Desiree's POV
The next day, I met Evon. She looks so stressed now, her eyes are tired and I know she's been crying for days because of her problems. I may not know about her problem but I know that it is really complicated and it's really crucial.
"What happened to you? you look so…" I stop talking when she gives me a sad smile, "I've been dealing with a lot of problems, my father is in jail because of his own mistake for smuggling money from the company."
"I'm sorry to hear that…" I said and sighed,
"Yeah, I don't know where I can ask for help, all of my friends and everyone is turning their back on me, I'm thinking about you because I know you never turned your back on me…" she said, she start to sobbed now in front of me while crossing her palms and her lips is trembling.
"I am sorry if this really happened to you Evon, what can I do to help you?" I ask her, I pity her a lot because I can see myself in her before.
I feel so hopeless, even though she is not being a good friend of mine during my hardest times, I will still help her because she needs my help.
I will give her a second chance to be my friend again.
"Can you lend me some money? I want to use it to bail out my dad from that prison…" she said.
I bit my lower lip thinking it could be big money that she is going to borrow from me.
"I promise I will pay you on time, every payslip, I am going to pay you…"
"How much?" I ask her
She scratched the back of her neck and said, "It's 50,000 dollars." she responded with a sour face, I know she is shy to tell me that because that's a lot of money.
"That's a lot…I don't have that kind of money as of now, Evon but I am going to ask my dad for your problem." I said and she held my hand and hugged me.
"Oh my god, thank you!" she said happily while crying.
·But I can't promise you if my dad is going to agree, I will just let him know about what happened to your dad and let's see what else he can do," I said I am unsure if my dad is going to help his dad.
But I hope we can help her.
"I'm sorry for being the bad best friend to you, I am sorry for everything…"
"Let's forget about it. It was all in the past and the most important thing now is that we are okay and we are friends again…" I said while smiling at her and the single tears on my eyes rolled over my face and she hugged me again while crying. "Yeah, but you don't deserve to be treated like trash before…I am sorry, I am just following the group leader but this is what happened, the adulting came, I found work, my dad lost his work and everyone is leaving me," she said as her voice croaked.
"It's okay, everything happens for a reason, this is the challenge in our life, that's why when the time comes, we are getting stronger again." I sighed and she smiled at me. We are walking now outside the coffee shop and she just received an urgent call from her mother.
"I'm sorry, I have to go now…I will see you again at work. On Monday." she said and ran to look for a taxi.
"Okay bye-"
She's been so busy dealing with all those problems in her life, I hope she is going to be okay and fine.
I hope everything about her will heal.
Because I believe she is still a good person, everyone deserves a second chance.
After a week, The wedding of my friend Johanna is approaching and she is so happy about it, I just rolled my eyes because she ended up marrying the man she doesn't even love.
but I am always supporting her because she is my friend. She is watching her reflection in the mirror now while dressed in a fancy wedding gown.
"I love it, what do you think?"
I stare at her, she is the most beautiful bride I see, she has long hair and a small heart shape of the face and her eyes are small like she's always smiling at you.
"You look so beautiful…" I said and I opened my purse to give her a gift.
"I know this is the cheapest gift you will ever receive but I made this for you…" I said and gave her a necklace that I bought online, it's an original pearl and has silver in it and her smile is wide up to her ear. She hugs me and says, "wow, I love it. thank you for being so thoughtful, I never expected this."
"I am glad you liked it."
"Of course!" she said and I helped her put it in her neck. She looked again at the mirror and turned around to face me, "it's beautiful…thanks for the effort, Desiree…" she said and gave me a warm hug.
"Your wedding day is approaching, are you not nervous?"
She glanced at me and she sat on her little couch while blending the red lipstick on her lips, "No, I am excited, day by day I am learning to love someone like you, he is not difficult to deal with. He is so gentle with me and I like him…"
"So if this guy is going to be your husband, you are sure about him that he is not going to hurt you?"
"Desiree, if you want to feel love and be loved, you need to get ready to be hurt because it's not always a happy ending, there are bad and good days, but if we enter married life, we need to deal with it."