25.11 Sunday

As I woke up in the morning, I was in an unusually good mood. During the whole previous evening, Edward had been ‘paying back his debt’ and I could expect him to pay another installement today. I had also managed to avert a quarrel between my current and former boyfriend; a quarrel that might have turned deadly for both of them. It made me very self-satisfied.

I made my daily morning activities humming Beseech’s Innerlane. I sat in front of my laptop to check if I had any messages on my deviantArt account. Two journals, five deviations, nothing interesting. I was just going to turn off the computer and then…

PING!

The message window appeared with a strange sound.

CUCAMBER:

i’m sorry

Oh no, my dear. I saved your ungrateful butt and I’m putting an end to this story here. I won’t be accommodating to you ever again. It’s became too much for a simple apology to settle the matter.

CUCAMBER:

S

Huh?

CUCAMBER:

O

R

R

Y

On the hedgehog’s snout! What an irritating guy! Yeah, it surely was kinda… nice apology but I was still too much under the influence of the previous day’s events to talk with Jacob.

CUCAMBER:

please, forgive me

Irritating. Ignore.

I turned off the laptop just in time: I heard a quiet knock on the door. Edward greeted me with a happy smile. He looked unbelievably jubilant and his good mood was contagious.

“So what are we gonna do today?” he asked gaily.

It’d been a long time since I saw him like that; I couldn’t resist a laugh.

“Let’s get drunk, I’ve never done it before,” I said half-jokingly. To tell the truth, I was expecting him to burst out laughing at this flippant request. However, I truly wanted to try this. White had told me about drinking with her friends so many times. Recently, even my old friend, who was always the best, polite student, had gotten drunk after a concert of her dancing group. I was really curious to what it’s like. And I had enough of listening about something I know nearly nothing of. Besides, if I’m going under, I should reach the bottom! I thought contrarily.

To my astonishment Edward, instead of treating my request as a joke or forbidding it, grinned only. “Good idea for the night, but what are we gonna do till then?”