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"No chance Angie," curling her legs up on the sofa Nefen turned her gaze on the fair skinned blonde perched on the arm of one of the rooms numerous armchairs. "There is no way I'm going to got to see Two Towers with you, again, just so you can drool over Legolas, again." Emphasising the two agains Nefen rolled her eyes despairingly at the third woman in the room, a short redhead.
"Please?" Angie's tone was pleading and her lips were curved into a mock pout, "The film's awesome, you can't deny that." Angie's obsession with the Character Legolas –or more exactly the actor Orlando Bloom- was one of the first things that Nefen associated with her now, but it was wearing a little thin, at least in Nefen's eyes.
Laughing at the statement, and the puppy-dog-eyes expression, that Angie gave her Nefen shook her head firmly with a long suffering sigh that she knew Sammie mirrored from her armchair. The Two Towers film had been out in the Cinema's less then a month and already she'd seen it four times –three of those with Angie- she didn't want to see it again and told Angie as much. "There is so much as too much of something good you know, Angie. Besides," she added as an after thought a second later, "I'm outta town as of this afternoon."
"Oh? Where?"
Suddenly realising she hadn't informed either of the girls of her intentions –her best friends and she'd forgotten- Nefen winced and threw them both apologetic glances. She felt herself blush to but her dark olive coloured skin hid this fact from her friends she knew. "To visit Jeff." She explained, shrugging in response to Sammie's unasked question about whether she wanted to go. She and Jeff had hardly spoken in just under three years or more, not since the WWE had signed Lita and he'd got himself involved with her – however briefly. Sammie knew why Jeff and her hadn't spoken in as many years by Angie had never been told and Nefen had no real desire to do so; the argument between her and Jeff had been petty and completely unnecessary and holding a grudge –as Angie would view it- this long since would be a sure fire way to get Angie to start pressing her to make up with him. It wasn't a grudge though, Nefen didn't blame him and she felt certain he didn't blame her –why would he have asked her to visit if not- but neither of them had made any attempt to bridge the gap that had grown them, both to prideful? Maybe, probably not, both Jeff and she could admit to being wrong when they were, it just somehow never happened.
"Cool, I haven't seen Jeff in years… I mean off-screen." Angie's voice was as cheerful as it could be and she obviously couldn't feel the tension in the room that Nefen saw Sammie could feel. Sammie was definitely the more perceptive of the two sisters, and the trustworthier with secrets –such as details of the argument- but Nefen preferred neither to the other. Angie was just as valuable to have as a friend in her own ways. Being an eternal optimist, and always cheerful, was one of them.
"Me either." Avoiding mentioning just how long it had been since she'd seen him, Nefen smiled fakely at Angie –knowing Angie wouldn't see through it's fakeness even if Sammie did- that was one of the reasons she'd never called him she guessed, being able to flick on the TV whenever she missed him, Nefen had never missed him enough that she'd had to call him. He didn't have that liberty of flicking on the TV, but there were ways he could see her if he really wanted; a model between the ages of 8 and 24 –she was 25 at present- her pictures weren't that hard to find if someone was looking for them. Not to mention Nefen knew Jeff had copies of a couple of films she stared in on DVD back at his house in Cameron – they'd been gifts form Sammie one year, as a joke, she recalled with a more natural smile.
"Angie, we should get going." Speaking for the first time in a while as she stood upright Sammie gave Nefen and slight smile –one she couldn't place as whether it was encouraging, amused or merely a smile- "If Nefen's got to leave this afternoon she's probably got packing, besides, isn't Ryan getting home today?" referring to Angie's 6 year boyfriend, army officer Ryan Marsh, Sammie touched her sister arm gently before leaning down to give Nefen a hug which Nefen retuned gratefully.
"Oh. Sure. See you Nefen" Repeating her elder sisters gesture Angie gave Nefen a fresh smile before spinning and hurrying from the room, Angie hardly did anything slowly and Nefen and Sammie exchanged a long-suffering grin before Sammie followed her sister out of the room.
Listening until she heard the front door click behind then Nefen sighed and stretched out on the sofa, she wasn't really sure yet whether she wanted to go to meet Jeff or not; she didn't have a choice now that she'd agreed to it, but she wasn't certain whether or not it was what she wanted; maybe they were better of not seeing each other; it wasn't as if they could survive without the other in their lives. They'd proved that and would continue to do so if she did decided to stand up Jeff tomorrow but deep in her heart she knew she wasn't going to. Speaking to him or not he was still her friend and she still cared for him as she had while they were friends and seeing each other most days.