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I stayed with her until around 8. She still hadn't moved from her spot. I took out the aspirin bottle from her medicine cabinet, brought a glass of water from the kitchen, and laid it on top of a coaster by her bedside table.
Her phone pinged. I ignored it. Her phone pinged again. Who would be texting her at 8 o'clock on a Saturday morning?
She needed to rest, I didn’t want to wake her up. The phone would have kept beeping if I didn't silence it.
I glanced at the screen; it was an incoming text message, "Call me." Probably one of her classmates. I was completely going to ignore but the name of the sender caught my eye. Shock,denial, and anger flooded through me.
Brennan.
She was talking to him? Since when did this shit happen?When did it fucking start?
I upped and left the room before I woke her up and unleashed my anger.
Sedona
I woke up in stages. Headache, took some aspirin, back tosleep, and finally woke up.
I was way off my bedtime. Drinking margaritas and mojitos were my indulgences. A treat when you're drinking them but theafter-effects were painful.
I showered, ate a piece of toast, and slumped on the couch.
Last night was Nalee’s send-off to Jerome. She had finally broken up with him. This time, she was determined not to take him back.
I had a pretty good feeling that was the end of it.
The last straw snapped when Nalee found out that Jerome gave her Chlamydia. Thank god, it was treatable with a dose of antibiotics. Nalee received an anonymous call from a clinic notifying her that she was identified as a contact to a person who had Chlamydia. Since Jerome was the only person she slept with, she went to him and confronted him about it. He had the gall to blame it on the girl who gave it to him. For a pre-med student, he was a stupid idiot. Nalee then went to his bathroom, poured some cleaning solution in a cup, and poured it all over Jerome's pants and shrieked, "This is not enough to clean your dirty dick! You are an asshole. I don't know why I stayed with you. We are done. Don't call me. Don't bother me. If you do, I will fucking post your picture all across campus with a warning underneath it, 'Sleep at your own risk'!"
Jerome let her go. At first, Nalee was angry and furious then she was sobbing her heart and eyes out. Tanya and I listened to her, over glasses and glasses of margaritas. We went from Chasen’s to another bar and finally to Pickles, where Zander picked us up.
I called him to thank him but he didn't pick up. I left him a message to call me back.
Two hours later, he still hadn't called back. I called and texted him. That was odd. He usually called back and texted me right away. I called Xavier. Zander must not have hisphone on him.
Xavieranswered on the third ring.
"'Sup?"
"Is your roommate there?" Loud, heavy, piano music could be heard in the background. Someone was beating on the keys, furiously.
He took a beat before answering,
"Yeah, he is."
"Can you tell him I'vebeen trying to reach him?"
"Hold a sec." He put me on mute. Silence greeted me on the other line.
"Zander said he knows you've been tryingto reach him."
Why wasn't he answering my calls?
"Thanks, I'll try calling him again."
Xavier said, "Not a problem, beautiful. If he doesn’t want you, call me." He was such a flirt.
I called Zander for the third time. He finally picked up, "Sup?" his voice was cold.
"Hi babe. Did I do anything wrong last night?" Why did he sounddistant?
