Future Unknown
"Ok, that's fine. Thank you for calling…You too. Goodbye" Maddie clicked her mobile phone off and threw it at the bed in anger, it bounced back off and hit the floor and the cover cracked off.
Damn it, she couldn't even get that right.
Having her own room in the Tipton was strange, they'd have never afforded it back when she worked there but her father had come in to a lot more money just after she'd gone away to Yale (go figure) and had brought the whole family on one last trip before…well before they spent it all.
She was sharing a room with Maxxie but god knows where she had got to.
She was probably being serenaded by Zack Martin.
Weird.
So she had the room all to herself to cry mercifully and punch her pillow over and over without her sister thinking she was a crazy-woman. The job she had secured at a law firm in New York had just rung to tell her that they'd gone under and couldn't take her on anymore, which meant, at 22 years old, she was without job prospects or a steady income.
She was, what one might call, screwed.
She buried her head in the pillow and kicked a few times in frustration, after an hour of tossing and turning, trying to fall into a nap she gave up and flicked the television on.
She thought about Maxxie who, at midnight still had not arrived back to the room.
Was she really out with Zack Martin, still?
She had better get back soon or she would go out and find her. She spent all of her time with Zack for days, Zack hadn't even hit on her the whole time she'd been back at the Tipton. She'd seen them down by the pool, she'd seen them wrestling playfully in the lobby. He hadn't even winked at her like he usually did and called her 'sweet thang' since the first day she arrived back.
It's probably a good thing; they all knew he had to get over that silly crush on her.
Although, he hadn't had a crush on her since he was fifteen. He flirted with her, but he flirted with every female between 15 and 30…sometimes over.
Did he only flirt with her now because she was a girl?
Had he actually got over it years ago?
After-all, he was 19 years old now. He was practically a man.
What was she saying, had she seen him lately? She'd seen him leading her little sister around the hotel like a protective boyfriend, his hand on the small of her back with the right amount of respect whilst maintaining that intimacy, small smiles and knowing when to be quiet, but keeping those cheeky winks now and again, when it was appropriate. He was every inch the man.
He didn't have that stupid crush on her, he hadn't since he was a child.
She shouldn't take this away from her younger sister.
Maddie put her head back on the pillow and started to sob quietly.
Why not, she was 22 and jobless after all.
