Lola and the Rolling Stone

Chapter 40

  A few weeks later-September 21st

"I like it." Madi said looking at Lola in the mirror. She wore a tight pair of cropped black pants, an orange polka dot shirt and a black blazer. Her hair was perfectly braided to the side and her make-up was soft but yet trendy. Her light skin was accented by bronzer and her lips lined with bright pink liner. "I am soooo freaked out." Lola said walking toward her purse and phone. "I know their story, I made sure I was tweeting and facebooking like crazy and my stories have been on point for a while now...." she blabbered as her roommates went on with their lives eating breakfast and drinking cofee. "Oh, whatever. Y'all aren't listening. I need to go." she said grabbing a bottle of water. "No. We care." Lacie exclaimed heading toward the door with Lola. "I'm walking with you. Let's talk..." she said grabbing her big bag of papers and laptop. "You're in HR...why didn't we talk about this before?" Lola asked. "Don't know. Don't care. Every company is different. Don't move." Lacie pleaded. "I really think I want to do it." Lola said. "And not just because of him. I talked to Jennifer and I think I have a good plan to move there on my own but have him there to support me if I need it....then I won't be there all by myself. I'll be able to find my own space and my own things." "Why the hell do you make sense suddenly?" Lacie asked. "I really don't want to have to find a new roommate....""Oh god. Don't make me start to cry before I even go to the interview..." Lola sniffed hugging her roommate on her side. "Okay. I'm going...." **"I think I'm going to puke." Lola said to Bruno about two hours later. She walked down the hallway of the tall and quirky office building to the front to go back to work. "So it was that good, huh?" Bruno laughed. "Actually, I don't know how it went. I talked about some reasons why they should hire me, my twitter and how long I've had it and more about social media and how I could leverage it and everything and I think that was good..they really liked how I'd been doing all this since facebook was faceboook..." "What?" he asked. "Like when facebook was just for college students." she told him explaining the evolution of facebook and how it had changed from something sort of like a yearbook to something he had to do on a regular basis to keep his fans engaged. "So if you don't get this job can you come and be my social media director?" he joked. "No. I would be horrible at that." she replied. "I mean, I don't know...." he sighed. "But I can help you with your ask the dragon thing." she said crossing the street hearing sirens and car horns as she wandered through the streets of New York. "Bruno. I want to do this with or without you." she said randomly."Wait, what?" he asked."Yeah. I know I said it before. But like....I want to do this. But I think I want to do it on mt own. I want to have my own place and my own life....with you." she explained. "So you want to move down here but you want to be by yourself?" he questioned. "But isnt it about being together?" "It;s not that I don't want to be with you.....Bruno....it's safe. It's like I can be there and I can be with you when you're there but when you're gone I'm not like there...all by myself....you know? Because I'm here alone and I feel bummed but being thousands of miles and away from you in your home....it just sounds horrible. At least this way I can be lonely and miserable in my home...." she said. "But, baby..it's our home..." he responded. "But I get it. I understand. You just have to be close....and if you can't afford it I'll pay for it..." he smiled through the phone. "What if we decide it doesn't work? What if we break up?" she suddenly bluttered out. "I don't even want to think about that, Lo." he told her. "I don't.""That's good to know." she laughed. "But it still doesn't change that I don't want to move in with you. I already have a few places in mind." she told him describing some of the apartments near where she might work and not too far away from Bruno. "Yeah. I get it, Lo. You want to be with me but you want to be with me in your terms. It's not what matters to me." he said a bit frustrated by her statements. "Are you upset at me?" she wondered. "I don't know." he said. "It's early. I'll talk to you later, Lo. I'm glad you think your interview went well." "Bruno?" she asked struggling to get anything out as he shut down their conversation. "I'm sorry.""Yeah. I get it. I need to go do some stuff." he said hanging up. "Oh my god..." she sighed not sure how to respond or react to their conversation. I'm taking this serious....and if I want it to work then we can't just jump into it. One step at a time....maybe I'll text him... She sat with her phone by her side for the whole day as she typed at her desk. Every few minutes she would glance at it....nothing....nothing....nothing....nothing from him nothing from them....nothing....