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"Let's just say I ordered a couple hundred dollars' worth of room service." I smile. "I wish I could've been a fly on the wall watching him when it arrived."
"Oh my God, you're so bad."
"Hey, he deserved it."
"Oh, he totally did," she says. "Does this mean you're ready to start dating again?"
"I don't know. There's just so much I need to focus on right now. I need to retake the LSAT. I need to find a cheap LSAT prep class. I need to look for a job. I…" Fuck, did I say that out loud?
"Wait, what?" She frowns. "What do you mean, look for a job? You're looking for a new job?"
"Yeah, but…"
"What? What is it?" she asks.
"Okay, don't hate me, but I lost my job yesterday."
"Oh my gosh. Oh, Zara, why didn't you tell me? I'm so sorry. You made me think everything was great last night, and you lost your job?" She puts her coffee down and gives me a big hug. "Zara, why didn't you tell me?"
"Because I didn't want you to worry."
"Worry? About…" She pauses as it dawns on her. "Oh, you mean paying rent and bills and stuff."
I nod. "Let's be real. Elise is not getting a job anytime soon. And unless she's somehow gone to Vegas to marry that Brian, and he's going to give her money each month, I have to come up with a way to?—"
"I'm going to get a job," she says. "I'll quit the play. I'll…"
"No," I say, shaking my head. "I've got this. You're not quitting the play. You supported me at a time when you didn't have to. And if you hadn't lent me your grandma's money, you would've had that to live on right now. You would've been able to follow your dreams without…"
"I would've spent that money in college on crap. You know it."
"Lila, please. You're my best friend, and I want to be there to support you."
“I know," she says, squeezing my hands. "And I know that you feel like you owe me, but you don't owe me anything. And I know that you feel like you need to be the best friend in the world because of Sandra, but…" She puts her hand up to stop me from refuting her words. "I'm just saying that you don't have to support us. If you don't have a job, that's…"
"I'm going to find a job, okay? It'll be okay. Please. It will kill me if you have to give up your dream."
She wants to tell me that I can’t handle this alone, but she doesn’t because she knows how important this is to me. "Let's make a deal."
"What's the deal?" I ask suspiciously.
"I will not quit. At least not yet. But if you don't find a job within two weeks, I will look for a job."
"Fine," I say, hoping that I find a job within two weeks.
"I'll help you look for jobs when I get back from this breakfast."
"You're so sweet, Lila. You don't have to help me comb through the plethora of crap online."
"No, I do. You're a really good best friend. You take care of me, you take care of Elise, you take care of the kids, and I'm really appreciative of you always being there for me. And I'm sorry that guy was a jerk and didn't recognize that you were the bomb.”
“He was a jerk. Hot as hell and the best sex of my life, but also a jerk.”
“Best sex of your life?” She raises an eyebrow and giggles. “Sounds like he got something right.”
“Barely.” I wrinkle my nose.
“Doesn’t matter,” she says, shaking her head. “You're going to meet a better guy, and you're going to get a better job. Then we're going to get a better and bigger apartment. Then, when I make it big, I'm going to buy us a mansion. And we're going to have Lamborghinis and Ferraris and…" She pauses. “What’s another fancy car?”
