Victoria gets up, heading for the exit.

'Where do you live, sweetheart? I can give you a ride home if you like.' She turns to the bartender and smiles, saying, 'Put Miss Scroggs's drinks on my dad's tab. I'm sure he wouldn't mind a bit. Joy smiles, a bit shocked at the kind gesture.

'I'm flattered. Thank you.'

Victoria shrugs. 'Dad wouldn't mind. He pays for drinks all the time for friends. I think he'd like you if he met you.'

Joy smiled at her, and they head out to Victoria's car. It was obvious how well off Victoria was, it was a nice convertible, cherry red Mercedes. Joy eyes the car, and looks at Victoria.

'Nice set of wheels you've got there.'

Victoria grins at her. 'Dad bought me this for my twenty fifth birthday present. He let me pick everything out. Only thing I paid for was the leather seats.'

Joy smiles at her, and Victoria opens the passenger door for her. Joy gets in and sits down. Victoria shuts the door, and goes to her side of the car, and gets in.

'Pretty sweet ride, don't you agree?'

Joy laughed. 'I wouldn't know until you started the car.'

Victoria giggles, and puts the key in the ignition, starting the car. She drives through the city, and they were silent until Joy piped up, 'I live not too far from here. My roommate's flat is just around this corner here.' Victoria nods, turning the car towards the apartments, until she sees a group of apartment complexes.

'Which one is it, dear?' She asks, and Joy points to the ones that were not far at all from where all the clubs were.

'This large complex right about here is where I live. Wait till you meet my roommate. She's wonderful.'

Victoria recognized this complex. It looked awfully familiar. The same one her best friend Melanie Moretti lived in. Melanie met Victoria in a class they took together ages ago, at University of Southern California. She had to pick her brain to remember what class it was again…oh yes, Introduction to Creative Writing. Victoria was taking it for a credit…Melanie was actually majoring in it; she tutored and helped Victoria with her grammar and punctuation in her stories. Surely, Joy must have known Melanie. Melanie had moved here right after college to do her internship at a publishing company, a paid internship.

Victoria parks where Joy tells her to and they head to the second floor. Hm, Victoria thought to herself, Joy lived awfully close to where Mel was same exact side of the complex. Joy runs to a door, and Victoria remembers how she never had been to Mel's place, they hadn't seen each other since both had moved to New York. 'Come on in, my roommate's probably at her boyfriend's. She comes home pretty late. I'm usually either in bed or out exploring the city, or working late so we only see each other on weekends.'

Victoria enters, admiring the place. Well kept, and very clean.

'Joy, is that you?' A voice rang out. Victoria recognized the voice, but she couldn't pinpoint it. Joy smiles sweetly, setting her purse down.

'I'm here, Mel. I brought a friend home with me. I met her while canvassing the town.'

A short brunette peeks out, and Victoria recognizes her.

'Melanie Moretti? Is that you?' Melanie looks at her, and smiles.

'Oh my goodness, it's you-Victoria! I haven't seen you since right after you and I moved here. Small world, isn't it, us both knowing Joy?'

Victoria nods. 'It surely is…how have you been? Last I remember you had gotten that internship in Manhattan. What are you up to these days?'

The petite brunette smiles, and holds up a couple manuscripts. 'I'm an editor, I edit books for the place I internship for. They offered me a permanent job after my internship.'

Victoria smiled. She always knew Melanie would do something with books. She always had her nose in a new book every week in college. Instead of joining Victoria and Anders at the frat parties, Melanie had her nose stuck in a book or was working on a new story of her own. She hated parties, mostly because her sister Caroline always was the popular one. She got everyone to pay attention to her, whilst Melanie sat in a corner, itching to leave because she was horribly bored and had no one to talk to. Caroline was so different to be around, Victoria remembered. Caroline was more outgoing and popular. She hadn't seen Caroline in years. And it had been a year or two since she had seen Anders; they had dated through her first two years of college. They only broke off their relationship when she had found out that Anders had cheated on her with their classmate from their literature class. She was their much prettier, blonder classmate.

Victoria put that thought out of her mind, thinking how it had been years ago. She had gone to college at twenty one, shortly after she returned from London, and from acting school, mostly because she wanted to have a formal college education and get her degree just in case acting didn't pan out. Choosing to major in theatre and minoring in business, she enjoyed school, even went as far as joining a sorority, where she met Caroline, who introduced her to Melanie. Caroline and Victoria, they became fast friends, finding they both loved a good party, and Caroline even introduced her to Anders, who had been in a few of her classes. Sometimes, Victoria wondered what Anders was up to, but she put that thought out of her mind.

Melanie looks at her, and asks, 'So what have you been doing? I remember your dad getting you a few odd acting jobs through his connections, anything permanent?'

Victoria smiled,'Yeah, I do a daytime soap now, and in my free time, I model a little to earn a little extra. Edge of Tomorrow is its name.'

Melanie raises an eyebrow. 'Oh, that one! Joy's always going on about that soap. She watches it a lot, even when she isn't working as a nanny or taking her courses at the beauty college.' Victoria smiles at that, realizing that Melanie probably wasn't fully watching much television during the day as she was working.

'So…how did you and Joy meet?'

Melanie looked at her, having to think a moment. 'It was a year ago, at the supermarket. She was playing guitar and singing for money to make her rent payment. She was being kicked out within a week by her old roommates if she didn't find a way to pay, as she had just lost her last job. I had talked to her, finding out that she was struggling to live here, as she had just moved from London, and offered her room and board as long as she helped with utilities. She took my offer, and in return I let her live here, and I even found her a job as a nanny to two young boys. The rest is history.'

Victoria looks at Joy, who smiles at her.

'It's true. If it weren't for Melanie, who knows where I would have ended up.'

Victoria nods, and Melanie smiles.

'Victoria, why don't you come by and visit tomorrow night? Joy's off of work, and I get home early tomorrow, as its Friday. We can catch up more. I'm sorry to cut this short, but I need to get ready for bed.'

Joy looks at Victoria, smiling.

Victoria returns the smile, and they walk to her car together, just her and Joy, alone. Joy walks alongside her, talking about how great it was to meet her, and how she hoped they could be friends…good friends of course. Victoria knew in her heart that they would be just fine. They had a lot in common.

Joy reassured her with a smile, and she melted a bit, returning a smile. Before she got in her car, she hugged Joy. Joy's hug felt not forced, but almost natural. It felt good to her.

'See you tomorrow.' She waves to her happily, her smile bright.

Victoria smiles and waves, and starts her car, pulling out of the parking spot and out of the complex.

'See you tomorrow, Joy!' Victoria yells out, driving out of the complex, and onto the street and away.