Outer Space | Spruceworth 6.3

Chapter 9: Getting Worse

Chapter 9: Getting Worse

~Ollie~

       While I was lying on the couch, a blanket resting on me, I was scrolling through the contacts of my phone. Nobody was home right now and I really didn't want to be home alone. I wanted to get sober again but I knew myself; being alone was too big of a temptation.

       There was't really anyone I could ask to come over. Hennessy was out with Myra and Ernest, trying to help him find an apartment to live at. Shaw and Holden went into the city with their kids. Kash and Aurora had to finish moving since they weren't fully moved into Spruceworth yet. 

       I kept scrolling through my contact list before coming across Mom's name. Mom hasn't really been too supportive of my drinking problem but that was before she got remarried. Then again, I didn't even need her help with it right now. I just needed someone to be here with me.

       I tried calling Mom but I didn't get a reply. I sighed and hung up before the answering machine started. There goes another person that couldn't be here.

       I wanted to give up trying to find someone to come over but I still had a few people left in my contacts. I kept scrolling until I got to the bottom of my contact list. Of course. If Vikram wasn't busy today, surely he would come over.

       I hope.

       I called Vikram, waiting for him to hopefully answer. He did, thank goodness. "Hey, I was just about to call you," he said. 

       "You were?" I asked.

       "Yeah, Grant texted me," Vikram said. "He wanted me to check on you because he knows everyone living with you had to go out somewhere."

       I sighed. "Yeah, it's not the best feeling being home alone right now. That's why I'm calling. I was wondering if you could come over? That's if you're not busy."

       "Yeah, of course," Vikram said. "I'm just at the diner right now? Want anything?"

       "No thanks," I said.

       "Okay, I'll get you a banana milkshake," Vikram said.

       "But I just said--"

       "I know what you said and I'm still getting you a banana milkshake. I'll be at your house soon and I'm now going to hang up before you could tell me not to buy you a milkshake. Okay, bye." Vikram really did hang up before I could say anything else.

       Well, at least Vikram was coming over. I really didn't want to be alone right now so it was great that one of my best friends was able to come over.

       Vikram really didn't take long to come over, carrying two different milkshakes. Once I let him inside my house, he handed me the banana milkshake he got for me. "I know you said you didn't want me to get you anything but I also know you were only saying it because it's what people do for some reason," Vikram said. "Like I'm offering to get you something. You don't have to say no to be nice."

       I smiled softly. "Thanks. I'm surprised you knew what my favourite milkshake one was."

       "It's kind of hard not too," Vikram said. "Every time all of us are hanging out together at the diner, you and Grant get into an argument about which milkshake is better; banana or chocolate."

       "In my defence, Grant is an easy person to argue with," I said. "Only because he likes arguing with people. He once started an argument with my by telling my that the milk goes before the cereal. And the thing is he always puts cereal before milk. He just wanted to argue."