My Father's Best Friend novel Chapter 28

"Are you excited?" asked Victoria as Andrea answered her phone while getting ready to leave her parent's house.

"Excited for what?"

"Your first job ever!" announced Victoria.

Andrea thought about it, is she really excited? She received the job offer and accepted it five months before graduation and five months ago seemed to be another lifetime, without all the crazy, confusing thing she has with Lance. Oh gosh, Lance!

She had told herself not to talk or think about Lance anyway possible during her stay with her parents, she had pictured the week to be fun and full of bonding and though it was, the air is thick with incompleteness. Without Lance in the picture, their family wouldn't just be complete.

"Hey," urged Victoria.

Andrea leaned on her driver's side door and sighed, "I don't know, I guess the excitement is somewhere in my body that is rather late, what about you?"

"Oh, well, since I'm not like the great mind you are and quite a lazy butt too, I still haven't applied to any job whatsoever, I'm taking a gap year!" Victoria said lazily, the sound of the sheets crumpling quite audible for Andrea's ear making her stifle a giggle.

"I'm no great mind, I just happen to be a bit less lazy than you and please, gap years are taken between high school and college, not college and the real world," Andrea said.

"You make the real-world sound creepy and scary," Victoria said.

"Well, it kind of is-" Andrea looked up and saw her mother walking towards her spot. "-Can I call you back later, V?" she asked.

"Sure, safe trip," Andrea hung up.

"Victoria?" asked her mom to which Andrea nodded.

Her mom looked at her for a while and then out of nowhere, Pamela hugged her, "Can't you stay for another week or so? Please Andrea," her mom pleaded.

"Mom, I have a job now, I can't just skip my first day, it will be a very bad first impression," Andrea said as she pulled out of the hug.

As she approached the first hour of her drive while singing along, she felt her car falter a little and as she looked at the meters on her dashboard, nothing is wrong. She footed the accelerator more and there, the front of her car just smoked.

"What the heck?" Andrea muttered with wide eyes as she footed the brakes.

Seeing that the car is still smoking, she unfastens her seatbelt, killed the engine and got out.

She examined the front of her car and with some courage, opened the hood.

"Goodness," she coughed as clouds of smoke greeted her.

"Are you all right, miss?" a soothing voice of a stranger inquired.

Andrea waved away the smoke and with her view slightly clear, she swore she is looking at an angel.