Chapter 12: Night out (cont')
Melinda just kept sitting there with the widest smile. Just thinking of the conversation she had in the car with Olivia, was enough to keep her smiling. But laughing was another thing. And in a way, it was slightly funny and amusing. Casey noticed first.
"What's with the cheesy big smile on your face, Melinda?" smiled Casey.
She didn't want to say anything about the conversation in the car. So she bought herself an excuse.
"Nothing. Something Josie did earlier in the week. I'm not the one to run like a football player, at Liv. What was that all about, Casey?" joked Melinda. Melinda threw a glance Olivia's way, letting her know that she wasn't going to say anything. It was her business. And if she did or didn't want to share with the rest, then she was going to respect that.
"No kidding, Case. It's not like I fell of the face of the planet. It's not like you weren't going to see me again." Smiled Olivia.
"Not funny, Liv." Said Casey.
"But it was. And if it bothered me to say it, then I wouldn't have said it. Relax already." Said Olivia.
"Okay, so whose phone is it this time? It's not mine because I turned it on vibrate. Casey?" asked Alex.
"Not mine. I left mine in the car." Said Casey.
Melinda checked her phone. Not hers, which meant that it was Liv's. But she would cover her if she didn't want to say who it was. CRAP. She knew there had to be a reason why that she didn't tell him she was going out. Her phone would just keep going off until she answered. NEW TEXT MESSAGE, is what appeared on her screen. She flipped it open. The message on her screen nearly made her spit out the mouthful of her margarita out of her mouth.
Rather than show Alex and Casey, she instead passed her phone on the table to Melinda.
Melinda nearly did the same thing Olivia had done not seconds before she was handed the phone.
Sex
"Okay so what's with the two of you nearly spitting out mouthfuls of margiritas? And don't tell me nothing because I don't by." Said Alex.
"Don't make me take you're phone from you, Liv. And I mean literally. You know I will." Said Casey.
"Forget it. I don't need the third degree from the two of you about what it means. Besides, if I shared it with you then I would never hear the end of it." Smiled Olivia. At the moment, she really didn't care if Casey took her phone from her and read it. She wouldn't know that it was from Elliot. She would just presume that it was from a past relationship or someone she was seeing. Well part of it was right.
Casey was too curious as to what both Olivia and Melinda were keeping from her. So she took the phone out of Olivia's purse and read it for herself.
"I should have known better then to have put it back in my purse." Laughed Olivia.
"You know Casey can't keep out of your purse." Joked Alex.
"Does that say what I think I'm seeing?" smiled Casey.
"What does it look like? Can't read, Case?" cracked Olivia. Now she really didn't care what they thought.
Casey passed the phone to Alex. Alex just smiled.
"How come, Alex doesn't say anything about the message but you have a mouthful to say?" said Olivia.
"I…" stuttered Casey. Alex, Olivia and Melinda just cracked up even more.
"Loss of words there, Counselor?" laughed Alex.
"Case, get over it. Not like David doesn't do the same thing with you." Spilled Alex. Shit, she wasn't suppose to let that slip just yet. Casey looked at Alex with a look that said it all.
"Wait a minute, Case. Is this why you wanted to meet for drinks?" asked Olivia. If it was then, it just bought her time to avoid talking about hers.
"Thanks, Alex. Now I have no choice." Said Casey.
"It's either you explain David or Liv gets to explain her explicit text message. Take you're pick?" laughed Alex. Either way, this was going to get interesting real fast. And it was just starting.
"I don't care. Don't look at me. There's nothing to explain." Smiled Olivia. Yeah, there was. Like who it really was from. That would just carry the conversation for another couple of hours.
"You first, Liv." Said Casey.
"What's there to tell? You read it." Said Olivia.
"Like maybe who sent it?" Replied Alex.
"Casey first. Because by the time I done explain who sent the message, everyone is either going to be on the fall laughing or sitting here at the table, like a deer caught in a cars headlights." Smiled Olivia. And it would. Her bet was them sitting with their mouths wide open and then laughing on the floor.
"I have nothing to tell. David is just someone I happened to meet threw work. End of story." Said Casey. There was no way that this was all she was going to tell.
"Just met threw work? You sure you don't mean anything else?" asked Melinda.
"Fine, geez. Can we just get this over with so we can find out more behind Liv's text?" said Casey.
"Start talking, Novak." Said Melinda.
"Fine, I met David threw work, like I said. That was three months ago." Said Casey.
"You've been seeing this guy for three months and haven't mentioned it before? What's with the secrets all of a sudden." Asked Olivia.
"I told mine. Your turn. Whose the explicit message from? Not one of John's sick jokes again is it?" joked Casey.
"No. But thanks for thinking that, Casey." Replied Olivia.
"Quit keeping us waiting and just tell us already." Said Alex. Even she wanted to know who the mystery guy was. Wait till they found out who it was.
"Melinda knows who it is already, doesn't she? That was why you had a giant smile on your face not ten minutes ago." Smiled Alex.
"I would just tell them and get it over with." Smiled Melinda.
"Fine. You really want to know. It was from Elliot. There you happy now." Said Olivia.