After having to kick my siblings out of not only my bedroom but my house I finally went to bed. Unfortunately this morning around THREE AM I was awoken by a very large, very heavy, very loud and very drunk editor and best friend of mine. "GET OFF ME YOU COW!!" I yell shoving Emi off me relieving my lungs and taking a long and very deep breath.

"AUGUSTINE!!! BE MY FRIEND AGAIN!!" she yells into my face her tequila breath telling me everything I need to know about where she's been and how she's been spending her time. "We never stopped being friends you idiot!" I tell her patting her head then pushing her away. "But you got mad!" She cries. "I get mad a lot, that doesn't mean I'm disowning the human race." I tell her as she hangs on me getting a lot clingier than I would prefer.

"Won't you be my, Won't You Be My, WON'T YOU BE MY BEST FRIEND AGAIN?!" she screams.

"SHUT UP WITCH!" I yell back.

"I'M NOT A WITCH, I'M YOUR WIFE!" She yells quoting yet another movie. However the scream next to my ear stops me from appreciating the great come back.

"Was I a little too loud?" she asks shyly.

"A little? I don't think China heard you but we have a zombie apocalypse here, thanks to you." I tell her as she starts crying. "My poor brain!" "You know what, you took away so many of your brain cells with that tequila the zombies don't want your brain anymore." I tell her starting to enjoy drunk Emi. "Why not? My brain is just as tasty as a unicorn like you!"

Wow...I guess I'm not the only one who see's myself as a unicorn...darn.

"Well see, we broke the barrier! Your a Cow I'm a Unicorn and we're friends! We are no longer held down by stereotypes!" I tell her internally dying from laughter and how simple it was to switch subject's without her noticing.

"Cows and Unicorns CAN be friends!" She says happily.

Messing with drunk Emi is probably going to get me beat but right now, it's SO worth it!

Finally after a little longer of getting to mess with drunk Emi I lay a blanket over her sleeping self. "Ding dong the witch is dead." I sing softly not to wake her up.

I leave my bed room and head into the living room in which I do very little living. I flop on the couch and sigh deeply. "The sun isn't even up you evil cow." I say leaning my head back I smile to myself. "If she can get drunk and bother me early in the morning than I'll just have to be her worst hangover nightmare."

Chipper!

When she walks out of the bedroom in a very disgraceful and sloppy way I hold back my evil smile. "Well, good afternoon you adorable little cow!" I tell her in the loudest squeaky voice I am brave enough to make. "Shut. Up." She tells me sternly leaving no room for argument but I make room. "You were very drunk last night, I've never seen you so drunk, I have a song stuck in my head! Ding dong the witch is dead the witch is dead! Have you ever heard that song? Did you know Cows and Unicorns can be friends?" She stalks towards my rambling self and covers my mouth making me mumble everything I've scripted to say. "Shut. Up. You. Ugly. Rainbow. Farting. Narwhal with legs!!" She screams at me before holding her head then heading back to the bedroom where I find her curled into a ball under the blankets. Well I think it worked.

I walk to my closet grabbing some clothes and heading to the bathroom. I take a long shower then put my clothes on brush my teeth and head for the door slipping my shoes on as I go hopping from one foot to the next. After breaking a vase and cleaning up the mess I grab my phone and walk towards the street having slammed the door causing Emi to yell at me. I pull out Samuel's card and run it between my fingers. I look up and the sun doesn't burn like it had yesterday, actually it feels pretty good. I start walking, just walking not knowing where I would end up. I find a bench and sit my feet starting to hurt. After sitting I finally look around finding myself near the coffee shop and rather close to the spot where I met Samuel. I take out my phone and the card he gave me. I dial his number and press send.

"Hello?" I panic! He answered! "Hi, Is this Samuel?" I ask surprising myself with how calm I actually sound. "Dream cookie girl!" He says laughing. "Yes, Dream cookies, speaking of dream cookies do you have time to meet me for a few?" I ask a little more chipper than I had intended. "Yeah, I'm actually off work and just walking around the city. I'll be right there!" he says hanging up. "Rude!" I say shoving my phone back in my pocket. "Sorry, I saw you and didn't think the phone was necessary anymore." he says laughing as I stand up shocked and rather embarrassed for calling him rude. Samuel moves closer and whispers in my ear. "Your turning red." I bounce back looking at him shocked. "Dream cookies, my lady?" he asks gesturing towards the coffee shop. I snap out of my stupor and laugh. "Why thank you good sir." I say smiling as I lead the way to the magical world of dream cookies, better known as The Wake Up Cafe. this place has more people than it did yesterday but somehow it doesn't seem so claustrophobic anymore.

"I never did catch your name." Samuel says. "Oh, I'm Augustine, but everyone calls me August." I say smiling. "Well then everyone calls me August, call me Sam and I do believe you had a triple chocolate dream cookie." he says as he heads to the counter. I follow him like a lost puppy as he orders three cookies, black coffee for himself and a large hot chocolate for me. I just stand there watching as his finger flip through his wallet pulling out a card then I watch as his hands reach for mine pulling me to a table out of the way. As we sit down I realize what just happened and I sigh to myself. This looks like a date doesn't it? "So, what line of business are you in?" he asks taking in my super hero graphic tee and jeans with a messy bun to top it all off. "I'm a writer actually, this is my first willing time out of the house in a few years." I tell him smiling. "Really?" "Yeah, I couldn't handle life without these cookies." I tell him laughing. "I have to say when I saw you yelling at my boss I knew we'd be good friends, but when you yelled about your dream cookie I just about fell to the ground laughing so hard." "Oh really? You ROFL'ed" I ask laughing. "Yes, yes I did." He says smiling widely. "So now that you know what I do for work, what do you do, Mr. assistant boy?" I ask. "Well I assist in keeping my boss employed, basically." he says laughing. "I'm doing the same for my editor." I tell him.

"Well your editor is very lucky to have such a beautiful author under them." I burst into giggles making Sam blush. "That sounded wrong..." He says soon joining in on the giggle fest. "Do all writers have dirty minds like you?" he asks. "Not all, just a very large portion of them do." I tell him faking a stereotypical cheerleader voice as I flip my hair. "That was scary good." He tells me laughing. "I aim to please!" I tell him as I reach for my hot chocolate taking a big swig. "So what books have you written? Would I have read any of them?" he asks. "I write under a pen name and I like you and all but I don't know if your stalker material or not. So we'll leave that one blank." I tell him laughing. "touche." he says smiling. "So, what now?" I ask. "What do you mean?" he asks. "Well, you buy a girl dream cookies and hot chocolate, what's in it for you?" I ask biting my bottom lip waiting for his answer. My cynical side is telling me he just wants to repay me for my soiled cookie and to leave quickly after receiving my reimbursement but my rational side is telling me that a dollar eighty five in a ruined cookie for a hot chocolate, two cookies and time spent with my radiating self, doesn't seem like a fair trade.

"The possibility of a second date." he says smiling as his cookie covered thumb reaches out and slowly and gently pulls my bottom lip out from in between my teeth. Now in this moment neither side of my brain is talking. "Don't want you to damage those beautiful lips of yours..." he says smoothly.

Be still my Unicorn heart!