It’s been three days since that night and spending all this time with Jess has been absolutely wonderful. Jess had left the following morning to get some clothes and such from her house so that she could spend the entire time with me and other than her constant fussing over me I really enjoyed having her stay with me. Okay, well I’ll admit I did kind of like being fussed over by her but I’d never admit that to her.
We basically spent the last few days just lazing around like we have been but I found out earlier today that Jess has to leave for a few days to travel to New York. I wasn’t happy about it obviously but I was going to be supportive of everything she does even if it means I have to spend time away from her. It may even be good seeing as I have no idea how she isn’t sick of me by now.
I was currently sitting on my bed with my laptop rested on top of my legs looking for another job. My standards were no longer set as high as they were before. I was just trying to find something, anything, that wasn’t too far and had decent pay. I was so desperate at this point I thought about just taking a second shitty job. At least until I could get myself caught up.
I felt the bed shift next to me and looked up to see Jess peering over me, moving so that her chin lightly rested on top of my shoulder.
“What are you doing?” she asked curiously. “You’ve been in here for a really long time.”
“Sorry. I was just looking for another job,” I told her as I scrolled through the various listings.
“Find anything?”
“Nope,” I answered as I closed my laptop and placed it next to me. I sighed heavily as I felt stress consume my mind. I didn’t know things would be this hard.
“Hey, you’ll find something,” Jess said as she rubbed my upper arm soothingly.
“Yeah. I hope so,” I said, relaxing immediately at Jess’s touch. “What have you been doing this whole time?” I’d been in here almost an hour and didn’t even notice until now.
I glanced over at her and noticed that she was wearing a mischievous grin and I instantly felt so much fear. What had she done now? Instead of answering me she grabbed my hand and pulled me into the living room. I spotted what looked like a pile of index cards on my coffee table and an endless amount of Chinese takeout. When had she ordered takeout without me noticing??
“What is this.” I said in a monotone voice. Did I even want to know?
“Well, I thought since you’re stuck inside for a while and I’m leaving tomorrow. We could play a game,” she said as she dragged me over to sit on the floor. “Also, I didn’t feel like cooking.”
I stared blankly at the index cards scattered across the table, wondering what Jess could have possibly put on them. What were we even playing?
“Okay… Are you gonna tell me what we’re playing?”
Jess shoved a plate of food toward me before she started explaining what she had been up to for the last hour.
“We’re gonna play 20 Questions. Kind of,” she began. Oh god why. “I wrote a bunch of random questions we can take turns asking each other.”
“Um, okay?” I said, still a bit unsure of how fun this was actually going to be. I started eating the food in front of me as Jess picked up the first card.
“Okay. Do you have any fears? Like phobias and stuff,” she elaborated.
“I’m scared of heights,” I told her.
“Heights?! Elena you rode horses,” she laughed.
“Well yeah but that’s different. I don’t know… I’m also scared of chickens.”
