Joanna was sipping the cold brew I made for both of us, she massaged her forehead and looked at me puzzled, "so you're telling me, you and mister hot CEO went for a friendly vacation for two days?" She had her eyes widened and her eyebrows raised.
I nodded, "exactly."
"He's the perfect man." She gestured with her hand, her long straight blonde hair cascaded on her legs as she sat down.
The sun rays penetrated the room, enlightening her blue-grey eyes.
"Perfectly unavailable." I said, with a bit of resentment in my voice.
"But he surely is a perfect friend," I drunk few sips of my coffee looking at her grimacing.
"I don't think you can ever be friends." She stated, spinning the drinking straw in the coffee, the milk melted with the coffee.
She took a long breath, "I have to tell you something," her voice and her face turned more seriously and her gaze fell on the glass so that I couldn't see her eyes fill with tears.
I frowned, "what's wrong?" In the years I learned how to decipher her emotions, although I missed the years where we lived in the same flat to save up on collages' dues. As years passed by I stayed in Manhattan while she moved with her parents to New York to take care of her ill father.
Since then our friendship never changed but we started to talk less and our lives got in the middle, yet I still considered her one of my closest friends.
She looked very flustered and I hadn't seen her that perplexed in a while.
she pulled a stroke of her very long thin straight hair away from his face.
"I went here not only to visit you." she said, "I visited some hospitals, to ask them their opinion about my father's condition. I hoped they would tell me he will be fine but they all shared the same diagnosis."
Her fist clenched and I could see her squeezing the glass to hold back the tears, my heart bounced in my chest and a sudden feeling of sorry and angry penetrated in my skin.
"I am sorry," I said, my voice trembled, I hated seeing her that sad, I know how much she cared for her father. I still remember the nights she spent stusying medicine all night in the desperate hope she may find a cure for his father.
"I have to ask you a favor when he will..." her voice broke and I could hear the noise of her saliva choking in her throat. She cleared her voice and finally looked at me, her gaze was even more wrecked than I thought.
"when he will be gone, can I move here with you? you're my only friend and I don't want to stay in that house. It would be too painful."
I caressed her back and covered her hand with my own to show her she had all my support, "I am here for you. You can move here, this house is too big for one only person and I miss seeing you every day."
She smiled to me, then she wrapped her arms around my neck and I melted in her embrace.
"Like old times." She whispered, we both were smiling and I could feel her hugging more tightly as if I was the only family she had.
Her mother left her when she was a kid so probably when her father will pass away too I will be the only person for her.
I wished the hug could soothe her pain of the imminent death but even if she was smiling and her eyes weren't filled with tears anymore I still knew she was inwardly wrecked and miserable.
"I still have the rest of the day off, do you want to spend some time together. Do you want to watch a movie?" I asked as I took our empty glasses and washed them.
"We can make pop corns and watch Pride and Prejudice." She said, a smile filled her face.
I nodded, Pride and Prejudice had always been one of her favorite movies and I didn't blame her, according to me it's one of the best movies.
"Deal!" I said, "then we can order pizza!"
The smile on her face grew, "yess! Perfect!"
I put a bag of popcorn on the microwave while she looked at the pile of DVDs for the movie, when she found it she put the cd in the decoder.
the popcorn were ready in few minutes and filled the room with a delicious smell, I poured some salt on it and then made two big bowls for both of us.
"Ready!" I exclaimed handing her the bow, she clapped her hand.
"This is why I loved living with you!"
I frowned my forehead and gently nudged her, "oh because I made the food? I thought because you loved me and I was the best best best friend you could ever ask for."
"Well," she pretended to assume a thoughtful expression and threw a popcorn in her mouth, she chewed loudly.
"Also that." She said when she swallowed down.
We both giggled, "start," I said pointing at the tv and stretching my legs on the sofa.
She started the movie and then threw me a popcorn, "you should invite mister CEO tonight. I want to meet him."
I shook my head, hearing the cracking of the popcorn as I chewed, they were still hot and I loved how they tasted. In my list of favorite foods pop corna are definitely one of my top 10.
"I don't think it's a good idea," I kept watching the tv as I spoke, "We saw each other yesterday, maybe he would think I can't stay away from him If I had already invited him here. And I don't think his rule would allow it."
Joanna scoffed, I could see her rolling her eyes with the corner of my eye, "Right his rules. Well I can invite him if you don't want." She shrugged, she turned around to wink at me with a mouthful of popcorn. "I will pretend I want to make you a surprise."