A/n: Sorry this update is later than I said it would be ,but I had some temporary problems with my internet yesterday so I wasn't able to post, so here is the third chapter, Betty might be a little OOC in this first part, enjoy
-Pessimistic Romanticist
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Chapter three: Avoidance
Betty woke up stretched and grabbed her glasses off the lamp table next to her bed . The movement caused an immediate pain in her head and her hand came to rest on the throbbing nerve on her temple. She swore at the pain and at herself for uncharacteristically having another beer after she'd left the roof, or was it two beers, she couldn't remember how many she'd had or why she had them . Then it all came crashing back , her crush on Jesse, the party she had thrown for him, the song he sang and wrote just for her, or so she thought, finding Amanda kissing him in her apartment and then Daniel kissing her and her kissing him back.
The realization sent another wave of pain through her temple as her eyes furrowed at the retrieved memories. She glanced at her clock and saw that she would soon be late for work . There was no way she could go to work with a hangover, but that wasn't the main reason she didn't want to go. She wasn't quite ready to face Daniel and talk about what had happened or why they'd done it. Betty was never one to run away from, or avoid ,anything,but she hadn't exactly acted like herself the night before either.
"Why are you still in bed?" Amanda said suddenly appearing.
"I think I'm gonna be sick." Betty said running to the sink and throwing up.
"You don't look so good, you look worse than usual." Amanda said looking at Betty's pale face.
"You think."Betty said sarcastically before puking again.
"Yeah, you should totally stay home." Amanda said handing Betty a towel.
"I think your right." Betty said wiping her mouth .
"How much did you drink last night" Amanda said looking at Betty's appearance.
"I don't remember..I gotta call Daniel, tell him I'm gonna be late." Betty said looking around for her phone.
"Betty, theres no way you can go to work today , go lie down I'll let Daniel know you can't come in." Amanda said trying to be nice.
"OK, but don't tell him I have a hangover..tell him its a flu or something." Betty said as Amanda helped her back to her bed.
"I'm not that great of a liar , but I'll try." Amanda said as she left the apartment.
Betty felt horrible not just because of her hangover symptoms but because she'd let issues with boys drive her to drink, she rarely drunk alcohol and when she did it was never beer. Which was probably why her body couldn't hand the half bottle of beer she'd drunk last night. When her raging thoughts about Jesse came back , so with out thinking she took a swig then another than another. She was really ashamed , that was something the old Daniel would do. Moving here was supposed to be part of her new start and here she had gotten into romantic entanglements and it had ended in disaster ,yet again.
"why are you sitting there feeling sorry for yourself?" a voice said.
"Who said that?" Betty said looking around.
" I did, look at yourself , why are you moping over Jesse, Daniel Meade kissed you yesterday ,did you forget that?" Betty's conscious manifestation in the mirror said.
"No I didn't forget that , and I'm not moping." Betty said glaring at her conscience.
"Then why aren't you at work?" Mirror Betty asked.
"Because I have a hangover , and your talking too loud." Betty said hands sitting on top of her aching head.
"Really, a hangover when you didn't really drink last night, we both no what you're avoiding." Mirror Betty said.
"What are you talking about , if I didn't drink , why did I throw up and why is my head hurting?" Betty said glaring again at the talking mirror image of herself.
"Because this isn't real, you're dreaming and you're going to be late" Mirror Betty said with a smirk.
"What,what did you say?" Betty said confused.
" I said you need to wake up or you're going to be late!" Mirrior Betty said but this time in Amanda's voice.
Betty woke up and found a blurry version of Amanda starring down at her. She reached for her glasses and looked at the time seeing that she was indeed going to be late, if she didn't get out of bed immediately.
"Why didn't my alarm go off?" Betty said looking at the time.
"It did , but you didn't wake up, I had to get up and turn it off, it was totally messing with my beauty sleep." Amanda said nonchalantly.
"You should have woken me up , when the alarm didn't" Betty said frustrated.
" I did when your phone wouldn't stop ringing , you have like three missed calls and five text messages from Daniel" Amanda said handing Betty her phone.
"Daniel.." Betty said remembering what happened the night before. She thought back to her dream and got an idea. She started to cough and grabbed her head.
