Unfortunate Events


   The phone hit the ground with a loud thump, and Sofie covered her eyes with her hands as the tears filled them. How could this happen? She couldn’t seem to get control of herself as she fell down onto the ground sobbing very loudly.
   “WHY?!...
      This CAN’T be happening!!!” she screamed to the empty bedroom.



A police officer had called her, and explained that there had been an accident involving a car that was traced back to her address. The first thought in her head was Jake, he had the car, and she had no idea where he went off to. The officer had explained that at approximately 11:00am, there was an fatal car wreck, and there was only one survivor. The car that was registered under their address was coming out of the grocery store and had it’s nose out a bit too far when a huge truck crashed into it. This happening had tapped the car and in turn, the car had spun underneath the truck. The truck had then rolled over the car. The accident had instantly rendered the victim lifeless, meaning the victim did not suffer. But, they needed her to come down and identify the victim, around 6pm tonight.
   Of course the first thing in her mind was Jake, she freaked out but she needed to calm herself down, there was a chance that it wasn’t her best friend. Maybe somebody had stolen the car, just maybe God didn’t throw this big of a punch to her. ‘What do I do now?’ She continued to sob loudly.



   Sofie picked up her cellphone off the ground and dialed Jake’s number. The phone rang about 5 times before the voicemail came on,
   “Hey, you’ve reached Jake, I can’t come to my phone right now, please leave your name and number and I’ll get back to ya, hollaaa.”
   She couldn’t accept that, he must’ve not been around his phone, maybe he left it in his room and he was walking to his friends house. She dialed the number again.. after 4 rings, “Hey, you’ve reached Jake—“
   Sofie screamed loudly and ran into his bedroom looking around frantically for his phone, but couldn’t spot it anywhere. With his cellphone not in sight, she dialed it again, “come on, Jake, pick up your phone,” she said in between crying. Again, after 4 rings came his voicemail, “Hey, you’ve reached Jake—“
   She couldn’t handle it anymore, maybe Stacey had heard from Jake, maybe he went to her house when someone stole the car. So, she dialed Stacey’s number.
   “Hello?” Stacey picked up the phone, and heard a bunch of crying, but no words. “Hello? Who’s there?” she said again, but still no answer just sobbing.
   “Stace…” Sofie had managed to get out finally, “I.. is Jake..?” she broke down, and hung up the phone on Stacey.



About a half hour later, Stacey stormed into Sofie’s house, no knock, nothing, but she was surprised to see that the place almost seemed empty. She wouldn’t have thought that Sofie was around except for hearing some noise upstairs. As she made her way to the staircase, she heard that it was someone crying uncontrollably.
   “What the heck is going on?” Stacey said to herself as she raced up the stairs and found Sofie crying, and she looked as if she had been crying for hours and hours.
   “Sofie, what is wrong?” Stacey had said and Sofie just jumped into her arms, she needed her friends comfort, and Stacey was willing to be available for that. They hugged and hearing her best friend cry had made Stacey start to cry as well.



About an hour later they were both laying down on Sofie’s bed relaxing, it was 1:00pm, and Sofie hadn’t stopped crying for that whole hour. She seemed to have gotten all the tears she could out for now, she felt like she just couldn’t cry anymore. Her face was all red from the crying that she did, but she finally could talk. She hadn’t told Stacey about the news that she heard, and nor did she want to, but she knew she had to. Jake and Stacey were just as close as Sofie and Jake were, they were all best friends.



It was 5:00pm when they had both finally gotten themselves together. Stacey had taken the news just as well as Sofie did. Seeing as Jake hadn’t returned their thousands of phone calls and he hadn’t returned home, and it wasn’t like him to disappear for the day out of nowhere, they were incredibly worried.
   “Sofie..” Stacey had said, “What if we go to this morgue place and it really is Jake that we see?”
   Sofie had asked if Stacey would come along, there is no way she was going to be doing this by herself, it was such a big deal to both of them.
   They had gotten into Stacey’s car and started their way to the morgue. This could be the worst day of their lives.



