“Izzie? You home?” I heard Lynn call, as she entered my house. Lynn has been my best friend since we were roommates in college. We both had jobs now and houses of our own, but we were still best friends. She bought her house three streets from mine, only 3 months after I moved back to Huntington beach. She didn’t want to live at the beach, she hated jellyfish. Yes, that was her sole reason for not wanting to live at the beach. I heard her call again “Izzie? Your car is up front, I know you are home!”. During the last part of that sentence she entered my room and saw me lying there. “What the hell happened? Why do you look like you’ve been in bed for three days?”. I grunted “Because I was. That ass cheated on me and I was just too stupid to never have noticed it.” I turned to Lynn, I saw her anger fired up in her eyes. This was what she did. She kicked everyone’s ass who even thought about hurting me. She was the badass of us two. “Are you serious? How did you find out? Why didn’t you call me?” She lay down beside me and pulled my body to hers. I started crying. I just couldn’t take it that she was that sweet to me. It was too much. “We had a date, I got over to his house and opened the door. I called out to him, but no answer. His car was there, his tv was on. He had to be home. So I walked through his house, calling his name and then I entered the kitchen”. By now I was sobbing like a little child. I was in sonar mode, or as Lynn would call it, nobody but the dogs would understand me now. Lynn just held me close and let me sob “hush babe, just let it all out, you don’t have to tell me now”.

We just lay there. It must have been for hours, because when I finally came to myself, it was dark outside. “I’m going to make us something to eat, you grab a shower and change into something comfortable. I will set everything for a nice evening of quality movies.” I knew what that meant. Bad movies, really bad movies and then some. I smiled. Lynn never cooked, she just couldn’t, so it would probably only be junk food. I didn’t care much really, I wasn’t hungry.

All was set when I came out of the shower. Wine, lots of it, snacks and a great pile of shitty movies. Damn, she knew me well. Lynn walked into the room holding two more dvd’s. “Thor 1 and 2, not really my cup of tea, but for you there is nothing that Chris Hemsworth can’t fix. I’m willing to sit through this, especially for you” I settled myself down on the couch, Lynn let herself fall next to me and watched me. “Are you ready to tell the story now?” I shrugged. I had to tell someone, it would only haunt me if I didn’t. I nodded quietly.

“So, I entered the kitchen and there he was, doing that bitch Naomi. She watched me as I came in and just smiled at me! Really Lynn, she just smiled! “ I could see Lynn was boiling on the inside. “Don’t get mad please, he isn’t worth it... or he won’t be worth it, I’m not there yet.... “ I knew I had to let go, but we were together for 7 months and I just couldn’t, not like this. “I was just standing there in his kitchen and saw Eric. He saw me too, but he was just finishing his fuck, as if I wasn’t there. I backed out of his kitchen and ran to the front door. Eric found me just before I could go through the door. He was buttoning up his pants, told me he was sorry I found out, but that one girl just wasn’t enough for him. He needed to get this out of his system he said, and then, maybe in 10 years or so , he would be ready to marry me.” Lynn looked at me with her jaw dropped and big eyes “He said he was going to marry you?” “Yeah, in 10 years. But I had to let him have the others too. He even had the courtesy to say that he would try to not let it interfere with our relationship.”
Lynn sighed and got up, fury building up inside her. “I am going to kick his ass. He is completely out of his mind, he must have lost his marbles somewhere fucking one bitch or another. I didn’t think they existed, but damn, was I wrong. “The courtesy to not let it interfere with your relationship”? Which world is he living in?”. I looked at her. I didn’t want her to go over to his, I needed my friend and I didn’t know what she would do... I probably had to bail her out if I let her go. “Lynn, please just stay. I need a friend, lots of wine, Chris Hemsworth and that pile of bad movies. I will feel better tomorrow. I promise. He is not even worth the fuss”. Lynn sat down again and got comfortable on the couch.

“Okay, I will stay, but you are making a hangover breakfast tomorrow. And you have to go to that concert with me tomorrow night” “What concert?” “Avenged Sevenfold, I told you about that. It’s with all the guitars, you know? With my future husband Synyster Gates?” I laughed. I remembered that band. Their music made me a little nervous sometimes, but okay, those solos were quite cool. Totally not my scene normally, but I could use something different and then I would finally get to see that guitarist who she was always joking about. “Okay, I will come with you, but we have to go shopping. I don’t own anything I can wear to a rock concert” “We can most certainly do that, we will make you hot ass sexy and find you some hot ass, sane guy”. I just shook my head, I knew better than to argue with her, but I wasn’t ready for someone new. Eric hurt me, bad, I didn’t know if I could ever trust any man again. I felt sorry for myself. I was 30, and single again. All the guys I let in, cheated on me. How would I recover from that?! I got comfortable again and just tried to clear my head and watched the movie.

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My head was pounding. Where was I? This wasn’t my bed. I felt three hands on my body. Three? I don’t have three hands! I tried to get up, but something was blocking me. Or better said, someone. I moved my head a little to see what was going on.. Ouch, my head! Then I remembered,... Lynn. She had one hand lying on my leg and the other one was lying on the couch. She was lying on top of me with half her body and that really didn’t look comfortable. It wasn’t comfortable for me either. “Lynn, Lynn, wake up” I tried to shove her a little. Pushing her off. She grunted.. “I don’t want to, leave me alone” “If I have to make you a hangover breakfast, you need to let go of me”. Lynn grunted and moved over “Must. Not. Move. My head. How much did we drink last night?”

