I'm yours

Part 12

„What?“ Beth angrily asked with a hoarse voice her best friend Debbie over the phone. “…Happy New Year. And it’s good to hear you, too, you know?” Deb answered with an offended voice. “Thank you. I’m sorry, but it’s not a good day today. For me.”, “I assumed, since you didn’t answered on my message.”, “I just can’t.”, “You can’t answer or what?”, “I can’t get out of the bed. I barely answered your call.”, “You’re sick? Want me to come over?”, “No, no. I’ll be fine tomorrow, don’t worry.”, “But what if…”, “I have to hang up now, because I think I’ll fall asleep. Say hi to your mom and dad.”, “I’m not at home, but I will. Get well soon.”, “Yeah, yeah, bye.”, “Love you.” Right after Deb said the last words, Beth touched the red phone icon on her Android and ended the call. She didn’t bother to roll from the middle of her king sized bed to the night table, so she just left the phone under the pillow. It sure was great celebrating the New Year in your bed while watching the lights from the fireworks through the blinds.
Sebastian and Ciel kindly offered her to celebrate the New Year with them; they must have realized how much of a loner she was. Pathetic. Beth even considered of accepting the offer, but got an awful flu. Her temperature was 102°F and she couldn’t move a muscle. She was sleeping the whole day until Deb called and woke her up. Her foot hurt, she was hot, thirsty, hungry and desperately needed a shower, but all she could do was sleep. That was a bad side of living and being alone. She couldn’t call Deb again, because she was probably with Claude, celebrating. Or most likely, having sex. ‘Do not want to think about it.’

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‘Not again…’ Beth thought and stared at the window of her room, seeing only black sky while someone rang on her door, not giving up. It only passed a few minutes since she fell asleep, but there was no way she’s going to open the door. First, she couldn’t. Second, she didn’t want to. Then, her phone started ringing and Beth threw a glance at the screen. ‘Deb.’, “H’llo?” Beth lazily answered. “Why aren’t you opening the door? I’ve been ringing for the past 5 minutes. Are you even at home?”, “That’s you? Why did you come, aren’t you with Claude?”, “What are you talking about? We’ve been together for a New Year, that doesn’t mean we have to hang around every day.”, “What?”, “What?”, “I don’t understand.”, “My God, just open the door.”, “I think they’re unlocked. By the way, I’m in my room.” Beth said and hung up, waiting for Deb to come. Seconds after, Deb burst into the room, only to find Beth naked on the bed and her room in a mess. “What in the world are you doing?” Deb asked with a confused face. “I’m sleeping… well, trying to sleep, but someone”, she pointed out, “doesn’t let me. And why did you come? I said that you don’t have to.” Beth lazily said while laying on her stomach with closed eyes. “Yeah, you said that two days ago.” Deb annoyingly answered while picking the blanket from the floor and covering Beth. That last sentence made Beth open her eyes. “What do you mean two days ago?”, “Beth, you do know it’s January 3rd today, right?” When Beth didn’t answer, Deb panicked a little. “Beth?”, “Y-yeah, right. Sorry, I got confused… Please bring me glass of water. I’m really thirsty.” Beth tried to change the subject, although she was thirty as hell. She couldn’t believe it… 2 days? She’s been sleeping for 2 days? Is that even possible? It’s either that or she passed out. Yeah, that’d be more logical. But still… “Here’s your water.” Deb quickly came back with the glass of water and a worried face on. “Yeah, I’ll need help with this…” Beth awkwardly said when she couldn’t hold the glass, or even sit straight. “Of course.” Deb carefully helped her friend to drink water and removed hair from her face not to bother her in the process. “Beth, you’re hot.”, “You hitting on me? Well, I’m not into women, but you’ll do fine.” Beth jokingly said while smiling. “I’m serious, you have a fever.” She didn’t seem to be struck by Beth’s joke and remained serious. “Do you have any aspirin?”, “Yeah, I think it’s in the kitchen, in one of the drawers.”, “Honestly, for you to get sick…”, “Not my style, I know.”

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Beth got well again in three days, thanks to Deb’s care for her. She almost threw up from all those teas, four cups in an hour. Torture, really. She also had to listen about Claude while she was awake which was, luckily, very rarely. Deb wasn’t that good of a cook and her cooking skills could be compared to those of a 10-year-old kid. But, Beth wasn’t in a state to complain. It was either to eat that, or stay hungry.
While being there and taking care of Beth, Deb slept on the couch so she doesn’t infect from her. There wasn’t much to clean, so she watched TV, talked to Beth or phoned Claude.

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And now that Beth could work on her own again, she kindly sent Deb home and sighed in relief when she was alone again. The first thing she did was cooking. And eating the hell out of it. Then a nice hot shower to relax her a little. She’s never been more thankful to have clean and nice smelling hair. While looking out of the window she noticed the snow was gone and the temperature outside seemed a little higher than usual. Awfully odd.

While walking through the town after dealing with some shitholes from the HR department, Beth stopped next to the cinema and looked at the poster of a new cartoon, Frozen. She had time and she also heard good comments on it. ‘Fuck it.’ She thought while going inside and buying ticket. The hall was full, Beth barely managed to find the seat. With some sort of luck she came just in time the movie started. It seemed the day was good for her.
Funny scenes from the movie caused the whole hall to laugh, but there were some laughs Beth couldn’t ignore. Too familiar and too annoying. She didn’t want to turn around to find out because… there is no reason for something or someone to ruin her day.
As the movie finished and everyone were going out, someone covered Beth’s eyes. “Who…” she started panicking, but the stair onto which she tripped stopped her. As she was falling, so was the person behind her. Luckily, a guy in front of Beth sort of helped her from not falling just by appearing there while the person behind her fell down. “I told you not to do it.”

Beth “playfully” kicked Ciel in the stomach once they were outside. “You better don’t do that again.” She warned him as he was holding a hand over his stomach. “Sorry, but when we realized it was you, I had to do it.”, “Yeah, I thought I heard your laughs.” Beth stated while looking from Sebastian to Ciel. “Same here.” Beth just shook her head and headed to her apartment. Just as she thought she got rid of them, two voices, one on each side of her head started singing: “Do you want to build a snowman?”, “Oh, my God.”