Stacey and Sofie had pulled up infront of their nightmare, when would they have ever wanted to drive to a place like this? It was 5:45pm.
   At the sight of it, Sofie broke down once again, and Stacey started to comfort her. Stacey had always been the stronger one, and almost as if she was the big sister. The two of them walked in and looked around. Sofie was very shaky, and couldn’t really hold her own weight, so she sat down in a nearby seat. Behind the desk was an older lady, she had grey hair, and was wearing a nice looking dress. Stacey wasn’t too sure if that was something someone behind a desk of a morgue should be wearing, but heck she wasn’t about to say anything.
   “Hi, ladies,” the older woman behind the desk had said. “Can I help you?”
   “Uhh.. yes, we got a call this morning telling us to come here.. to.. you know… around 6:00pm.” Stacey had said nicely, trying to stay calm.



The old lady nodded her head, “One minute, ladies.” She said as she disappeared into the door behind her. Stacey then took a seat next to Sofie, she was then in shock on the reality of things, but she had to keep her composure, for Sofie’s sake.
   The older lady came out of the door and walked up where the girls were sitting. “Alright, Mr. Radcliff is ready for you.”
   The girls stood up from their chairs, they just wanted to get this over with. Sofie was trying to suck it up, she still believed that her best friend was at his boyfriends house or something of the matter, he was not in this morgue, not right now.



But he was, and seeing him laying on that table was the worst thing that could’ve ever been imaginable. They were too upset to drive home, so Andrew came in a cab, and drove them both back to their house, not Sofie’s. They both decided it’d be best if they had eachother tonight, and didn’t want Sofie going back to that house. Andrew promised that he’d go and feed Cleo for her.



I don't really know much about the process of Identifying a body, etc.. so I apologize now if this chapter didn't come out well, but I tried..

   It was Sunday morning, at 10:30am, when Jake knocked on Sofie’s door, he wasn’t sure if Eric had gone home last night, or even if he had gone home earlier this morning, but he wanted to see his best friend and make sure she was alright.
   Sofie heard some knocking on the door, and moaned a bit, “come in” she said softly with her eyes still shut. As she opened up her eyes and sat up in bed, she realized that someone was in her bed with her! She looked over and there was a passed out Eric! “OH MY GOD,” she screamed.
   Jake ran in, and Eric jumped up. “What, what?” Eric said distraughtly, falling out of the bed and quickly getting to his feet, he was still in his clothes from the night before.
   “WHAT are you doing in my bed?” she yelled loudly.
   Eric didn’t know how to explain it.. “I must’ve fallen asleep here.. I meant to go to that bed..” he pointed to the other bed in the room.
   “We didn’t.. do anything, right?” she asked, hoping she wasn’t that drunk.
   “No, of course not, I was just making sure you were okay throughout the night, you were really drunk, Sofie.”
   With that cleared up, Jake let out a laugh, which was then followed by Sofie and Eric laughing as well. “How are you feeling, Sofe?” Jake asked caringly.
   “I feel like crap, my head is so heavy, and of course me screaming didn’t help my headache much.”
   “Well, I have some Tylenol set up downstairs with lots of water, and some very strong black coffee made if you want some. That goes for you too, Eric.” Jake turned and walked out the door, leaving Sofie and Eric alone together.



“Listen, Sofie, I’m really sorry about that,” Eric said nervously.
   “That’s alright, Eric,” she said with a pause and hesitated before speaking again, “ I made a fool out of myself last night, huh?” she blushed a bit.
   “Oh, don’t worry about it, I thought it was cute,” he winked at her, “but listen, I really can’t stay, I promised my girlfriend I’d be home in the morning.”
   “Oh.. right,” she couldn’t help but sound a bit disappointed. “Well, thank you so much for taking care of me.”
   “It was no problem at all, hun, anytime.”
   She led him out towards the front door and Eric pulled her into a big hug, like he always did, and he held her there for a few minutes. To her, it felt forever, and she definitely wasn’t complaining, then he turned around and walked out the door. He forgot to make a phone call for a ride, so he just decided to walk home.