I couldn’t really remember much. We got into these bad movies and started to name stupid reasons why Eric has lost his mind. We listened to’90s music and sang a long really loud. I remembered walking into the sea for a bit, because it was so beautifully moonlit. And I remembered 3 bottles of wine, or maybe 4. I got up and looked around. How could two people make that kind of a mess? And I counted 6 bottles, not 4.. Oops. I rolled myself of the couch and crawled into my kitchen. The light hurt my eyes, so I just kept them closed and found my way feeling around. Ha! Just was I was looking for... I let go a sigh of relieve when I found the remote control of the sunscreens of my house. That was way better. I slowly got up and looked for the aspirins. I took two out, hmmm better make it three, and grabbed a coke from my fridge. I downed the aspirin and took three more and the other half of my coke and went to the living room. I handed Lynn the pills “Here, take this, I will start breakfast”

It must have been some kind of miracle, because I was quickly feeling better. I could still hold my liquor apparently, and that aspirin helped. I took a long look at my fridge, there wasn’t much in it, I had behaved like a hermit for the past few days, barely ate anything, but I didn’t shop either. There was some fruit, I had eggs, there was milk. I smelled it, still good. I found some bread. This could work. I instantly relaxed as I started cooking. I squeezed some oranges for fresh orange juice, I made some fruit salad, made French toast and baked some pancakes. I must have some syrup around here too. I put everything on the counter in my kitchen and put on a fresh pot of coffee. Just as I expected, the coffee smell pulled Lynn into the kitchen. “I hate you” she said with her eyes almost closed, barely looking around “where is my coffee?”. I handed her a mug and sat her down. “If you would just open your eyes for a moment and put your nose to smell, instead of only putting it in your mug, you would quickly change that opinion of yours to ‘I love you’ ”. She slowly opened her eyes and looked at everything I made us. She digged in immediately. She hummed appreciative “I love you Ismay. You make the best hangover breakfasts. I completely forgot that! We don’t do this enough” I gave her a hug “I will make you breakfast as much as you like, but I’m never ever drinking that much again. I felt so bad this morning”

Lynn looked at me “Yeah, I know. But you felt worse last night. How do you feel about this Eric thing? Can I go and kick his ass now?” “No, you can’t. I thought a lot about it while I was cooking. And he isn’t worthy of me. I can stand my own. I have a nice job, a great house, the best of friends. Why would I need a loser like him? I think I loved him, but I’m not even sure anymore. That can’t be good if you forget that fast.” “I always thought he wasn’t good enough for you. He was weird, but you looked happy when you were with him. I just thought you would see he wasn’t right for you sooner or later. You never listen to me when I say something about the guy you’re in love with.” Lynn said.

She always knew what was good for me, she knew me better than I knew myself. There was only one other person who had always known me like that. I was wondering how he was, what he was doing with his life. It had been so long since we have seen each other, or even talked. I still miss him sometimes, but my life changed. I didn’t have the courage to find him. “You know what. The next man I like, you can test, interrogate, anything you like and I will listen to what you say. Deal?” “Deal! Now we have to go shower and shop. Only 9 hours until the concert!” Lynn jumped of her stool and danced around the room before she got into the bathroom to take a shower.

I didn’t take us long to get ready. We took my car and got to the shopping mall. Lynn was dragging me into stores I normally wouldn’t have gone to. She let me fit all different kind of stuff and I liked what I saw in the mirror. I only had businesslike clothes in my closet and some funny shirts to wear at home. But the clothes Lynn made me try on were sexy and they looked sexy on me! Lynn bought herself a new outfit too and I had a few bags full of clothes. This break up might even work out really great for me.

We went back to my house and I made us some early dinner. We needed to eat if we had to stay on our legs the whole night. Lynn told me she had wanted to stand in the pit tonight, but that the tickets for the pit were already sold out. She got these really good sitting arrangements now. Really close to the stage on the right side. According to her this was the side of the stage where this Synyster Gates was playing most of the time. I actually got excited for tonight. I loved music and a live experience was always special. We both got dressed and Lynn did my hair and makeup. She had done her own make up since she was 12, I could leave it up to her. I normally just put on some mascara and lip gloss and I was out the door. But not tonight. Tonight I would be someone else. When I finally took a glance at the mirror. I hardly recognised myself. Lynn did a great job. Everything was just perfect, not too much. Just amazing. “Wow, thank you Lynn, I look like a fun version of myself”. “You are always fun. You look sexy now! Let’s go, we’re already late.” We got in my car and she put in the latest Avenged Sevenfold album. I think I could get used to this music. When we arrived at the venue I was lucky to find a parking spot at the front. That was my special power, I could always find a parking spot. I was glad we did, because we were a little late.

We rushed inside and got to our seats, just as AC/DC started playing. The crowd went wild “they always play this before their concerts” Lynn yelled at me, trying to get over the noise. The seats were amazing, we were really close, even though we were sitting down. Suddenly lights turned black and everyone screamed. I felt Lynn getting all hyper next to me and I could hear the music start. We looked at the stage, a few shadows were moving over the stage. Just as the lights flashed in my face, I could hear the guitars and as I looked at the stage I could feel my heart drop. I couldn’t believe who was on stage.. Lynn screamed at me, all excited “There he is... Synyster Gates! That is his stage name, did you know that? His real name is ... “ “Brian” I whispered.

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