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Hardware Store. Kind of ironic,” I replied sarcastically.
    He let out a long sigh, “Just stay there. I’m on my way.”
    Five minutes later he pulled up to the curb and jumped out of his car. He came over to me and tried to hug me, but I brushed past him and got into the waiting vehicle.
    I glanced over in time to see his shoulders drop. I turned my face away and waited. Arsen finally got into the car and started it. Instead of putting it in gear, he ran his hands through his hair, turning to face me.
    “Neve, I was going to tell you. I really was. I ... just wasn’t sure how I felt about you yet,” he said quietly.
    “Are you going to take me home now?” I asked coldly.
    “As soon as you can honestly tell me that you don’t feel something is happening here,” he replied stubbornly.
    “There’s nothing happening Arsen. And there never will be, now please take me home.”
    He didn’t reply. He didn’t even react. He just put the car in gear and drove us the hour back to my place. I got out of the car without so much as a backwards glance and went into my apartment. I flopped down on my couch and waited there until I heard his car pull out of the driveway.
    Eventually I heard him drive away. That’s when I threw my phone on the charger and closed my eyes. Today went from being bad to good, then to great, to what the fuck.
    I glanced at the time on the clock. It was one of four pm. Hopefully Addie wouldn’t take too long.

Five
    I woke up to the sound of someone knocking rather incessantly on the door. I pushed myself off the couch groggily and looked at the time.
    Who the hell is knocking at one in the damn morning?
    I walked over to the door and put the chain on before I opened it.
    “Oh my God,” I shouted.
    I closed the door, undid the chain, and yanked it open. Addie was standing on the other side with a big smile on her face and her bags by her feet. We immediately hugged each other tightly and I started to cry. Just hugging her made it feel like all of my problems were millions miles away.
    I loved Addie like a sister, even if she could be a pain in the ass. Even when she teased me for being a virgin and even when she tried to push me to go out with her to “get guys”, she was always there when I needed her. Not to mention we looked very much alike, the only major differences being that she was about a foot taller than me and had bright blue eyes.
    Addie was definitely my rock.
    “I am so tired,” she said when we pulled away. “I’ll need you to stop crying soon, because in New York it’s really four in the morning and I plan on sleeping for the next three or so days.”
    I laughed and wiped the tears away from my face. I stepped aside so she could come in. I went out and grabbed all of her bags and brought them into the house, before I locked the door again.
    I carried her stuff into the bedroom and walked back out into the living room. I sat on the couch across from her and tucked a leg under myself. Addie took a deep breath and reached into her purse, pulling out a couple of wrapped gifts.
    “I want you to wait to open these until I go into the bedroom. Neve, I know you well enough to know that you’re going to be angry when you see this,” she said holding up the small rectangle shaped package, “and probably embarrassed when you see this,” she said, putting down the rectangle on the table and holding up a cylindrical package. “But I think once you get over the anger you might be able to put these to good use. With that being said, I’m going to sleep. Bitch at me in the morning about it okay? Love ya!”
    Addie disappeared into the bedroom and locked the door. I went over to the couch she had been sitting on and I grabbed both of the packages. I didn’t know which feeling I wanted first; anger or embarrassment.
    I decided anger would be first. Only because with as easily as embarrassed as I could get, there was a good chance I could wash it away with the second package.
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