Eve

E & E

Around fifteen minutes later the buzzer called signalling Emily's arrival. I clicked the button that allowed her to come up the stairs although, if I was honest, predicting what she would be like, I would have preferred to have the conversation through the microphone. 

"Well!? Are you going to explain or what?" Just as I had predicted.

"Okay! Calm down! Come in, I've made coffee."

Eventually calm enough to listen with reason, she sat down in the living room grasping her freshly made cup of coffee. 

"Okay, remember near the start of the night when we went out? And the drinks all got spilt so I went back to the bar and got us another round?"

"Yeah...?"

"Alright, so I bought the drinks and was making my way back to where we were sitting and I got pushed and the drinks kind of spilt all over this guy and his mates. I apologised and everything and he was completely fine about it and bought me another and invited me to sit with him and his mates so I said yeah. You were already off dancing so I thought that you'd be okay?"

"Yeah of course I was okay, what I wasn't okay with was you running off like that! Your parents would have killed me!"

"I know, I know and I'm sorry."

"Forget it, I'm curious now about this mysterious 'guy', carry on."

"Well, it was really loud and I couldn't hear anything that he was saying so he asked if I wanted to go somewhere more 'quiet'" As I said it I could see a cheeky grin creeping its way across Emily's face and the more smug it got, it made me smile and giggle along with her, because that's what friends do; they laugh and smile and piss about with each other no matter the situation.

"Alright, alright carry on." she said with tears in her eyes.

"But you can already guess what happened!"

"I know I just want to hear you say it." she laughed.

"Fine but it's not whatever you're thinking! We just sat and talked and laughed and danced a bit in this room and then we just kissed for a bit until we got interrupted by his mate."

"No! What a dick! So what did you do?"

"I took him home and you know... we fucked."

"HAHAIHAHA!!! GET IN EVE! Have you heard from him since or was it just a one night stand?"

"Yeah I have actually, the morning after I showed him around a bit and then he took me out for dinner on the night."

"That's so sweet! What do you mean you showed him around? Is he foreign?"

"Yeah he's English."

"Oooo an Englishman. Is he hot?"

"Emily!"

"What? Is he?"

"... he's... absolutely gorgeous. Honestly like nothing you've ever seen."

As soon as I said it she shrieked, "Eeek!! I have to meet him!"

"No!" I don't know why I said that. She's my best friend, we share everything together. Maybe it was because she is far more gorgeous than I am or perhaps it was because I felt that Alex was one of the only things that only I knew about- like my little secret.

"Why not?" Emily asked curiously.

"Because... he's kind of shy I guess. I don't want to scare him off."

"Alright then but I am going to meet him one day, I'll make sure of it. Oh! I almost forgot, there's this big festival concert thing on Saturday and I've got us tickets. It's in Central Park and they're not releasing the line up but it'll be great, wanna come?"

"Yeah sure! It'll get me through the week thinking about it."

"Great! I better get going I've got work in an hour. See you later."