that she had left wide open. It was the middle of August and hot as hell in New Orleans. Her air conditioner was running full blast but she didn’t really care since it was in the lease that the owners paid the utilities. She planned on letting the water run for a while that afternoon as well.
“What?” Liza yelled back.
Drew snorted. She and Liza had been on a three day drunk. She lived way too close to Bourbon Street anyway, she had decided. It was too damn tempting.
Going back to work the next day was going to be a bitch. She loved her job and it was probably the only thing that she did right in her life. , the lights were way too bright some days in that gallery.
“Where the hell are my pants?” Liza asked as she stepped out on the patio. Drew noticed that Liza’s pixy haircut was flat on one side while the other stood up on end. She looked like she had slept upside down on the couch with one side of her head lying flat against it.
“Who gives a shit?” Drew asked. “I can’t get evicted twice in the same day can I?”
“Yes. As a matter of fact I did once.” Liza said seriously.
They both laughed at that. Liza was always on the straight and narrow until she got around Drew. Liza getting evicted twice in one day when she was in college was pretty much Drew’s fault though. Drew had come to visit Liza for the weekend and stayed in her dorm after hours even though she wasn’t allowed (but that is another story). When Drew decided to use the dorm showers the next morning and walked back to the room naked with nothing but a towel on her head and a pair of black thongs, the two girls were escorted out of the dorms immediately. Liza had to even wait a couple of days before they would let her come back and get her things. At the time though, her most valued possession was her bong. The jerks had confiscated that though while she was on her little “vacation” away from the dorm. The second eviction for the dayhad been from Drew’s apartment. Of course Liza couldn’t tell her parents that she was evicted so she stayed at Drew’s. It wasn’t their fault the floor was rotted out and when they tried to do the Lavern and Shirley walk down Drew’s hallway, they both fell through the floor into the downstairs tenant’s bedroom. Thank God they landed on the bed and no one was seriously injured.
“Did you really get evicted?” Liza asked.
“Yep! A great big red notice on the front door this morning, plus a written lecture on how I need to respect my elders.”
“You went out your front door this morning?”
Drew thought about that for a minute and laughed. “Yea, I guess I did.”
They both sat in silence for a moment. Liza lay on her back in nothing but boy shorts and a tank top. Drew sat in her lawn chair already dressed in jean shorts and a tight pink TShirt that read “Yes, they are real”. She was still contemplating where she was going to go. The owners had only given her a five day notice.
“Why?” Liza said.
“Why, what?”
“Why did you go out your front door this morning?” Liza asked in awe.
“To check the mail.”
“It’s Sunday.”
“Oh.” Drew said. “That’s probably why I didn’t have any.”
“What the hell are you going to do?” Liza said.
“Check it tomorrow after work I guess.” Drew said absently.
“I’m not talking about the mail, dork! I meant what are you going to do about the apartment?”
“Well, I am not really sure yet. I could always move in with you and Tim and your little army of sunshine.” Drew batted her eyes at her friend.
“No, really, what are you going to do?” Liza laughed she hated that Drew’s angel like face made her feel like glitter should be falling from the sky when her lashes fluttered that way.
Though she loved Drew to death, she wasn’t into the partying scene like Drew was. This weekend had been the first drinking craze that she had been on in a long time. She was actually happily married with three kids. Her family just happened to be on vacation without her to Tim’s parent’s house for the weekend. There was no way that she would still be married in a week if Drew moved into her house.