Genenna- a place or state of misery; hell.
She was avoiding messaging her landlady. She knew her lease was up at the end of April, and the front desk guard had told her the owners had just been slapped with a huge fee for something silly.
She figured maybe if she waited...she didn't know. She signed up for a new app that sent her updates of free apartments.
One day she received the text. Her landlady was going to sell the apartment. She asked for at least 2 months notice of her having to move out, she acquiesced.
Her mind went into overdrive. She researched apartments, signed up for alerts...and that night she went out to dinner with Mel. She apologized for fixating, and he said it was fine. She mentioned that one possibility, that she didn't want to really think about right now, was that KSL needed a roommate in June. Mel recalled his days being a roommate with KSL, and advised strongly against it. She said that with KSL she would at least know what she was getting into, she knew him.
Mel said that he would offer to move with her, but "that's a little too relationship stuff."
Internally she rolled her eyes. God forbid she was awesome enough to want to have "relationship stuff" with. She decided to shake it off, since he was the least of her worries at this moment.
Then, days later...she got her two months notice. She needed to be out by May 15th, and there were three realtors coming by that weekend to look at the apartment. The tearful phone call came right in the middle of the wrap party for the movie. She tried to pull it together, but the text messages from the investors came rolling in right after. She just tried to keep it together as well as possible. She spoke briefly with KSL over the phone about having a talk about being roommates. He was going through his own thing and she deliberately tried to keep the emotion out of her voice as she spoke to him.
Mel showed up soon afterward, but he was spooked because an old girlfriend who had once slashed his tires was there. He said he didn't feel comfortable with her there, and left soon afterward despite the fact that she said she wasn't feeling well and needed a ride home. He texted with her a little later vaguely threatening that if she moved in with KSL that he wouldn't see her anymore.
Good Riddance.
She got back to the apartment and realized that she was going to be up for hours trying to clean the apartment for the first realtor the next morning.
She got as far as her front hallway and started sobbing. She was not ready to say goodbye to this space. She was set free here. She realized that sex was enjoyable in this space, fell in love, and had so many drunk late nights with friends. She was not going to see Goldie and SD as often.
What if she had to go back? What if she ended up having no choice and moving back in with her mom, and her ex who still lived there? She was suddenly back there, that moment before she moved into her studio and was so desperate to have a different life, to be set free.
She felt as if she was going to lose her freedom again. It felt terrible.
"This place saved me. This apartment, you, saved me. I'm not ready to let go" She tearfully sobbed to Goldie.
She would figured it out eventually....but for the next three days she couldn't stop crying, couldn't stop mourning the potential loss. And she did it alone.