"I don't feel so good, can you tell Daniel , I'm feeling sick today , I already printed out his schedule for today , its in my gray bag can you give it to him when you go in?" Betty said .
"Sure, but you don't look very sick..ooh I get it your playing hooky, don't worry I'll tell him how sick and horrible you look" Amanda said speaking in that tone of hers and winking at Betty.
"Amanda wait!"
Betty said knowing what a bad liar Amanda was, she was probably going to over exaggerate Betty's condition to the point that Daniel would become suspicious, but Amanda had grabbed the papers and was already out the door.
Daniel sat at his desk starring out the window at Betty's empty desk. Betty was usually in to work by now and he was starting to get worried . When he went home , he had laid awake for hours thinking about Betty and their kiss.
He had finally fallen asleep at four am, waking up with Betty still on his mind. He didn't know what he would say to her ,when she would walk into his office as usual with his coffee and bagel, but he knew he had to talk to her.
What he didn't expect was for her not to show up for work. Betty was always punctual and on time, it was one of the reasons why she was such a great assistant. Betty was now an hour late , which had Daniel very worried. He spotted Amanda who had just arrived and since Betty hadn't answered his calls or texts ,he knew Amanda could probably tell him where Betty was since they were temporarily living together.
"Amanda , do you know where Betty is?" Daniel asked walking over to the receptionist desk.
"What am I, Betty's keeper." Amanda said popping her gum.
"Do you know where she is or not?" Daniel said slightly irritated by Amanda's nonchalant attitude.
"Oh , yeah, I forgot to tell you , Betty's not coming in today" Amanda said then starting flipping through a magazine.
"She isn't , why not ?" Daniel asked worry clearly written on his face.
"Shes sick or something, you should see her she looks horrible, her face is all puffy , red and swollen, like more than usual, and she threw up all over the place and she was coughing and sneezing allot , it was really, really bad" Amanda said then her attention was back to the magazine she was reading.
"That's sounds bad, is she still at home, sounds like she should be in the hospital." Daniel said not quite believing Amanda.
"Shes still at home,laying in bed, I don't think she can get out of it." Amanda said, this time not looking up to avoid looking Daniel in the eyes.
" Why is she at home by herself, if shes so sick she can't even get out of bed." Daniel said a little angry that Amanda had left Betty alone.
"Betty's a big girl, and I mean her age , not her body." Amanda said in that tone of hers still avoided Daniels eyes .
" Betty's not sick is she?" Daniel asked . Betty was independent ,but , if she was really that sick she would have gone to the hospital or at least called her dad or sister.
"Fine, she's not sick , I guess even perfect assistant Betty , plays hooky sometimes" Amanda said.
Daniel was glad Betty was alright but, it wasn't like Betty to pretend to be sick, just to skip work. He didn't understand why she would do that, unless she didn't want to go to work for some other reason , like seeing him. Daniel immediately felt bad about what he had done the night before. He didn't regret that he'd kissed Betty, but ,he was starting to realize that , that might not have been the best timing for him to kiss her.
He had to go see her and explain himself, he hoped she didn't think that he kissed her because he felt sorry for her . If he was her, he probably would be thinking the same thing because of his reputation in the past.
He had to let her know that he kissed her because he wanted to , because he cared about her and somewhere over the past three years his feelings for her had become something more than just friendship.
He headed toward the elevator,but was stopped by Wilhelmina, who suddenly appeared before him.
"Where do you think you're going, the meetings the other way"Wilhelmina said , Marc right behind her, as usual.
"Right , the meeting, can we postpone it for another hour?" Daniel asked though he knew Wilhelmina would say no.
"Armani's people are already here, if you can't handle the meeting, I'll do it without you." Wilhelmina said walking past Daniel.
"No, I'm coming." Daniel said holding back a frustrated growl. As soon as the meeting was over he would be heading over to Betty's.
A/n: So I decided to end it there and save the confrontation for the next chapter, so let me know what you think by dropping me a review, ideas, suggestions, construct criticism etc, would be appreciated , thanks for reading , I'll try to have another chapter up soon, but I've been neglecting my other detty, so I want to post a new chapter for that story , before I update this one again-Pessimistic Romanticist