He was really enjoying their conversation, even though it was just about an incident from the Bible. He'd give anything to have such long phone calls with her. Maybe he should tell her incomplete stories more often, that way she'd call him like this, and he could get to hear her voice over the phone.
"Nathan, hold one second. There's someone at the door. She had said.
" okay, No problem... He replied. He could hold on longer than a second. He could hold on for minutes, hours, days, months, years even. As long as at the end of the waiting, she was going to come to him. For her, he could become Jacob.
At first he didn't hear anything from her end, but that was okay because she told him to hold. But then he heard that voice. It was faint, but not so faint that he didn't hear it.
"Hi Vanessa. The person had said. He was certainly sure about who it was, but still found himself praying it wasn't him, he found himself getting scared.