'Til We Meet Again Book 2

Chapter 24

Amandas POV:

I wake up with a massive hangover, I look around my surroundings and realize I'm not at the apartment. I look down to see a bucket near the bed I slept in, I pull the blanket off me and look down at myself to see I'm still in the same clothes as yesterday. Where am I? I don't recognize this room and my vision is impaired. I make an attempt to get up from the bed but immediately fall back down to the bed due to being dizzy as hell.

I see the door open and in comes.... Marshall.... Am I in his house? "Good morning sleepy head" Marshall places a glass of water on the nightstand "What time is it?" I ask him "It's 10:45am" He tells me "We need to talk" Marshall says as I reach over for the glass of water and nearly down the whole thing "About what?" I ask him confused as I now get up from the bed "About what you said to me last night" Marshall says as he now sits down on the edge of the bed

"I don't remember anything that happened last night, I don't even know whose house I'm in" I tell him as I rub my eyes and yawn "Allow me to jog your memory, you said to me it hurt you that I hate you and you said you never stopped loving me" Marshall reminds me and I laugh "I was drunk, Marshall, you can't possibly believe all that" I shake my head as I look at him in disbelief "I didn't until I checked your messages to this chick Nancy" I glare at him "I can't believe you went through my phone" I say angryily "It's none of your business to have looked and even if I do still love you it doesn't change anything between us because firstly we are in relationships and secondly we can't even be in the same room as each other" I point out "I can try to be civil with you if you tell me the truth" Marshall says calmly and I laugh "And what might that be?" I ask him with an attitude and he gets up

"Why did you leave me 7 years ago?" He asks me "You nearly mentioned it last night before you passed out and as much as I fucking hate you I deserved to know the truth" Marshall is so calm but I can tell he is angry "You know what really shocks me about this is we had been in each others lives for three years, dated for two years and you still don't know one thing about me" I look at him in disbelief "That was years ago when I had you with me all the time but now I don't know anything about you" Marshall glares at me "And I don't know anything about you but you don't see me being a bitch to you and I should be considering I found you and Kim making out in my kitchen" I glare at him "I was drunk and Kim was playing with my head" Marshall raises his voice at me "You seem to have known exactly what to say to me that night" I point out "I knew what to say to you because it was so easy, even in my drunken state I always thought about you, I always thought about how much I love you, my drunken state gave me a little more confidence to tell the stuff sober me couldn't say" I stop him from saying anything more "I don't want to talk about what we had, okay, it was all wrong, we were wrong" I glare at him

"I agree with you, we were wrong because soon as you saw me and Kim kiss you left me without saying goodbye" I laugh in disbelief "Is that what you think?" I ask him in disbelief "It's fucking obvious, Amanda" Marshall yells at me "I'm not gonna stand here and discuss this with you, you can think whatever it is you want about me and why I left" I push past him "So that's it? You won't even tell me why you fucking left me?" Marshall asks me sounding angry "No because I don't want to, you can stick to your own assumptions" I glare "Fuck you, Amanda, I don't even know why I'm trying to be civil to a bitch like you" Marshall glares at me "Then stop trying" I glare at him "I don't need you to be civil when you have been treating me like shit since I started working with you" I storm out of the bedroom.

I see pictures of Shanice, Deshaun, and Naomi framed on the walls. I'm in their house, I walk to the kitchen to find Shanice doing the dishes "Good morning" I smile at her and she turns her head around and smiles at me "Good morning, how are you feeling?" Shanice asks me as I sit down around her dining table and place my head between my hands "I have a massive headache" I groan "how are you not dying from a hangover?" I look at her as she twists the faucet off and dries her hands with a towel that was on the counter "Because I didn't drink like shit last night" She laughs "At least one of us can think straight" I say "Want some coffee?" Shanice asks me "What I want is to get home and take a nice hot shower before Naomi's birthday" I tell Shanice as she sits down opposite of me "Speaking of which, where is Deshaun?" I ask her "He went to pick up Naomi from my moms house" Shanice smiles at me "God, she can't see me like this" I run my hands down my face "No shit, you look like a ghost" I glare at her "Thanks for the support" I say sarcastically "What are friends for" I roll my eyes at her as she giggles

