Rebecca was happy when five o'clock came. She had worked through half of the pending calls along with her quota of new phone calls. She wondered how a computer company could be doing so well when the number of services calls was increasing at an alarming rate. Either way, she was getting paid enough to get by and that was all she needed. Rebecca made her way home. She was almost in a trance, partly because of her mind spinning with all that was happening, partly because she had the same routine for the last four years. Rebecca was twenty-six. She had gotten this job right out of university and had never wanted to change careers.
Rebecca walked down the hall and prayed that Brian was either alone or gone. She thought that a strong willed woman would have called a locksmith to change the locks, but she wasn't strong willed. She was pretty pathetic actually. She turned the corner and sitting next to her door was Maeve.
"Hi. You left your cell phone in my car."
Rebecca smiled. She was happy to see Maeve again and very happy that her cell phone had been found.
"Hi." Maeve stood up and Rebecca couldn't help but notice she was wearing some very low ride jeans and a creamy white sweater. Her red hair was in two French braids and she barely looked eighteen. Rebecca knew Maeve was twenty since she was in medical school.
"I called your sister, Jane. I hope that was O.K. It was the first number on your phone and she told me what apartment you lived in."
Rebecca smiled. Maeve was so nice to her and she still couldn't figure out why.
"Thanks." Rebecca bit her lip nervously. She really didn't know what else to say to Maeve. She was also stalling since she didn't really want to go into her apartment.
"Do you want to go out to dinner tomorrow night?" Maeve blurted this out and was equally nervous. Last night wasn't considered a date since they had been left alone at the restaurant and had really just chosen to eat together. Maeve was almost sure of Rebecca's feelings, but with any human, she could be completely wrong.
"Um, sure." Rebecca was trying to get a hold of her feelings and, for once, she wasn't nervous about letting Maeve into her life. She was more nervous about how she was feeling.