So here's the next chapter…thanks everyone for the reviews. I have the next two chapters pretty much figured out so hopefully they will be posted soon. Please R&R.
(Maureen's POV)
We finally got home; we still hadn't spoken a word to each other. I hated this. She walked in the apartment and headed straight for the bathroom. Damn it Joanne talk to me. The mood between us was so different the last time we were at the apartment together. I replayed the events of earlier in the evening through my mind, us crashing into the walls, knocking over stuff because we were too into each other to care and then the phone call, then our fight, and now I'm standing here by myself. I had become so lost in my thoughts, I was just now realizing that our answering machine was blinking.
"Hey girls, it's Mimi. One of you call me when you get in ok. I don't care what time it is, I love you both." She sounded genuinely concerned about us. Even though she had so many problems of her own, here she was worried about us.
I quickly picked up the phone and dialed her number.
Damn it her answering machine, "Hey you have reached Mimi, try Roger's."
"Meems, its Maureen, you there? Ok I'll try…"
"Hey" her voice still so chipper after such an exhausting evening, how does she do it. "Are you and Joanne ok? What's going on?"
"I wish I knew. You know I went looking for her and when I walked out in the hall, I saw her what seemed to me flirting with some guy. I questioned her about it and now we aren't talking."
"Oh Maureen, I'm sorry. Well it can't be too bad; apparently you two went home together"
"That's true I guess. I just wish she'd quit being so stubborn. Why does she have to be like that for Meems? It just makes me mad sometimes." Apparently, Joanne had finished up in the bathroom and was coming out to talk to me, because when I turned around she was standing behind me staring at me. Mimi was saying something, but I wasn't paying attention to her. I was focused on Joanne. She just shook her head, turned around and went down the hall to our bedroom. "Hey Meems sorry," I interrupted, "but I need to go. Lunch tomorrow?"
"Yeah definitely, no problem. I'll just meet you at the Life at 12, and then maybe we can go see Mark?"
"Sounds like a plan. I'll see you tomorrow then. Goodnight."
"Goodnight, hey and good luck with Joanne. Bye."
I hung up the phone and headed towards our bedroom. I was a woman on a mission. I was going to fix this, I didn't care how. I mean it all kind of seemed a little silly to me anyway, that we were having this huge fight over something so small.
As I reached our bedroom, I took a deep breath before slowly opening the door. My heart was pounding, my stomach in knots again afraid of the unknown within the room. She already had all the lights off and was in bed. I was praying she wasn't asleep yet, though she seemed to be at the time. I climbed in underneath the sheets beside her and put my arm around her.
Softly I started to speak, "Look Joanne, I'm sorry. I never meant to accuse you of anything. Pookie I completely trust you. I love you. And I guess since I do love you so much, I just get worried that you'll leave me because I don't feel like I deserve you sometimes." By this time tears were rolling down my face.
"Maureen," I quietly heard her saying, "I love you too. I hate it when we fight like this." By this time she had turned over and she was facing me. "I just want you to trust me; I'd never do anything to intentionally hurt you. And I guess that's why I got so mad, because you questioned me about flirting with some guy." She reached over and wiped the tears from my face. Her hands were so soft, her touch tender and loving; she gazed into my eyes, she really does love me, and I love her.
Through the tears I got out, "I know Joanne. It was just that I was so scared for Mark and I needed you there with me, I wanted you there with me. And then I saw you with that guy and I just kind of blew up, overreacted if you will."
"I'm sorry too Maureen. I should have been there for you. And I wanted to be there for you, I always want to be there for you. I just ran into him and we started talking. I'm sorry baby."
We just laid there, staring at each other, not really sure what to say or do now.
"Hey honeybear, did you have to scream all of that out in the hallway?" She kind of chuckled when asking me this.
It made me laugh too, "Well yeah, I wanted everyone to know that I had the best girlfriend that I could have and that I loved her with every fiber of my body."
She smiled, leaned over and kissed me. Even though it had only been earlier that evening that we had last kissed, I really missed her lips against mine.
"Baby, you're a pretty damn good girlfriend yourself you know?" she smiled as I moved closer to her and engulfed her into my arms.
We didn't get much sleep that night.
So nothing too exciting happened in this chapter, I know…but I needed to get Joanne and Maureen back together. Promise something exciting coming within the next couple of chapters.