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Chapter 80 - Scarlett

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                                                             ●•Scarlett•●

The sky was invisible with darkness and the clouds were hidden by the haze, pretty much like everything else. I couldn’t even see a hand in front of my face; not properly, anyway. Thus, it was carefully I walked towards Lana’s door, trying to see the floor underneath my feet and failing.

When I finally got to ring the doorbell, I couldn’t see Harry’s car by the curb anymore, though I knew he was still there somewhere. Before bringing me here, he’d made sure to let me know I should call him if I needed anything, or if Lana couldn’t go with me to get my stuff back with Tyler. (He’d probably talked about that again and again for the past hours we’d spent together, and maybe I had his exact words stuck into my mind by now. Maybe).

Before the door cracked open, I saw Lana peaking through the curtains, frowning yet smiling as she spotted me, just then placing the key on the lock and unlocking it. Once the air was allowed to come in, she shivered, wrapping the blanket tighter around her arms and gesturing for me to come in. I hugged her on my way inside, dragging my feet slightly on the ‘welcome’ mat before stepping into the wooden floors.

She yawned before saying, “What are you doing here so early in the morning, Kirsten?” Lana glanced over to the clock on her kitchen wall, rubbing her eyes sleepily and looking back at me. “It’s actually 6a.m on my day off, and I wouldn’t have to wake up until at least here two hours, so you better have a good explanation, misses.”

I smiled apologetically at her, throwing myself on her couch and shrugging at her, trying to go for the casual.

“Is everything okay?” she asked after a few moments filled with my silence, and so I nodded, just to put her at ease. “Good. Then I’m waiting for the explanation.”

“First off, it wasn’t on my plans coming here this early, either, but Harry had an ‘emergency’ – or whatever resembles that – at his work, and because he was my only ride, I had to wake up early, too, and, therefore, punish you along with me. I’m sorry, Lana,” I apologized, feeling like I owed her that, because most likely I did, so.

She arched a brow, sitting next to me and offering me part of her blanket, which I gladly took to place above my legs.

“You spent the night with Harry, huh?” Lana prompted, grinning. “I’ve always known he’d be good for you. I’m glad you’re accepting that, too.”

Despite the cold, I felt warmth spreading through my cheeks, and hoped the slight blush could be mistaken by the color the own weather had given me. “He’s lovely, yeah. Has been helping me a lot,” I coughed into my fist then, biting back a smile, staring at my fingers before looking back into her eyes. “I’m here for another reason, Lana. I’m here to ask you a favor.”

Once again, she raised an eyebrow, shifted closer to me and took my hand between hers (which were comfortably warm, unlike mine), her mother-like look sparkling in her irises, comforting me even before I had asked the favor. She had that ‘I will help you as much as I can’ look, the same one she’d given me several times before. Sometimes it made me feel bad because, honestly, most of the time I was always asking her for something.

“Can I move in with you?” I blurted out, eyes pleading, hands squeezing hers, just for effect. “Not, like, forever. But just until I get a place of my own? I promise I’ll help you with everything; the bills, taking care of Angel, cleaning, cooking, everything.”