An entire day had passed without any word from Jesse. He'd been active on his socials three hours ago, but that was the only sign of him.

Jeannie, fearing that she might appear clingy, held off on texting. As the hours passed, though, it was almost more than she could take.


u ok?😕 She finally messaged.


She watched the message go from sent, to delivered, and finally to seen.

"What the hell?" She scowled into the screen. "That's it, I'm calling."

She tapped Jesse's number into the keypad.

It was ringing! But then it went immediately to voicemail.

He had sent it to voicemail!

"Uh, hey? Is everything okay?" Jeannie spoke into the phone. "You're kind of scaring me...uh, did you not like the pictures? Um, call me. I miss you." She marked the message as urgent.

Five minutes passed.

Jeannie picked the phone back up and tried calling again.

This time, the call went directly to voicemail.

He was ignoring her calls.