Chapter 1
Lena
It had been a while since I'd seen Clara, two weeks to be exact. Her recent promotion made it difficult for her to make time for a social life as much as she used to. I sent a text hoping that I'd be able to see her tonight.
"Clara is it possible to meet up tonight? For some wine and pizza?", her response came almost immediately
"I don't know Lara I'm lagging behind already"
"I never see you anymore 😞 "
"Don't be like that please, you know how hard I've been wanting this promotion and I've finally got it "
"Yeah and you lost your social life"
"Listen if I can finish up early today then I'll bring the pizza and you get the wine"
"Thank you thank you thank you " I said bubbling with joy over text
"Yeah yeah you dramatic girl, we literally saw eachother two weeks ago"
"That's too long ago Clara"
"You love me too much"
"Don't get ahead of yourself, focus on work and we'll meet up at my place later" I said as I resumed my work too. My days weren't as hard as hers, I was a freelancer creating content calenders and copywriting. It made so much money, turns out so many people wanted to be influencers or content creators.
I kept on working until I finished my clients calender, I ran it past her and she approved it before paying me and just like that I had made $3000 in 5 hours. My packages were a bit expansive but they had never failed any of my clients, most of my clients were either referrals or returning clients who had no problem paying the price.
The only downside of freelancing was I worked weekends too, I planned my schedule for tomorrow then got up to prepare for Clara, I wasn't even sure if she'd make it but a huge part of me was hoping she'd come.
I checked if I had enough wine and snacks before chilling two bottles in the fridge, it did the same job a wine fridge did, I think. If there is a difference between them I don't know it and I'm not bothered enough to want to know it.
I checked the time, 6:45, just enough time to take a quick shower. I walked to my bathroom and stripped of my clothes, the water was warm against my skin and felt amazing, I didn't even hear the knocking at the door until I turned it off. I quickly jumped into my PJ's and headed to the front door to check who it is.
"I was literally about to call the police" Clara said as soon as I opened the door. I squealed and pulled her into a hug and we jumped up and down.
" Why are you wet?"
"I just got out of the shower. Where's the pizza?" I asked looking around for it
"Let me grab it in the car" she jogged to her car and returned with two boxes of pizza walking into my little apartment. I grabbed a pair of extra pyjamas for her as she took a shower and heated up the pizza. She emerged from the bathroom looking more refreshed than she did when she got here.
"You look better" I said and she chucked
"I'm exhausted, work is exhausting I don't have time for anything or anyone"
"Not even for Zane?" I said wiggling my eyebrows
" Girl Zane has a girlfriend now"
"But two weeks ago you said you might get some"
"Well I found out about her and I didn't want to be the side piece. Before you get upset as to why I didn't tell you I just didn't want to think about it "
"I get it Clara, you though he was the one it must have been hard to accept that he has a girlfriend "
"It was" she sighed. I stood up from the couch and went to get the pizza, she followed me and got the wine and some glasses and we settled back onto the couch. She poured the glasses full to the brim finishing one bottle.
" How about you? How's Maverick?" She asked
"Ughhh my sexy neighbour who only says hi to me and nothing else. That man wants me and he definitely knows it" I said and we burst out laughing
"Girl he's probably just a nice guy "
"Hater" I said and we laughed again.
It felt so good to finally have be with her, the two weeks we were apart felt like two years. We ate and talked about everything and anything. Then she told up and got more wine.
" You should have chilled more wine" she shouted from the kitchen
"We're not drunkards Clara after this were going to sleep" I said as I chucked.