After Sofie watched Eric walk down the street, she wondered if she should have offered him a ride, but she shrugged it off and walked into the bathroom. She took a quick shower, and went upstairs to get dressed. She threw her hair up and threw some clothes on. Since it was Sunday and she had no plans, she wasn’t too worried about what she looked like.
   When Sofie returned downstairs, Jake wasn’t there, he seemed to have disappeared. “Oh well,” she said as she petted Cleo, “What have I gotten myself into, Cleo?” she sighed as she picked her up and took her upstairs. Cleo just kept meowing at Sofie, and she missed spending some quality time with her, so she had placed Cleo down in her room and grabbed a book to read. She felt like she needed to relax in bed, she still had a major headache.



About an hour later, she was still reading, but could hear the phone ringing downstairs, she was too lazy to run down and answer it, so she just shrugged it off. Ten minutes after the house phone stopped ringing, her cell phone rang. She got out of bed and answered the phone,
   
 “Hello?...



...You're kidding, RIGHT?"

 Safety



Arriving at Sofie’s house, Eric felt a bit uncomfortable. He shouldn’t have offered to take her home, what was he thinking? He knew that he was only doing it because he was a good friend, and perhaps he did still care for her, how couldn’t he? But, what if Sofie thinks something differently? What if Kayla thinks something of this? “Shit,” he accidentally said.
   Sofie was definitely still a bit drunk, but she hadn’t gotten to the pass out phase, just yet. “Sh-sh..itwhat?” she managed to spit out, slurring her words.
   “Oh nothing – lets get you into bed,” Eric had said, letting his eyes look down at the woman in his arms, with a hint of caring in his voice.
   “No, no I don’t wannnaa sleepy yet, iz early,” again with slurring her words together.
   “Come on,” he pouted, she was so adorable when she was drunk, heck she was adorable all the time, and he remembered that. ‘What more does she want me to do?’ he thought to himself.
   Eric turned the doorknob before walking into the house, it was unlocked! At 11:30pm?! Does someone else have a key to her house? Does she live with a boyfriend? Did someone break in? Should he be worried? He had to do it, so he took a deep breath and slowly walked into the house carrying Sofie in his arms. He glanced around, and was very surprised at what he saw. She used her money well, and of course he knew where she had gotten the money from, he knew Sofie’s family past.



They were already in the living room, and Eric didn’t know his way around the house, but he could feel himself losing some energy, he couldn’t carry her around right now, he needed to have a rest. So, he placed her down on the couch, and told her to relax a little bit.
   “I don’t wanna go to sleep, Eric!” she said very loudly.
   “You’re on the couch, not in bed, relax, little lady,” he smiled over at her, “I’ll be right back, stay right there, alright?”
   “Where do YOU think you are going, Misstaaah?” she screamed as she tried getting up but fell back onto the couch.
   “Listen, just don’t try to get up, stay there, I’ll be back in 5 minutes, I promise,” he said as he walked into the next room, which happened to be the kitchen. He looked around and was pretty impressed with the decorations and at the size of the room, but he had to keep looking. He was searching for her bedroom, the sooner she got to sleep, the better!
   So he walked up the stairs and he heard noise coming from one room, it sounded like a television, he wasn’t sure what to do, but he decided to knock on the door, hopefully whoever it was wasn’t a burglar and didn’t think HE was a burglar.
   Jake came to the door in his pajama pants, “Uh.. what the HELL are you doing in my house?!” He said angrily, “Get out!” he screamed.



