Life Goes On Chapter Fourteen Saturday February 10th 2007, morning
Maxie was laying on Logan's couch. Georgie was banging on the door. Maxie moaned, her party dress all wrinkled, "Make her stop pounding! Enough! My head can't take it!"
"Shut up and let me do all the talking," Logan hissed at her before composing himself, pasting on a smile, and pulling open the door. "Hey, sweetheart!"
"Where is she?" Georgie bit out each word with hostility dripping off them as she pushed her way inside, eyes blazing. "There you are!"
"Morning, sis, could you take it down a notch? My head is pounding. We must have did ten rounds of tequila shooters last night."
Crossing her arms over her chest Georgie turned and looked at Logan. "That's really nice!"
"Georgie, sweetheart, I didn't even realize that you know where I live. Did you talk to Coop this morning?"
"Is that really what you're concerned about right now? How I found out where you live?"
Maxie moaned and then she bolted for the bathroom to throw up.
Georgie yelled at Logan "My friend Spinelli, who is an awesome computer genius and all around PERFECT man, hacked into your records and found this lease."
"I don't like people nosing around in my business, doll."
"TOUGH! I don't like getting text messages that say my sister slept at your place! Did you think if you told me then I would assume nothing went on? Well let me inform you of something, I am not and have never been an idiot!"
"Nothing went on! You saw when you came in. She slept on the couch. She was wasted last night and she said your Dad would be pissed if she came home like that. Look, I didn't go out with your sister last night. Coop and me ran into her at a club and she was shaking her ass for some guy that did not look too nice so we got her away from him. That's it! Don't go off on me for trying to be a good guy cause I ain't having it!"
"Yeah, you're a prince! Getting wasted and having my sister spend the night! You're a dream come true, Logan! How did I ever get so lucky? You know what? You can forget that date tonight." Then she called out to her sister Maxie! Lets go! We're out of here."
"Georgie, come on, doll, you need to calm down. Do you really think I messed around with your sister and then told you flat out she was here? Do I look that stupid to you?"
"Or would it be smart? You think you're covering your tracks by telling me she's here."
Maxie came out of the bathroom. "God, stop all the yelling! Nothing happened last night. Not for lack of trying on my part either so give him a gold star and drop this."
"Maxie! You're admitting you tried to seduce Logan?"
"And his friend Cooper too and about three other guys at the club. I would have gotten somewhere if not for Coop constantly cock blocking me and Logan thinking about you. He was a good boy so ease off him. Now my head hurts and I need some aspirin right this second. And coffee. Can we all whisper too?"
Georgie sighed in frustration. "I'm going home and you're coming with me and I mean now, Maxie. Right now!"
Logan rubbed his forehead. This was not good at all.
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Monday February 12th 2007, afternoon
Georgie and Spinelli were talking at the counter of Kelly's. They had a wonderful and tight friendship with much mutual respect. She had been venting to him about Maxie spending the night at Logan's. Spinelli was shocked. He didn't tell Georgie he had sex with Maxie twice.
Just then Logan and Maxie came walking in together. She was all bubbly but he looked like he wanted to be anywhere else but next to her.
Georgie huffed. She seriously could not believe this. She had dragged Maxie out of Logan's place on Saturday morning and ignored all Logan's phone messages and texts since then. She could not believe this asshole was messing with her sister. She felt like ripping his throat out, and normally she was not violent.
Spinelli bounded off his stool. "Well this is quite the rude surprise! Is it me or is there suddenly the foul stench of betrayal in the air around here?"
Maxie asked "You're head is so far up Lulu's ass how can you smell anything at all?"
Georgie said to Maxie and Logan. "You two make me sick! Maxie, do not let him use you this way. He's just a player."
"Whoa, whoa, doll. All I did was run into you sister outside and I opened the door for her. Seriously. That's it."
"And I'm supposed to believe that?"
Spinelli then said "Sounds rather flimsy, I agree."
"You know what?" Logan asked Georgie "I don't need this from you! You call me if you ever grow up and stop being such a little brat!"
"Go to hell, you pig!"
"Have it your way, Georgie! Just remember that this is all because of delusions you got in your head. We could have had a nice time Saturday night but you stood me up."
"I told you I wasn't coming. If you went to the movies anyway and waited for me then that is your own dumb fault. I'm sure you found someone else to take home. You always do."
"You don't know me! And you have no clue why I do what I do. This is just great. I try and help your sister and you wanna castrate me. Well, screw you!"
