After their little breakdown and confessions Amy showed Ava to her room which was the guest bedroom but Amy told her she could stay however she wanted.
Unpacking her stuff that was scattered on the bed, her mind wandered to what she could do. She was so stranded and broke fully aware Amy was going to be feeding her for the next few weeks which she wouldn't want.
She needed to contribute too. She was supposed to be a business major but that didn't end well as she dropped out. However, she could pull off not much but at least she could apply for a simple position that didn't require much attention.
She made a mental note to start searching for jobs relating to that department. She arranged her clothes inside the wardrobe and decided to take a nap knowing it was midnight.
Waking up to the sun sipping through the curtains into her room, she pulled the pillow over her head murmuring and then yawning. She stretched her bones so lazily before sitting up.
This was one of the best sleeps of her life. She left her room to look for Amy who was sitting on a stool by the kitchen counter typing away on her laptop. She didn't even notice her until she walked up to her back and kissed her on her cheek.
"Good morning"
Amy stopped typing to smile at her as she winked "I don't think that's the appropriate greeting"
"Then?"
"Pregnancy is really starting to play at you huh? We just past noon hours ago" she chuckled as Ava scrambled to check the time which was half past three. "I made rice and some soup. You must be hungry having to feed not just yourself now but another human inside you"
Ava stood in the middle of the room, an intersection between the kitchen and the living room. Yesternight, she wasn't able to check out the house and only said it was beautiful due to stress and it being really beautiful.
Right now her eyes stretched around the room, the living room was white and brown with a typical Amy style.
The brown sofas sat at both sides facing each other with a glass coffee table in the middle holding a white China vase with white tulips and a flat screen television on the white creamy walls.
It was an open plan house, you could watch the TV from this position and kitchen. Well, maybe not watch but still hear and come out to watch. It was cool.
She turned back after appraising everything, she was getting too emotional because right now, her eyes welled as her chin wobbled. Amy pushed the stool backwards walking to her "what's wrong Ava?"
"Why are you so forgiving and feeding me? I'm supposed to cook and plead my way, not the other way around." The tears dropped and Amy rolled her eyes at the drama her best friend was displaying "you haven't changed Ava. Emotional are we? Or is it the pregnancy hormones? Gosh you are dramatic, of course why wouldn't I feed my Godchild."
Ava laughed and that made more tears fall from her eyes as she hugged her friend so tightly "of course who could be the Godmother if not you. I love you" she kissed her cheeks and Amy giggled pulling away as she rubbed her cheeks, pointing at her lips "go and wash your mouth Ava"
"Hey stop that"
Amy pushed her to take her bath which she did coming out later to eat the food Amy had laid on the kitchen counter. She moaned in delight as she savoured the first spoon of the soup and Amy smiled typing away.
The day went with them chatting and trying to add up to the time they missed not together. They watched their favorite movie munching on popcorn they didn't know when it was nighttime.
Tired and spent, Amy ordered a takeaway which they ate and watched another movie before calling it a night. While Ava arranged for sleep, she found her phone where it lay on the bed side table.
It was off. She made a mental note to charge it tomorrow which she did the next day after being woken up by morning sickness. Too many missed calls and messages about where she was from her friends at the bar and her landlord.
She didn't even know who to call back while she slid through everything; however , there was one unique message she saw. It read: "call me back Ava. Michael. Hope you haven't spilled coffee on anyone yet?".
She smiled, thinking about what she was going to write back. She waited a minute thinking before writing: "I haven't but would the next time I probably see you"
She dropped the phone, went to the fridge in the kitchen to get water and a ping sound came from her phone. She didn't know she was drinking water and was also racing to her room to get her phone when the water spilled on her body.
"Oh shit"
She closed the cap and dropped it on the bed and picked up her phone. A message was already there.
Michael: How are you?
She smiled, in a long time no one had genuinely asked her that question not just because ask but really asked until Amy and now him.
Ava:I'm not good right now
She wrote and sent. She didn't know what pushed her to write such a thing but she felt like she needed to say this.
Today was the second day living off of her best friend whom she hadn't talked to in years and now she was fending off her. She sighed, rubbing her stomach. She needed a job and didn't even have a laptop to find one and where to go from her.
In a few months from now her baby bump would be visible and baby stuff would need to be bought. She sank her face into her palm groaning, she was utterly frustrated. A ping came again.
Michael: Why?
Uhh she knew that was the next thing he was going to ask and she wasn't ready to lay her financial problems right now on anyone thus she flung the phone away on the bed and stood up. This was it. Now or never. She needed a job.