Chapter 55 - New And Old Friends

"Hello! Beautiful sister!" Evelyn hugged me as soon as I opened the door.

I wasn't waiting for her so I was quite surprised to see her here, "come in." I said, when she walked in Joanna was standing in the middle of the corridor peaking at the door while she dipped a spoon in her nuts butter.

"Evelyn?"

I heard her voice echoing through our way and I smiled when I saw my sister returning the big smile Joanna offered her.

"Joanna hi! What are you doing here?"

They walked past me and met in the middle way to hug.

"Lily told me I could stay here since I was quite miserable about my father's death."

Evelyn's face morphed from happy to sad, "I am so sorry." Her voice piqued down before embracing Joanna one more time.

"I am glad Lily invited you. I can sneak in when she is at work and talk about Lily's secrets!"

They both laughed and I rolled my eyes, unfortunately for them the only big secret I was holding they both already knew.

"I came here because mom keeps saying you have to get back with Carl."

"I guess she should mind her business," I said before I could stop my thoughts before they turned into spoken words.

I took a deep breath and rectified not to sound rude, "I mean, she is making me lose my patience. I don't want Carl back and he is still with the girl he cheated me on. How can I even try to forgive him?"

My voice betrayed every effort I put in trying to sound calmer than I inwardly was but the truth was that whenever I talked about him and I recalled how he played me, my blood ran cold and I get soaked with resentment.

I knew that reaction was normal but I hated how much power he still had over me.

I couldn't erase seven years away as if it was nothing but he somehow did erase our forever so quickly and easily.

"How can you know they're still together?" Evelyn asked, breaking my stream of consciousness and making me come back to reality.

"I saw them together." I shook my head and gestured with my hand.

I was so done with feeling numb with emotions, the tight in my chest pounding so hard that breathing got hard.

"That asshole!" Evelyn exclaimed making me laugh and slightly soften up the pain I was feeling.

"I guess he has eyes problems." Joanna sighed, my sister and I immediately turned around to look at her puzzled.

"What?" I mouthed confused but she shrugged.

"Because he couldn't see what he was losing."

Few seconds of silence.

Did she really say what I just heard?

Evelyn started to laugh as I covered my forehead and shook my head in denial.

No, I couldn't believe she actually said that.

"You're lucky you're my best friend otherwise I would kick you out of my house immediately," I joked folding my arms and tilting my head.

One hour later my bathroom was filled with make-up of every kind. Evelyn was blending my foundation on while Joanna took care of my eyeshadow and my eyeliner, then we both dressed up.

Evelyn had the amazing idea of introducing us to her friends to spend a night partying in a nightclub on the outskirts. Since we didn't have anything else to do and Joanna was quite excited at the idea of partying we accepted her invite.

The last time I had drunk I ended up throwing up on a man's shoes so I would have juice or nonalcoholic drinks.

Evelyn drove to a place I had never been in, her friends waited for her in front of the entrance. Two of them were smoking cigarettes and nodded at us the other three reacted the opposite way hugging us as if we had known each other for a long long time.

We sat at a table while Evelyn went to order us our drinks. I noticed one of her friends was looking at me with quite an attention when I returned his gaze, he smiled.

"so you're Evelyn's sister I suppose." One of them pointed at me and I nodded.

"You have the same eyes."

Another one intervened pointing at Joanna, "but who are you?" 

Evelyn put our drinks on the tables and placed each one of them in front of us.

"This is very light." She whispered to me before blinking and I took a breath of relief.

Luckily, my sister was good and remembered my low intolerance for alcohol.

Evelyn sat in the middle of her friends and started to talk to them animatedly, she sounded so happy that I wondered why I had never appreciated that side of her.

Evelyn cleared her voice and took a deep breath, we all looked at her waiting for the imminent announcement she was going to do.

"I have something to tell you." She smiled gazing at all of us.

"I already know!" The man who seemed quite interested in me intervened and Evelyn giggled, "stop it, shush!" She complained, tugging him.

"Alright." She started to speak again, a smile curved her lips, "I found a new job! Will start on Tuesday."

"That's amazing!" I exclaimed in joy, offering my sister a proud smile while Joanna clapped her hands cheerful.

"I bet it will last less than my ex-relationship with Anna!" One of her friends joked.

"You mean of all your relationships put together! Not my fault if you can't date longer than a month!" Evelyn stuck her tongue out in a grimace before they both laughed.

"Where will you work?" I finally asked with curiosity.

I took some sips of my cocktail, it was very fruity and the alcohol was almost unnoticeable.

"I will work in a diner, it is a very simple place with the peculiarity that it offers a warm place where street performers can exhibit and get paid. I liked the idea so I sent a curriculum and tada! I got hired!"

My smile disappeared and my jump bounced in shock, that was the same diner I went with Cameron.