New friends
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I'm not so sure about Ricky's sister being my friend. There are so many women over by her, why would she choose to drive to this side of town and randomly ask to be my friend? Right now she's sitting in my yard while I make us ice tea and she seems pretty content. I mean, it'd be nice to have a friend not from around here because then she's not going to always know what I'm doing and when like Macy, my neighbor, does. But now is she really my friend? Or is she spying on me for Ricky? I think I'm just going to play it safe at first with her and see if Ricky finds out anything I tell her. Maybe I should test her with little stupid things first.
I bring our ice teas out as we sit in my ten year old lawn chairs. She probably isn't used to sitting in shitty chairs like this. It's kind of embarrassing around people like her and Ricky.
"So, Rebecka, What do you usually do while you're out here?" I ask as I'm placing our drinks on a cooler we're using as a table.
"Oh, ya know, just stuff every other normal girl does. I like spending time at the beach or tanning in the yard. Sometimes I even just ride around to get out of the house. But if I'm stuck in the house I read or listen to the radio. I also like to draw. I'm not the greatest at it but I like it." She replied without any hesitation like she knew she could trust in me with anything she said. Not like she said anything bad, I've never seen someone so comfortable with a person they've just met.
"Oh well that stuff sounds fun. Beaches are nice. I like to bring my kids to the lake when I get a chance on the weekend" As soon as I said kids she looked right at me like she couldn't even believe what I just said.
"You have kids?" She asked quickly.
"Yes, two of them."
"How old are they? Do you have boys or girls? Or both?"
"I have one girl who is 7 and a boy who is 6"
"Oh wow. I didn't realize. Where are they?"
"They're at school. They get home around 330. The school is only a quarter of a mile away from here and there's older kids that live a couple houses up so they always walk them home first."
"That's cool, gives you more time before they get home to do anything you need to do" She sounded so serious, like I even do that much. I clean the house and do laundry. There's never that much cleaning because the kids pick up after themselves. I just have to wipe everything down, and do the floors mainly.
"I guess so, not very much to do in a day. I usually have a lot of free time."
"So, about the dress." Dress? The one from Ricky? If she knows then did he send her? "You do have somewhere to wear it. With me of course. Just keep it. Tell your husband it was from me."
"Where are we going that I need to wear something like that for?"
"Oh everywhere darlin' Your my friend, you have a pass to go anywhere. Your husband and kids can go too. Just. They have to have really nice clothes and we can fix that." Rebecka said this so confidently. I'm still unsure how to feel about any of it all.
"Well, maybe it can be just me first to make sure it's okay for my family to go." I said it with a smile to make it believable. I don't think I want them around each other just yet. I have to fully trust her and find out Ricky's intentions. She didn't say anything after that. Just kept sitting there. Part of me hopes she's only trying to be my friend but the other part hopes that she's also trying to get me closer to Ricky. Damn Elizabeth why are you thinking this way? I'm married. I should not be thinking about some other guy. Why do I though? Is it even okay to be in love and have feelings for someone else? Just by having feelings I feel unfaithful. Like I'm dirty for it. I just can not do anything with Ricky. I can't see him. Being friends with his sister that's going to be hard but maybe if we just hang out at my house most of the time I won't see him. I see Ben's work truck pull in front of the house. Why is he here so early? It's only noon.
"Is that your husband?" Rebecka asks as she watches who gets out.
"Yes, it's kind of weird he's here this early." I say as I get up and walk over. "What are you doing here?" I ask Ben. He looks at me then behind me towards Rebecka.
"Machine broke, who is that?" He replied to me.
"That's my friend Rebecka. She is the one who sent that dress to me I guess. She told me today when she got here."
"I've never seen her before, when did you meet her and where?"
"The day I was at the water I met her. She was there also. She kind of just randomly came up and started talking to me. Asked if we could be friends after because she liked my company. But she lives on the other side of town. Her taste in fashion is a little more then mine." He didn't reply to me, he just said bye to his co workers and walked inside. I told Rebecka the story I told him so we would match if he asked her. I couldn't tell him about Ricky. It would make him really upset and he's just done so much for me since we've been together.
"Are you hungry? Im going to see if Ben ate his lunch, and I can make lunch for us even if I don't have to for him."
"Oh, no thank you. I think I'm actually going to go now so I don't make anything weird. He didn't seem to happy I was here with you. Kinda have me a death stare and then went right inside."
"Okay well, call me tomorrow or something." She smiled and nodded then got in her car and left. With that I folded our chairs and put them back on the porch, dragged the cooler over as well and went inside. Ben was in the living room just sitting there. He heard me come in and closed his eyes as if he was sleeping.
"Do you want lunch?" I asked, he just shook his head and kept his eyes closed. Apparently he still doesn't want to talk. It's annoying, if he has a problem with something he needs to just say it. I'm really sick of this silent treatment. Is he trying to drive me away?
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