"Get out of my sight! I'm trying to work and I can't have you here causing a disturbance. So go, Logan, or else I'll have to have you removed."
Logan stormed upstairs.
Maxie said "Wow. That was intense. I don't get why you're so insecure. He's crazy about you. He wouldn't even let me blow him cause he likes you so much."
Spinelli's mouth dropped. Grabbing his laptop and messenger bag he told Georgie "I must return to my humble abode now. I will not stay in the presence of such a beautiful, but sad, creature such as your sibling." He left in a hurry but Maxie ran after him.
Outside in the cold she asked "What the hell did you just call me? A sad creature? Who the fuck are you to say that about me? I would never have put the moves on Logan or anyone else if you had hooked up with me Friday night. But you picked that bitch over me!"
"We have nothing of substance between us. Whereas Lulu and I have a familial bond. I chose her and her real and life altering problem of her mother being missing over you and your desire to party. Yes, I did and I will do that every time in the future should the same situation present itself. But it will not because The Jackal has no desire to be with The Slutty One."
Maxie slapped Spinelli. "My mother is missing too! I haven't seen her in years. Not that you know that. Now that you care! You never called me once. You used me for sex! I thought we were gonna be friends. I'm a slut? Fine, I'm slutty as hell. I bang whoever wants me. At least I own what I am! Your so-called sister Lulu never has and never will! She broke up my sister's marriage with her rutting around with Dillon and now she has everyone on her side, including you. How is that fair?"
"How is it fair that all you think about is your own selfish needs? The Blonde One's mother is missing and her daughter is in ICU. That takes precedence over smoking and sexual liaisons. If you can not understand that and you have the desire to party and can not wait for me to have time then you go and find someone else to, as you call it, blow but don't expect me to ever hang out with you again, should you choose that course." He rushed toward the parking lot.
"Spinelli, wait!"
"I don't want to see you right now. I may never want to see you again. I do not think The Jackal is made for this casual, devil may care, hooking up lifestyle. So if that is what Princess Maximista prefers for herself then I suggest you take me out of your rotation."
"Stop calling me a whore!"
"Stop behaving as one! I call them as I see them."
"I'm not gonna be faithful to you unless you give me a reason to. Its stupid for you to think, after one week, I'd be faithful when you don't treat me as a girlfriend. You don't even treat me like a friend!"
"You're completely correct. We aren't friends. You were my dream girl and now you are my fallen angel."
"So what? You're just writing me off?"
Seeing her broken hearted expression Spinelli paused. He let out a shaky breath and said "Perhaps we should start completely over with some new ground rules."
"Like what? I don't like rules too much."
"For starters, each day we will call each other. You will call you sometime before 5 pm and I will call me sometime after 5 pm and if we don't pick up the other will return the call at their earliest convenience. That will solve this issue of who should call who when that we don't seem to instinctively be able to figure out."
"Okay, well that doesn't sound too hard. Does that mean you're not mad about Logan anymore?"
"I don't know the exact nature of your relationship with your sister's paramour but it does not make me happy to hear you tried to hook up with him."
She shrugged. "I barely know him. I hit on him cause I was mad at you."
"Did anything of an intimate nature take place between you two?"
"How can you be pissed about who I screw when we aren't a couple?"
"Its too soon for us to be a couple. If we ever are then I suppose I should know that you would only share yourself with me. But that is a ways in the future, if we reach it at all. You are a beautiful woman, Maxie, but I fear you are very sad and broken inside."
"Everyone has their problems."
"That is true. I am not sure I am the man to help you with yours though."
"So you don't like me anymore?"
"I honestly don't know."
"So that thing about calling me everyday is that gonna happen or just bullshit you're saying to make me shut up long enough for you to run off to Lulu again?"
"The Blonde One will always be important to me. I refuse to apologize for my allegiance to her or anyone else."
"She don't deserve it. Why does she get more of your time then me when I gave you the best sex of your life?"
"Do you truly miss me when we are parted? Or do you just want to best The Blonde One by claiming a bigger place in my life than she has?"
Maxie shrugged.
Spinelli said "Perhaps when I call you after 5 today you will have a more complete answer for me." Then he walked away.
Maxie stood there feeling miserable.
(I started out clean but I'm jaded.
Just phoning it in.
Just breaking the skin.
-x-x-x-
Can you help me?
I'm bent.
I'm so scared that I'll never
get put back together.
-x-x-x-x
Keep breaking me in
and this is how it will end
with you and me bent
) (Bent by Matchbox Twenty)