Episode 206: Heaven Help Me

"You see kitty, what Sebastian did, it wasn’t coming from some place of goodness. It was exactly what you were, an opportunity, a chance to say look at me I’m sweet now, I’ve changed, I’ve grown up, it’s been five whole minutes since some other girl has been warming my bed."

Avalon nestled further into her secondhand sofa, in no mood to pick up her copy of The Jane Austen Book Club, a definite sign of depression she didn’t need those television ads to tell her that. She pulled her knees into her chest and pulverized her big brown eyes with her palms.

"No Shelby, I’m not stupid. Let’s go over the list, shall we? I lost my virginity in a car to a boy I didn’t trust. I’ve got so much pride I’d rather work two crummy dead-end jobs than get a paid for grade A education. Oh, and the capper, my boyfriend, the one person who’s moodier that I am? He’s sticking needles in himself, I knew it and didn’t say a word."

"All of this, and I’m telling my troubles to a, no offense, Shell, a cat. I don’t even feel that I can talk to Bowie anymore, am I going to take advice from someone intent on marrying Lila Benson?"

"I always thought it was such a joke, all those twenty-somethings in St. Elmo’s Fire having a mid-life crisis-" Ava could have gone on like that, in circles for several hours feeling sorry for herself but the telephone interrupted her pity party.

"Hey Babe."

"Xavier." The line was silent for quite a length just breathing.

"I wrote something about you, do you want to hear it?" Xavier asked and before Avalon could answer the guitar began to strum so melodiously.

Episode 207: Foolish