Shocking Discovery
Laura knocked on the door and waited. After a couple minutes she knocked again.
"One sec," Alexis said as she unlocked the door. "Hey."
"Hi," Laura said stepping into the house. "Took you long enough."
"I was in the bathroom thank you very much," Alexis said. "What's up?"
"Nothing too special," Laura said. "I got bored, figured I'm come and see ya."
"Ah," Alexis said. "Come in then. Want anything to drink?"
"No thanks," Laura said. "Anything interesting going on here?"
"When is there ever anything interesting going on here?" Alexis asked.
"AJ come around since the last time I saw him?" Laura asked.
"Yeah, he was just angry about something on work and didn't know how to deal with it," Alexis lied. "You know how he gets with his temper."
"He tends to make ridiculous decisions," Laura agreed.
"Yep, that's Jay alright," Alexis said hopping onto the counter. "What's Petey up to?"
"He's started training for the World X Cup," Laura said.
"Oh yeah," Alexis replied. "He excited?"
"When isn't Petey excited?" Laura asked.
"True," Alexis said laughing.
"Hey, can I use your bathroom?" Laura asked.
"Sure," Alexis answered. "Second door on your right."
"Thanks," Laura said.
"No problem," Alexis said hopping off of the counter.
"Alexis!" Laura yelled. "What the hell is all of this?"
"What?" Alexis asked as Laura came out of the bathroom.
She was holding six empty bottles of Visine.
"Are you smoking up again and trying not to get caught?" Laura asked her.
"I'm not smoking up," Alexis said rolling her eyes.
"Well then what are you doing with so many bottles of Visine?"
"Don't worry about it," Alexis said.
"How do you expect me not to worry about you?" Laura asked. "Just tell me what you're using it for and I'll leave you alone."
"I have it because AJ left me!" Alexis yelled. "Are you happy? He left me and I need the Visine so that no one knows that I haven't stopped crying since!" Laura stood in the kitchen in shock as Alexis slowly crumbled to the ground. "I tried to be strong like I used to be but it's no use!"
Laura sat beside Alexis.
"How long ago did this happen?" Laura asked.
"A week," Alexis said crying.
"And you've been here all by yourself?" Laura asked. "Why didn't you phone or come over?"
"Because I'm sick of always being a burden," Alexis said. "You don't even know how it feels to have the love of your life walk out the door when you can barely breathe."
"He just walked out?" Laura asked as her own eyes began to water.
Alexis nodded.
"How can he do this!" Alexis yelled. "He's slowly killing me again!"
Laura wrapped her arms around her cousin.
"He swore that he would never do it again! He swore and he promised!" Alexis yelled.
"Then there's no sense in waiting around here for him," Laura said to her. "You should go out and start living again."
"But it hurts so bad," Alexis said crying.
"Of course it hurts," Laura said, "but is that a good reason to stop living?"
"You know what sounds stupid?" Alexis asked.
"What?" Laura asked.
"The only thing that I want right now is to be here with me," Alexis said letting the tears run down her cheeks. "I just want him to put his arms around me and tell me that everything's going to be alright and that he loves me."
"That's not stupid," Laura said. "Any girl in your situation would feel exactly the same."
"Why is he doing this?" Alexis asked. "Everything was perfect."
"There's no such thing as perfect," Laura said. "When everything seems perfect, that's when you have to worry."
"Just two nights before he left he held me as I fell asleep," Alexis said. "How can anyone be so heartless?"
"I don't know," Laura said stroking her cousin's hair.
"Can you just go?" Alexis asked. "I really just want to be alone."
"You shouldn't be alone right now," Laura said.
"But I want to be," Alexis said. "I just want to lay in our bed and cry."
"That's not healthy Lexi," Laura said.
"Well neither is bottling up your emotions," Alexis said. "I'll see you later."
"You're not going to hurt yourself?" Laura asked.
"I swear I won't hurt myself," Alexis said. "Now go."
"Call if you need anything at all," Laura said.
"I won't be calling unless you can bring AJ back to me," Alexis said as she sauntered up the stairs.
Alexis ran up the stairs, shoved the door open and began looking around. When she found Laura she grabbed her by the arm and pulled her upstairs.
"What's going on?" Laura asked.
"Traci's having a party," Alexis said. "We're going."
"Are you sure you wanna go?" Laura asked.
"Yeah, we're gonna get wasted," Alexis replied. "Hurry up I wanna get going."
"Alright," Laura said grabbing an outfit and running into the bathroom.
She quickly got dressed, put her hair up and put her make up on and then they were out the door.
"Here you go," Alexis said passing a shooter to Laura.
They shot it back and Laura looked around. The last person she wanted to see at the party was AJ. Luckily she couldn't see him however, Alexis didn't looked fazed that all of his friends were there and he could be.
"So what happened to you?" Laura asked. "When I saw you a few days ago you looked horrible and now you want to party?"
"No sense in laying around," Alexis said.
Laura hung around Alexis all night which wasn't easy. Whenever Alexis wanted another shot she passed one to Laura. Alexis was easily drinking Laura under the table.
At one point in the night Laura lost sight of Alexis and when she found her she was ready to go home with a complete stranger. Fortunately Alexis was too drunk to think of a good fight and quickly forgot.
"Hey," Laura said sitting down in the booth with Alexis. "You said you wanted to talk."
"Sure do," Alexis said.
"What about?" Laura asked then ordered a drink.
"I'm out of here," Alexis said. "The house is to big and brings back too many memories."
"Where are you gonna go?" Laura asked concerned.
"I have no idea," Alexis said laughing. "Anywhere but here is fine with me. I'm thinking of going back to New York."
Laura nodded sadly. "When are you leaving?"
"Not sure yet," Alexis said. "Next week sometime."
"Are you going to say goodbye to everyone?"
"Yeah, I don't dispose of people," Alexis said. Laura caught the shot at AJ but decided not to do anything about it. "If you see AJ after I leave tell him that he can keep the house and everything in it, I don't want it."
Laura could feel her eyes fill with tears but she wanted to stay strong for Alexis, someone had to.
"Do you know what you're going to do wherever you're going?" Laura said holding back tears.
"I have no idea," Alexis said. "That's the beauty of it all. I never had the chance to be on my own and now I can whatever I want without anyone to stop me."
"Good for you," Laura said playing with the straw in her drink.
"Don't worry," Alexis said. "You won't miss me around here. You'll finally be able to have friends and not worry about what I think of them."
"You know that I treasure your opinion," Laura said.
"Oh yeah," Alexis said sardonically. "Everyone treasures my opinions."
"I said that I treasure your opinion in that issue," Laura said laughing. "A little less in other subjects."
"The feeling's mutual then," Alexis said smiling.
