CD knew that Jinny would make it hard for her but she wouldn't give in too soon.
Nate looked into the rearview mirror and sighing looked at CD sadly as he parked the car at her place.
"Okay, here we are Jinny." CD helped her out of the car. Jinny seemed pretty tired now, which surely was the effect of the alcohol.
Nate helped to support Jinny as they walked inside.
In front of appartment number 9, CD took out her keys and opened the door. "Come in." she said and then picked up her daily mail. She flipped through the letters, that mostly were bills, but then she found a letter of her landlord.
Jinny and Nate followed her inside and Jinny beelined to the kitchen and opened the fridge and looked through it and found a beer and opened that.
"Hey hey hey!" Nate quickly took it from her and poured it into the sink. "CD!"
CD was opening the letter and was shocked. Her landlord told her to move out within the next week. He was very sorry but he needed the apartment for his daughter who had an accident and needed permanent accommodation in San Francisco now.
"Yeah, uhm, I'm coming." CD went in and saw Jinny with another beer that she had taken out of the fridge while Nate was busy pouring away the first one. She slammed the letters and her keys on the table. "Hey, hey, Jinny. No beer for you!" She took her by her shoulders and led Jinny to her bedroom. "You'll need to get some sleep now and tomorrow we'll talk about everything. Okay?" CD took an over-sized t-shirt out of her closet and gave it to Jinny. "Here, that'll do it!"
Jinny was too tired to protest and got dressed into CD's shirt and crawled into the bed and hid under the covers and hugging the pillow started to cry. She felt bad for bothering CD like this. She didn't want to cause anybody trouble. Not Magda and let alone CD. Apparently Magda didn't want the big pile of trouble that was Jinny Exstead anymore either. She had needed her friend and she had turned her down. That actually hurt her more than knowing her marriage had failed. Magda had always told her she was scared she couldn't count on her as a partner. But it turned out that Magda was the one Jinny couldn't count on.
CD heard her cry and walked up to the bed. "Hey Jinny" She said softly and sat down next to her. She took her hand and held it, her other hand was softly stroking Jinnys cheek, until Jinny fell asleep.
Nate sighed. He had watched from the doorframe and motioned for CD to come out of the bedroom now that Jinny was sound asleep
Softly CD let go of Jinny's hand and left the room without making any noise. Outside after closing the door, she sighed and leaned herself against Nate and hugged him tightly.
"Awww shh." Nate hugged her back and kissed into her hair. "I swear this is all just Magda's fault! If she had been there for her partner instead of screwing around, Jinny wouldn't have started to drink again." He hissed.
"Yeah, Magda made it all worse. She's so egoistic." CD sighed again. "Since we didn't have something for dinner now, you want me to order a pizza?"
He shook his head. "I'm not really hungry actually. Come on." Taking her hand he pulled her with him to the couch and sat down and pulled her into his lap. "Relax a little. Tomorrow when Jin has sobered up we'll talk to her and I'm sure we'll find a solution. I mean AA seemed to help her. We're her friends and we'll help her too, right?" He then kissed her temple. "I'll stay tonight." He said and then realized what it sounded like. "On the couch! Because of Jin... I want to be here to help you. And her." Stammering he hoped CD knew that tonight he really wasn't trying to get get laid.
CD snuggled closer to him and smiled a little. "Thanks" she said softly. And then tears welled up in her eyes. Tonight there had been so many things that stressed her. First Jinny being drunk again and then her landlord throwing her out of her apartment. How in the world should she find an apartment and move out within a week? Suddenly she realized again that she wasn't alone. "Sorry, Nate .. I just ..."
"Oh god baby." He sighed and felt so helpless. He kissed her tears away and held her close. "Shhh it'll be okay again. Look, Jin does need our support, but she still has her sponsor too, and I'm sure once she's back in AA, she'll get better. We hang out with her more often too, and don't count on Magda being there for her anymore. She had a hard time. First she lost John jr, now Jack moved away, and Magda turning her down. But she'll be okay again. Her family cares for her too. And you and I are gonna kick Magda's ass for what she did tonight."
"Yeah ... but it's not just Jinny ... " CD sighed and showed Nate the letter of her landlord.
"Oh." Nate looked at it. "Crap... damn CD I'm sorry... I'll help you though... I mean I'd say you can move in with me, but somehow I think that wouldn't help the 'keeping it secret' part."
"Yeah, that would just help to keep the gossip going. But thanks anyway. I mean I'll somehow find a solution." She snuggled even closer to him and was already glad that she finally had him. With him she would make it through anything.
"I'll help you find something else. Believe it or not I found my appartment online." He grinned. "Hey we'll find you an amazing place, even better than this."
"Thanks for your support." She could even smile again because she was sure that they would make it. "Uhm, can I do at least something for you? A beer? A pillow? A blanket?" She grinned at the last things she'd said.
"I uh.... I poured all the beer into the sink.... I thought with Jinny here... sorry." He looked down.
"That's okay." CD smiled. "If you hadn't done it I would have done it myself. So can I get you anything else?"
"A little kiss would be nice." He whispered shyly.
CD grinned even more. He had said it a like a little school boy on his first date. He was so cute. "Everytime!" And then she turned around to face him so that she could kiss him. Slowly she leaned in until their lips met. Her hands were stroking his back softly while their tongues duelled.
He put his arms around her neck and kissed her back full of love. But the kiss was interrupted when they heard Jinny scream. "She's having a nightmare." Nate supposed.
"I'll be right back." Quickly CD got up and left him sitting on the couch and went into the bedroom. Jinny was still asleep but cold sweat was on her forehead and she was moving from one side to another. CD softly took her hand. "Shhh, you're safe here, Jinny. No one's gonna hurt you." She stroked her cheek until Jinny was back to a normal and peaceful sleep.
Then she went back into the livingroom and sat down next to Nate again. "She's fine now."
"I'm glad." He kissed her cheek. "You should get some sleep too."
"You mind me sharing the couch with you?" She now asked shyly since she didn't know where else to sleep.
"I'd love that." He smiled and kicked off his shoes and laid back and held his arms open. "Come here."
"Just one second." She went into the bathroom and slipped in some more comfortable clothes, another over-sized t-shirt and some boxers. Sleeping with a bra and work clothes wasn't exactly comfortable after all. So she went back to Nate and snuggled close to him. "You want me to get a blanket?" She asked because somehow she felt cold.
He nodded. "You mind if I take off my jeans?"
CD was gald that they'd already turned off the lights because if they hadn't, he would see her blushing now. "Uhm, no. Get as comfortable as you want. I'll go get a blanket."
She stood up once more and got a blanket out of her bedroom where Jinny now slept steadily. "Here, so that it won't get cold at night."
He smiled and pulled her close to him again. "Perfect"
She again snuggled close to him, now the blanket wrapped around them. The feeling of his naked legs against her own naked legs sent shivers through her body plus being able to feel his heartbeat helped too. She slowly closed her eyes to really enjoy this.
Gently he kissed her again. "Sweet dreams" He smiled at her and held her close, falling asleep soon himself and feeling like never before with her in his arms.
to be continued...