KISS
Maura kissed Jane on the lips. Just a small peck on the lips. But Jane was paralyzed with fear and an overload of emotions. As Maura started to try to kiss her again.
Hardly audible at all Jane says " Don't...please stop Maura."
Maura shocked and embarrassed looked at Jane " Sorry... I thought...I'm sorry." Maura ran embarrassed out of Jane's apartment. She ran to her car and drove crying the whole way home. Maura was sure she had ruined everything. Her friendship with Jane was surely over because she had acted impulsively. It was the first time in her life she had been so reckless with her actions and emotions. And now she had destroyed her life and everything in it. What was she supposed to do now?
Jane sat on her couch crushed emotionally and downed her beer. She wondered why she acted like such and idiot. Maura had kissed her. Why did she tell her not to? Jane got up and walked into her kitchen. She rifled through her cabinets. Until she finally found the bottle of tequila she was saving for a special occasion. She opened it and took a huge drink straight from the tequila bottle. Jane opened the frig and grabbed a couple of beers. She then made her way back to her couch and flopped down .
A knock at the door and Jane jumped up to answer . Jane prayed it was Maura coming back. The door opened by itself before Jane could open it.
" Janie Hi I didn't think you were here. I thought you and Maura were going to dinner?"
Jane took a big swig from the tequila bottle and chased it with a drink of her beer. " Ma! What are you doing here ? You thought I wasn't here so you come in here?"
" Janie are you drunk? What's wrong? "
Jane turns and walks back over and falls into the couch. She takes another drink of tequila. Angela sits down next to her.
" Ma , I'm not drunk...yet."
Angela pats her on her knee " What happened with Maura?"
Jane looked up at her surprised " What makes you think something happened with Maura?"
" No one else can get you this upset...Now are you going to tell me? ...Or will I have to ask Maura when I get home?"
Jane got pissed. " You.. Don't you dare ask her...it's nothing ..."
Jane took a drink of tequila again then finished off her beer. She was fast approaching a drunken state . When she looked up she saw her Ma's with two faces staring back at her. Jane was seeing double she laughed knowing she was drunk now.
" Janie alcohol isn't going to help you. Now call her and apologize for what you did."
Jane laughed at her Ma's two faces and said " One at a time..."
Jane drank once more from the bottle . Angela grabbed the tequila bottle out of Jane's hand.
" No more Janie. Since you don't want to tell me what's going on. I'm taking you over to Maura's . You can work it out with her."
Angela starts pulling on Jane's arm to get her to stand up.
" Ma! I can't...I just can't face her.." Jane sat back down. " She doesn't like me and probably hates me by now Ma."
" Aww now Janie..I don't think there is anything you could do to make her hate you... Get up..don't make me call Frankie to help me get you in the car... Because you are going over to Maura's one way or the other."
Over at Maura's house she was packing a suitcase and crying. She had decided she couldn't bare the hurt and humiliation of facing Jane right now. She would call in work tomorrow and ask for a leave of absence. But tonight she had to leave .
Jane opens her eyes. She finds herself in her Ma's car. How she got there she hadn't a clue.
" Ma where are we going? Not Maura's are we?"
" Shhh Janie just go back to sleep baby I'll wake you when we get there...go ahead close yours eyes."
Jane couldn't keep her eyes opened and fell back asleep. Ten minutes later Angela pulls up in Maura's driveway. She pulls out her cell and calls Maura.
" Maura honey could you come out to the driveway I need your help carrying something inside."
" Of course Angela I'll be right out."
Maura wipes the tears from her face. She walks out to her driveway. She looks into Angela's car. She sees Jane sleeping in the front seat. Maura panics thinking she is hurt.
" Oh my what happened? Is she hurt?"
Angela laughs " No no she is just ….well she has been drinking. And I think you know why?"
Surprised Maura ask " Drinking? …. No I don't know why...We had a.." Maura stops herself not wanting to reveal what had happened to Angela.
" What Maura? You need to tell me. Look what it did to my Janie... You have to tell me so that I can help her. But first help me get her in your house?"
Maura was going to say no . But she saw the determined look in Angela's eyes. " Okay. I think if we each take an arm we can get her inside easier."
They managed to get Jane inside with only dropping her once. Angela had laughed when they dropped Jane saying that she probably won't even feel it until tomorrow.
Once inside Angela says " Let's go lay her down on your bed. She can sleep this off. And in the morning you two can talk it out."
Maura says " I think Jane would be more comfortable in the guest room."
Angela just shook her head no. " Nonsense... You will need to keep an eye on her … in case she gets sick in the night. C'mon let's get her on the bed."
After they get Jane in Maura's bed. Angela says " Well I think you can handle it from here?"
Angela walks quickly out of the bedroom. " Sit..I'll go and get some aspirins for her."
" Okay Angela." Maura sits down on the bed with Jane.
Angela shuts the bedroom door. She goes to the kitchen and retrieves a rope. She goes back to Maura's closed bedroom door and ties the rope around the knob on the outside of the door. Then she pulls it tightly and attaches the other end to the closed guest bedroom's door knob directly across from Maura's bedroom. There by locking Maura and Jane in Maura's bedroom.
Maura gets up to see what all the noise is in the hallway.
Maura couldn't open the door and says " Angela? I can't seem to open my door. Is there something blocking it? What's going on?"
Angela laughs to herself. She then talks through the door to Maura " I have you two locked in there... And I'm not letting you guys out until you've made up with each other."
Maura panics thinking she wasn't ready to face Jane yet. " No Angela please . You don't understand . Please open this door."
" Sorry but no. You mean too much to each other to fight like this...call me on Janie's phone that I put in her pocket when you all have made up... Goodnight girls." And Angela left and went to the guest house.
Maura panics and starts pacing back and forth in the bedroom. She was desperately trying to figure out a way to get out of her bedroom. Maura heard a noise an looked over and saw Jane waking up. Maura thought oh God what was she going to say to Jane?
Jane stirred and felt all warm and cozy. She reached across the bed for Maura out of habit. Jane opened one eye and saw Maura standing by the door trying to open it.
Jane was still half asleep and half drunk too . Jane asks " Maura what's going on? "
Maura stared at the door knob. Still too afraid to face Jane.
" Angela has locked us in the bedroom. She won't let us out . Not until we work out what's going on between us."
Jane panics sits straight up in the bed. She then sees Maura's suitcase in the end of the bed.
" Maura why are you packing a suitcase?"
Maura turns around and looks down at the suitcase. " I think you know why. I need to get away for awhile."
" Wait what the Hell is going on? She can't have locked us in. " Jane gets up and tries to open the bedroom door. " How did she do that?"
Maura shrugs her shoulders. " I don't know. She left you your cell phone . Maybe you should call someone to get us out of here."
Jane shakes her head no " Who? I don't want to have to explain why we are in here, do you?" Maura shakes her head no.