redith was knackered when she arrived ho. Her head was hurting like a chair has been smashed across it consistently.
She felt hot and sticky under her blouse, she couldn't wait to remove her dress and take a cold shower. God, she hated sumr.
Sofia was on the couch, legs crossed and stuffing her mouth with popcorn while she watched so horror movie. She has no idea why people watched horror movie.
Why watch a movie that wants to you to flee or hide due to a sense of impending doom, when you can read a book that will make your stomach swarm with butterflies?
"Hi." Sofia said, chewing straight from the popcorn she plopped into her mouth.
"Hey." redith sighed, groaning as she flopped onto the couch beside her and began to kick off her flats. She was beyond exhausted. Her feet felt like they have been scorched.
She had walked from the company to her house because she had missed the bus. The next bus was due to arrive 3 hours later and redith didn't want to wait. Also, she had no extra cash on her to take a cab.
"So how was your first day?" Sofia asked, as she turned to look at her.
"Arghjust don't even ask. Today was so fucked up. I will burst into tears just thinking about it."
Sofia narrowed her eyes, "Why is the job bad? Should I find a new one for you? I know Atlas Martini can be a handful but the guy is decent to his employees and he pays well."
redith rolled her neck from side to side to loosen kinks.
"No. The job is great and Mr. Martini is----" redith paused.
"---Okay and Mr. Martini is what?" Sofia interjected.
redith bit down her bottom lip while contemplating if she should tell her friend the dirty thoughts she has about her boss.
What is it? Sofia persisted lightly, nudging her.
"Okay, he isso hot. And I an the kind of hot the authors describe in the books you give ."
redith said, conflicted whether she should tell Sofia what happened today.
"Yeah, I have t him a couple of tis. My cousin is his best friend. He is the one who got you the job. But don't tell
you are crushing on your boss on your first day at work."
Sofia teased.
"Well, the guy is hot, sexy and super attractive. I'm a normal functioning woman is normal to crush on him. You even have a crush on that ani character who isn't even real."
"Hey Levi is hot! Also, what about you? Don't you crush on all the boys you read about in your erotica books?" Sofia scoffed.
redith rolled her eyes and sighed. She and her friend were really fucked up. They keep falling for n who aren't even real because sowhere in the sick subconscious mind they know these n will never hurt them.
Whether they're the villains, antihero, hero or morally grey characters they will never break them or use them. So, what if they fall for frictional character?
They can fantasize about their own love story and choose the ending they want. Also, these n set their standards so high even though they know real man can never be obsessed with them like the n in frictional world do.
"Be careful rri, Atlas Martini may look like the n in your books but he is no male lead. He is the villain and you don't want to fall for the villain, do you? "
redith opened her mouth and closed it again. She had no idea what to say. Because she knew Sofia was right. She had too many secrets to protect and getting involve with a man like Atlas Martini was going to be the ruin of her.
"I know. Do you know I completely embarrassed myself today?"
"What did you do?"
redith groaned as a blush spread across her face.
"So, I went to give my boss a cup of coffee and he accidently dipped his fingers in the hot coffee. I panicked and took his burned fingers in my mouth. Like who does that?"
redith threw her hands in the air exasperatedly, shaking her head as her best friend laughed at her, unable to control it.
"OMG, rri!"
"I know right? And that's not even worse. I took the elevator with him and he asked
how was my first day? I confidently replied, Good, Yours?"
redith cringed as she rembered the smug look on his face.
"Stop laughing Sofia. You're not making
feel any better." rri said attempting a frown but unable to hold her own laughter. Sofia's laugh was very infectious, and it took a little till she caught her bug too.
"He might think I'm so weirdo. I don't even know how I'm going to face him tomorrow."
Sofia fought to stifle her laughter, "Don't worry you will be fine. You're not the only one who have done an embarrassing thing. We all have our monts."
redith nodded, "I-"
"Hey Sorella, you're back. How was your first day?" Her brother interrupted her as he appeared from his room while rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
"Good. But I'm exhausted." redith replied as she stood up.
"I'm going to take a shower; my muscles are aching."
Sofia nodded as she focused on her movie. "Okay, I will order pizza for you guys and salad for ."
redith frowned but said nothing. Sofia was mostly at redith's house because her parents were mostly out of the country. Even though her parents were extrely busy they doted on their only daughter and was always available for special monts in Sofia's life.
They will call her every night and ask her about her day to the point of asking if she had eaten. But redith knew that her friend hasn't been eating. Sofia would always lie to her parents.
redith didn't know why her friend wasn't eating she had confronted Sofia about it on so many occasions but Sofia always assure her that she was eating and redith was overreacting but was she?
Sofia wouldn't even finish the salad she ordered. She will give so excuses about eating outside while blogging her life on social dia and being full. Sofia was a huge influencer on social dia with about 30 million followers so she normally fild her daily life activities and upload it for the whole world to see. redith could never.
She really wasn't a fan of social dia since she spends most of her ti reading but she knew a thing or two from the books she read to know that sothing was definitely wrong with her friend and she would find out.
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