Wild Baleigh love 2️⃣☑️

54. Catching up

The air over this sides is cleanser, the water clear and sweet and so mineral, the food sweater and so much healthier, people lovely, the neighbourhood is totally peaceful unlike Chicago where everything is a mess. I wouldn't call it a bad mess though. All I can say is that Hudson will always be much homier to me than any other place around the world.

Home sweet home.

It's been four days since I got home and am already absorbed with the hudsoness of it all and not the video calls we could make before, talking nostalgically, wandering on the edges of whatever kept us going.

I felt livelier. I've never stepped foot outside our compound though. I've  had so much time with my dad, Lodzin and Zila, I think the time we've spent together has helped me catch up on everything and it's as if I never left  at all.

It's on Saturday today and let me tell you that it's snowing outside. My best friends made an effort to come see me yesternight and they've been with me since, we're still catching up on everything and I don't think even a month is enough for us to catch up. It's as if video calls never did us a thing. They're on this December holiday too and I love our union. The three of us are lying on my bed beneath three or four blankets. It's freezing and even the heater is on but still... it's not helping.

"I still can't wrap it around my head." I sigh turning around so that I'm lying on my back facing the ceiling, sandwiched between Tiffany and Camille.

"Well, it happened and I think it was inevitable. I saw it coming." Camille swallows loudly attempting a smile, it even shocks me how calm she talks about it.

"Don't you miss him?" I can't help but ask.

She sighs running her hands down her face. "Uhmm... Sometimes but mostly I don't think about him. I moved on. We both did and I met Sam when I got to Boston, he did a good job making me forget him. Honestly I was heartbroken then, the first two months after I joined campus, we tried making it work albeit we knew it won't, we both gave up. I don't know how Tiffany does it though." She lets out a chuckle swatting Tif at the same time.

Tiffany just snorts sinking lower into the blankets. Tiffany is somehowly chilled but her fire hasn't dimmed. She still cracks.

So Camille and Jelton broke up because of distance but Tiffany and Dubel are still as intact. Honestly if you asked me which of the two couples could have lasted, I would have told you Cam and Jelton, but look who are sticking together as ticks?

"Are you still with Sam?" I ask more like imploring.

"Sam and I aren't dating you know that, I told you. We are just fucking. I would call us fuck buddies."

Look who is talking ladies and gentlemen. Definitely not the lovesick Cam we all used to know.

"I told you to find a good dick and then settle for it too but you didn't listen." That's Tiffany talking guys.
"Jesus how long has it been since you got laid? Three years???!!" She deadpans.

"You're being dramatic now." I groan sinking lower close to her now.

"Jesus Tleigh, how can your brain function properly. I know Dubel and I are long distancing but at least no one goes two weeks without getting laid!" She whisper yells.

"What?" I turn to look at her. "So you're telling me that you're always traveling to DCI Washington every two weeks?" Now I'm dazed.

"Or he comes over." She smirks not even denying. "Sometimes we see each other every weekend." She adds batting her eyelashes.

Jesus. Oh wow. I'm still absorbing my best friend's love life turn out. It sounds great if you ask me.

"I wish you see them these days, you'll puke your guts out." Camille gags earning a smack from Tiffany. She whines adding. "I walked in on them at it the previous week after exams, it was on Friday and we were supposed to go out, I swear to God I'll never see clearly again." She facepalms herself making Tiffany burst out in laughter.

"What?" I join Tiffany in laughter.

God I missed my friends. We've not talked that much in this past month because we were all caught up with exams and to add work for me. That's why I wasn't updated on this.

"What happened next?" I run my hand through Camille's arm coaxing her to tell me more.

"Jesus I closed my eyes and turned back out. The bitch couldn't stop moaning out loud as if her best friend didn't just see her naked with her ass in the air not forgetting a dick shoved deep inside her." She shakes her head with her eyes closed tightly as if wanting to rid the memory which seems to be implanted in her memory fresh.

When Tiffany finally controls her laugh, she says, "Who on earth ceases a good orgasm? "

Tiffany will always be Tiffany.

"You should just shut up. At least I've never fucked Sam in our shared apartment." She swats Tiffany's hand away that is trying to poke her.

"All I know is that I can't suspend an orgasm even if it's my mother walking in."

"What?"

"What?"

Both Cam and I asked at the same time our eyes bulging out. Silence stretches among us for a few seconds before we all break into fits of laughter.

Friends.

People who makes you forget your problems.

***

It is now supper time and all the six of us are seated in the dining room taking our desserts. We had helped Zila prepare supper and Tiffany had made us some sweet chocolate cupcakes that we're devouring right now.

"Will you go with me to see Bella and Bruce tomorrow?" Lodzin looks at me with expectant eyes. What?

I open my mouth at least to say something but nothing comes out, so I close it. Dad looks at me sympathetically and he clears his throat and says,

"He left days ago."

I know what he's talking about. As if I wanted to know he was here even, Or where he left to for that matter.

"Uhmmm... Lodzin why can't you go with aunt Zila, I'm still somehowly jetlagged." The fact that I'm lying to my brother pisses me.

"Cassandra heard that you're here and she said she can't wait to see you. She really misses you. She kept asking us when you'll be home when you were not here." Zila chimes in. I miss her a great deal too. I also want to meet Bella. But going to their place will evoke a lot of memories I want to forget.

"I miss her too." It comes out as a whisper, not with the intended effect I had.

"She said she'll come see you if you can't go to them. She'll bring Bella and Bruce with her." Zila adds.

"It's okay, I think I'll go to them." It even surprises me. But I'll just go, what could possibly go wrong?

"Yaaayyy!" Lodzin shouts earning a small pinch from my dad.

"Swallow first you nugget!" He scolds him making Tiffany, Camille and Zila chuckle.

"All of us can go, is that okay?" I ask expectantly looking at each and every one of them.

"I have some work to do, y'all can go. Their whole family was here the previous weekend though. It'll only look good if y'all went to them too, including you two." Dad says pointing at Tif and Cam.

They just shrugs their shoulders smiling.

"Please" I smile begging them with my eyes.

Tiffany agrees almost immediately but Camille takes time before she sighs saying, "Okaaay!"

Oh wow...

At least now I have company. Nothing can possibly go wrong again, right?

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