Chapter 36: No friend like Betty

After a few hours, I opened my eyes and it was daybreak already. It turns out I fell asleep at last. I began to wish what happened last night was a dream but it wasn't. Jones broke my heart, I lost my phone and worse of all I was almost sexually harassed.

I stood up from bed and headed straight to the bathroom, I brushed my teeth and took a bath, then I went back into my room thinking of how to get a new phone because I never wanted Dad and Mom to find out. While I was thinking, I remembered Dad left me $3000 under my pillow weeks ago, I raised my pillow but it wasn't there. I searched my drawer and wardrobe for the money but I couldn't find it. I kept searching for the remaining money because I'm sure I didn't even spend up to $200 out of the money. While I was searching, I remembered that I kept the money in my bag some weeks ago and the bag too was stolen.
I sat on the floor thinking of what to do then Mom walked into my room. When she got in she saw my room was untidy.

"Are you looking for something?" Mom asked,

"Uh....yes, I mean No... I was just uh... Cleaning my room," I said and picked up one of my dresses and began to fold it.

"Uh...okay, breakfast is ready," Mom said and left the room.

I sighed and thought about what to do but I couldn't think of anything. I stood up, arranged my room and went down for breakfast. When I got to the dining table, I tried my possible best to hide my pain in front of Mom and Dad, I wasn't hungry but I ate. After breakfast, I left the house and headed to Ella's house.

As soon as I arrived at Ella's house, I knocked on the door and her Mom opened the door, she gave me a hard looked,
"What do you want?" she asked,

"I..uh {Clears my troath} came to see Ella, she's my friend and....,"

"So you are one of those girls who have a bad influence on my daughter?" she interrupted,

"What, no. She's my friend and I've never been a bad influence on her or anyone,"

"So you are a good influence on her, it's Sunday morning why aren't you in church ?"

I remained quiet as I continued to look at Ella's mom weirdly.

"You see, stay away from my daughter," she said and slammed the door in my face.

I left Ella's house and headed back home, I didn't know what else to do because I needed to meet one of my popular friends to borrow some money from them because they are rich. While I was heading home, I stopped at Betty's house. I sighed and headed to her house, I knocked and Betty opened the door,

"Look who came visiting, the girl who abandoned me," she said while giving me a hard look, before I could apologize she chuckled "Just kidding," she said and hugged me, "You are always welcome Angie," she said and asked me to come in. I walked In and followed her to her room. When we got there, We were talking and then she noticed I was not happy. She asked what was wrong with me and I didn't know how to tell her,

"Last night...I was robbed," I said,

"Oh my God," she said and walked to me, then she placed her hand on my face, "Did They hurt you?"

"No but I lost my phone and my bag," I said,

Betty sighed and sat down on the bed,
"But how did this happen, was there anything important in the bag?" she asked,

"Well I had some money in the bag, about $2000," I said,

As soon as I said this, Betty laughed at me, I became surprised as to why she was laughing so I looked at her weirdly,
"Okay, there is no way you had $2000 inside the bag,"

"I swear I had $2000 in the bag, it was even more than that,"

"How did you get the money?"

"Okay when I got home from our camping trip, Dad left me a message that he was out of town with Mom, and he kept $3000 under my pillow so it could look real, after I found out it was a prank, he didn't ask for the money so I kept it,"

"It's a little hard to believe but I trust you. So what are you going to do about it?"

"I don't know and it's why I'm here, could you lend me some money so I could get a new phone? I don't want my parents to find out that I sneaked out at night and got robbed, my mom would be so mad at me,"

"Angie, you know if I had the money I would give it to you, but right now I don't have any money," she said. I sighed and leaned my forehead on my hand,

"Wait, why don't you ask Jones? He has a tesla which means he's rich,"

"I don't think I can ask him," I said to Betty, I didn't want her to know that Jones cheated on me so I had to say that.

"Okay, I don't think there is... Wait, wait, hold on," Betty said and ran out of the room, then she came back with a brand new phone, "Here," she said and pointed it to me. I felt so cheerful when she gave it to me, I slowly collected it from her and looked at it,

"My dad got it as a gift at his workplace, but he doesn't know how to use it," she said and chuckled, "So old... Anyways he said I could have it but my phone is still fine and you need it more than I do so keep it," she said and smiled at me, Betty realized I was so grateful and I was short of words so she chuckled,
"Come on, it's just a phone," she said,

Words couldn't explain how grateful I was to Betty, the phone she gave me was even bigger than my stolen phone, I stood up from the bed and hugged Betty without saying anything because I couldn't express how grateful I was.