Deal With It (On Hold...)

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Arriving at ‘Million Dollar Nails’, I stepped out of the car and onto the curb, literally bumping into Jesse. He grabbed my shoulders, steading me as I find my balance. Letting go of me, Jesse crushes me into his famous bear hugs. Spying Jamie as she walks around the front of the car, he pulls her in the hug to so we are both squeezed uncomfortably against each other. “OMG, you girls I was just coming to see you both at your apartment. We soooo need to talk.” Letting us go, Jamie and I lean on each other trying to catch our breath. Jesse then grabs us our arms pulling us as we both try to keep up with his long strides. He stops at the door suddenly to opening it, causing me to run into his back, allowing Jamie to start fixing her clothes. “Oh my god I’m so sorry Penny, I like really have to talk to you girls about a girl emergency.” He rambles as he steading me again. He stops and peers at me, “Are you ok Penny? You look terrible!” He looks at me concerned. I push him playfully and roll my eyes. “You’re not the only one who thinks this” looking meaningfully at Jamie, “I just didn’t sleep well”.

Jesse stands and links his arm with mine as he pulls me into the shop. He stops at the colour wall which is outlined in bright neon pink letters. “Girl, you are picking a colour and I don’t care what you say but this time it’s on me!” He then walks over to one of the small, pretty, petite girls behind the counter and begins talking in hushed whispers. I turn my eyes back to the colour wall, looking at all the various shades of the different colours. Hmmm, I normally love the bright colours but not today. Even red seemed to….bright even the blue. Picking the black off the wall, I turn around to face a pissed of Jamie. “Penny, put the black down and pick one of those bright colours before I get Jesse over here” she says sternly. I look at Jesse who was still with the counter girl. I wish I looked like her for a moment. Looking back at Jamie, I roll my eyes and sigh quietly. “Come on Jamie, please just this once let me wallow in my world of self-pity.” I ask quietly. Jamie shakes her head quickly. “Nope, what sort of friend would I be if I let you do that?” Grabbing the black nail polish in my hand, she then takes the sapphire blue and lime green off the wall. Jesse walks over. “Ok girls, what fab colours do we have today?” he asks, clearly over excited. I shrug. “I dunno, ask Jamie” I replied dryly gesturing to her. Jamie rolls her eyes “Lime green for me and blue and black for Penny”. Jesse arches one eye brow looking at me. “You trying out a design today?” Jesse asks. “I guess, I don’t have a say in it according to Jamie” I say sarcastically. “She is” Jamie says looking at me.

Jesse takes me by my hand, gently leading me to one of the tables on the right side of the room which was filled by manicurists and people getting their nails done. Some of the designs were really impressive. I guess this is way ‘Million Dollar Nails’ is one of the best beautician places in country. Seating me in an empty chair at the end of the row and Jesse takes a seat across from me and turns the lamp on. Jamie walks around and whispers in his ear. He nods. She smiles and sits in the seat which just became vacated. The lady accepts the bright coloured nail polish and sets it down beside the lamp on her left. I notice a small wedding ring under her glove. It was one of my dreams in high school to get married before becoming 25. At the rate I’m going with men, I will be lucky to marry by the time I’m 40. As Jesse soaks my hand in some water he begins to open the two bottles of nail polish. Taking my right hand out of the water he spreads my fingers under the light, showing how damaged they were from me biting them in my sleep. He shakes his head looking at them sadly. I look down to avoid his eyes. I hate thinking people pity me. I hate pity. I smell the nail polish before I felt it, cool on my nails. Jesse was painting my nails blue. I tilt my head, fascinated how he gets it even every time on every nail. Suddenly Jesse places the brush back into the bottle and closes it tightly. I realize he is done with the blue. He starts to open with black but puts the brush aside and picks up an even smaller one and dips it into the black bottle. He squints his eyes in a real funny way and I laugh softly to myself. Even my lapse of sanity didn’t deter his concentration from my nails. Looking down at my nails, I notice Jesse has put little z’s like how the cartoons sleep. I smile. Softening my face, “Thank you Jesse” I say softly. He nods and says “my job here is done. Just let it dry before moving from this chair. Oh and don’t think about sneaking off without saying good bye, I will know”. He turns and walks off. Jamie was still sitting in her chair besides me staring at me, hard. Frowning I ask “What’s up?” “Um, hello!? I’ve tried all day to get you to smile and which you didn’t. It only takes a few z’s on your nails to get you to properly smile at all.” “I smiled when I was doing the announcement” I protested. “Penny, seriously, we all know you faked it, hell, I bet the crowd knew too.” Slumping my shoulders in defeat, I look down and mumble “Sorry, I guess you’re right. I just can’t stop thinking about my dreams.” “Are the dreams back?” I can hear the concern in her voice. Jamie is the only person who cared about me when the accident happened nine years ago. Tears pricked my eyes as I whispered “Yes”. “Oh honey” and I was engulfed by Jamie’s hug before I let the tears flow freely. A few minutes later I feel Jesse join in the hug and whisper “Why are we cry hugging?” before me and Jamie laugh together at his humor and we broke apart. “I used to have a dream for about a year after the accident before it stopped. It’s started again. I’m scared to sleep.” I replied. The tears start to run again, my memories hounding me in flash backs; the feeling of the concrete when he throws me against the alley wall, the sound of my dress ripping and the feeling of him entering me laughing. I tighten my legs at the thoughts. I may not remember most of that night, but I remember the worst parts especially the feeling of heartbreak and the strong feelings of resentment. Those were the worst moments of my life, possibly the worst ever. Jamie pulled a tissue out of her bag and started dabbing at my face, drying my tears. No one could ever be more loyal than Jamie. If I ever lost her I don’t know what I would do with my life. She was the ideal girlfriend but she never dates for fear that I will do something rash or she will forget me or fall in love. She never even dated when we were in school together. Jesse rubs my back soothing me until I start to hiccup and my tears dry of the own according. Jesse and Jamie start whispering between each other and Jamie nods. Standing me up she holds both of my arms and leads me to the car waiting for us outside. Nudging me into the passenger seat, she buckles me in and closes the door. When she sits down in her seat next to, I am just staring at a beautiful head of male hair. It may sound creepy, but I’ve seen it before somewhere along time ago it seems. As Jamie pulls out of the parking lot I fall into a dreamless sleep.

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ARGH! Such a short chapter, it was more of a filler really but... Yeah please comment on how imma doing and sorry if there are any mistakes, i=I'm not the worlds best speller :P

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