“Hi, this is Sara.”
Oh my God, she was young, she was definitely young! Alan’s heart stuttered, his tongue stuck in his suddenly dry mouth and he couldn’t think of thing to say.
“Hello?”
“Hi!” he suddenly blurted out, terrified that she might hang up. Then in a rush he began babbling, his carefully worked out approach forgotten. “I’m – I mean my name is Alan Young. I’m down here at the hospital, Milton Hospital you know. I’m down by the employment office, I came looking for a job, I’m just a week out of high school you see, and can’t find work anywhere and my mother said…”
With horror Alan abruptly realized he was talking about his mother to this girl. Immediately he was dying with chagrin and tongue-tied again. Sounding amused, the girl prodded him.
“Yes? Alan, is it? What did your m
