"You are my friend.
Please do me a favor.
Give Bobby this phone number.
Don't tell him I told you to.
Maybe he'll call before Dr. Mendrokis and his wife get home.
The children are sleeping in their beds.
I don't really care for being alone.
Tell Bobby to call me on the Doctor's phone."
Jill tries to study but it's quiet tonight.
The telephone rings to her delight.
It must be Bobby.
"Hello"
There is a silence, but she can tell someone is on the line.
"Bobby?"
Nobody answers so she hangs up the phone.
Jill Johnson doesn't like
To be alone.
The clock ticks on.
She hears a racket in the kitchen.
It's the ice-maker in the freezer.
She takes a fudgesicle out of the pack,
As she wonders if Bobby will try to call back.
The phone rings.
Jill says,"Hello, Bobby? What do you know?"
"Have you checked the children?"
Jill hangs up the phone.
At the weather, Jill fixes a drink.
They won't notice a little missing brandy, she thinks.
That call was scary.
His voice was dark.
Maybe it was Bobby
Who was just pretending.
Maybe she doesn't like him much, anyway.
He's kind of a ****.
The phone rings again.
"Have you checked the children?"
"This isn't funny, Bobby. Don't call back, anymore."
"Why haven't you checked the children?"
Jill slams down the receiver in a panic.
She dials the police on the rotary as fast as she can.
She's terrified and alone.
The policeman tells her,
If the man calls back,
The call will be traced
If she keeps him on the line.
She sits on the stool by the stairs.
She silently waits.
She's scared.
The phone rings.
"H-Hello..."
"It's me."
"I know."
"Why haven't you checked the children?"
"You, You can see me?"
"Yes."
"I turned the lights down.
I''ll turn them back up if you'd like."
"No."
"You really scared me before,
If that's what you wanted.
Is that what you wanted?"
"No."
"What did you want?"
"Your blood...all over me."
Jill hangs up the the phone,
It rings again.
She answers the phone and screams,
"Leave me alone!"
The policeman then says,
"Your life is in danger.
Soon, police will be there.
Get out of the house...
The call is coming from upstairs!"
This is inspired by the opening sequence to one of the greatest, but most underated suspense movies. When a Stranger Calls, released in 1980. The remake was not very good. Some of the dialogue is from the movie. I really cannot call this an entirely original work. It is an honest homage to one of the greats.