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In the world are two kind of writers. The ones that have good ideas and come up with a new book once in awhile and the ones that have just one book that it might or not become a best-seller. Delphine was trying to be the first kind but she ended being the second one. Since she was 8, her dream was to become the best author in the world and after a lifetime of "try and fail" she came up with her soon-to-become best-seller. At the age of 27 she released a book under the title of "You're always there".
This book brought fame to our new author. She went to every interview that her manager, Alison, setted for her. Delphine's book became so famous that it became a movie. The movie, as always was just the crappy version of the book but it made it more famous.
After 2 years of satisfying fame and being here and there. Our author got bored of being known as the "one hit" author. So she decided to move far away from Canada to a small town in the state of Minnesota to start a new project.
"What do you think of the new house?" Delphine asked looking to the one who was standing next to her.
"Hmm," The younger said looking up and down the house. "Do you really want to know what I think about?"
"Sure!"
"It would look better with a little bit of colour," And fixing some messy hair continued. "You know that I like to..."
Someone patted Delphine's shoulder interrupting the other, she turned around to see a girl that wasn't taller than her, maybe she was a head shorter, she had long brown hair and she was wearing a cop uniform.
"So you are the new girl, right?" She said smiling. "I saw you standing here alone so I decided to stop and say hi."
"Oh! Hi I'm Delphine."
"Shoot! Where are my manners, I'm Elizabeth Childs," Offering her hand. "But everyone call me Beth."
"Beth," The taller said shaking the other's hand and forcing a smile, thinking that the handshake was taking too much.
"I'm sorry to ask this but uhm," Beth said as she moved her hand away from Delphine's. "Are you Delphine Cormier? The author? I'm a huge fan of yours."
Taking a deep breath she said Yes.
"I can't believe this!" She said almost jumping. "Can you sign my book? Please?"
"Yes, sure," Delphine was tired of signing books but it was worth it this time. "I'll be inside so, when you get here just knock."
And after saying that, Beth went to her car and drove home.
"So," A voice came from behind. "Signing a book? I thought you were tired of it."
"I am," She turned around to face the other. "But did you saw her face? I couldn't say no."
"Having a little thing for the cop?"
"Cops are totally not my type," She replied maybe too fast.
"That's not what Julie said..." The younger turned around smiling expecting Delphine's answer that came almost immediately.
"Hey! That was completely different. Julie was really sexy and she looked even hotter on that cop uniform!"
"So are you telling me that this Beth girl does not look sexy?" The dark haired started walking to the front door.
"Oh come on!" The now frustrated author followed the other opening the door. "I'm not into cops, at least not anymore."
"If you said so, just remember that I know you since you were eight."
The blonde rolled her eyes and walked to a box in the kitchen that had kitchen stuff written on. Then she opened the box next to it that said wine for a month. Thanks to the help of Alison, Delphine made a huge amount of money through her two years career, but beside that she always wanted to save her money and make it last. So since bringing her own wine from Canada was cheaper than buying it there, she brought with her a full box of it not minding if it was just for a month.
She cleaned the glass and opened the bottle, pouring some of the red liquor on the now clean glass. Putting it in between her lips she started walking through the house. It was just one floor so she got to know the house in one trip. The house was filled with boxes and the only furniture that she had was her bed, a table in the kitchen and her desk.
She was about to start unpacking when she heard the door, and screaming from the future living room she letted the visitor come in.
"Delphine?" She recognized that voice, it was Beth.
"I'm on the living room!"
Beth walked inside the house. Looking at every corner of it wondering where did the author's voice came from. Suddenly the taller popped up from her side.
"Did you brought a pen?"
"Sure," Beth said handing the book and the pen to Delphine.
"Do you want me to put your full name or just Beth?" She said walking to the kitchen table and putting some messy hair behind her ear.
"Beth it's fine," With that in mind Delphine opened the book writing inside.
To Beth;
I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Love,
Delphine Cormier.
"It seem like you're flirting with the poor girl." A voice whispered in her ear.
