Visitors

My drive was such a blur I didn't realize I was around the corner of my house. I was too busy remembering the past, who would have thought all that would happen. I don't dislike Sally but I don't like her either. I feel like she's so used to having the attention that she would do anything to be the center of it. Sally is sweet and always thinks of others but in a weird twist I believe she is narcissistic as well. She always has to be the topic or everyone has to do whatever she wants. If things don't go her way she gets depressed and everyone bends to her.

I'm glad we went our separate ways otherwise I would have been stuck in that group and I would probably have always lent them a place to have kickbacks, rides or even lend them more money. So I'm glad I'm done with them.

I pull into my house and walk to my safe haven. The ceiling is high so it's always cool inside. I then noticed how it's a little messy inside. Good thing I was preparing myself mentally to be ready to clean and set everything by evening. I turn on the tv and put on YouTube, I put on music, whatever is the first thing that pops in the music category and it happens to be Tick Tock by Joji so I get in a calm mood and start doing the few dishes I have and get everything ready so I can paint tomorrow. I hear my phone ringing so I check if it's a message or an email.

"Hey, I'm going over in a couple minutes. Make me something to drink." I saw that Holly messaged me so I smiled and messaged back.

"Alcohol, juice or tea? Lol"

"Alcoholic, and something fruity. Please and thank you!" She messaged with a heart at the end. I just love how adorable she is. Luckily I didn't have much to clean and knowing her I'm sure she's close by. So I go and check what type of drink I should make and see a pink bottle and I'm sure she would love it so I choose to bring that down the shelf and leave it on the counter. So when she gets here I'll make it real quick.

After ten minutes I heard someone knocking on the door so I got excited thinking of how quick Holly is at driving. I open the door to see Lisa smiling so brightly holding a potted plant. Sometimes it blows my mind that she is in her late forties. I see the flowers. White daisies, they are so pretty.

"Oh Hey Lisa, how are you?" I say as I hug her and make sure the plant does not fall.

"Hey Luna I know it's very unexpected but I wanted to bring you this potted plant. I know how much you like daisies." She says very excitedly.

"They are so pretty. Thank you, did you plant them yourself?" I say as I take the potted plant. "Do you want to come in?" I say as I make way for her to come in.

"No, I just wanted to stop since your place was in the way. My nephew came to town and is taking me out to eat." She said so merrily. I smile so happy since seeing her so happy makes me happy as well.

"Funny I would think your son would be taking you out but if I was your niece I would spoil you too." I say with an awkward smile. Almost as if sent by the heavens Holly appeared.

"Hey Miss. G, long time no see." Holly says as she hugs Lisa. I smile seeing them hugging. Then in the corner of my eye I see a silhouette and I see Vincent. Standing there. What is he doing here? Don't tell me he's…I see Lisa turn back and then say.

"Alright girls, I actually gotta go. I don't want to be late for our reservation. Next time I'll introduce you guys better." She says while running to hold on Vincent's arm. I see Vincent staring and smiles and I can't help but stare mesmerized by his beautiful smile.

"Bye Miss. G. Till we meet again!" Holly yelled and got me out of that weird trance.

"Bye Lisa." I see her wave so we both wave back to her and then Vincent waves so I just smile then drag Holly inside.

"OMG that guy is so good looking. Who is he?" She cheerfully asks.

"His name is Vincent. That's Lisa's nephew and Mark's cousin." I say while looking at her reaction which I know would change immediately. After a second I said that sentence I saw her eyes change from being excited to annoyed.

"Are you serious? No way that man has some good genes and seems like a gentleman. He's taking his aunt out to eat when not even her son does that." She says, sounding annoyed. And I take that as my cue to go and make her a drink.

"Yea I've been running into him a lot. He's hanging out with Sally's group and I've talked to him already. He doesn't seem like a bad guy. But then again I've only talked to him twice." I tell her as I'm getting ice for her. "He also gave me his number twice but I don't want to get involved with him." I say while grabbing a pink bottle.

"What drink are you making me?" She then asks me to probably get off topic, She's such a good friend. She knows whenever Sally is involved Mark is too and he likes to be annoying and rude to me.

