Chapter 6

"your flight has been shifted to Sunday." my mom called to tell me on Friday evening.

"No problem." I replied as I was zipping the bag full of my clothes and other necessary items I planned on taking along with me to Paris.

"So, you're no longer going tomorrow?" Joe asked me when I plopped down on the couch hesiade her as I opened the bag of Skittles.

"That is exactly why I just told you now." I replied her even though my mouth was full of Skittles.

She shrugged, "I am just trying to confirm."

I rolled my eyes and then picked up my phone from the couch, beside me when I heard a ding. It was a message but from an unknown number.

"Hi." The text read.

I tried racking my brain trying to remember if I gave anyone my phone number, but no, no one came to my mind.

"Hi." I replied back. "Who is this please?" I added the please in order not to seem rude.

It took about two minutes before I heard the ding again, "Jake."

Immediately I read the text I turned to Joe with an angry look, "you gave Jake my number?"

"He wanted to cut my head off if I didn't give it to him!" She exclaimed. "And I need my precious beautiful head." She shrugged as she put more chips into her mouth.

"You could have asked me first!"

"There was no time to do that!"

The next thing, I heard about three dings.

"Look, Maria, there is something you need to know."

"About the other night."

"I did not use a condom and I'm wondering if you were on your pills."

"What?!" I exclaimed my eyes wide as I read the texts he sent to me. This motherfucker! Who doesn't use a condom when sleeping with a stranger! This is all his fault!

"What's wrong?" Joe asked me as she collected the phone from my hand and read the same texts.

"Damn." She frowned, "but I thought you always use your pills?" She asked me as she handed me back the phone.

"I stopped using them about two months ago!"

"That's bad."

"Do you think he is suspecting I'm pregnant?" I asked Joe as I dropped the phone on the couch.

"I don't know. Probably?" She shrugged. "And aren't you meant to start going for your anti- nantal programs?"

"I will, once I come back from Paris."

"Same hospital?"

"Yes." I answered and then dipped the Skittle inside my chocolate flavoured ice cream.

"Isn't that gross?" Joe's face morphed into disgust as she watched me eat my snacks- if you can still call it that.

"Nope." I dipped another one into the ice cream before throwing it into my mouth. "You should try it."

"No, I'm good." She shook her hand and continued eating her chips.

"Whatever."

"Do you want to come to the movies, with myself and Philip?"

"Yourself and Philip?"

"Yh."

"Are we talking about another Philpi or the same philip, your boss?"

She rolled her eyes at me and then, "yes, my boss."

"The one you dated and you're both still fucking?"

"Yes," she dragged the yes, making it song like yessssss, "that one."

"Wow."

"He asked me out on a movie night." She shrugged, "no big deal." I can tell it is a very big deal for her because she really loved Philip and she never told me why she broke up with him anyway. The way Philip still looks at her and the way she looks at him when they think no one is noticing still confirms they still both love each other. But they are too egotistical to admit it to themselves.

"So, it is a date?" I grinned at her, knowing that is going to irritate her.

"No, it's not a date." She frowned.

"It looks like it to me." I shrugged closing the argument.

"So, are you coming or not?" She asked me as she stood up from the couch and moved into the kitchen, probably to pour herslef a cup of apple juice, or the whole thing.

I thought about it for a while, "is Jake going to be there?" I asked. Well, I have to be careful I an definitely not ready to see him. Especially after what he just told me. Who doesn't use a condom when sleeping with a drunk lady?!

"I don't know," I looked back at her, "I don't think so." She shrugged. "Philip said he's out on a business trip, so he should be out by tomorrow." She came back with a cup of apple juice and a cup of orange juice.

"Thank you." I grinned as I collected the cup from her. "Then if that is what is going to happen, yes I'll come."

"You don't mind being the third wheel?"

"It is not exactly a third wheel, since both of you refused to gett back together." I shrugged taking a sip of my juice.

"Right." She replied chewing her chips loudly.

"Can you stop that?"

"Stop what?"

"The way you're chewing your chips."

"How am I chewing them?" She gave me a confused look.

"Loudly." I answered plainly.

"This is how I have been eating them for the past one hour!"

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

She rolled her eyes, "please don't distract me from this movie."

"Whatever."

"Aren't we meant to be in need by now?" I groaned as I checked the time. Fourty five minutes past two.

"We? You are the Pregnant one between both of us. So you should be in bed."

"You're the dumb one between both of us, so you should be in bed." I spat back at her.

"Yh, whatever."

"I hate this girl." I groaned when I saw the main character in the movie we were watching burst into tears.

"Who?" Joe asked as she made herself comfortable on the couch by placing her own legs over my thighs.

"Elena, obviously."

"Why would you hate Elena?!" She's a fan of the character, I do not know why.

"I prefer Katherine to be honest."

"Katherine is a bitch. Plus, they are the same character."

"But different personalities." I replied putting a slice of chicken pizza into my mouth, my favourite. Joe had the good idea of ordering the pizza around midnight, though she ordered the cheese pizza for herself. She claims we both have been eating chicken pizza since the beginning of this year and doesn't want to start pooing chicken.

Who says that type of stuff??

"Elena is a cry baby but Katherine is a bad bitch."

"But still, I prefer Elena."

"You always make the worst choices." I chuckled.

"Says the bestfriend who got knocked up." She laughed making me hit her thighs and throwing them off mine.

"I'm kidding, I'm kidding." She said as she was laughing while I was stuffing my face with pizza. "We are in this together babe." She pulled me into a bone crushing hug.

"Can't.breathe." I struggled to say and then she finally released me.

"You know I love you bish." She pulled both of my cheeks grinning.

"I love you too." I replied grinning back.

"You should go to sleep. I will clean up."

"I can help?" I offered.

"Nah, it is fine. It will help.me take my mind off stuffs." She always cleans whenever something is bothering here. She can re clean the whole house like twice. It happened when herslef and Philip broke up.

"Okay, goodnight."

"Night." I stood up from the couch and then made my way up to my room.

"Wake the fuck up sleepy head!" I hit Joe's pillow on her head. I have been tryingbto wake her up for the past fifteen minutes, because Philip has been ringing her phone since all this while and all she keeps saying is, "five more minutes." With her face buried inside her other pillow.

"Come on." I groaned as I sat down on her bed and rested my head on her back. I give up.

"Okay, okay, I'm up." She raised her head from her pillow as she used her hands to clear her eyes.

"Finally." I stood up from the bed and placed the pillow back to where I picked it up from.

"I still need more sleep."

I frowned, "do not even think about it. Philip has been ringing your phone."

"Thanks. I will call him back." She replied as she sat up in her bed, picking the phone from the bed side table.

"And please have your bath, so we won't be late." I reminded her.

"Will do."