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CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE
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Friends with benefits CHAPTER NINETY
SOBRIEDNESSClara no longer looked at the entrance door to see if her friend Lara had arrived, she was immersed in Marco's story and the others that followed him."Hi, fellow members, I'm Raira, and I'm an alcoholic.""Hi, Raira!" This time, Clara also spoke along with everyone else. As the meeting continued, more people arrived and took their seats."Well, I started drinking like Marco, with my father. My father wasn't like Marco's, he didn't offer me alcohol or anything like that, he even got angry if he caught his children drinking, but he sent us to buy it, strange, right? He was violent and if he knew we were drinking, he would be capable of beating us up, but he sent us to get his beer every day when he got home from work and drank until almost bedtime. He became aggressive, hitting our mother and us, and when he was sober, he said that was why we shouldn't drink. I was about fourteen years old when I went to my first party and there was free alcohol. I drank beer, mixed it with
Friends with benefits CHAPTER NINETY-ONE
CALL TO ARMSClara didn't even knock and went straight into Dália's house, where Lara was sitting in the living room crying. "What happened?" Clara asked, more to Dália than to the girl. Dália was wearing her fancy nightgown and Linda was sitting in front of Lara's couch, also wearing a nightgown, and they seemed to have been woken up."She drank a little too much and is upset," Dália explained. "But she's already feeling better, right, my dear?""No! I'm not feeling better, Dália. Who are you to tell me how to feel?" Clara put her hands on her hips and looked at the woman."Hey," Clara called out. "No aggression here because you're not at home or at any bar. Respect us or get out of here." Clara held the girl's gaze, spoke loudly and firmly with her.Lara looked at her for long seconds and burst into convulsive tears."We don't feel sorry for you, Lara. You're being rude, causing a scene at my house and waking up your friends here. We love you, but we can't tolerate this. Come on, I'
Friends with benefits CHAPTER NINETY-TWO
OCCASIONAL PICKUPLipe didn't go to work that morning, nor had he gone the day before. He took the day off to go fishing with Clara's family and wasn't going in the morning either. He knew Lara would be at Cilmo's house cleaning and he wanted to talk to her.He arrived at the house as Lara was entering."Good morning, Lipe.""Almost good afternoon, right?" He joked and entered Cilmo's house with Lara."Well, I'm running late today, Lipe, and I can't get distracted.""I won't distract you, I promise. I can help you if you want.""Help me clean? Well, I clean your house too, dude. Tell the truth, what do you want with me?""To talk," he followed her to the laundry room, she gave him a bucket to hold and started putting cleaning products in it. "How many products are you going to carry in that bucket?""It's heavy, right? I usually take everything I'm going to use at once so I don't have to keep coming back here."Lara went to Cilmo's bedroom and started dusting the furniture, ignoring L
Friends with benefits CHAPTER NINETY-THREE
ENOUGH!"Hey, girl," Cleiton pulled over next to the sidewalk where Lara was waiting. He didn't even turn off the car before she jumped in, fastening her seatbelt as he accelerated and hit the road."Hi, thank you for coming," she said."The pleasure is mine."Cleiton had three children; his youngest was twelve and his oldest was eighteen. Lara only knew this because she saw him answering his phone while driving, putting it on speakerphone, and from the photos hanging on the car dashboard.Lara had been coming from a party late at night and had to call for a ride. Cleiton was the one who answered her call. She had sat in the backseat, he had been super polite and didn't hit on her. She was high, having had a little too much to drink. She was actually working at the party as a waitress, a last-minute gig she didn't want to miss. It was a fifteenth birthday party, and the birthday girl's parents had paid extra for Lara to stay until the end and help clean up the venue, which they would
Friends with benefits CHAPTER NINETY-FOUR
CATARSEPatrícia's office was small, pleasant, and very simple. It didn't have many furnishings, only two chairs leaning against the wall, a wide chair with a high backrest and comfortable arms to lean on in front of the psychologist's wooden and glass desk. Only two modern art frames hung on opposite walls of Patrícia's desk, a fluffy white carpet placed below the desk and chairs, a large window covered with a dark blue velvet curtain. Lara imagined that from the window, one could have a good view of the city below."Please, have a seat, Lara. Make yourself comfortable," said Patrícia.Lara sat down shyly, feeling out of place, staring at the closed curtain."I imagined there would be a couch here," she said, nonchalantly, still not looking at Patrícia."Do you think it would be good to have a couch here? We can consider it. Who knows, maybe next time you come, we'll have a couch here," replied Patrícia."I'm not sure if there will be a next time, actually. I regret coming here," sai
Friends with benefits CHAPTER NINETY-FIVE
PHOBIAClara got tired of calling her friend, but the phone just went straight to voicemail. She was worried about her and went to sleep without any news from the girl.The next morning, her phone rang from an unknown number. She only answered because she thought something had happened to Lara, and her heart froze when Patricia introduced herself and apologised for having asked Megan for her contact. She informed her that Lara had shown up at her office. She didn't say how the meeting or consultation had gone since she couldn't, but she said she left her at home and well. She asked Clara to keep an eye out, save her contact, and call her if anything happened to the young woman.Clara was relieved that she had sought out the therapist, thanked her for the call, and told her that she had gone to an AA meeting and loved it. Patricia was happy to hear that, congratulated her, and hung up.Clara saved her number since she wasn't her client, and she didn't have her number until then.As usu
Friends with benefits CHAPTER NINETY-SIX
WITH HOW MANY?Otávio sat on her couch and his eyes looked around the living room. Dalia and Linda were organising the guest room where he would stay, and Lara had started cleaning the room, stripping sheets and duvet, throwing water on the floor and leaving everything almost sterile for him.Dalia had chosen another room to put his desk so he could work during the days he was there, and Lara would soon clean that room as well. "You can make yourself at home here, Otávio," she said, and as soon as she said that, he got up from the couch and started fixing frames, knick-knacks, adjusting the TV on the panel that should have been a millimetre misaligned.Pretending to check her phone, she looked astonished out of the corner of her eye at his insane arrangement of things that were already perfect for her. "This painting that my mother painted and gave you, it's not a work to be exhibited in the living room," he pointed to the painting she loved the most, and his mother had given it to he
Friends with benefits CHAPTER NINETY-SEVEN
VERY DELICATEShe was trembling. Completely regretful for inviting him to stay at her house, she left and walked through the condominium to clear her mind. She walked the entire length of the large space. She passed by Cilmo's, Jânio's, and Dercy's houses, and saw the lights on at Megay's house, so she entered without thinking.Her friend was sitting in the living room on the floor, holding a puppy that Clara had already seen running around the place. Megay and the little dog were playing on the living room carpet."Hi, sweetie," her friend greeted her warmly. "Hey, is everything okay?"Megay suddenly became serious when she saw her friend's expression."Ah, I'm so tired, Meg, and to be honest, I don't know if it's good for me to live here.""Oh, what happened?"The puppy, seeming to sense the tension, got out of Megay's lap and came wagging its tail towards Clara, who also sat on the floor and started petting him, and he wanted to lick her face."So many things have happened since I
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