Earth To Jenny

The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 61
Anything goes Sundays:

Jenny is a closeted geek. She works in a PR firm, has perfectly styled hair, and works out in a gym every other day. Everyone thinks she’s completely normal, except that she considers Walter Mitty a saint in her world. She works out with the assurance that some day she will be called upon to be a hero, and she is just preparing for it. In her mind, Walter was a prophet, and living a life in a fantasy world is the proper way to be.

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Earth To Jenny


The phone rang for what had to be the hundredth time that day. Jenny picked it up and looked at it as if it were a snake. "Thank you for calling Wambat, Westburg, Green and Lu where your good name is our good name, this is Jenny Lu how can I help you today?"
"Hey Jenny, this is Mike."
"Mike what can I do for you."
"Well you know that new ad that you guys produced for me. Well I don't really like it."
"Mike, you approved it."
"Yeah but It makes me look like a schmuck." Jenny stifled a laugh.
... "Well Mike you are a schmuck. You run a series of off world smuggling operations. Here is the thing, in working with you over the last year I have been collecting the evidence that I needed to see you sent to some mining colony on the moon, if not the belt."
"But Jenny."
"But Nothing, you are scum Mike."
"Jenny? Jenny are you listening to me? Earth to Jenny." Her mind snapped back to reality
"No, I'm sorry Mike I go distracted by... well never mind. Tell me again what you don't like about."
"That is it. I think that is the whole problem, you never seem to be listen. I am going to have a talk with your boss." He hung up the phone.
"Damn that can't be good." She said putting the phone down. Sure enough not ten minutes later the phone rang again, this time it was Mr. Wambat.
"Jenny, I would like to see you in my office, please."
"Yes sir, be right there." She grabbed her mirror from the desk drawer and checked her hair. Even if she as going to fired there was no point in looking bad while it was happening. Maybe, it would be enough for him to go easy on her. She put the mirror back and walked to his office.
"Come in." Wambat's voice boomed from the other side of the door as she knocked.
"Mr. Wambat you wanted to see me?"
"Yes, Jenny, I think you know what this is about."
"I believe so sir."
"Good, that makes this a little easier. The problem, my dear, is that this is not the first time that I have heard such a complaint... "
The shackles dug into her hands as she stood before the tribunal, they had been droning on now for so long that it really could not be a good thing. Jenny knew that she was going to have to escape, and soon if she didn't want to spend the rest of her life in prison.
"This court has come to the conclusion that, we are going to have to let you go." What? Let me go she thought, but I was on trial for ten different treaty violations three of which held the penalty of life in prison with out the possibility of parole.
"But..." She started to object.
"I am sorry Jenny, you had a very promising future here, but in the past month you seem to have been having trouble keeping your mind on your work. We can't have that. As I said we are going to have to let you go. Please clean out your desk and leave before the end of business today. If you get this problem under control I would be glad to give you a reference. But for now, goodbye." She stood in stunned silence for a few seconds, and then turned and walked out of his office.
"That did not go well," she said to herself. She made her way back to her desk. She sat there for a few moments before deciding that there was nothing there that she wanted or needed, and just left. Trying to avoid every-one's gaze on the way out.
Not wanting to go home and not having anywhere else to go she went to the park. She found a bench and sat down.
"I didn't really belong there anyway."
"No, Jenny you didn't." She started at the voice. There was a man sitting next to her.
'Who, who are you?"
"Your father."
"My father lives in Iowa Riverside, Iowa. He has never been to Boston and probably will never. He says he won't leave until his hero is born."
"I think he has a while to wait. But he is your adoptive father. We choose him because he believes in bigger things."
"What? Wait, you are telling me that he is not my real father."
"That is right."
"Then... who are you?" She really looked at the man for the first time. He did look a lot like her.
"I am your father, but before we go any further I think we need to go some place less out in the open."
"No, no, no. I have been in the city long enough to know that trick. We start walking you grab me and stuff me a van and..." She trailed off as his expression changed. She looker at him. He did look a lot like her.
"Jenny." he said softly. "I am not going to hurt you. We have to talk about some things, I just thought it would be better to do that in private. But if you want to talk here that is fine."
"Yes, I think that would be best. I don't know you from Adam." He laughed. "What is so funny."
"I am Adam." Then she knew it was another dream. She shook her head violently. "That won't help. I am not one of your day dreams."
"But..."
"Jenny. I know about the dreams, I know about them because we sent them to you. To help you remember."
"Remember what?" She pleaded.
"Who you are, who you have been."
"What do you mean?"
"Jenny this is going to be hard for you to believe, but listen to me, please."
"Alright I am listening."
"Look, what I am going to tell you is going to be the hardest thing you have every had to believe but you must, it is vitally important."
"I said I would listen."
"Alright then," he said sitting back on the bench. "One hundred thousand years ago, I was born in a place that was perfect. So long ago that I don't really remember. I had to leave that place after your mother and I broke the rules."
"Wait a minute you are going to tell me that you are the Adam, as in Adam and Eve?" She stood up and started to back up.
"You said you were going to listen."
"That was before the tale got so long I needed a safety harness to climb down it."
"Please. Just listen."
"Why?"
"Because it will change your life."
"How?"
"You will have to listen to the story to find out."
"Alright, but if you try anything."
"The can of mace in your bag. I know." She looked at him surprised. "Go ahead get it out. That way you can be ready if you need it," She did as she was bidden. "Good now sit down please, and let me continue."
"Look I don't know what you are trying to pull, so make this quick."
"Alright, as you wish," he said. "I am not the Adam from the bible, though that is not that far off. I will make this a very short story, your mother and I had to leave you about 30 years ago, really a blink in your life time. We left you in a static time state. Look I can tell from your expression you are not buying this. Your day dreams, they are real. You have lived all of those things. The status we left you in makes it seem that you are a normal human, you grow just like them, and you live just like them, and eventually had we left you long enough, you would have thought you died just like them, but of course it would just be a sleep that you would wake up from. We didn't know how long we would be, but we are back now."
"Wait a minute. So you are telling me that I am not thirty two and that I have lived all those things that I dream about?"
"That is correct."
"So I was right? I really don't belong here?" He nodded. She could not believe it. All the things that she had dreamed. The adventures, the other lives, the other times. Space travel, other worlds, so many other people. She wanted to scream it to every person who had ever said, Earth to Jenny. "I was right." she said out loud finally.



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