It's Like Rain (Orlando Bloom/OC)

Chapter 12: Desert, Cookie Monster And A Pretty Big Snake

"This is your one chance
Hell if you'll waste it
I can't let it happen
I love you too much"

Cookie's POV

6:03 pm I sit on the couch, my feet curled under and side of me as I stare at the socks and pick lent off them, as Nora tries to comprehend everything I've just told her.

Well, almost everything.

I left out some of the gory details and told her just the greater outlines of my little venture with Bloom, the reason why I walked out on him – and in the end the reason why I walked out on everything back home, including my work, family and friends – and finally the bandage thing with Peter.

Two weeks ago, after the false positive pregnancy test and the visit at the Health and Family Planning clinic freaked me out I panicked and then swallowed my pride and called to Nora.

Okay, there is nothing concerning pride in that decision. But I use that as a figure of speech, since it took so long for me to start talking about the reasons that made me stop talking in the first place.

And since the first call, we've spoken on the phone about every night.

Our cell phone operators will provide much praise and worship towards us after we pay the last installment of our bills sometime in the year 2030.

But despite that calling to Nora was a good thing, because I found out that I had practically no strength what so ever to harbor everything inside me anymore alone. I had come to the end of my rope and if I didn't talk to someone I would definitely be a fitting guest at the HappyPillsPalace.

Not that I couldn't talk with Alex and Cody or with Mae and Harry, but it wasn't the same. Mae and Harry and the boys knew me well enough for me to talk to them, but they didn't know about Bloom, and explanations about our relationship to the boys and Mae and Harry would have been too much for me to handle. Recapping my entire history with or without Bloom would just be too much.

Besides, Mae was awfully busy with her new appointment at work and with her new boyfriend, who ever he was. She hadn't bothered introducing him. And basically, I didn't find it to be my business to ask whom the hell he was dating. But nevertheless, both the new job description and the new boyfriend took a lot time off her hands, and she didn't have as much to give to us as she had had before.

And while at working, she spent countless hours in training and in meetings than in actual fieldwork, much to our disdain. She is a hard worker, and we were slightly ticked to find out that the management was about to make her the new little bureaucrat.

And then, as good of a friend as Harry was she wasn't as close to me as Mae was. Certain carefulness was ultimately required all the time with Harry. She couldn't always deal with things told her. And sometimes, I couldn't deal with things she so bluntly informed to me. Like whenever she had gotten and get herself laid by three guys or so. During the same night.

Nora and I made a lot of amends talking over the phone.

She told me rather sheepishly that she had indeed gotten engaged with Takis about two months ago.

It wasn't a surprise. She had always been the type to wait for the right guy and out of the two of us; she'd definitely be the first one to get married. Because, and let's face it publicly, I wasn't marrying type.

My confession of the same magnitude was that I wasn't sure if I wanted to return to New York after the gig in Australia would end. I wasn't sure, because I didn't know what I wanted to do.