A Date in the Dark

When the power went out in our neighborhood, I was waiting for my girlfriend to come over. I didn't change my plans, hoping to use the darkness as an excuse for intimacy. Hearing a knock, I opened the door. For some reason, for a moment, I was overcome by a strange and unpleasant feeling of anxiety. I'm not paranoid, so this rarely happens to me. But a moment later, recognizing a familiar silhouette in the dark entrance, I calmed down and began explaining the situation to my girlfriend. She wasn't the least bit upset and, contrary to my fears, even hinted at what I could do in the dark.

Everything was going swimmingly, but someone kept calling my cell phone. Finally, I just turned it off.

We had a wonderful night. The next day, I woke up late and saw that my girlfriend had already left. I was upset because I knew she had to leave for work early, and we had agreed that I would walk her home. I even set an alarm so I wouldn't oversleep... So, why didn't it go off? Oh yeah, I turned off my phone myself... By the way, who was that persistently trying to call me?

When I turned on one of the voice messages, a cold sweat broke out on my forehead. It turned out my girlfriend had called me from her landline, saying she was sick and wouldn't be coming today...