Just Friends

Chapter 15

The next morning Sam and I felt surprisingly well considering how much we drank last night. We had gotten up and made a hearty breakfast together of bacon and eggs with some extras in case Jill and Laney wanted any.

"Ok, so fill me in on where you disappeared to last night! Tell me you got some in that hot ass costume you were wearing..." Sam had been pestering me all morning for the down low.

We had finished eating and were back in Sam's bed giggling as we replayed moments we could remember to help each other piece the whole night together.

"Well... I did" I decided to be candid and honest in my confession. I needed my best friend's opinion on all the things. "So you know how I've been in hibernation recently, just sticking to school and work?"

"Yes, bitch. You've been hella depressing, but what the hell does this have to do with anything?"

"Well I really wanted to let loose. Like a lot more loose than I normally would have because yesterday was straight from hell."

I filled her in on a glazed over version of yesterday's events.

"So by the time I got to the party, I was down for anything. Like anything. After you disappeared with your beer pong loser boy, I started dancing with Zeke..."

Sam squealed. "Ooooh! Monster cock makes his reappearance!"

I laughed and rolled my eyes. "Yeah, and we were getting real hot and heavy on the couch when that other fuck buddy of his, Jasmine, came up behind me and wanted to join us for a threesome..."

Sam's eyes were huge and her jaw hung open. "I. Need. Details. All of them."

"Don't get your hopes up, I ended up dipping out before too much happened." I relayed how it all went down, literally, as she listened intently with a huge smile on her face.

"Oh my god, Eva! That's so fucking hot! I'm jealous. I always thought we'd mess around together first. What's this Jasmine bitch got that I don't?" Sam tried her best to act offended but she couldn't help the amusement that lit up her face.

I pretended to console her with a gentle graze of her cheek. "I know, babe. I always thought you'd be my first girl hook up too. I'll make it up to you one day." I pecked her lips with mine. "Look, it was super hot, but it also woke me up from this weird place I'd been in recently. I don't really know how to explain it, but I just knew I wanted more from my life than where I was going. It was as if I was so tired of feeling numb that I needed to do something totally wild and spontaneous to feel something, anything. But it just made me feel even more empty."

Sam listened earnestly, quietly nodding her head. "I know what you mean." She didn't elaborate. "So does this mean I'm getting my bestie back? No more moping around?"

"No more moping around," I assured her with the first genuine smile I'd had in a while.

"And it also means I can just jump your bones whenever I want since you're all in with girls too now?" Sam teased.

"You're ridiculous," I rolled my eyes at her.

She wrapped me in a big hug that squeezed the life from me.

"Ok! Let me go! I want to go for a run this morning."

Sam released me in shock. "Wow, you really are getting back to your normal self. Have fun by yourself though. There's no way you're getting me out there. Running isn't for fun in my book."

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Teeth brushed, clothes changed, hair up, running shoes laced, and ear pods in, I ran downstairs and out the door for a longer warm up than usual. I knew full well that I'd be hurting later after not having run in a while. However, the second I hit my stride, I was fucking back baby.