"drea! drea!" someone is banging on my door like they want to break it down, i look at the clock on my bedside table and it's just 7:00 am, who could be knocking on my door this early on a saturday morning? I groggily get out of bed and head into the sitting room all while shouting

"who is it?" i don't hear an answer so i slowly head to the door and look through the peephole. "vee?" i see that it's veronica, we grew up together in the same estate, our mothers are friends which makes us practically sisters, i quickly remove the bolts and open the door, as soon as i do she tumbles in looking like a mess, her clothes look all scrunched up which is unlike the veronica that i know who only wears well ironed clothes, essentially she hates wrinkles, her face looks so blotchy like she's been crying for hours, and from what i can see she probably has, her face is all wet with tears and her mascara is seriously running, it's best to say she looks like an evil spirit out of a horror movie. she's now laying on the floor of my apartment sobbing uncontrollably,

"vee, vee, talk to me, whats wrong?"
"bemmy" i hear her say through her loud sobs, which can practically be described as wailing at this point, but i don't really hear what she's saying
"vee calm down, what are you saying?"
"benny!" she shouts out this time, benny is her fiancee they're getting married in two months, i hope he's alright.

"benny?, what happened to him? is he alright? did something happen? talk to me vee, what's wrong?"
she doesn't answer me, all she does is continue sobbing uncontrollably, i quickly close my apartment door and sit on the floor next to her, and i just hold her. This always worked when we were children, vee would come to me crying and would not tell me what was wrong no matter how many times i asked, but after holding her for a while she would sing like a canary.

After 10 minuites she appears calmer although she is still crying silently, i can't wait to hear what's wrong, at this point i'm worried beacause i've never seen vee looking this devastated.
"come on vee, whats wrong? what happened to benny?"
"nothing happened to benny" she replies between sobs
"then what's wrong?"
"he cheated!"
"say what now!?, what the fuck did you just say?"
"he cheated drea, he cheated on me...becks was right about him, about everything, i should have listened to her, it's my fault"

"no vee! no! don't you say that, it's not your fault that he's a he-goat who can't keep it in his pants" she's looking down at the floor as if she feels ashamed
"hey vee! look at me" she looks up from the floor and that's when i see it, the vulnerability in her eyes that feeling of never being good enough
"we're gonna show him that nobody cheats on veronica de luca and gets away with it"
"how?"

"oh just leave that to me, now get up from the floor, oh my God look at you, go get cleaned up"
i help her up from the floor and head in the direction of my room, when we get there i get her into the bathroom to clean up, while she's at it i devise a plan of action that goes like
1) get out of these pyjamas
2) get dressed for war
3) get coffee because i need a booster, and i'll probably add a little vodka in to get me pumped up for the shit i'm about to do
4) call becks, she's my most devious friend, she'll know what evil shit we can do to benny FYI rebecca gomez is another childhood friend.

I call becks first, afterall i was never good with lists, oh well. Becks picks up on the second ring
"drea, mi chica, what's up why you calling me this early?"
"sorry babe, but we've got a situation"
"what kind of situation?"
"well vee came to my apartment minuites ago crying and..."
"what?! tell me who i need to kill"
"slow down becks i don't think killing will be necessary"
"oooh somebody made mi chica cry, i assure you killing is necessary, tell me who it is"
"no becks, not over the phone just come over to my place if you can"
"i'm on my way" i hear the rustling of clothing through the phone, it wouldn't suprise me if she were dressed already, she's fast that way.
"hey drea you do know that i'm gonna have to kill somebody right?"
"my God becks! you don't even know what happenned, just get here"
i end the call and drop the phone on my bed, at this point i genuinely fear for benny's life, cause with becks involved he's gonna have a pretty bad life from now on.

I can hear the sound of flushing coming from the bathroom, i think vee is done, after two minuites she steps out of the bathroom looking better, she has cleaned herself up, she washed her face so her face is makeup free although her face is a little blotchy, her clothes are a little wrinkled though but nothing can be done for that.
she looks better now
"who was that on the phone?"
"just becks"
"what!!? drea!, oh God she's gonna make benny's life a living hell!"
"yes yes that's the plan, he deserves every second of it"
"now come over here" i pull her into a hug

"everything will be just fine vee"
she abruptly pulls away and starts ranting "i mean how could he possibly do this to me, me drea! look at me, i have men lining up to date me, i'm stinking rich and successfull, i'm the girl every guy wants" i almost point it out that the rich and successful part is her father's but decide against it. The men lining up to date her part is all her though, she's gorgeous and has a killer figure with curves in all the right places making women wish they were her and making men wish they had her.
"vee calm down, he's obviously a fool" i pull her in for another hug
"drea?"
"yes vee?"
"you stink like you just had an encounter with a skunk" i quickly let her go
"seriously vee! here i am trying to console you, and all you have to say is that i stink? really vee? really? you couldn't even cushion the impact with like lets say oh drea go take a shower!?"
"but i'm not lying, you do stink" sometimes she can be so clueless
"okay vee thank you for pointing out the fact that i stink"
"you're welcome, what are friends for?" she says smiling, i could fucking kill her right now.

With a huff i get to the bathroom and take a quick shower, guess i've ticked off my get out of these pyjamas part of the list.
I'm out of the bathroom in 20 minuites, vee isn't in my bedroom anymore so i assume she's in the kitchen. I rumage through my wardrobe for what to wear and i eventually settle on a green tank top and denim shorts for easy running, because there might be running.
I get dressed quickly, becks will be here any moment so i need to get some vodka laced cofee in me this instant.
I head to the kitchen and as i thought vee is there, she's currently looking for something as she is opening and closing the doors to the cabinets the fridge and even the oven.
"what ya looking for?" i ask
"advil, where do you keep it?" she turns and looks at me squarely waiting for an answer, i don't answer her fast enough because i'm still standing there trying to understand why advil would be in an oven.

"drea where's the advil? i have a splitting headache"
"oh yeah it's in the cabinet in the bathroom"
as soon as i'm done talking she's off to the bathroom, hmmm i have such odd human beings for friends.
okay.....i wonder where i kept that bottle of vodka, right top shelf, i keep it there so that becks can't reach, at 5 feet 3 inches becks is quite short in comparison to my 5 feet 8 inches, so i can reach the top shelf and she can't.
I get the coffee maker going and when it's done i pour myself a cup, i hear a knock on the door right when vee comes into the kitchen
"help me get that vee, i'm sure it's becks"
when she leaves to open the door i decide to pour two more cups of coffee with my secret ingredient in each cup, we all need it.
I quickly place the bottle of vodka back on the top shelf not knowing that vee has come back to the kitchen with becks in tow

"chica you know i can always get a stool right?" i quickly turn
"anyway that's not important, who's gonna tell me what's going on?"
"it's benny he..."vee starts but becks interrupts
"of course!, i knew it, i knew he was not to be trusted, i never liked that guy, no no no no, i always say it, never trust a man with shifty eyes, so what did he do?"
"he cheated" i answer "what the fuck did you say? because i did not just hear you say he cheated"
"yes becks he cheated" i continue "we won't be killing him, but we will deal with him so bad he will wish he was never born"
"i am very okay with that" vee pipes in
becks looks her over and suddenly hugs her, guess it's hug day today, might as well join in, i go over to them and we're now having a group hug, so nice, but we need a plan.

"okay enough of the hugfest guys we need to make a plan of attack" we draw apart and i hand them each a cup of coffee and hold mine.
I look to becks for ideas but i see the devilish smile on her face, dammit i guess we are going to be doing something very very illegal.