My phone rings at around 5:00, Dani is calling me. It had been a while since we last spoke and I wasn’t about to answer it now. She was married and had been going through some difficulties with her husband for a few years. I was not eager to get in the middle of anything there. I had a lot of fun with her in the past, but that all seemed behind us now as I thought everything was improving in her relationship. It was the summer in between my sophomore and junior years in college so I was preparing for my normal Saturday night out with some buddies.
I feel my phone buzz again. This time it’s a text from Dani. “Hey, please call me ASAP, I need your help with something,” she wrote. That would have been hard to ignore. What could she have possibly needed from me? Deep in my mind I felt like it could have been something dire, so I called her back.
“Hey, what are you doing tonight,” she asked. “I need a huge favor.”
“No real plans, just hanging out with some buddies, having a few drinks.”