The Bond

21

"So how was it?" Vanessa asks eagerly, her eyes wide with excitement.

"It was...good." I say vaguely with a tiny smile.

"Good? I did not waste a free bikini wax for it to be good!" She exclaims as if the idea that it can't be anything more than good is preposterous.

"Ok, it was great."

"Great? Sweetie, I don't think you understand the meaning of 'I want crude details'! Now share! Come on help a sister out." I shake my head at Vanessa's ineffective puppy dog look, but I give in anyway and spill all the naughty details about last night.

"Holy shit, that sounds-"

"Intense. And yes, it was. I couldn't even move afterwards, how embarrassing!" I say, covering my now red face with my hands.

"Embarrassing? More like GOALS! Do you know what I would do to get a fine ass man with some bomb ass dick?!"

"No and I'm not sure I want to." I say with a laugh before sipping my tea. Since giving up coffee months ago I tried substituting it with hot chocolate but it just kept making me miss the coffee even more so I just switched to tea which has literally made my life so much better. It's very relaxing.

"Okay well whatever. Ooh, can we gossip a little bit?" Vanessa asks, her eyes glittering like they always do when she has some good information to share. Being as she's a journalist, knowing and getting information has always been her expertise.

"Um, sure we haven't done that in a while." I say as I sit on the counter and cut my breakfast sausages into little pieces before eating them.

"Okay, so I'm sure you've noticed a little tension between you know who and you know who." She says in a whisper as if someone could be listening to our conversation right now.

"Um who, Callia and Joseph?"

"Shhhhh!" Vanessa hisses. "Anyways, yes between them. Well yesterday after I left Callia called me and asked if I could join them at the club. Apparently Victoria was acting like a mom and Killian was being a womanizer so she was stuck with Joseph who was being extremely uptight. And you know me, I can't say no to a night out. So I went and I literally felt like I was between some kind of angry sexual tension between them. So I of course, being the nosy person that I am set out to find out what was going on between them. At first they both refused to open up, so I got them drunk."

I let out a laugh. I swear some of the things my best friend does could get her in serious trouble one day.

"Once the drinks started flowing they wouldn't stop talking! Apparently years ago when they first met they were lovers in every aspect of the word, they were both seeing other people but of course no one ever means to fall in love with other people. So anyways, they both agreed to end their relationships to be together and they both did, unfortunately Joseph decided he wasn't ready to hop right back into a relationship which is just so wrong! Poor Callia was heartbroken!"

"That's awful." I say, not believing that Joseph would do something like that. In the short time that I've known Joseph, he doesn't seem like the type of guy who would a girl like that.

"Mhmm, but wait till you hear Joseph's side. Apparently the woman he was with at the time of the whole affair made him realize that if he could do it to her, what made him think he wouldn't do it to Callia. And he didn't want to do that to her so he ended it. And he is kind of right, relationships that start off as an affair usually never survive. Anyways, after that Joseph went back into hiding and they haven't seen each other until that day he saved you."

"Wow. So did they hash it out?"

"I don't know, I'm not a couples therapist. I just find shit out, I don't solve it." Vanessa says with a shrug as she takes another sip of her coffee.