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    CHAPTER TWO
     
     
    “Wakey wakey eggs and BAKEY!!!" Claudia is yelling at me and walks directly to the window blinds and raises them up, and I see blinding light!
    "Are you serious? I just fell back to sleep from my nightmare" I cover my head with my blanket and then it's ripped off of me!
    "Well, I know you had a rough night and all, but you ARE leaving this house today!” Oh, the hell I am!
    "No I'm not! I'm going back to sleep. Goodnight." I reach onto the floor for the blanket and pull it back over me and cover my head.
    "Nope! My meeting got cancelled this morning, thank God, so I decided we needed to have a girl’s day. We haven't had one since what, 6 or 7 years ago? You know I work every Saturday at the law firm and I'm sick of going to eat lunch on Sundays with you, on the ONLY day you leave the house, JUST to keep me off your ASS! So, we are going to go have some girl time today. Manicures, pedicures, get our hair done. I don't care what we do, as long as we have some fun doing it!"
    "Nice speech." I gave her the biggest go to hell look. "You know I can't go anywhere today. I guess you just don't realize what today is, do you?" Today would have been Derek's 35th birthday and all I want to do is just lie here and think about him and what we would have been doing today for it.
    "Seriously? You don't think I know that today is my own brother's birthday? Of course I know what today is and you know what? You're not spending it in bed moping around missing him! I miss him too and I'm SO SICK of the moping!"
    My eyes filled with tears and the water works flowed. I can't believe she's being so insensitive to me. Especially today! Claudia looked me in the eye and her big brown eyes softened. I could see Derek and Jenna in those dark chocolate colored eyes, which made me start crying even harder.
    "Olivia, I'm not trying to be mean, ok? It's just, well, I'm so worried about you and I decided as soon as that meeting was cancelled, we were going to make the best of this day. I miss Derek too. He was the only person in this world, besides you, that I could call and rant about how bad my day was. Now he's gone and you've, well, you've checked out! Literally! I don't have anybody and I'm about to go out of my mind, if you don't snap out of this!"
    "SNAP OUT OF THIS?!" Oh, I was furious now. How dare she act like I CHOOSE to feel this way!
    "Calm down, Olivia. I think you know how I meant that. No reason to get on the defensive. But honey, it's been a year and a half! Do you honestly think they would want you to just stay in bed all day and all night and only leave the house on Sundays to appease me?" I could tell that she was really upset and I felt so guilty.
    "Every Sunday, I look forward to spending time with you and hope you don't act like I'm dragging you into hell and it hasn't happened yet! This is your wakeup call! It's time to take a big step and start living your life! I don't care if it includes just getting dressed every day and watching TV on the couch, but it’s time to get out of this bedroom!"
    I knew that this was serious and it is one thing to not care about what happens to me, but I can see that my depression is starting to affect her and that's the last thing I want to do. I reached over and grabbed a tissue from the night stand and blew my nose. Claudia patiently leaned against the wall. I'm sure she was wondering what all was going through my mind and if she had pushed me too hard.
    "Well, what exactly do you want to do today?" I looked up at her and gave her a half smile, to let her know that I would go ahead and give her what she wanted.
    "Oh my God! You're going? You're not messing with me, are you? You're really going to go?"
    I nodded my head and then she jumped on top of me and started kissing me all over the face, saying she loved me, which got me to grinning my head off and had me giggling like a