Taxi to Faraya
-Alo.
-Alo.
-Hi Dina.
-Hi.
-How are you? I miss you.
-I miss you too, really. Where are you?
-In Faraya.
-You are still in Faraya? Are you crazy? In this weather?
-Oh it is marvelous. It has been snowing for three days non stop.
-I know, I watched the news. Aren’t you cold?
-No, of course not. Got the chimney going and everything, I have everything I need except one thing.
-And what is that?
-You.
-Ha ha ha ha
-Why are you laughing?
-No, I didn’t mean to, it just sounded nice how you said it.
-I really miss you Dina.
-I miss you too. Ah I am so tired, I just got back from the gym, and I can’t feel my legs. Are you alone? Who are you with?
-Just me.
-Aren’t you bored?
-Not really, it is very nice up here. There are some people here, enjoying it like I am. It is so quiet and peaceful.
-Guess what?
-What.
-I want to tell you something.
-Tell me everything.
-I thought about our conversation last week.
-I am all ears.
-I thought about it. I was apprehensive at first. I mean, the problems that can happen and the mess that can ensue, you being a married man and all, but I thought about it fully and I decided that I am going to do it.
-You have no idea how that makes me feel.
-How does it make you feel?
-Ecstatic. Are you kidding?
-Yeah, I am still scared though.
-Of what?
-Of what might happen, of problems and complications. I don’t want to wreck your marriage. At the same time I want to be with you.
-You won’t wreck anything. I told you.
-But what if she finds out?
-She won’t.
-But what if she does?
-I will deal with it then, stop worrying. You know how crazy about you I am?
-Ah, it is that talk that gets me.
-I am crazy about you.
-Tell me more.
-I am crazy about your whole being. About your mouth, nose, teeth, breath, fingers, toes, hair, voice, everything. See? I am being completely decent. I can go on but I will break the decency rules.
-Break them.
-Not over the phone sweetie.
-I have been thinking about it real hard. I am torn between two fires.
-Look, like I told you last week. I love you and I can’t wait to see you again and to kiss you and make love to you and wake up next to you. I love the times we spend together, I love how we talk and laugh and just be ourselves in front of each other without pretentions or effort. And I want to explore this to its utmost limits, see where it will take us. I have no intentions of taking advantage of you and you know that very well. As a matter of fact, I have never ever thought about it, let alone done it.