Delphine raised her head surprised. She looked at Beth thinking that she heard the voice too, but the girl was mesmerized with her signature. Looking at both of her sides she found nothing.
"Well that's it," She smiled at Beth. "Here you go, have a nice day," Saying that she leaded the shorter to the door closing it behind her.
"Don't do that!" Delphine shouted. "Not ever again! Am I clear?"
"Don't be such a child," A laugh came from the future bedroom's door frame.
All the anger on Delphine's face vanished in a few seconds."I'm sorry, I just forgot that I'm the only one that can hear you or even see you," She didn't like being angry with her friend, it happened before and it was awful.
"It's okay," The steps were going on her direction and a breeze surrounded her like a hug. "I'm not doing that again." Both of them kept the hug for a while.
"It's only that," Delphine took her glass of wine. "I sometimes want people to see you too."
Delphine drank some of the wine on her glass as she made her way to the soon-to-be living room. She started unpacking.
After a long morning of unpacking, our author's living room was ready to be used as office to start writing her next novel. Delphine was getting hungry, so she decided to go outside, since her kitchen or at least the room that was dedicated to that, wasn't ready. She went to her bedroom's bathroom unpacking some towels and took a bath. Then taking some random clothes out of another box she went to the nearest restaurant.
It wasn't that far, just a couple of blocks from her house. She walked in and a little brunette girl with no more than nineteen and a huge smile stepped closer.
"Welcome to the Monkey's Cave!" A childish grin came out of her face and she whispered. "I didn't choose the name," And with that she continued. "I'm Cosima and I'm going to be yours for this lunch time!"
"W-what?!" Delphine blushed, she wasn't used to the sentences "I'm going to be yours" at least not from a younger girl.
"I mean," Cosima softly smiled. "I'm not going to be yours yours," She said as she guided Delphie to a table. "I'm going to be your waitress, at least if you..." Shut up Cosima you're speaking too much She thought. "Maybe I should just take your order," She said leading the taller to a table. " What do you want?"
Delphine wasn't quite sure but this girl was awkwardly weird and maybe cute. With this in mind she ordered the chef's daily, letting Cosima go. Her imaginary friend walked next to her patting her shoulder and giving a I-know-what-is-going-on-there look, then vanishing away. It didn't took much time until Cosima came back with Delphine's drink and a small bread basket, leaving the tray in the table next to them, she putted the bread in front of Delphine and she poured the liquid on the older's empty glass. Our author smiled as a "thank you" and our dorky waitress almost fell to the floor.
A couple of minutes later, the awkwardly cute waitress came to the author's table with a big plate of spaghetti.
"Here you go," Cosima said. "I hope you enjoy your food and if you need something from me," Her cheeks were blushing. "I mean if you need something else, not me particularly or maybe if you do..."
"Thank you sweetheart," The older said with a sweet smile. "I'll call you if I need something."
And with that Cosima went back to work with a smile and Delphine started her lunch. An acceptable amount of minutes later, Delphine was full and her plate was halfway ended. The blonde wasn't much of an eater, she eated just because she needed it, if it was for her she would probably be a plant or something similar, just drinking water and having some sun.
She drank the liquid that she had left and called Cosima asking for the bill and if she could take the rest of spaghetti home, with a yes the brunette left Delphine waiting.
Cosima handed the bill to the older and left the bag with the food on a side, leaving Delphine alone.
$12 without tips. ( )
$13.5 with tips. ( )
Delphine took the money out of her bag and a pencil.
$12 without tips. ( )
$13.5 with tips. ( X)
"Maybe you should, I don't know, leave her your number," The imaginary friend said.
Shut up, I shouldn't. She seems too young for me Delphine thought knowing that the younger could hear her thoughts.
"Remember why we came here?" In the chair next to her the person materialized.
Yes, I do, but still! She's too young!
And after 5 minutes of arguing with someone that wasn't real, Delphine realized that she was making weird faces as she talked with...herself.
Giving to her friend a fast look, she took her pen and wrote.
