Together by faith

Chapter 25.

When I woke up the next morning, Alexander had already left for class. It was Monday morning and no matter how much I wanted to fall back sleep, I couldn't. The clock was around 8am and my shift down at the coffee shop started at 9:30am, which meant that I had one and a half hour to get ready. I left the comfort of Alexander's bed and thereafter, I walked into the bathroom. I took a quick shower and when I was dry again, I dressed in my pair of black jeans and a t-shirt. Since I still had a couple of minutes left before I had to leave, I made myself some breakfast and when the clock hit 09:15, I left the dorm. It took me about 10 minutes to reach the coffee shop down the street and immediately when I walked in, Clary's mother Jocelyn, told me to meet her in her office. Great, what now?
- Magnus, we need to talk, Jocelyn said when I sat down in front of her in the small room behind the counter
- What can I help you with? I asked and gave her my most polite smile
- Clary told me about yesterday
- Oh
- Look, I really like you and you're my favourite employee, but Magnus, I think you need to focus on yourself for a while, Jocelyn said
- No! I mean, I have everything under control. Please, trust me, I begged
- I do trust you, Magnus, but I know that you don't have everything under control at the moment, and that's okay
- Jocelyn, I'm begging you
- I'm sorry sweetheart, but I'm doing this for your own good. I have to fire you, Jocelyn said and I could see the pain in her usually happy eyes
- Please, I need the money. There must be something I can do, I said and felt how the lump in my throat grew bigger
- You have to get your life under control, Magnus. That's all I want. I'm sorry
I didn't know what to answer. It was like my whole world game crushing down. I really loved my job at the coffee shop and knowing that this was the last time I was going to be here as a employee, hurt more than I could possibly imagine.
- Thank you for your time, Jocelyn. Tell Clary I said hi, I said and thereafter, I left her office and walked out from the shop. Now what? Am I supposed to go back to Alexander's dorm and cry my eyes off? No, I can't keep draining myself in my own tears. Jocelyn's right about me. I don't have my life under control. I mean, I can't even survive one day without some kind of mental break. What if Alec's right? Maybe I need someone to talk to, but who? I reached my phone from my front pocket and started scrolling down my contacts, but I stopped when I came access a familiar name. Dorothea. We used to be best friends when we were kids. I thought about it for a long time but I finally decided to call her.

"Magnus, what a lovely surprise"

"Hello Dot. Yeah, I saw your number and decided to call you. It's been a while"

"It's been over 3 years. Hell, I'm surprised that you still remember me"

"Well, I'm just as surprised as you. You seem to remember me pretty good too"

"How could I forget you? You were the only one at kindergarten who dared to be friends with me"

"That's just because all of the others were idiots and didn't realise how amazing you were"

"Always so polite. You don't seem to have changed a bit, Magnus"

"And neither do you. I was wondering, would you like to meet up over a coffee or something?"

"I would love to. May I ask though, is there a special reason why you decided to call me today or did you just miss me like you always did when we left for spring break back in school?"

"I need advices and since I do recall remembering that you gave the best ones, I called you"

"Well, you're not wrong about that. I'll see you down at the new coffee shop in Central Park, how does that sound?"