Chapter 14: chapter 14 let it stop
Britt
FRIDAY SUCKED THIS WHOLE WEEK SUCKED!
We had a meeting with an ohh soo... Famous writer. Who took whole publishing house on turmoil. assistant of that writer literally shouted at me, After it all ended I cried in the bathroom, after consoling myself I came back out to join the team, only to get scoldings from Mr. Turner in front of the whole office. This was the first time he had talked to me like that.
After finishing my work and fulfilling all the demand of "the author"
I came back home by 3 am and I was planning to sleep the whole day, but life had new plans.
Loud laugher erupting from next door woke me I tried to sleep, but couldn't. Sound of moving furniture, laughing, hooting disturbed my sleep million times. I knew it was shifting the day of Taylor's friend, so I didn't want to go and face them. Who knows if Mav was also there. Nope! going there is a bad idea.
So I tried many tricks to sleep,
1. Covered my ears with a pillow - failed
2. Listen to music - failed
3. Took a long hot bath - failed
Music blasting at full making me more angry and frustrated. After bathing, I planned to eat something as I was starving, poured orange juice in a glass, taking in deep breaths as I was trying really, really hard to control my anger. They should think about other people. It's not like they are the only ones living in this building.
I checked the time it was 11:11 am. I had this habit of making wish years back at this time. So I made a wish again.
"Angels if you are listening to me give me some peace! Please" I shouted.
The music stopped, it worked. I took a long sip out of my juice and some metallic music blasted, scaring the shit out of me. I choked on my juice.
Without thinking much, I tied my bathrobe tight, and very next second I was out, kicking the door and pressing the doorbell like a maniac.
Taylor opens the door.
"STOP THE MUSIC, BE A HUMAN, OTHERS ALSO LIVE IN THE BUILDING" I shouted at his face.
"Someone is passed," Taylor said and laughed which only acted like gasoline to fire.
"STOP THE MUSIC NOW!" I shouted
"Calm down girl!" He said
"NOW!" I shouted
"Okay okay" he laughed and shouted "honey will you turn the music down the music neighbors are not in a good mood" he laughed as if it was a great comedy show.
"Thank you and keep this in mind no loud music" I pointed a finger to his face.
"Ummm hmmm wrong man, not my home, I am guest. Tell this to the owner" he said and pushed me in.
And there stood Mav with a box in hand.
"Tell him he is your neighbor," he said with a wink and laughed and what I did the juice which I had in my hand was on Taylor's face. I didn't even realize I was still holding the juice until I splashed it on his face.
"LIAR!!" I Shouted
"The fuck!!" Taylor shouted.
"Britt calms down," Mav said as he kept the box which he was holding on the table and moved toward me.
"Calm down my foot, people here are trying to sleep after working their asses off, AND HE LIED TO ME THAT IT IS NOT YOU WHO IS SHIFTING IN THIS APARTMENT," I said and threw the empty glass at Taylor which he caught and I felt tears flowing down my face. So I ran out before they could see it.
"We will try to keep it quiet" Mav said and I ignored him.
"Why ladies like to splash drink on the face?" I heard Taylor saying and Mav laughing.
Laughing he want to laugh, I need to search for a new apartment. I can't face him daily. Why would he shift here when he knows I live here. Next door to him. Why?? Why would he do that?
Still want a last chance then just say he is doing a terrible job. And Taylor he is an asshole. How dare he lied to me.
"I NEED TO FIND NEW APARTMENT" I SHOUTED
"I can help" came a voice and then laugher
"FUCK YOU TAY...LOR FUCKING ASSHOLE" I shouted and started to cry.
After my I felt calmed and at peace, I decided to call Nina, she picked up her phone after 3 rings
"Please tell me you are free," I said
"Ohh honey I wish I could, I am babysitting for my neighbors till evening then I have to go to the bar for my part-time," she said
"Why it is so hard to get a hold on to you nowadays?"
"I know babe, let's meet tomorrow for lunch?" She asked me
"Dinner?"
"Neah I am working tomorrow night"
"Okay lunch it is then. I miss you bitch"
"Miss you too, see you tomorrow"
She hung up
I miss her, for years she went away and when she is back, she is working all the time. Why it is so hard to meet people I genuinely care about. And why I keep on clashing my paths with Assholes?