"Not to cause you any more headaches but I overheard some of the conversation you and Marshall had in the guest room" I glare at her "You heard us?" I ask her "You guys were pretty loud" She points out "So what's going on?" Shanice asks me "Why are you asking me? You should know since you overheard us" I shake my head "You want my advice" Shanice leans over "It better be a good one" I say with an attitude "You need to 'fess up to Marshall" I laugh at what she said "I said a good one" I shake my head "This is good advice and the longer you keep dragging this out the worse is gonna get" Shanice warns me "Thanks for the warning but I don't care" I hear footsteps walking to the kitchen "This bitch doesn't care about nobody" I glare at Marshall "I care about my friends and family, sorry I don't care about you" I serve him my attitude and he sits down around the dining table "If you care so much about your friends and family like you claim you do, you wouldn't have left" Marshall smirks

"You have no idea why I left, so stop it" I yell as loud as I can and I can see I took Marshall by surprise "Both of you shut the fuck up" Shanice yells "Today is Naomi's 7th birthday and if you both are gonna cause problems, you both are gonna get kicked out of her birthday, it's a special day for her she is NOT gonna listen to you both BITCH at each other because you both can't get along" She raises her voice at us "I won't start up shit with this bitch if she stays out of my fucking face" Marshall glares at me "You are one to talk" I smirk at him "Excuse me?" Marshall glares at me "Amanda, don't go there" Shanice warns me "No I will because I am so tired of him giving me shit because he can't dig a little deeper" I tell Shanice and look at Marshall "Every one of your friends including Shanice knows that Kim has been cheating on you behind your back" I smirk at him as his eyes are piercing through me, I swear I can see flames in his eyes

"before you try to start shit up with me I suggest you go take a look at your own marriage" I warn him "I'm tired of you lying fucking bitches" Marshall gets up and kicks the chair to the floor "Eyy, you don't come at my house and kick my shit down" Shanice yells at him "Shut your motherfucking mouth up, slut 'fore I fuck you up" Marshall threatens Shanice "Try me, bitch, go on" Shanice goes all up in Marshalls face "Come on, fuck me up" Shanice provokes him "Show me how tough you are" Shanice pushes him back "I'm outta here" Marshall pushes Shanice back and leaves her house with a door slam "You had to bring that up" Shanice glares at me "Someone had to fucking tell him" I get up from my seat and push the chair in "I'm heading home" I tell her "You shouldn't have fucking brought that up, now look" Shanice yells "Someone had to put Marshall in his place, I'm so tired of him being a dick"

Before she has the chance to say anything I leave her house and slam the door shut hard. I make it back to the apartment and enter inside "Kristy" I holler her name as I take off my jacket and hang it up on the coat rack "Kristy" No answer, I see a note on the coffee table and pick it up. It's a note from Kristy "Went out exploring, will be home in time for Naomi's birthday" I sigh in relief and put the note down. I head to the bathroom and take a nice hot shower, my head is pounding and I feel nauseous from drinking so much last night.

Last night the guys rap battled, we played spin the bottle so whoever the bottle pointed at had to kiss the person who spun it. Thank goodness it didn't land on Marshall because it would have been a pain in the ass to have kissed him, but it had landed on Deshaun, it was so awkward to kiss him, then we played Never Have I Ever with shots.

I'm starting to remember the conversation I had with Marshall on the balcony, I can't believe I was drunk enough to firstly hug him, to admit I still love him, and to almost blurt out why I left. I'm never getting drunk again, especially if Marshall is gonna be around, God knows what I'll do and say.

I get out of the shower and dry myself down, I put on my bra and underwear and roughly dry my hair. I'm feeling a lot better after my shower. I walk to my room and throw on my jeans and tank top. I brought Naomi a barbie doll that I'm gonna wrap up in pink wrapping paper, I hope she likes it. I grab a pair of scissors, tape, and sparkly pink wrapping paper. I wrap her barbie doll still in the box and tape the wrapping paper. I place a pink bow on top of the box and a birthday card in the envelope on top. I'm nervous about her birthday.