"Jazz, I am being serious. Put. Down. The. Phone." I shot daggers at the side of her head with my eyes narrowed.
If looks could kill, she would be lying in the morgue, burnt to a crisp with fourth degree burns from my fiery glare.
"Come on, Cass, I'm just replying to Paul," She said while her eyes diverted between the road and her phone.
"Jasmine Aliyah Sanders, if you don't put down that phone right now, you will regret it. And don't you dare doubt my abilities if you recall how we met," I threatened, anger pulsing through my veins.
She glanced over at me and I could sense the slight fear in her eyes mixed with a tinge of defiance, "Can I just-"
"NO!" I leaned over and grabbed the device and flung it over my head. It smashed into a can of baked beans and got lost under her seat. "Was that so freaking hard? Or would you prefer to be dead on the side of the road, lying in a ditch with your brains splattered across the grass and your guts being devoured by inky black crows, only for your intestines to be regurgitated as a meal for their young ones?"
She rolled her eyes,"At least I would have died a heroic death by saving the lives of a bunch of crows and their babies," she defended.
"Really? That's your justification?" I said incredulously and she said nothing in response. "Clearly, you have a death wish. Be my guest, go ahead, but I'm not gonna sit here as a witness to your utter stupidity. So I'll just walk to work," I opened the car door - while the car was still moving - with my purse on my shoulder, ready to jump out.
She glanced in my direction and realised I wasn't bluffing,
"What the hell is wrong with you, Cass?!" she screamed and in the car with the windows rolled all the way up, she sounded like a chimpanzee in heat whose companion just got stolen by an ape.
Instant deafness.
"You're being an insensitive ass, endangering my life and yours," I shrugged. "So naturally, I had to jump out of the car if you fail to realise your idiocy," I smiled brightly just to annoy her.
If she was willing to sacrifice our safety since she couldn't bear being out of contact with her dearest Paul for the ten minute drive to my job, why the hell was I supposed to risk my life for someone who clearly didn't value their own?
I might act like an idiot and talk to inanimate objects and say,"Bless you," when a dog sneezes but contrary to popular belief, I wasn't as dumb as I behaved.
She narrowed her eyes at me,"I'm being an insensitive ass? You're the one who wants to dive out of a moving car!" Her voice raising even higher towards the last of her words sounding like Alvin the chipmunk.
Hot fury pulsed through my blood and I no longer had control of what came out of my mouth - friend or not, "If you even have to ask that, then it simply proves what I already said. And apart from insensitive, you're also selfish and inconsiderate," Even with her eyes on the road, I could tell that statement hurt her and I didn't have to peer closer to notice her eyes already brimming with tears.
I knew she forget about what had happened and it stung a little to accept that tiny fact. Even if it occurred five years ago.
Her voice lost all of its power and had no effect at all on me,"Yeah, 'cuz I'm inconsiderate for taking time out of my schedule to drop you to work," She blinked back her tears and pulled into the parking lot of Sole Provider.
I doubt she just said that.
Breathe, Cassie, breathe. This is not a horror movie, no one is going to die.
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