I tried sleeping but couldn't, I tried to read the book but couldn't, so I decided to clean and rearrange my bookshelf.
5 hours later when I was done with bookshelf, after arranging books by genre and putting tags on the columns.
Arranging my bookmarks and decorating it I was starving.
I finally changed my clothes from my bathrobe to a Tshirt and shots and decided to cook noodles. Picked the bowl and went to Stella's after buzzing her doorbell many times I came back to my apartment, and I called her.
"Where are you?"
"Out with Liam, why?"
"Nothing new neighbors moved in, I need to talk a lot"
"Really?"
"When will you come back?"
"Tomorrow I am staying at John's tonight"
"Wooohhoooo getting action?"
"Yes well some do get action honey, not like you," she said and laughed
"Bye," I ended the call.
What is happening? No Nina no Stella and there are probably two biggest jerks born in this decade, in my next-door apartment.
After eating my soggy noodles and wasting time in search of something good to watch. I gave up. And decided to call this another drinking night. Then I remember the last time how I ended up in an unknown place. So I made another plan.
Packed a book, my laptop, a bedsheet, somethings to eat, went to the liquor store picked a bottle of wine, some beer, and went to my comfort place.
It was almost sunset and few people were there in the park, went to the farthest end of the park, sat back there listening to music enjoying my time, and searching online new apartments. After shortlisting a few I played some random episode of friends and watched it in silence trying to avoid second thoughts.
By the time it was dark I was down half bottle of wine, and almost ate all the snacks and a little drunk. I knew it was my limit. I needed to stop drinking more.
So I laid down looking up in the sky, looking at the stars, it was a lucky day I could see many stars in the sky.
And my mind went back to Mav and shitty week and morning I had.
I picked my phone and dialed the number which is saved as "DON'T CALL!!!"
It is Nina's idea we both had a second phone about which no one knows and we are not allowed to tell others about this phone. We usually leave voice messages or text messages to these numbers but we never allowed to see them. We are not allowed to listen to the audios. The day one of us dies or goes away then only we can hear or see the messages. It was a stupid thing we started in high school.
So I opened the chat and started to record.
"29 April 2018, it is past midnight I am drunk, and alone at the garden because you are working, why are you always working? You do even know what happened today. New neighbors shifted in and guess who? Taylor's friend. You know which friend? "No no it is not Mav" but it is MAVERICK! I went to his apartment in my bathrobe like a madwoman and there stood that jerk looking so good. He knew I live next door so why did he come there to live? What do you think he is up to? Huh?? Do you also think he is changed? Huh?? People like him can't change? I don't know why I am feeling funny? Do you think I will ever get over him? It's been reallyyyyyyyyyyy longggggg. I think it is high time to move on. Anyway, my head is spinning though I am laid down. I can't talk anymore. See you soon bitch. Is there is any way to tell Mav to stay away from me, It is difficult for me to see him without falling for him? I need to sleep for a few hours I am DRUNK! IT IS NOT FUN"
I was able to set an alarm, and I fell asleep under the sky, thinking about the past and future with dizzy thoughts and a heavy heart. I woke up feeling cold, nauseous, and with an urgent need to take a wee.
So I packed my stuff in a hurry, the only place I could think of to go and use the bathroom was that club so without giving any second thoughts I ran there.
Within minutes I was entering the club, as usual, it was not crowded. Maya greeted me with a big smile, and Ted was nowhere to be seen.
"Hi," I said
"Hello, how are you?"
"Fine. I need to use the bathroom," I said threw my bag at her and ran to the bathroom, I sat in there trying to gain the focus. My head was still heavy. I took my time there and came back after 15 minutes.
"You fine?" Maya asked me as she saw me.
"Yeah just my head is aching and I everything is spinning a little in short I am having a hangover," I said with a sigh
"You need something?" she asked me
"Water," I said she gave me water and sat down I there watching her doing her work.
I always like this place not crowded, vintage, not perverts, not too loud, no one is here to judge me, people who work here are nice.
"Do you know how I found out this club?" I said suddenly to which Maya stopped what she was doing and stood in front of me. Her short stature and features, she is too cute to be a human, she should be a doll or something.
