Billy Cooper (Cocker Brothers Book 20) by Faleena Hopkins

Author:Faleena Hopkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hop Hop Productions Inc
Published: 2018-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

HAVEN

Bryn walks into our apartment, throws her keys on the chest of drawers by the front door and eyes me. “Why are you on the sofa in your sweats at four o’clock in the afternoon?”

“Didn’t I tell you?” Glancing up, I slide my glasses down onto the tip of my nose and look over them. I’m far-sighted so I don’t need them to enjoy her expression change as I explain, “I quit the paper to be a full-time blogger.”

She mouths the word, what?! Kicking off her shoes, she holds my look. “When did you get a blog? I didn’t know you had a blog.”

“I do now.”

“You just made the blog you quit your job for?”

“Yep.”

“When did this happen?”

“Yesterday.” As she slides out of her sweater, revealing a tank top cami underneath, and shakes out her blonde hair, I explain, “Since then I have purchased a domain, learned how to use Wordpress thanks to hours of combined video tutorials, created my website, my logo, licensed photographs to make it pop, and published three personal articles I had on my hard drive that weren’t fit for the paper. They were just sitting there useless, never seen by anyone, so that’s pretty cool I can finally publish them, right? You know what I’m doing right now?” She shakes her head, and I proudly announce, “I’m writing the story that inspired it all.”

Bryn picks up my paper coffee cup and drinks. She does that all the time. Took me a year to get used to it. In her mind it means we’re close friends. She’d never bogart an acquaintance’s java.

Nevertheless it always leaves me coffee-less. I should have downed it when I heard her key in the door. But I was distracted.

Besides…why steal her happiness? I’m learning that we should get that wherever we can find it.

Yesterday I had a job. Today my future is uncertain. A chapter of my life closed, kind of like a death. That heightens the sense of time’s urgency. If you could bottle this risk-taking stuff, people might buy it, taste it and realize how exciting it really is—and they might never be unhappy settling again.

“Haven, you’ve lost me.” She sets the emptied cup down. “How did you do all of that so fast?”

“I searched online for how to make a blog, and then I took the steps. My old articles were already written long ago, so that took no time. When you’re not bound to a punch-card, you’ve got a lot of hours to spend your way.”

“I could never do that.” She walks into the kitchen and raises her volume to explain. “Give me a steady paycheck, tons of consistency, and I’m a happy camper. I choose health benefits, thank you!”

I reply, while sliding my glasses back into place, “Self-employment isn’t for everyone. But I am in my sweats.”

“If I were in my sweats, I’d be in my bed, too. You want some water? You sound a little wound up.”

“Sure,” I mutter, typing away.

A few moments later she plants a glass of water where my coffee was, taking the paper cup to throw in our recycling bin.

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