802381xx
She raised her head and realized that the brunette waitress was walking toward her and moving fast, she wrote.
802381xx If you want to help me unpack and paint my house (don't worry I'll pay you)
"What!? Seriously? I'll pay you? Sounds like you want sex with her," The voice said but when Delphine was going to reply,Cosima came closer to the table with a cheeky grin taking the bill without reading or watching how much Delphine payed. Without letting Cosima to turn around our author ran away from the place, just like a little kid after a successful prank.
Delphine walked the few block that keeps her from home with an idiotic smile on her face.
She arrived, leaving the bag on the table.
"Seriously!? What was that I'll pay you thing!?" The younger said mocking Delphine's accent.
"What do you want me to do?" She said looking through the restaurant's bag. "I panicked."
And taking the package of food out, a little one fell from the top of it.
"What's these?" She said picking it up.
"Look it has a note on the top," The other said.
I thought you were the sweet type. (Runs for the house)
-Your waitress.
"She's totally into you girl!"
"Oh shut up! Maybe is a normal thing to do with new customers." Delphine's cheeks were going red.
"First the cop and now the cute little waitress," The other smiled. "You womanizer."
"I'm not! It just," Her cheeks were burning. "It just happens! And I had nothing with the cop!"
"So with the waitress is a yes?"
Mouthing a no Delphine walked away, it was time to start at least something on her novel.
We are giving too much attention to our author, maybe we should move and leave her behind and focus on the cute little waitress.
When Cosima left with Delphine's bill, she didn't wanted to see if the other payed the tips or something. Why? Because she saw her writing something on it and she was way too nervous to read it. You're just seeing things that aren't there she thought and you already have someone.
"But she's a dick," A voice said. "Beside she's after a girl named Lauren, Lara or something like that."
They're friends.
"Yeah and I'm real," The other kept saying. "You shouldn't trust that blond either."
How many time do I have to tell you to not speak at me at work? Cosima's eyes watering.
"Okay, I'm leaving," And vanishing.
Let's face it. Cosima knew that her girlfriend, Carmilla, was cheating on her but somehow she wanted to believe that it wasn't real, that it was part of her imagination because, if she could think in an imaginary friend, why would that be real?
She gave the bill to the cashier, Scott, a cute guy with glasses and an eight years old smile. He was really good with numbers but he sucked at dealing with people, that's why he applied to be just the cashier and the reason why he only became friends with Cosima on his two years work. He took the bill making the entrance to the machine.
"Wow," His eyes became bigger. "This customer not only left you four dollars as tips but a cell phone number too."
"Stop with that," Her cheeks were going red. "She was gorgeous and she had this amazing blonde hair..."
"Wait, blonde?" He handed the paper with the number. "Do you mean that this isn't a flirting thing of Carmilla?"
Cosima took the paper reading it. Delphine's handwritten amused Cosima, she had never seen such an amazing handwrite. Without thinking it again, she took her cellphone, she wanted to call the other girl immediately but when she unlocked her phone she saw the time.
2'45 P.M
Her turn finished almost half an hour ago and she had a meeting with her girlfriend and her friends, a bunch of idiots as Scott liked to call them. With the note in hand Cosima went to the locker rooms of the restaurant, by rooms meaning the girls assistant's bathroom and for locker meaning two almost straight ones. Changing her clothes as fast as she could. She was running late. When she finally came out of the restaurant she runned as fast as she could to the usual meeting park.
It wasn't long distance from her job to the park, still she was tired of running. Bad shape for our little waitress. She arrived and the first thing she saw from afar was her girlfriend's arms surrounding someone that it wasn't her but Laura.
They are just friends. Just. Friends.
Cosima made her way to the idiotic prole and with a huge smile on her face to not make the others notice what was going on with her. Carmilla raised her head to see who was getting closer, when she realized it was Cosima she standed up acting like she wasn't hinting on the other, putting her hands on Cosima's hips and pushing her close for a kiss.
