best friend

Jade wanted to scream at him but then climbed out after giving the driver his due money and hurried into the place. In her best way, she apologized and then talked about finding Connie together on her way up the stone steps and towards the huge wooden door.

“Do you mean it?”

“Best friends never lie.”

Carole hung up. Jade glowered at her phone and threw it against the stone porch and then crumpled into a heap, closing her mouth and breathing evenly to resist the scream erupting from her mouth. A second later, she went inside and claimed the inheritance. Then she returned to her hotel with the cracked screen.

Later that night, he told her he actually made some Missing flyers that night and tacked them to every telephone pole with or without lights decorating them. He also sent emails to her boss and co-workers as well as her professors, asking them to please look for her.

The next day, she was bombarded by tourists and residents, asking for her to share a little of her money with the poor. She hesitated at first, and then obliged. But only because they necessitated. She spent the rest of the time reluctantly giving pieces of it away to undesirable people, and grew angry with them so much so that she fought and they told her to get out of their towns. She fled, her nostrils flaring and her feet unable from stomping towards the hotel room after throwing her taxi driver’s money towards him. He told her he’d never driver her again. She had snapped at him and then slammed the door.

“Is she this jaded about others’ rudeness?” She banged her head against her bed’s headboard and closed her eyes. Suddenly, she shot up and grabbed her phone. “Carole, I know where to go. She’ll meet you there.”

“Okay…”

He told her he was pulling up to an animal shelter, nearby the McDonald’s where Connie worked. Then he burst into the doors and exclaimed his happiness that Connie was there. She was beaming, holding a puppy.

“Let’s name him Coffee!”

Her pudgy smile spread a smile on Carole’s face, at least, he told her. She just smiled stiffly and jerked a nod. Then in bed, she pushed a genuine smile up on her face and then called her roommate. She apologized, and Connie believed her.

Jade gave her roommate a year’s supply of money, and Connie thanked her again and again, hugging her and even wishing her a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year’s with recently bought low fat ice cream. But Carole sent her a card of gratitude.

Dear Jade,

You’re the best friend I could ever wish for and have!

Carole

That night before Jade’s big first day at the office, Jade, Connie and Carole all clinked hot cocoa mugs at the diner. And ordered the menu’s special—Supreme Cream Coffee.

In honor of Coffee, Connie’s terrier. As well as Jade’s new career. And Carole and she as officemates.

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