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“Oh yum,” Daisy said. “The food was so good last night and I’m glad we didn’t drive. I didn’t drink too much but enough that I want the carbs too.”
“It was a fun party,” she said.
“I saw you talking to Luke,” Daisy said, looking at her out of the corner of her eye as she grabbed the chocolate chips out of the pantry. “I had to ask who the guy was, as I didn’t know.”
“I met him at Lily’s wedding,” she said.
“He seemed to be looking at you last night.”
“What?” she asked.
“Someone pointed out that he was watching you on the dance floor last night. Or maybe everyone was watching you because you do seem to be a different person when you go out than at work.”
“Don’t most people act differently when they are out than at work?” she asked.
“I guess,” Daisy said, smirking. Daisy knew more about her family than anyone else.
Heather got to work on their breakfast, the two of them sitting down and stuffing their faces. “Want to open our gifts?”
She had a bunch of gifts under the tree from her family. Daisy had some too but not as much. There was part of her that felt bad, but Daisy didn’t have a big family and Heather did. Some of her family sent her e-gift cards or there’d be more under the tree.
“Sure,” Daisy said.
They moved to the living room which was nice and festive. They both probably went a little crazy but kept it to that one room.
The two of them sat next to the tree and she passed out the few things she got for Daisy, Daisy doing the same. She tried to not go overboard as she knew she made more money than Daisy.
When they were done, the room was filled with paper everywhere. She had clothes from her family, some things for the apartment.
Daisy had made her a beautiful necklace that had her crying and wishing she’d bought her friend more.
“I love it,” she said, fingering it again. It was gold and had a daisy in the center with heather sprigs on each side.
“I hoped you would and wouldn’t think it was corny. I think of you as my best friend and not just my roommate.”
She hugged Daisy. “I feel the same way.”
They cleaned up the living room after and she took a shower. She loved she had her own private bath attached to her room and Daisy had her bath in the hall next to her room. There was another small room that they shared as an office and workshop together.
Her phone rang when she was getting dressed in her room and she grabbed it to see her mother calling.
“Hello,” she said.
“Merry Christmas,” her mother said. “You’re on speaker phone and Dad is here too.”
“Merry Christmas,” her father said.
“You too. Both of you.”
“It’s so hard not having you here this year,” her mother said. “Your father and I were just talking about how quiet it was this morning with no one around.”
She let out a sigh. Simple words but meant to deliver the hurt to her. She knew it, she’d felt it most of her life.
“I wanted to go to the party last night, Mom. It’s too far away to drive there today and it’s snowing on top of it here.”
“I told your mother that,” her father said. “The boys will both be over at some point later tonight.”
She figured as much. “See, so not alone. You’ve got Dad with you too.”
