Sun has started to fall west, and the lights on the horizon is vanishing. The air is already cold in the evening. Jerry Jackson is likely to be frozen to death, if he didn’t find a shelter soon. This day had been a long, idiotic journey for nothing, and here he is, in the middle of nowhere, with little water left in his dusty old water bottle and no food besides a pack of crackers in his bag.
He tried to look for a car passing by, but not one living soul had crossed this road for two hours, and he was about to give up waiting. He sat on the ground, some sand went into his jeans but he doesn’t care. He stared at the sunset, at the thin, orange line at the edge of the world. Suddenly he wanted to cry. He opened his bag to look for tissue, scrap paper, or anything that could wipe his tears. But he soon realized that nobody is around, so he gave up hiding and burst into crying.
His sobbing soon became screaming, as his emotions started to crush through the barrier. The screaming became louder and louder, piercing the whole quiet, dead atmosphere around him.
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As the outburst of Jerry’s emotion started to quiet down, his cellphone started to ring inside his pocket. Jerry hesitated for a moment, deciding in his mind whether to answer it or not. After a minute of inner discussion, Jerry finally picked up the phone.
“Hey.” Jerry said.
“Hey, Where the fuck are you ?”
“Hell, I guess. I’m surprised they got signal here.”
“Seriously, where are you?”
“Somewhere beside the highway, I guess.”
“Be more specific, me and dad are picking you up.”
“You’re all too kind, just let me rot in the desert.”
“We’ll abandon you if we can’t find you before dinner.”
Jerry looked around, trying to find any sign of civilization beside the road under his feet.
“There’s nothing around.”
“Dammit, go find a road sign or something.”
Jerry hung up the phone. He stood up from ground, shook his pants to get rid of the sand inside, and started walking along the road, reluctantly.