"You saw her," Cosima's imaginary friend was close to them. "And you still let her put her hands all over you."
They broke apart. The dreadlocked had a smile on her face. Still she kissed me, not her She thought. Carmilla smiled back.
Both of them holding hands, walked away.
They were heading to their usual meeting place, an abandoned skate park. Maybe Laura or Cosima or Carmilla weren't good at skateboarding but the rest of them were. The three of the useless skateboarders sat on the edge of a half-pipe. After a lot of minutes of watching the bunch of idiot fall and her girlfriend making even more obvious her love for the other girl, Cosima decided to go to the bathroom, just to wash her face to deal with another half an hour or more, of people falling to the floor and in love.
The bathrooms or at least the building that was dedicated to that wasn't in the best shape, the windows were broken, the walls were full of graffiti and the only functional toilet didn't have the door, but at least was the only one with the side walls and the sink was almost broken.
Cosima stood in front of the broken mirror. She couldn't believe the way that her girlfriend treated her, she was good to her in the way that she have never been. Carmilla was always there for her, when she left her parents, well actually her parents left her. She was always with a smile on her face for her, no mattering what and the cute jealousy when she was working and a customer hinted on her, but then Laura appeared. Ever since her girlfriend was a little distant from her even if Carmilla treated her well, something was different. She wanted to believe that her girlfriend was just trying to make her jealous, that when the other realized about her feelings everything will go back to normal, but she knew that was impossible.
Taking off her glasses Cosima started to cry.
"If she hurts you, why don't you leave her?" A voice said behind her. Cosima knew who was, it was her imaginary friend.
"I don't know, maybe I love her," Cosima said.
"Did you really said that?" The other stepped close. "Did you used your first words toward me in years to say that you love her?"
"Yes."
"You don't love that girl," The voice was filled with anger. "It's just lust."
"No, it's not," The tears were running fast through her face.
"Yes, it is," The other came even close to see Cosima's face. "She's just hurting you and you look like a masochist right now and you wanna know why? Because that girl cheats on you right under your nose, oh wait no," The other said making a I'm-right-and-you-know-it face. "She cheats on you right on your face," Saying the last word with anger.
"Stop!" Cosima's tears were falling even harder. "You don't know what you're talking about, you're not even real!"
"I don't know? I spend my days inside your mind! I think I know what you're feeling and what you're thinking, let me see, all the time."
"Stop, Sarah," Cosima wanted to fight back but she knew that the other was right. "Please, I just," Cosima could barely keep her eyes open, her tears seemed unstoppable. She sat on the floor holding her knees.
Sarah fucked everything up and she knew it. She crossed the line. The imaginary friend walked toward Cosima sitting next to her and spoke.
"You know, I've never been with someone because of obvious reasons," Cosima raised her head, her nose was red and her eyes were bigger than the usual. Sarah acted like she didn't notice Cosima stating at her. "So, what do I know about a relationship, right? I mean I don't know anything about it." Turning her head to Cosima.
Cosima moved closer to Sarah and the other hugged her tightly. After a couple of minutes the bathroom door opened, Cosima turned appart from the other's arms to see who was going inside. It was Carmilla, she seemed worried. Sarah gave a fast look to both of them and vanished away. Carmilla came in and sat next to her girlfriend, she took Cosima's chin and made her look at her. The dreadlocked eyes were still big not to talk about the red tone in her nose and the soft pink in her cheeks. She smiled for Cosima, it was a genuine one and gave the other a tissue.
"What's going on, sweetheart?" Carmilla asked concerned.
"I just," She paused to clean her nose. "I broke."
Carmilla kissed her head and hugged her tight. "I was worried about you, I thought that someone did something to you or I don't know. Perry always put those kind of thing on my head."
Cosima smiled. "How long I've been gone?"
"Like 3 hours."
After that both of them sat there, not wanting to move or do something until Perry appeared followed by her girlfriend. They told them that the rest of them have left and they were about to leave too, so Carmilla and Cosima stood up and left with the other two.
Carmilla guided Cosima home.