Live and Let Die

chapter 2

A few days passed, with no word from Matt. I spent most of my days off from work at home, curled up in my bed watching romantic comedies.

It was the morning of the last day of august and I had to start work in a few days, so i decided to get back in to my routine. After all, moping about Matt wasn't going to make him come home magically. I needed to get active again, and fix my sleeping pattern from 2am-1pm to 10pm-6:30am

"G'morning Claire. " I said, mouth full of granola

"Look who's up early!" Claire teased

"Going for a run. You in? "

"Na. Goin' to the mall with Candice. Want to meet there for lunch?"

"Yeah, sure. That sounds good." Claire and I hadn't really talked since she burned Matt's letter. Things were kind of awkward, and not like they used to be.

"Yeah." there was a long pause, so I assumed the conversation was over and continued to eat my granola. "Uh.. Emma..." I looked up at Claire "are you still mad at me?"

I thought for a while, before answering. "Do you think I would be talking to you if I was still mad at you? Look, What you did was a mistake, and i hate that it happened. But it's not like you did that on purpose or anything, right?"

Claire nodded with a smile growing on her face.

After my workout, I went back to the apartment to get changed and shower and headed to the mall.

Halfway there, i texted Claire:

wr do u wnt 2 mEt?

and continued walking. in a minute, i got a reply:

Dammit, em! so sri i 4got! alrdy hd lunch, join 4 shopin doe!

i thought for a few minutes... and decided to reply:

naw imma hv lnch n hd hm.

i quickly got a reply

are you mad? join us. pls? Pia n Candi r goin hm in 1h.

what the heck, why not...

Kk I'll meet u @ HCO @1:00

i walked to the burger joint and got a turkey burger, no buns.

After lunch i headed to the Mall and walked around 'til i found the Hollister. i took out my phone and saw the time: 1:09 so i texted Claire:

here. hbu?

--Dun c u, em wr u @?

outsid HCO bsid ALDO.

--Oo kk imma cm out.

"I am so happy!" Claire said, as she consumed me in a bear hug from behind.

"And why is that?"

"Dude, I got THIS," she held a colorful plastic card in front of my face. If you lived anywhere near this mall, you would be able to tell what that card was even if you where drunk and half asleep. It was the 4evr card.

"Amazing!!! how the hell did you get it?"

"you just missed the raffle inside ALDO's!!!!" I looked to the door of the store to see a giant replica of the card that read: $1,000

"Are you serious??? That's so awesome!"

"Tell me 'bout it! i'm probably never allowed in that store again 'cus of my happy dance."

"Hahaha. What do you want to do now?"

"How about we go SHOPPING!"