Jasmine felt a premonition the moment she heard what Anne said over the phone. It took a full thirty seconds of silence before Jasmine finally asked calmly:
"Why won't you be coming home? Where are you right now?" Then, as those words left her mouth, an idea struck Jasmine.
Why do you always think on the negative route, Jass?
Of course, there can only be one reason she won't come home tonight!
Jasmine's eyes lit up at that thought.
Initially, her mind had drifted to a bad place, silently assuming that Anne was in some sort of trouble and wasn't telling her about it, but the truth was much more simple.
"Holy mother of flying hens! You've gotten a boyfriend!" Jasmine exclaimed incredulously.
"What?"