- Chapter 4
The next morning Bella and Liz woke up at Liz’s new apartment. The girls were both destroyed by their night and suffering from major hangovers. Liz had not experienced this level of hangover in a long time. She was already exhausted and feeling this horrible made her cranky.
“I’m pretty sure my brain is going to explode,” Bella said as she tried to roll off of the couch and make her way to the bathroom.
“Mine already exploded,” Liz said while she continued to keep her eyes closed.
“My god. How much did we drink last night?”
“Bella you drank more than any human should ever consume.” Liz joked.
The girls spent at least an hour trying to drag themselves out of bed and wake up enough that they could shovel some food down. This was exactly why Liz hated drinking too much. The morning after feeling was just horrible, and she wanted to curl up and go back to bed.
After breakfast, Bella climbed back into her covers on the couch as Liz took a shower and prepared to go to her waitress job. She had cut back her hours to only working one full day each weekend, but it was getting pretty hard to gather the strength to get up and get to work.
“Liz are you seriously going to work today?” Bella asked.
“Yes.”
“Just call in. Stay here and sleep.” Bella urged as she wrapped herself tight into her blankets and tried to hide from the world.
“That’s not the way the real world works. I have to go to work.” Liz said.
“You don’t have to get snotty about it.”
“Whatever. You are spoiled and don’t know anything about the real world.” Liz tried to leave after she said this, but it had struck a nerve with Bella. Liz wasn’t even sure why she was so agitated with Bella. Maybe it was the late night drinking, or because Bella didn’t approve of Liz dating Harrison. Liz regretted yelling at Bella but just couldn’t stop herself from continuing with the argument.
“I don’t know about the real world? Oh Really?”
“Yes. I mean your Dad pays for everything. You have no consequences for anything you do. You don’t know about the real world.” Liz wanted to stop arguing with Bella, she really did, but the words just kept coming out.
“I am not a spoiled brat if that is what you are trying to say,” Bella said as she gathered her things.
No way did Bella want to stay at Liz’s house if she was going to be this grumpy. It was ridiculous how Liz thought just because she wanted to work a million jobs, and go to school, everyone else was spoiled.
“You are kind of spoiled Bella,” Liz said. She tried to say it as a joke, but Bella didn’t take it that way. By this time Bella was in full on defensive mode and Liz, knew it.
“I’m sorry you feel like you need to work yourself to death to be happy. But that doesn’t mean I’m spoiled.” Bella yelled as she stormed out of the apartment.
Liz was left sitting alone on her couch as the slammed door echoed throughout her apartment. Maybe she was just overly tired and was lashing out at Bella. It wasn’t Bella’s fault that she had people that cared about her.
Liz wished she had people that cared about her as much as Bella did. She felt bad for yelling at Bella, but she did not have time to make up with her right now. Liz had a full day of waitressing ahead of her and as much as Bella thought Liz didn’t need the job; Liz knew she would not feel comfortable giving up her waitressing job until she graduated from college.
The day at work went by incredibly slow, and Liz couldn’t help but think that she ruined her last chance at friendship with Bella. It was overwhelming because Liz had worked so hard to keep her friendship together after the incident in Boston. To have it fall apart because of a stupid argument seemed really bad.
Liz tried to text Bella and apologize but did not receive a text back. She spent Sunday in bed recovering from her night out on Friday and her full day of working on Saturday. It felt great to curl up and sleep all day and try to recover some energy before her week began again in the morning.
There were only a few weeks left in the semester, and Liz felt more determined than ever to graduate and get through with college. She was in the home stretch now, and nothing could stop her from getting finished.
Even though, she felt like Bella would be angry at her for a while. Liz hoped that when things calmed down Bella would be alright again. They had arguments in the past and after a couple days both girls had made up with a hug and an apology. Liz hoped this would be one of those situations again.
After pretty much sleeping her Sunday away, Liz felt like she was ready to take on the work week bright and early Monday morning.
What she hadn’t realized yet, was that she had called Harrison and thrown herself at him over the phone. She hadn’t checked her voicemails and was oblivious to everything when she walked into work Monday morning.