Frozen with shock more than anything that someone would call her and use the town curse....real or not, Jennifer could only say the first thing that came to mind. "........Who is this and how did you get this number?"
The voice on the other end chuckled a bit and simply said "Not important...5...4...3...2..."
"No wait! I choose..."
"Ah ah ah....too late. Now it looks like I get to have a bit of fun with you. You see Jen....karma can be quite the force, and it's never a good idea to call any one thing with that much power a 'bitch'. So, here's what I'm thinking...for your transformation, we're going to do something light, but devastating and impactful, we're going to introduce a new disease into the world! You'll start hearing about it in a week or so, but it'll be fairly rare....such that you're going to be the only person with it in three states. I'm not going to tell you what it is, but I have the information written down here. For the dare.....I simply dare you not to hate the condition. You can get back at me eventually, if you're still sore about it, but I'll be taking a two month vacation starting tomorrow. Have fun Jen, and remember...you brought this on yourself."
With that, the line went dead, and Jennifer could do nothing else but put her phone down. A new disease? What kind of crazy...bullshit story was that?! "It's a good thing that curse is just a bunch of superstitious nonsense...as if a person could just decide to do something like that." With her mind settled, she finished getting dressed and headed out to catch the bus before she was late...again.