1.4 - Festival

The next couple of days, Nicole didn't answer her phone everytime Daniel rang. After her drunken writing with him, she tried her very best not to let him on. She buried herself in her music instead and when she felt too lonely she called up Brandi and chatted for a while.

One day Brandi came over to get her out of the house.

"You've been here too long, you need to get out! Let's go to the Summer Festival at Legacy Park!" It may sound like a suggestion, but Nicole quickly discovered that it wasn't. It was an order.

So Brandi put her in a cap and together they headed for the festival

She decided to let loose and enjoy herself - anything else was hard when Brandi was around. At one point she even looked at the hotdog eating contest stand and looked competative at Brandi:

"Bet i can eat more hot dogs than you!" Nicole laughed. Brandi raised one eyebrow, as if she was doubting it, before answering: "You can try!"  

They entered the contest with some random chick, and true to Nicoles words, she could!  Brandi ended up running off to hurl behind a bush. Nicole didn't win over the other chick, but it didn't matter. She won the right to taunt Brandi for a while.

They had a nice time, playing their instruments together. Laughing and talking - before taking a greeting card photo together to remind them of the day. Nicole promised herself she would get it framed first thing in the morning.

Brandi got a call from Skip, her husband, that Beau, their toddler, had gotten a fever, so she said goodbye and hurried home. Nicole understood - she would have done the same in Brandi's case.

So Nicole went home aswell and checked the online profile she created.

She'd agreed with herself, she could just aswell try to see whether there were anyone nice and honest on that site. She found herself chatting with a guy called Rob for a long time. They hit it off, and the messages kept flying. At one point he suggested for her to give him her number, so he could call her instead - and she found herself doing it. 

They agreed to meet for a date the next day - to see whether they would hit it off in reality aswell.

When he suggested he could pick her up, she started to look around in her little shack, and decided it would be best they met up instead. So they decided to meet at 1pm at the Center Drip Coffee Shop for coffee.

After hanging up, Nicole found herself looking at her bare walls, deciding that she would start busking for money, so she could get some decent furniture. She yawned and went to bed.

Read on: 1.5 - Busking