Love is everything

Friends {8}

*Alice's POV*

I have my eyes focused on my phone, thinking about my encounter with Sam. It was surreal. I just cannot believe what just happened a few hours ago. Not for the fact that I saw her, no, for the fact that she gave me her number. I cannot believe it, I look one more time at my contacts and on it, there's a new one, Sam. I don't know what to do. Should I call her? Maybe I should just start by sending her a text. Argh! I'm getting crazy here.

As I'm daydreaming, I got hit with a pillow. Ugh! Not again. I look up and indeed, there she is, Karen, in all her splendor. "What?" I say pissed.

"Stop groaning, woman!" I blink a few times, thinking since when is she here. I don't even remember hearing the door open. "What?" Karen says looking at me annoyed.

"Since when are you here?" I ask as I cannot place when she came. She looks at me a little taken aback.

"You don't remember?" She says looking at me as if I was crazy.

"Nope." I say popping the p.

"I came here a few minutes ago. You even said 'Hi'" Wow, I did not expect that. I may have said that as a reflex. I'm amazing! "No, you're not."

"Eh?"

"It's written all over your face. You are not amazing, Alice. You're everything, but that."

"Ouch!" I say as I got my hand on my heart with mock hurt. I know she's not serious. I am amazing, and she knows it.

She scoffs and throws at me another pillow. "What the hell woman!?" I ask-yell as I avoid the flying pillow.

"Stop it! You're thinking about something stupid for sure."

"That's it? That's why you're trying to kill me!?" I ask-yell at her one more time as I retaliate with the pillow she threw at me. The pillow flew to her face, but she stopped it with her hand. "Tsk, cheater."

She arches an eyebrow. "Cheater? Me? Are you serious, Alice? Who's the one that got me pinned on the bed the other day and didn't stop hitting me with the damn pillow? Me? Because I remember something different." She says approaching me, I gulp as I see her face; this isn't going to end well. "Also... I don't think I can kill you with a pillow, but nothing says that I can't try." Evil smile! She's doing the evil smile! Run!

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After she finishes killing me with the damn pillow, I'm exhausted. I'm lying on the bed with Karen at my side, both huffing and trying to recuperate our breaths. "Are you happy now?" I ask her after a few seconds. She looks at me arching an eyebrow, asking me what I mean. "You killed me, with a damn pillow. Are you happy after proving that it was possible?" She starts to laugh at what I said. She's laughing so hard that the only thing that is missing, is she rolling on the floor like one of those scenes on the movies.

"Yeah." She stops to say that as she cleans a tear that fell from her eye. "I am happy now." She says with the biggest smile I've seen in a while.

"Are you okay?" I ask worried. She looks at me with mixed feelings. "Yeah, I'm fine." She's trying to hide herself behind a smile.

"Don't lie to me Karen. I know you." I start to worry for my best friend. She normally tells me everything, it must be important if she's not talking about it. "What is it?" I'm really worried now and my voice betrays me.

"I'm fine Alice." She sighs before saying that as she tries to smile, trying to stop my worry. However, she's only making it worse. "Alice..." She starts seriously but in the end she sighs and it seems that she gives up. "How did it go?"

"Eh?" I ask with confusion written on my face. About what is she asking?

"The chat with Sam." She says with a smile, a genuine one this time. I sigh, she doesn't want to talk about what's on her mind. Maybe, I should just giver her time.

"It went... fine."

"Fine, huh?" She says smirking. Urgh, I hate her.

"Yep, fine." I say popping the p, and saying as nonchalantly as I can. "Wait, how did you know that I talked with her?" I ask as I realize that I didn't even told her that I saw Sam. She looks at me as if I just asked the dumbest question in the world.

"You want me to state all the facts that makes that it's super obvious that you saw her?" Ouch, Am I that obvious? "Okay, I'll start." She clears her throat as she sits up comfortably on the bed and crosses her legs looking at me before starting her 'oh so damn long speech'. I just look at her like she's crazy. Why the hell does she know me so damn well? Do I really know her since a year ago? Did she stalk me or something? Stupid questions like that crosses my mind when she finishes her argument as I just lay there with my mouth hang open. "Close your mouth Alice." I do as she says as a reflex.

"What the hell me sighing and looking at my phone with a crazy smile makes automatically that I saw her?" It's the first question that cross my mind and therefore the first I ask.

"Really... Because you're creepy not crazy, creepy smile, it's the same that you had when you first saw her. Also, I'm guessing that she gave you her number, correct?" She asks with a teasing smile. My smile it's not creepy.

"Yeah, she did." I say with a big smile on my face, she looks at me with another. I can see that she's really happy for me. "But I don't know what to do know." I say as I groan.

"Really? Call her." She says as if it's the most obvious thing in the world. I just look at her wondering if she's crazy.

"Really? You think it's a good idea that I call her? Me?"

"You're right. I'll call her." She says laughing and trying to pick my phone. I jump as I get it out of her reach and turn to look at her. She has a teasing smile in her face. I fell in her trap, again. I groan as I throw myself on the bed backwards.

"What should I say? You know that when I'm nervous my thoughts are a mess, and even thinking over and over I just make fun of myself." I sigh as I look at her. "Help me." I say desperately.