“Hey.. uh, listen, calm down,” Eric pleaded.
   “What, are you deaf? WHO are you?!” Jake exclaimed.
   “My names Eric, I used to date Sofie..” he tried to explain to Jake, but Jake kept interrupting.
   “So what are you doing here? I remember you, you left and made her cry her little eyes out, scum.”
   “No, listen, we all went out tonight, she got a bit drunk, and I brought her home, she’s downstairs in the living room, I was looking around trying to find her room, okay?” Eric finally spit out and turned around to go back down the stairs.
   “Oh, Eric, I’m sorry, I just..” he stopped Eric from walking down the stairs, “alright, listen, you can go home, I’ll take care of her, I’m good for that.”
   “I don’t really want to do that, I can’t leave her, I had promised I’d take care of her, and that’s what I am going to do.”
   “So what does that mean? You’re going to stay overnight?.. Oh no you don’t, you’re not getting any tonight, Eric,” Jake said in defensive of his friend, he knew Sofie wouldn’t have wanted to do anything with Eric, especially when she was drunk.
   “No, I’ll sleep on the floor in her room, I’m not like that, stop it, please.”
   Jake sighed and walked back into his room, and Eric could hear him talking to someone, hopefully not himself.
   Eric walked back downstairs and went into the living room, to see Sofie sleeping on the couch, passed out, ‘It’s about time,’ he thought to himself.



He walked over to the couch and picked her up, he couldn’t let her sleep the night away on a couch, no matter how comfortable she looked, he knew she would be comfortable up in her own bed. When he had gotten upstairs, Jake was up there waiting.
   “Her room is over here,” he pointed and led him into the room.
   “Thanks man, she passed out, do you think we should get her into her pajamas?” Eric asked innocently.
   “Here, stay here, I’ll help her into them.” Jake said as Eric walked out into the hallway.

Ten minutes had passed and Jake walked out of the room, “Alright, I’ll be coming in to check in on her in the night, but if you want to stay, she has an extra bed in there.”
   Eric walked into the room and had spotted Sofie under the covers of her bed, comfortably sleeping, he wasn’t sure if he should stay the night, but he felt bad since he had made a promise, even if she was drunk, he didn’t break promises.
   
He decided that it would be a smart idea to give his girlfriend a call, but he wasn’t exactly sure what to say to her, how do you explain that you’re staying at your ex girlfriends house for the night? He hoped Kayla would understand that he is just a good person. He went into the hall and picked up his cell phone, and dialed Kayla’s number.
   “Hey baby,” he said into the phone.
   “Where are you, Eric?” she sounded a bit angry, but he heard laughing and loud music in the background, she was obviously still at that party. It was midnight, and she obviously wasn’t planning on coming home anytime soon.



“Listen, Kayla, I know you’re not going to be too happy, but Sofie got kind of drunk when James was driving you to your party, and James has to get up early, so I offered to take her home…” he paused.
   “Oh, great, she wants you, I told you, Eric, she shouldn’t have gotten drunk, it’s a trap, she wanted you to come to her house and she has you right where she wants you. I can’t believe you!”
   “No, listen.. I’m only staying here because I promised her and James that I would take care of her, I’m good for my word and I don’t go back on those things. I’m going to make sure she is alright through the night and then I’m coming home tomorrow bright and early,” he said.
   “So you’re going to sleep in the same bed with your drunk ex girlfriend? Sorry, Eric but I’m not happy about that.”
   “Who said I was sleeping in the same bed, Kayla? Stop that, I’m sleeping in an extra bed, don’t worry about it, I’ll call you in the morning. Have fun at your party.”



Eric hung up the phone, that didn’t go as well as he had planned. “Dang,” he said outloud, ‘I just try to be a good friend and this is what I get, we’ve only been dating for 2 weeks now,’ he thought to himself. He shrugged it off and went back into Sofie’s room, and looked over at the extra bed, and then glanced to her bed…



He chose to lay down and relax in her bed, was this a bad idea?

Bowling Alley

6:15 pm, Sofie had finally arrived at Deleo’s bowling alley to meet up with her brother. How could she be running late? Well, she was expecting to see her ex boyfriend who she was still in love with, so of course it took her a very long time to make herself look as good as she wanted herself to look. Although, she still hadn’t felt she looked good enough, and she knew Eric had a girlfriend, so what was the point?

 She wanted to keep her mind on spending quality time with her brother, so she had to keep shaking her head away from the thoughts of Eric. She needed to prepare herself for meeting Eric’s new girlfriend and actually finding out what he’s doing with his life right now.

