"OK so tell me why do you like Tom so much?" Aubrey asked, in a judgemental tone.
"Well, he is... nice?" Chloe responsed, mentally cursing herself for her little hesitation that would surely earn her a total investigation by Aubrey.
"That was not really convincing." The latter responded, raising an eyebrow.
"But he IS nice!"
"Define nice"
Chloe sighed. "Here we go again".
The bubbly redhead wondered if she made the right choice by telling Aubrey that she finally found a potential new boyfriend. Sure, she loved Aubrey a lot. She was her bestfriend since the first day of high school. The one where her favourite little control-freak had her locker stolen by a jerk that probably didn't have the required number of brain cells to read the paper telling him the location of his locker, and instead just decided to steal the one of an innocent little Aubrey. That was without a doubt his biggest mistake because when he refused to give back the locker to her, she was overwhelmed with an intense... anxiety, and what happens when you put "anxiety" and "Aubrey" in the same sentence?
The answer is: a big mess.
She felt vomit climbing up dangerously in her throat and when she realized what was happening, instead of retreating to the bathroom to dump the repulsing contents of her stomach, she decided to take revenge in a simple action plan:
Step 1: Open the locker.
Step 2: Puke in the locker.
Let's not go into details about what happened after, but let's say that altough she did get her locker back, it didn't give the best first impression in the world.
After an incident like that, most student would be ridiculed for the rest of their schooling, but Aubrey wasn't because a loving little redhead saw everything decided to give the girl a chance and they were bestfriends since then. But even if Chloe likes Aubrey, the older girl has a tendency to be slightly overprotective when it comes to who Chloe choose to date (or even just think about the possibility of -maybe- eventually agree to go to a date) and it's quite annoying.
''What do you mean "Here we go again"?! CHLOE ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING?!'' a visibly frustrated Aubrey took Chloe out of her thoughts.
It wasn't rare for the Redhead to get lost in her thoughts and it was very effective at pissing Aubrey off, and Chloe knows that when Aubrey is frustrated, even just a bit, there is no going back. The only thing to do is to try to calm her...
''I am listening! Calm down Bree! Breathe in, breathe out. Relaaaax, take it eaaaasy!"
''Chloe, I will breathe at the rate I want, I appreciate that you want to calm me down because you care about me but I. DON'T. NEED. YOUR. HELP.''
...and when Aubrey won't calm down, it can be really fun to bring vomit in the conversation.
''Actually I don't do it because I care, but because I don't want you to puke on my new clothes'' Chloe playfully stated with an over-exagerated wink.
If there is one thing that Aubrey Posen is insecure about, it's her vomitting problem. She doesn't like when people talk about it but she can't stay mad at Chloe when she does. After all, her favourite redhead has always been there to console her, especially after the vomit-on-stage incident. Plus, Chloe knew that it was a sensitive subject with Aubrey and if she teased her about it, it would always be playful and never truly mean. Aubrey knew that Chloe would never intend to hurt her, but that does not mean she appreciated the fact that Chloe always bring it in the conversation when they have an argument. ''YOU SWORE YOU WOULDN'T BRING VOMIT IN CONVERSATIONS WITH ME ANYMORE!'' Aubrey screamed, burrying her head in her hands to hide that she was blushing.
Chloe responded laughing ''Well, when you get frustrated at me because I'm tired of hearing you talking to me with your lawyer-interrogating-a-suspect tone, I can.''
Aubrey chose not to respond, as a future lawyer her need to strike back at her friend was big but if she wanted to learn more about Tom, then she had to let Chloe win this argument.