Seasons of Love || Richard Camacho

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June 10th

Yesterday, I told everyone that I was feelings sick. So I went home, on my own. And now I am sitting on my couch, on my own. I am re-watching Riverdale and I am having a great time. With a pint of ice cream. Life can be great.

Slowly I am getting sick of looking at Archie banging Veronica. I'm not a jealous type at all. So I get up and walk into the bathroom. Me-time, love it. I scrub my body and lather myself in body butter while screaming along with Harry Styles about having a baby and it not being anyone's business. 

I take a cigarette from my emergency pack and light it up. Because I feel like it. And this is my house, so my rules. I can smoke wherever I want in this house, including the bathroom. When I am all done, I walk towards the fridge and I take the box out of it. I rummage through a drawer until I find what I need.

Slowly I walk back to the couch and I sit down carefully. I make a wish. I am not going to tell you all about what. Because it's bad luck when you tell what you wish for, you know. After a deep breath I blow out the candles. Happy birthday.

It's almost five in the afternoon when my phone rings. My brand new phone. The one that Richard bought me when we decided that we were officially good. Katarina is calling. 'Hi?' 'Tiff, you need to come back right now. Shit is going down. Isa is trying to kill Jodi. We need you here.' 'I am on my way.' 

People are staring at me like I am crazy and normally I hate it when people do that. But now I am running through Amsterdam in a bathrobe, so they can stare at me like I am crazy. I don't look at the people I am running past, I need to get to that house as soon as possible. Isa, crazy bitch.

'Hey Autumn!' Yes, definitely ignoring that one. When I finally arrive at the house, I am out of breath. I don't even want to know how I look. I knock on the door and Kat smiles when she opens it. 'Why are you smiling? Did Jodi kill Isa? Is Christopher pregnant?' 'I am smiling because you look awful.' I roll my eyes. 'Fuck you Katarina.' 

We walk in and my heart skips a beat. 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY!' They throw confetti in the air and they cheer.  I slap my hands against my face. 'I fucking hate you all.' Richard is the first to approach me and he gives me a sweet kiss on my lips. 'Feliz cumpleaños hermosa.' 'Gracias mi amor.' He tells me that he'll give me my present later.

The others all congratulate me and give me hugs and kisses. Joel hugs me long and tight. We have grown closer over the past few weeks and I think that's amazing. Jodi punches me in the tit before she hugs me. I love her so much. Katarina gives me a small box and winks at me. I open it and start crying.

'You kept it?' I look at Kat, who has tears in her eyes. 'Of course I did.' I take the necklace out of the box and hold it up so I can look at it. It's a beer bottle cap with a T and a K scratched into it. 

The first ever beer we drank, we drank together. We scratched the letters in it with a bobby pin. We only had one bottle cap, we were both too disgusted by the taste to open another beer. So we would pass the necklace on every two months. We kept that going for years. Until shit happened and we lost contact.

I hug her tightly. Everyone is staring at us. Jodi raises her glass and we cheer to me. Which I find a bit awkward, but I can deal with it.