"How? It should be interesting because my club policy says I should not talk to drunk assess" she said and we both laughed
"Alright Alright," I said and took last sips of water.
"Wait a minute," she said and opened 2 bottles of beer and gave me one.
"What?" I asked her she loosen her apron which she was wearing.
"It is almost our closing time, we can chat for a while," she said and sat beside me.
"Alright!" I pulled out the half bottle of wine I had in my bag "we are talking then"
"Cheers to us!" She said and giggled
"So...? How did you found this place" she asked me
"Years ago something happened bad break up we can say, so I left my ex hanging in there when he probably needed me the most... Cut short after breaking up I decided to get drunk, went to some other bar, met a really hot boy, I was drunk but not drunk enough to let him go down my pants, so I said I needed to go to the loo, I jumped out of the window of the bathroom and somehow ended up here" I said.
"Really?" She said in surprise
"Ted was the first person whom I saw on that day I remember it, then I sat in a corner table for the rest of the night," I said with a big smile as memory of that night filled in.
We talked about us a lot, she told me about her family and friends and her job, she is a student who works and part-time, I told her about what I do for a living, she is a nice kid who is also struggling to survive. She even told how she came to join as a bartender and waitress in this club without any experience, how she learned things. We even gave her my contact number. I told her my real name and asked her to keep it a secret. Why? Even I don't know.
"So you are an old customer, Ted never tell anything" she complained
"Where is he by the way?" I looked here and there to search for him.
"Hey! He is in the store doing some inventory" Maya said way too loud.
"Okay, I think I should leave now. What is the time anyways? I'll see him next time" I said as I picked up my bag and an almost empty bottle of wine.
Ted came out from the storeroom.
"You still here?" He said
"Wow hi to you too, I am just leaving," I said.
"See you again," he said and went in.
"Wow he is acting weird," I said to Maya to which she smiled.
"Work is a bitch nowadays," she said, "ehhh leave it, see you soon my friend BRITT!"
"Okay okay I got it, see you soon" and I left. When I came out it was almost sunrise, dark hues of night fading aways, colors of dawn and sunshine blending, Moon and stars visible like someone has drawn them with chalk, cold chilly air on face felt like, a sip of a cold drink on a hot sunny day.
So I decided to take pictures of the sky. Only to realize I didn't have my phone with me. So I went in to search for my phone.
No one was there at the bar, so I peeked in the storeroom, no one. Then I saw some people sitting at the last table, and laugh erupting from that table, in the hope it would be Ted I went there.
Many people were sitting there at the table an old man who would be in his 50's Taylor, with 2 girls and one more man. Among those 2 girls, one was leaned on to the man whose back was to me that man I can identify with my closed eyes, all over him, her hand was at the back of his neck, which was sliding down. After seeing this I felt anger burning in me like fire. Taylor saw me and gave me a smile, that old man was talking something. I knew who it was, gathering the courage, and with prayers on my heart for this man to be anyone other than Mav, I tapped on the shoulder.
Only to find Mav turning to face me.
A gasp escaped from my lips, I took steps back and clashed with Ted who was carrying drinks in a tray, the clatter of glass-filled in my senses.
"I am sorry," I said to Ted and ran
"Britt" I heard Ted and Mav calling me.
So I ran fast and the only place I could think of to go to was that park. I went back there and cried my heart out.
Why it has to be him everywhere? This day was ending so well? Like I said people like him can never change. That girl and Mav's memories started to hit me. It should not affect me, I am over him. I cried my heart out and laid down on grass gasping for air. Looking into the sky.
"I AM OVER YOU MAV, WHEN WILL THIS PAIN STOP??" I shouted at the top of my lungs.
When people started to show up for there jogging and walk, I picked myself up and decided to go back to my apartment.
I took a slow walk to my building, I don't why, I was expecting Mav to stand and waiting for me at the entrance of the building. He wasn't there. I hopped in the elevator and as the doors of the elevator opened I was dragged out of the elevator and into Mav's apartment by him.
"WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU?" he shouted and pushed me on to the couch. I stood and walked to the door.
His eyes followed me walking out, I could feel his eyes on me, and suddenly I was feeling broke and naked.
"Will this pain ever stop, Mav?" I asked him and closed the door behind me.
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