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Rita is on the phone.

Jake: (answering machine) Hey, you've reached voicemail. You know what to do.

Beep.

Rita: (sighs) I promised myself I'd hang up if I got your voicemail, but...this is too tempting. (beat) Or maybe I should meet you somewhere. Maybe I should go to your house...You're probably not alone, though...I haven't heard from you in a while. I read on your Facebook that you lost your phone. (smiles) Maybe that's why I'm getting the courage to say this, huh?
Voicemail: Thank you.

Rita chuckles.
At Jake's house. Jake is programming his new cell phone.

Jake: All of those texts, gone. Numbers, gone. Notes, gone. Voicemails, gone. (sighs) How could I have lost that ******** phone?

Back to Rita.

Rita: (chuckles) I can't believe I'm actually having a conversation with a machine. I'm actually enjoying this. I shouldn't, though. I should be sad, I guess. I was sad before. I was nervous, actually. (chuckles) I'm going through so many emotions right now, it's hard to keep track of them!
Voicemail: Thank you.

At Jake's.

Jake: Even your stupid breakup message. (sighs) Gone. It's all gone. You're gone and I'll never get you back. Why the ******** didn't I memorize your number? (throws phone at wall) Why, Rita? Why did you have to go!? Precisely now when I need you the most! ...I shut you out because I didn't want to bring you down with me in this miserable life I lead! (beat) And I shouldn't have...I should've opened up to you.

Jake drops to his knees and cries.
Back to Rita.

Rita: I guess what I'm trying to say is...I miss you, Jake...But you probably don't even care. You never showed me any type of emotion. I'm such an emotional person and it surprises me that I didn't break up with you sooner than I did. I guess I was in too deep...But too deep in what? What makes me miss you?
Voicemail: Thank you.
Rita: You ******** b***h!

At Jake's.

Jake: (sniffs) You've probably moved on. (beat) I should move on, too. Why did you have to be so cold, Rita? You didn't have to leave me that way.

Back to Rita.

Rita: Why didn't you fight for me, Jake? Why did you simply let me go? Because you never cared! Because you only liked the fact that I put you on a ******** pedestal and you never gave me anything in return. I gave, and gave, till I got tired of giving! Then why am I still so hung up on you? (sighs) ...Because when I looked into your eyes...I felt like they sucked my soul.
Voicemail: Thank you.

At Jake's.

Jake: It's time to move on. (gets up and picks up new phone) Crap... (laughs) At least it felt good. (looks in the mirror) Move on, Jake. She's moved on. She's never called you back, no text, she blocked you on Facebook, she quit at work--she's moving on and so should you. She's moving on.

Back to Rita.

Rita: Uhh, (sniffs) I don't know if you've heard, but...My father got cancer and no one will take care of him, so I have to move back to Ohio. (begins to cry) You used to be my friend, Jake, and it--(gulps) it chokes me up whenever I think of what a wonderful friendship we had and I'm so sorry that it had to end the way it did...But you shut me out so much that it scared me.
Voicemail: Thank you.

At Jake's.

Jake: She's probably got a new boy-toy... (scoffs) Someone younger and fresher. (sighs) That's what you need, Jake. Someone young and fresh. (smiles to himself) ...Not someone from work, though. Wouldn't wanna pull another Rita. (chuckles) ...I love you, Rita.

Back to Rita.

Rita: So, this is my goodbye to you, and you'll never hear it. (chuckles) I can't believe I'm talking to a machine...But it's best this way. I just had to get all of this off my chest. I'm moving on now. I'm moving away and on. It'll probably be good for me--for us. (beat) But there is no "us" anymore...I miss us...And...I love you. (beat)

Rita hangs up and sighs with relief.
The End.