"EVE CALM DOWN." Evangeline has been freaking out for the last ten minutes. I told her everything that happened two days ago. I have been sleeping, eating and talking to police officers for the last couple of days.
I called Eve this morning asking if she wanted to come over, I wanted her to come over sooner but that wasn’t possible. She is my best friend and she has been for all my life. But I needed my rest plus Nana wouldn't let anybody near me while I told her so many times I was fine. She had still been the strict old lady that she was but she has also been extra sweet to me but that's partly because my dad said she could only focus on me for as long as I needed her.
Nana has been my nanny for 13 years when my dad decided I needed to do things on my own and Nana had been sent to be head of the kitchen. I asked her so many times if she was okay with it and she would just nod. I knew she missed me but I also knew how much she loved being in charge and cooking, so it was a good decision of my dad to combine those two.
"No I won’t for Pete’s sake. My goddamn only best friend has just almost died, and now I need to calm down." She was walking around my room back and forth annoying me like shit. Every time when she wasn't thinking clearly because she was mad or in love she would say all the things she thought and put a cuss word in almost every sentence she could bring out.
"You're being overdramatic, it was two days ago plus I'm still here you know?" I grabbed her by her wrist trying to pull her on the bed next to me but she pulled away roughly. She put her hand on her hand as she stared down at me, she walked to the other side of my bed and let herself fall down. I leaned back laying partly on and partly next to her.
"You do know that you can't leave me just like that, I would never ever forgive you if you did something like that. But being the brat you are you would probably do anything just to annoy me." She turned her head facing me, I looked up giving her a hurt face, I put my hand on my heart letting out a moan.
"Ouch, Ouch. I'm gonna die just to annoy you." I joked at her as she slapped me softly letting out a chuckle.
"So you and Mr. Popular?" She said while going through my phone. I told her every little detail about what happened, I knew she was going to say something but I made myself mentally ready.
"You know I don't believe in superhero's let stand this one." I saw his grin appear in my face as I mentally went back to that day.
"I think man in tights look rather good if you ask me." She had grabbed her phone out of her pocket texting someone, she does that a lot. I may be used to it but I still think it’s rude, especially when she was just freaking out about me dying and now she has suddenly forgot about all of it.
"I didn't ask you to say a thing." She looked away from her phone giving me a glare. I chuckled at her stupid face.
"You know that you have to find a man soon, I mean before you know it your parents want you to stand in Catherine's shoes." she pushed herself up from my bed into a sitting position. I squinted my eyes at her as she knew what I was thinking.
My parents married early and now Catherina was also engaged at age 19, I had told Eve I was scared to end up like that being stuck with someone while you could have had the world at your feet. Eve felt the same way her parents married three months before my parents, although she didn’t had an older sister that was already engaged. Someday we promised each other that we would keep that from happening, but you never know what the future might bring.
"You know how I feel about this." I rolled over so I was now laying on my stomach.
"Yeah yeah, you find it hopeless to marry your high school crush when you have the whole wide world open for you." She stretched her hand waving it from left to right to indicate the whole wide world. I laughed at my best friend, while standing up from my bed.
"Want to grab a snack?" I said walking towards my door.
"Ah yeah wanna go Starbucks? Or maybe buy a bunch of food at Walmart and have a movie night?" She got up from the bed as her eyes turned into big puppy eyes.
"Yeah but uhm would you mind going by bike?" I kind of wasn't ready to go with the car, it's not that I will avoid every car in the future. I just don’t want to be involved with cars now.
"Nope for you I'll walk if I had to." She said grinning at me.
"Oh then I want you to walk while I sit on the bike and you will pull me to the shop." I walked into the hallway.
"I'm not your dog sister!" I heard her yelling from behind me.
"Nope you're my horse, sister." I imitated her at the sister part. I let out a big chuckle when I felt Eve's hand slap me on my shoulder lightly.
We walked over to the garage but before she could ride of I grabbed a helmet and gave one to her, she frowned as soon as I handed her the helmet.
"You don't trust your bike or your bike instinct anymore?" She put on her helmet before turning her bike around.
"I don't know how it's possible but our marriage isn't very stable lately." I put my helmet on and grabbed my bike.
"I remember you telling me how happy you were with your bike and how you trusted him with your life." She waited for me outside the garage.
"Well yeah I had the same feeling about the marriage between me and the taxi driver." I joked riding up to where she was standing.
"ohyeah I remember that wedding it was so beautiful, with all the red roses and me being your maid of honor. I still have my bridesmaids dress, you know?" She couldn't let it come out without a laughter at the end. I pushed her forward out of the garage, closing it behind me.
"Go, go, go, go." I said while putting my feet on the treadle and pointing towards the gate.
The sun was already going down, I had no idea it was already this late.
"Wanna grab some dinner at the cafeteria when we're home?" I was now next to Eve. That is one of the benefits of living in a Hotel. Well it started as a Bed and Breakfast and soon became a Hotel, only now it has turned into a Spa and golf course. It has a lot of visitors in the summer time and was probably one of the most luxurious places around. My mom always told me how it was her big dream to manage a hotel and she was just so blessed with what it has become. Dad on the other hand didn't really care, he was just busy doing his work.
"Yeah, do you know if that cute new waiter is working? I am looking so damn good today." She said it a little bit too serious if you ask me.
"Uhm yeah he's working and I had a talk with him last Saturday." I gave her a sneaky grin.
"Oh so did you told him about me? What did he say? Where else did you talk about?" She was getting all exited, I guess I had just gave her the wrong face. This was going to be fun.
"Yeah I told him about you and he likes the way you dress. And we talked about Andrew." The face she was giving was priceless, I couldn't stop laughing at her.
"Are you serious? It's always the good looking guy isn't it. I'm just cursed." She said.
After five minutes talking about all gay crushes Eve has had we arrived at Walmart.
"Yeah but we already knew that with all the experience you have in choosing boyfriends." I said trying to finish the conversation. I got off of my bike and walked over to Eve who was standing next to the shopping carts.
I grabbed a shopping cart and Eve pulled herself in.
There weren't many people so I started running through the aisles pushing Eve fast around in the shopping cart.
"Chips, chips right here." She pointed towards the aisle at our right as I stretched out my legs to make a stop by pushing my heels fast on the ground. I turned around and started walking slowly in the aisle.
"What do you want my little princes?" I said on a motherly tone. Eve looked up from the cart and laughed ironically. She then leaned to her right making the cart wander over to the wall full of different sorts of chips. She grabbed around 4 bags off different tastes when she started yelling.
"Chocolate Mummy, Chocolate." She put her two hands up in the air pretending to be in a roller coaster.
"Hey ladies, would you mind keeping it down?" A boy our age came up to us with the biggest grin on his face. Pete said his name tag.
I saluted at him. "Yes sir." I laughed at my actions. I think for a stranger he would definitely think we were drunk, but luckily for us if we do got arrested for some reason we wouldn't be in big trouble.
the boys grin became bigger and bigger as Eve waved her arms around exactly thinking what I was thinking.
"Haha no but seriously my boss is watching me would you mind just play along? pretend that you actually listened to me and have a party somewhere else without me?" He looked around scared to lose his job.
"Ah but we want to have a party with you." Eve said on a flirtatious tone. It sucks to be Eve cause the boy couldn’t get his eyes off of me.
“Shhs princess. We will be quiet and leave as soon as we have all the stuff.” I decided to be the adult for this time. The boy nodded and I pushed Eve past the boy giving me a change to study him from up close. Somehow he seemed so familiar, but I just couldn't put my finger on it.