Quickly, I realized that I shouldn't think about foods as I started craving them even more once I thought about it. At this time, my phone vibrated. Since I couldn't fall asleep, I got up quietly.
I took the phone and looked at it. It was a message from Monique. "Arianna, I can't sleep. I'm craving green mangoes!"
Seeing that we both were craving a certain food, I couldn't help but find it amusing. Monique and I were indeed soul sisters.
I texted back, "I can't sleep either. Right now, I'm craving the autumn tomatoes in Hovell's backyard so much!"
Monique got back at me. "Yes! So am I. Recently, I have been longing for the green mangoes in front of the old house. But it's too far away, and I can't eat them. Besides, I heard that the old house is going to be developed soon."
I responded, "Well, I guess we can only think about it."
They were all in our memories. There was no way we could eat them so easily.
It was a little dark in the bedroom, yet I really wasn't sleepy. So, I quietly walked out of the bedroom and went downstairs to see if there were any tomatoes. If I couldn't eat the autumn tomatoes from Hovell, I would eat something similar to satisfy my hunger.
But before I could reach the ground floor downstairs, my phone rang, and it startled me. It was a call from Aaron. I frowned, and I wondered why he was calling this late at night.
I picked up the phone and answered hostilely, "What's the matter?"
"Are you thinking of autumn tomatoes?" Aaron sounded very wide awake even at wee hours.
But I was frightened by his words that I almost threw my cell phone away. I raised my voice. "Aaron, are you out of your mind! What did you install on my phone?"
He answered lazily, "Don't be mad. It's just a simple monitoring app. I only want to know whether you are well or not. I won't do anything else."
"You are crazy!" I was infuriated to the point that I wished I could throw the phone to his face.
"Calm down!" He sounded sad. "I only want to know what you're doing so that I can be at ease. Besides, I'll know what you want immediately."
"You're crazy!" With that, I hung up the phone and threw it into the water.
My chest heaved as I tried to think when he got to install the monitoring application on my phone.
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