Jessica December 20th 2015

"This is all wrong the table cloth on the bottom should be on top." I snapped at the caterer I hired.

"It's not my job to work with the table cloths. If there was something wrong with the plates you chose then I could help you." She said. "Also maybe you should talk to the coordinator you hired to do that part of the job."

"Just fix it." I snapped. The reunion is tomorrow and if everything is not perfect neither she nor you will be getting paid."

"My contract states otherwise." She said. "And I will sue to get what I'm owed."

"And waste more money in the process I don't think so." I said. "Fix the table cloths."

I walked away from the woman and made my way back to the display that would greet everyone as they walked into the reunion. It was nearly finished and only needed a few more pieces and it would be complete. It showed the students from our class back when they were in school and for the photos we could find pictures of them now.

"Is everything taken care of?"

"Yes Mr. Greene is everything is ok." I said. "Just wish we could have gotten photos from everybody."

"Who haven't you gotten yet?"

"James Hunt, Emily Young and Bree Tanner." I replied. "But they didn't seem to R.S.V.P."

"They could still show up."

"That's true but we've only budgeted for the ones that R.S.V.P."

"Then they won't get a meal." He said. "You should stress that to them should they arrive but you could switch the meal to a buffet meal."

"This is a classy high school reunion not some redneck family reunion." I snapped.

"And I have the power to veto any choices you make and the buffet meal will save money." He countered. "You know what I believe I will tell the caterer to set a buffet up instead and don't think about telling her otherwise because I could take the reunion chair away from you."

"But…"

"No buts Miss. Staley I heard what you said to that poor woman in there. Make one more mistake and the reunion chair will be taken from you."

He walked away after that. I just stood there gaping at him. I was just putting together a reunion like he asked me to and he does that to me. Oh man I need a smoke. I left the school and drove straight home. I settled in and had the smoke like I wanted.

I fell asleep an hour after I was done smoking and woken up by my phone going off an hour after I had fallen asleep.

"Hello?" I asked. No one answered. I looked at it and saw that it was a text message not a phone call.

It was a jumped of letters and numbers. I knew they were meant to say something but I was in no mood for decoding any kind of a drunken text message from anyone.

Bella December 20th 2015

"What the hell is that?" I snapped. I had been woken up by a loud crash and eleven thirty two. It was all most midnight and I need my sleep. I had that stupid reunion tomorrow and I would be in the same room as my mother since I was told about the split between her and my father. I could only hope that she didn't bring the new man with her.

"Bella are you all right in there?" Angela asked.

"I'm fine, scared out of my mind but fine." I told her. "What was the noise?"

"The wind got strong and blew a tree branch through the dining room window." She said. "I got Ben coming over with plywood to bored up the window until I can get it replaced."

"Do you need help cleaning up?" I asked.

"I know how klutzy you can be." She said. "So no, I'm just going to sweep up what I can and then have Ben remove the branch once he gets here so I can finish cleaning up and breakfast will be brought to all guest in their rooms in the morning."

"Okay, I'm going to try and get back to sleep now."

"I hope you succeed in that." She said. "You'll need to rest up for tomorrow night."

"Ugh… please do not remind me." I replied. "Tomorrow night is going to be torturous enough as it is."

"I know and I had a harder time in high school than you did."

"Yeah but I had trouble with bullies to." I said.

"You never said a thing about it."

"No but I didn't think I could tell you or Edward about it. You guys were picked on way more than I ever was and I thought that it would sound like I was bitching about nothing."

"That's what friends are for. They are there for you to bitch to when you can't go to your parents or anyone else." Angela replied. "I never told anyone but you or Ben about what was going on. Of course the whole school still knew what was going on but I never told them and now I kind of wish you would have told me. Then prom and the last incident would have never happened at least to the scale that they did anyway."

"It doesn't matter it just didn't seem right for me to bitch to you guys when you were pushed down and called names constantly compared to me," I told her.

"Don't care. You were my friend and I would have stuck by you just like I will stick by you tomorrow." She replied. "Now go get some sleep I don't want to be the one waking you up tomorrow with your breakfast."

"You would wake me up with the smell of coffee and I would be grateful." I replied.

"So send the coffee in first?" she asked.

"Oh most defiantly," I told her. "I would not bite your head off after that."