Chapter 7
After leaving the Bean Hope decides to go home she makes the decision to just have a lazy day. More like stay home and actually finish things that need to be done at her house like laundry and all the good stuff. She gets home and decides she will take a shower later so she starts doing some laundry. Her phone beeps and she quickly goes to where she left it. Thinking it might be Kelley, but it's Carli " Hey are you home? I hope so I'm dropping by in 5" the text reads. Hope growls and doesn't even bother to text back. She hates when people just drop by she prefers knowing someone is coming over so that she has time to clean and look presentable but again it's just Carli and her friend does this a lot so no surprise there. She picks up her phone and decides to text her friend to just come in when she gets here and wait for her, that way she can at least clean herself up a little bit. She sends the text and walks to her bathroom.
When Hope is done showering she walks back to the living room to find Carli sitting on her couch passed out. "Well are you here to take a nap in my comfortable couch or are you here to see me?" She raises an eyebrow to her friend waiting for her response as she wakes up kind of startled. "Jesus Hope you scared the fuck out of me, be gentle next time" Carli responds giving Hope a slight glare." By the way I wouldn't have fell asleep if you wouldn't have taken for ever to shower" she says trying to sound annoyed but Hopes just smiles and walks to the kitchen. "For the record it only took me like 10 min to shower.....Water?" Carli nods. She grabs two water bottles from her fridge and walks back to her living room and sits by Carli. "Anyway what brings you to my house?" Hope asks. "I was just in the neighborhood finishing my run so I said why not go say hi to my dear friend Hope" she smirks at Hope and take a long drink of her water. Hope laughs "Oh I see miss me already?" Hope smiles and bats her eyes at her friend. "Ugh! Disgustingly cute. What's got you so happy this early in the morning is like you're actually in a good mood
...did you get laid or something" Hope's eye go wide at Carli's last comment. "Really Carli? No I didn't actually but I did have a good morning thanks for asking" she says looking a Carli with another one of those smiles that she just can't help but smile."I didn't ask but please go on" Carli smirks and Hope playfully shoves her. "Watch it Solo" Carli says. "Like I was saying I had a good morning I ummmm I broke up with Adrian, well actually he broke up with me. Through text may I add. He kinda beat me to it I sent him a messege letting him know we needed to talk so he pretty much just said we should just get it over with so we did" she breathes staring at Carli waiting for a response and all Carli says is "Fucking finally, I was wondering how much longer is was going to take you guys to realize you weren't even together." she says to Hope and all Hope can do is let out a soft chuckle. "I know, I saw him this morning we meet for a coffee and we talked until his boss called of course and he had to leave. It felt good finally ending it" Hope starts to smile at the thought of Kelley and Carli notices it."Oh my god!, was this about the girl you meet at the bean? Is that why you decided to finally end it with Adrian?" Carli asks. Hope can't help but blush a little, Carli has never been one to hold back anything and Hope loves and hates that about her. "No,I mean ...I ..no its not like you said we were pretty much over a while back but this might of maybe definitely had something to do with it. I guess it kinda helped me I was already thinking about it before I meet her." she gives Carli a shy smile "Hope fucking Solo going soft for the new barista at the Bean, Oh my I gotta meet this girl if she has this effect on you and you just meet her like two days ago, I can only imagine what she'll do to you if you guys start dating, damn!" Carli laughs and Hope sends glares her way that could kill anybody if possible. "Fuck off Carli, it's nothing like that, I umm there's just something about her I can't explain it, we just click there's something there and I want to find out, im so dramn to her for some weird reason." she takes a breath "I'm actually gonna show her around the city on Sunday." she carefully looks at her friend to see her reaction."You already asked her on a date?" Carli asks not believing her friend Hope had already asked the barista out. Hope wasn't one to go with her gut and feelings, just putting herself out there wasn't what Hope did ever, so it surprised Carli how this girl seem to change the way Hope usually did things when it came to dating, or people in general. "Wow Hope you got a massive crush on this girl." Carli chuckles at the craziness of her friend. "It's not a crush and not exactly I just want to get to know her that's all, she seems sweet and nice." 'and gorgeous with the most beautiful smile I've ever seen and those freckles' Hope thinks to herself and smiles."Oh believe me, you have a crush on this girl. I've seen that look on your face before and that my friend is a crush." Carli laughs. Hope just sits there thinking to herself trying to convince herself that Carli is wrong, she's too old to have crushes for anyone. Who is she kidding of course she has a crush on Kelley, she likes Kelley, she might only know her for two or three days but that girl has got a pull on Hope that she herself can't figure out why but then she remembers Kelley's smile, her perfectly freckled face, those freckles she swears are making her wonder if she has them somewhere else where she can't see where she wants to see and find out herself. Those eyes she gets lost in every time you look at them. Yeah she definitely has a crush Hope thinks to herself, when her friend jolts her out of her toughts. "For what is worth, I like seeing you like this happy and excited it's like your smile actually reaches your eyes, it's disgusting really but I like it" She reaches out to Hope and put her hand on top of hers "But really Hope I'm happy for you" she smiles at her friend. "Jeez you're making it sound like I'm in love with her and I'm not I only known her for a few days Carli but thank you" she gives Carli a squeeze in her hand and gets up. "How about I make us some lunch all this talking made me hungry" she Carli a look and tries to finalize the conversation about Kelley wich Carli understands and lays down on the couch "Ok Solo whatever you say, wake me up when your done making lunch, I'm gonna finish my nap that you so rudely interrupted" she closes her eyes but her smile never leaves her face waiting on a response from her friend. "You're unbelievable and annoying yout know that." Hope reaches the kitchen and starts to get stuff out of the fridge to make some sandwiches for the two of them. "But you love me." it's all Carli responds. 'I do' Hope says to herself and doesn't reply just starts making their lunch. Truth is she really did, Carli had been there for her since middle school. She had been there for her in every possible way. When her world had been shattered and her heart had been broken in little tiny pieces, Carli had been the one to help her pick up the pieces and help her put them back together. Carli had been her rock through it all if it wasn't for Carli she wouldn't be standing here right now she owed her so much. When Hope was finished they sat down and ate making small talk here and there. When Carli finally left, deciding to meet up later at their usual go to bar and have some drinks. Hope picked up her phone, searching for Kelley's name she opened a text window and started typing out
Hope: How does 11:00am sound ? Too early ?
After what it felt like forever she heard her phone light up with a reply from Kelley. Hope Smiled.
Kelley: Sounds like a date ;)
Hopes eyes went big but then relaxed. And started typing back.
Hope: Don't get ahead of yourself this is just me being nice to you ;)
Kelley: Call it what you want Solo ;) I'll see you tomorrow try not to miss me too much
Hope: I won't don't worry ;)
Hope chuckles at how ridiculous the younger girl is, this is definitely going to be an interesting weekend for her.She needs a drink.