Sofie walked into the bowling alley, after taking a deep breath. The first person she spotted was James right at the door, he must’ve been waiting for her. Sofie didn’t see Eric or his girlfriend around, and that brought her stress level down a bit as she ran up to James and hugged him tightly. “I hope you haven’t been waiting too long,” she said genuinely.



Unfortunately for Sofie, Eric and his girlfriend had already saved the lanes while James was waiting for his sister. She had hoped when she didn’t see them, that maybe they had canceled, but James quickly clued her in on where they were. Sofie couldn’t help but have another look at herself worriedly, and that’s when James looked at her, noticing that she seemed unsure of herself and smiled, “You are beautiful, Sofie.”
   Sofie blushed, “Thank you, James.”
   “Alright, well..” he said smiling, as he led her over to their lanes, “this will be fun, I promise.”



Sofie gulped loudly as she spotted Eric and his girlfriend, much to Sofie’s dismay, she was gorgeous. As they had approached the lanes, Eric had glanced up and watched them walk over towards them, he grabbed his girlfriends hand and smiled, he whispered something to her as they were walking over, she could hear Eric’s laugh a mile away.
   Sofie looked at them both as they had arrived next to them. “Hey, Eric, how have you been?” She asked and reached her hand out for his, but he didn’t take that, he took her right in his arms and gave her a big hug. “Hey Sofie, I’ve missed you,” he said, and paused for a few minutes just looking at her. His girlfriend then cleared her throat as she felt that he was looking at her a bit too long, and wanted to be introduced. “Oh right,” Eric said, clearing his head, “Meet Kayla, and Kayla this is Sofie.” They shook hands, gently, and it seemed as if Kayla wasn’t too interested in getting to know Sofie. They stood around and chatted for a little bit, before they started bowling, as well.



As they had all been bowling, they realized how the time was flying, it was already 9:00pm and she was beginning to hear her tummy grumble, but she felt bad saying that she was hungry, so they kept on bowling.
   Just then, Kayla’s cell phone had rang and Sofie was up bowling, she didn’t want to seem like she was listening, but she had heard that Kayla was sounding a bit excited. When Sofie came back from her turn at bowling, Kayla was talking about how her friend was having an amazing party, and she wanted to go. James had offered to give her a ride, and said he’d be back soon.
   So there she was, alone with Eric, ‘oh my,’ she thought to herself.
   “Uh.. well, how are you doing, Sofie?” he asked curiously, as they sat down at a bench.
   “I’m alright, kind of hungry, what about you?”
   “I’m hungry as well, maybe we should go get something to eat?” Eric had said.



“Luckily this place has some amazing food,” Sofie said, standing up, “Lets go find a table. I could use a drink,” she giggled. Eric nodded in agreement as he got up with her, and they had made their way to the host. “Two,” Eric said to the host, as he led them to a nice table.
   They both sat down and looked at the menu, Sofie had ordered some lobster, and Eric had ordered himself a hamburger, she couldn’t help but let out a small laugh at him ordering a hamburger, he didn’t see anything wrong with it, it wasn’t like it was a fancy place or anything.



Before the food had been done, Sofie had already had three beers, and she was feeling pretty buzzed, she wasn’t a big drinker, but she wanted to have a good night. Surprisingly she felt pretty comfortable with it just being her and Eric, their conversation just kind of flowed, and she couldn’t help but laugh and smile the whole time, her face was lit up as the food arrived, she was famished.



While they were eating, she had some more beers, why stop now? Eric wasn’t sure what to think of that, maybe she had turned into some alcoholic, but he knew he wasn’t about to let her drive home by herself.
   “So, why isn’t your boyfriend here with you, Sofie?” he asked.
   “Well, why isn’t your girlfriend here with you?” she snapped back, “..I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that, it’s just a tough subject for me…”
   He was taken aback with her first answer, and almost scared, “No, I’m sorry I brought it up, I didn’t know it was like that..”
   “I don’t have a boyfriend, right now..”
   “Well, me and Kayla are pretty new, I think she needs me more than I need her.”
   “What do you mean?” she asked curiously.
“I just think that she is mixed in the wrong crowd, I almost feel like I need to help her on her feet,” he had said with a sigh, “Anyways.. are you sure you should be gulping down those beers?” At this time they were all done eating, and they were just sitting at the table talking.  It was 10:30pm.




