During Scarlett's recovery in the hospital, Anastasia always stayed by her side. She would be sitting on the couch with reading glasses on, looking all serious when she read the work stuff on her laptop.
Except during meetings, they happened in the hotel where she was staying. When she came back, she would rant about how everyone present and whatever drama happened at the meeting to Scarlett.
When Anastasia was gone, Margret would somehow come inside and told whatever stuff happened before coming here. She and Hunter got married a few months ago, their parents had adopted two cuties, how she had become her husband's assistant and how people followed them everywhere.
Scarlett filled her part. She got a degree after three long years; she had to help in surgeries before her first official surgery; she dated a few guys, but they all turned out to be the same type. They called themselves nice guys, but they complained about how she owed them sex.
Once, when the trio were all eating together in Scarlett's hospital room, Margret was narrating the incident of how a girl tried to steal her man and how she roasted her in front of them.
"We had kept our relationship under the covers, but this girl had a suspicion on us. I was alone with her and she came up all over my face telling me how I should stop flirting with the CEO since she's got a much respectable position in the company and she saw him first.
"So I was like okay, how about I say that I and your crush are in an established relationship. She was like he'll throw you away when he's done with you since you're ugly as hell. Bitch is my face ugly as hell? Hunter is more worried about people trying to hit on me and stealing me than I am.
"So I was like okay whatever, we'll go to the lobby and I'll prove that we both are in a relationship. She was all confident and agreed. So I called him like hey love got a minute, come to the lobby. He literally stopped a meeting and came downstairs.
"Her face was already shaken when he agreed to come down, but when she saw us kiss in the lobby. Oh my god, she was about to cry!" Anastasia didn't mind them laughing and kept eating her Chinese food.
Scarlett wiped her tears with her unbroken arm. " This is so satisfying. So wait, did she try to drug him?"
"In fact, she did! We were having this two-year anniversary celebration thing. He proposed to me there, and I said fuck yeah. That girl looked so mad that I thought she'll become Mt Vesuvius or something.
"Her plan was that she'll get us drugged. She would lead him in a room and by that time, the drug would take effect and they'll start fucking. I would be in a corner unconscious or something like that.
"The next day, she'll have him all to herself, you know, since he cheated. And she didn't care if she got labeled as a home-wrecker as long as she had him.
"But that didn't happen. The bartender got bribed, but he wasn't a greedy dumbass. He apparently put the powdered sugar in our drinks that was some kind of juice and put the drug for making one unconscious in her drink instead. Girl, she looked like she was about to make the entire place into Pompeii 2.0 when she woke up!"
"So the bartender kept the money, and she lost?"
"Yes!" Their laughs filled the entire room, and Anastasia clowned them inside her head. One dinner, she thought, one dinner without someone saying this incident!
Margret and Scarlett caught their breaths. Margret asked. "So in your past relationships, something like this happened?"
Scarlett rolled her eyes. "Nah! I went for the nerds, but they turned out to be even more misogynistic than jocks. They are all such fakes. Everyone thinks they are behaved since they are quiet as hell, but all of them are disgusting since they are the nice guys.
"Men have been getting on my nerves, I might as well date women!"
Anastasia choked on her food. Margret gave her water, and she gulped it down. "So," she faced Scarlett. "You've lost your virginity yet?"
This time, both Scarlett and Anastasia choked on their food. Scarlett wiped her mouth. "Uhh no, I only dated them for like a month, they were comfortable to show their true colors, and I was like he's trash then left."
"Broke up over text?"
Scarlett nodded. "Broke up over text, well except the last one. We fought because of my provoking him, and I ended it right there. He got emotional and all. He started gaslighting me to learn how to take a joke and he needed me.
"I told him I ain't your mama and left."
Margret gasped. "Girl! You were on a fire!"
Scarlett smiled. "I know. He made a scene when I was walking away. One woman told him to stop being a baby and man up. He left after threatening me that I'll regret it."
"But do you regret it, though?"
"Nah! He was the one to ask me to be his girlfriend, and I didn't want to break his fragile ego, so I said yes. I had no feelings for him. Well afterwards I did start developing feelings for him ya know. I thought he was an actual nice guy but then, he showed his true colors and my feelings were gone."
Anastasia spoke at last. "Alright, it's confirmed, when you're going to finish recovering a little, you'd be living with us."
"Eh? Why?"
"That dude threatened you so duh, we have to be together for a while."
Scarlett frowned. "He was probably bluffing. All of them do when they show their true colors and I end it."
"Puh-lease! Men are unpredictable and we never know what they might do next to us. So I'll be buying a lovely mansion and I don't care if you agree or not, you're staying with us until we find that bastard."
Days turned to months, Scarlett had recovered enough to be discharged out of the hospital. Daphne had the bills covered and Scarlett was about to blow up! Can that grandma stop paying all of her bills for one goddamn second?! Ugh!