"I'm mixing strawberry lemonade vodka with lime soda. It's very fruity and not bitter at all. I've been drinking this a lot lately." I say as I'm pouring the drinks together. "So what happened? Was work bad or some good news?" I ask her. She looks at me with sad eyes and I know why It's almost been nine year since Michelle passed away, in two days it'll be a full nine years since she passed away from a car accident. It is also why I choose to have a month off. I feel like I need to focus on myself. I feel like my depression is coming back. I feel like I'm in a rut. I need to change something. I just don't know what yet. So I smile while I hand Holly her drink.

"I'm okay, don't worry you know I'll call you if something is wrong." I say trying to reassure her and not make her worry. " I guess Lisa had the same thought as you and came to check up on me." I say as I make myself a glass of the same thing as Holly. I then guided her to the couch and asked her.

"So how's it going with that Fabian guy?" I say trying to change the mood. She then sits puts her cup on the coffee table in front of the couch and crosses her arms.

"Don't even mention that guy, he's such a loser. He doesn't drive nor have a job anymore. He quit it a month ago and hasn't thought of getting another." She is very irritated.

"Okay breath and take a drink." I say and grab her while handing it to her. She then takes a sip and immediately her eyes shine.

"Oh my goodness this is so good it's not bitter at all. This is a dangerous drink." She says as she drinks more.

"I told you, and talking about I told you…ahem I told you that guy was weird he always wanted you to do everything for him." I said to her, and she stared at me as if I betrayed her.

"Good thing I never did everything he asked for. But you gotta admit he was pretty good looking." She says with a huge grin and we both laugh agreeing with facts. "Lisa's nephew was good looking too. He didn't say a word but wow… he got all our attention. More yours I saw you staring. That's the first you usually don't fall for guys quickly." She says as we look at what to watch on tv.

"I'm not into him." I say and drink a big gulp and think of his smile. Then face away from Holly and focus on the tv.

"You're blushing! That's so cute." Holly starts teasing me.

"Stop, I'm not." I say even though I feel my face getting warmer. "Can we watch this movie?" I say to try to change the topic.

"Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum…it sounds scary. Hell yea lets watch it! I love scary movies."

"This movie is pretty good. I watched a little bit of it but never the ending." I say getting excited to watch the movie. As the night went on we occasionally refilled our drinks and just enjoyed each other's company every once in a while we would talk in between the movie. After the movie ended we talked and caught up on what we had been up to.

"Are you seriously taking a whole month off?" Holly asked, probably wondering if I'm okay. So I decided to be completely honest with her.

"Yes I'm taking a whole month. I feel like I'm in a rut. I'm going to go out to places around here and take pictures. It's been awhile for that too. I'm going to enjoy myself since I haven't had a single vacation in a while. I'm going to visit my parents too. So don't think I'm just going to be in my house only. And you can come over when you want just text me and I'll dedicate a whole day for you" I tell her with a smile.

"Really I'm going to be coming like every other week. You can't take that back." She says in a more energetic tone.

"Of course not my doors are always open for you anyways."

"Alright, it's already past midnight. I have to head home but first my last bathroom trip." She says as she gets up and runs off to the bathroom.

"Okay message me when you get home and whenever you want to come over I'll probably most likely be here." I say hugging her goodbye.

"Okay I'll message you, if anything comes up and you need a friend don't be afraid to hit me up. Okay." She says and it makes me feel warm and loved.

"Hahaha okay I got it go home already you have work tomorrow. Bye." I say as I wave her goodbye.

"Love you girl. Bye." She waves back and gets in her car and I see her drive off. I go back inside and clean the small mess we made. I lay on my couch and without realizing how exhausted I am I fell asleep on the couch.

I woke up to someone knocking on the door. I feel so uncomfortable I fell asleep without taking a shower and making things worse with my jeans on. Ugh how annoying. I then got up to check the door so I looked through the peephole since there was no way I was going to answer the door looking like a mess. But I saw no one. Maybe it was a package.

The moment I opened the door I was expecting a brown box but to my surprise it was a bouquet of red, white and pink roses. They were so pretty but were they sent to the wrong house? I peek my head out a little bit, but decide to just take the flowers inside and hope it has a card. Thank goodness I found a card on the side and it shocked me "To: Luna From: Vincent." I turned the card around and saw that there was only one sentence written on it. Why? What is the meaning of this? This must be a joke right?