The Boyfriend I Made Up Ordered A Ride I Never Booked Chapter 03
My blood ran cold. I collapsed back onto the bed, completely frozen.
I’d cried over the fruit market just last night.
And this morning, the problem was already solved?
My phone buzzed. A spoofed text message.
“Don’t cry. I’ve got you now.”
I couldn’t hold it in anymore. I called the number frantically.
Only to get the same cold, robotic recording: “The number you have dialed is not in service.” /
I didn’t give up. I called Oak Grove Restaurant Group directly.
The manager said the owner had ordered them not to share any information.
The more I thought about it, the more terrified I became. This person knew everything about my
family. That shouldn’t have been possible.
Unless…
I stripped down and had Mom check every inch of me.
Then I bought an RF bug detector. Searched the whole house, inside and out. Found nothing.
I touched my phone. Had someone planted spyware on it?
That afternoon, I sold my old phone.
Bought a new one. Got a new number.
The old phone didn’t sell for much. Cost me half a month’s living expenses to upgrade. It stung, honestly.
I didn’t dare stay home. I went back to campus that same day.
But for the next three days, nothing showed up. No weird gifts.
I was just starting to breathe again when I had a dream that night.
A man stood in the darkness, his face impossible to make out. His voice was low, almost wounded.
“Baby, you don’t like what I’ve been sending you?”
“Your twentieth birthday’s in a couple days. Let me give you a big gift, okay? Buy yourself whatever
you want.”
I jolted awake, drenched in cold sweat.
No one knew this-except my mom. I’d had my birth certificate amended a year forward so I could
start school before turning six. Everyone thought I was twenty-one.
I’d never told a single friend or classmate. My roommates definitely didn’t know.
My head was spinning when my new phone buzzed.
I picked it up. A bank deposit alert. $250,000.
The memo had one line.
“Happy 20th, baby.”
I dropped the phone. It hit the floor with a loud crack.
