she could feel her stomach twist. Sophia... She snapped her phone shut. No. This wasn't right. She couldn't visit her brother first without even calling her wife. Granted, she hadn't seen her brother in three months either, and for the first time in years she and her brother had been cut off from their weekly phone conversations while she was in Brazil. Sophia, at least, had gotten letters. But that didn't justify a total lack of communication on her part. Opening her phone again, she pressed one on her speed dial and waiting patiently for Sophia to pick up. Yes, this felt better. Richard wasn't even here yet; she definitely had time for a phone call. And if Sophia wanted her home soon, well then it was just too bad that her brother had missed her.