   They had paid for their dinner, and Sofie was stumbling all over the place, she was trashed. ‘What am I going to do?’ Eric thought, ‘James is going to kill me!’
   Eric had helped Sofie onto a bench, and spotted James walking in, finally.
   “Hey, James!” Sofie said very loudly, trying to stumble up to go see him, but after much effort continued to sit in the bench.
   James looked right at Eric with a questioning face, “What did you do to her?!” he exclaimed.
   “Oh, she just ordered her own beers, she’s old enough, I just didn’t know she was going to take it this far.”
   “Well, that’s just great, Eric, I have to be up early, I guess I should take her home, and stay the night or something.”
   “No, no, James, I got it, I promise, you go on home, I’ll see you tomorrow.”
   “Are you sure?” James said lightly, and when Eric had nodded he made his way over to Sofie to say goodnight to her, and told her he’d give her a call later. James told Eric how to get to Sofie’s house and then walked out the door, he was exhausted.
   
   Eric then scooped Sofie up in his arms and walked his way to her car, “We’ll take you home now, where are your keys?”

Just uhh catching up



Sofie didn’t even remember falling asleep last night, she didn’t even remember walking through her house door, maybe it was because she was so enthused about seeing her brother. Maybe it was because her mind was side tracked replaying the events of the evening in her mind.  Everything went even better than she had expected, and she was happy for that. She couldn’t help but be excited for the future years she was going to share with her brother, she finally felt like she had a family, or atleast the beginning of one.
   It was 9:00am when Sofie woke up naturally, but when she realized that she hadn’t even gotten to bed until 4:00am last night, she decided to go back to sleep, she couldn’t last throughout the day with only five hours of sleep. When she finally woke up again it was 11:00am and it was to her cat, Cleo. Sofie sighed loudly as she looked at the clock, ‘Cleo must be hungry,’ she thought to herself. Automatically, she turned around and made her bed, then glanced around her room gracefully.



In her pajamas, Sofie walked down the stairs and put some food into Cleo’s dish, and then walked into the bathroom. She was hoping that her brother would come over today, or maybe she should go out and try to meet someone new since Clayton had screwed her over. ‘Should I call him and ask him what was up with last night? Or should I just let it go and not worry about it?’ She wasn’t sure what the right choice of action was, but she knew she had to do something about it.
   Taking her clothes off, she put on her robe and brushed her teeth, and then hopped into the shower quickly, she felt very heated, maybe it was because she was angry with the thought of Clayton, but she needed to cool down.



When she got out of the shower, it was about 11:30am and she wanted so badly to talk to Jake, so she went up the stairs, still in her bathrobe, and knocked on his door. She could hear him snoring, and she walked into her room disappointedly. She picked out something nice to wear, and then did her hair nicely. It took her a bit to straighten it, and when she had finished it was around 12:45pm.
   Jake had just woken up and was walking out in the hall, he still had his clothes on from last night, but he was starving, so he wanted to make some lunch. He knocked on Sofie’s door to ask her if she wanted some as well.
   “Come in!” she called out to him, and agreeing to lunch, she had followed Jake downstairs to the kitchen. They decided on grilled cheese sandwiches and while he was grilling the sandwiches up, she had started to tell him about the night before.



“So, your brother and you are going to see eachother a lot more now?” Jake asked.
   “Yeah, we plan on it.. in fact I kind of would like to talk to him today and maybe see a movie, are you interested in coming along?”
   “No, Sofie, that’s okay, you guys need your time to catch up. But hey, have you thought about asking him to move in here?”
   “Not really, he seems like he’s alright with where he is for now, why?”
   “Uh, well.. I’m dating this guy Jeremy you know, the pizza delivery guy I met last weekend,” he smirked a bit, “anyways, we’ve gotten a bit serious, and we’re thinking of moving in together.”
   “Are you sure that’s so smart, Jake? It’s so soon.. we haven’t even met him,” she tried being a good friend to him and hopefully have him change his mind.
   “I know it seems really fast, but I feel like I’ve known him forever already.”
   “How about he just comes and moves in here for a while, and if it works out then you guys should move out? That sounds like a bit smarter to me,” she offered.
   “Well, we’ll have to think about it, hun.. that’s so great that you’d do that for me.”



Sofie and Jake had finished up their lunch and as they were cleaning up, Sofie picked up the phone and decided to give Stacey a call, she wanted to make sure her friend was alright.
   The phone rang three times before Stacey had picked up. “Hello?” she sounded like she was in the middle of something or just waking up, but that couldn’t be at 1:35pm, could it?
   “Hey, Stace, it’s Sofe.”
   “Oh hey, hun, what are you up to?”
   “Nothing, are you in the middle of something?”
   “Andrew and I were up really late last night, so yeah, I was just waking up, actually,” she sounded a bit embarrassed.



“Awe, that’s fine, I hope you guys had a nice talk”
   “Oh, it wasn’t just a talk,” Stacey said letting out a little giggle.
   “Oh gosh, you guys are back at the mushy-ness, huh?”
   “Yeah, actually, we are.. back to acting like newlyweds, right hunny?” Stacey said and Sofie figured she was touching his leg or face, she could just picture it right now.
   Sofie made fake gagging noises and then let out a small laugh, “Well, I’m glad to hear that.”
   “Yeah, we talked about the whole Clayton thing.. and I guess he is seeing someone right now. I was hoping it’d be you.. since I thought you guys had a date.”
   “Oh, yeah, we had a date.. and he completely blew me off, but yet he was good enough to be at the place I was last night, so I got to see him and his lovely date,” Sofie huffed angrily.
   “Awe, hun, I’m so sorry that you had to go through that, that’s not fair, he’s such scum, you are better off without him.”
   “Yeah…”
   “Actually I met his girlfriend last night, probably after their date or something, I wish you could’ve seen what she looked like,” she giggled.
   “Was she ugly? Disfigured? I hope so!” Sofie sighed, “Okay, I know I shouldn’t hope such a thing, I’m just angry with him…
   Anyways, are you busy or can you talk for a little bit?” she asked.
   “I can talk! I can talk! I’ve missed talking with you,” Stacey said with a smile on her face.
   They caught up on all the events in Stacey and Andrews arguments, and what they did with Clayton and his new girlfriend, and also talked about Sofie meeting up with her brother who she hadn’t seen for 7 years, and how all those events had played out and how excited she was. Stacey was also very excited for Sofie, how couldn’t she be? It was about time !




   Right after Sofie had hung up the phone with Stacey, the phone started to ring which of course caught her off guard. She jumped a bit at the coincidence and Jake started to laugh as he was on his way out to catch Jeremy.
   “Hello?”
   “Hey, Sofie. How are you doing?”
   She was so excited to hear James’ voice on the other line, “Great! How are you?”
   “I’m alright, do you have any plans today?”
   “No no, do you?” she was excited, hoping he’d want to hang out.
   “Well, more like today. I was wondering if you wanted to come out with me and Eric tonight, we were thinking of going bowling.”
   “That sounds good, but Eric.. wouldn’t you think that might be a bit awkward?”



“No,” he said, “why would that be awkward, Sofie? Kayla might be meeting us there though, if it’s too awkward for you, we don’t have to do it.”
   “Well, I definitely want to see you, I suppose I could deal!” she said smiling.
   “Are you sure? Because it could always be just me and you, you know that.”
   “Oh, I’ll be alright, I promise. It’ll be fun, and if it isn’t we will make it fun!”

   So that was it, they had made plans for 6:00pm sharp at Deleo’s bowling alley, it was the place they went to as kids with their mother, so they had figured it was a good idea to reminisce.