Straight over

Ella grabbed her purse and some other more important things before hopping in her car and heading straight over. Twenty minutes later, Ella was parked in the driveway of Alex's modest home. Finding the spare key under one of her ugly lawn gnomes which, thankfully, weren't posed as dirty old men with the cute fairies anymore. She went into the beautiful home and could smell her favorite tea brewing in the kitchen. Alex could be heard rummaging around in her 'other' office. probably cleaning up after her display earlier.

Ignoring Alex for now, Ella went to grab herself some tea, returning to wait in the living room afterwards.

Thinking about her situation, Ella felt some errant tears fall down her cheeks. She ignored them, just holding the warm tea in her hands. Not long after, she felt Alex come to sit right up against her, wrapping an arm around her shoulders and staying silent as she waited for Ella to speak.

The tea in Ella’s hands had stopped steaming and her breathing had steadied before she finally spoke. “I’m ruined Alex,” she spoke quietly, trembling almost to point of sobbing.

“What happened El?”

Ella looked into her eyes, Alex being the only shred of light to be found. “I don’t know how it happened, it should’ve been almost impossible, but it fucking happened!” Ella started crying.

“Hey, hey, hey what happened? Please, you need to talk to me.” Alex all but begged, rubbing her free hand up and down Ella’s thigh, trying to calm her down. Taking some deep shuddering breaths, Ella managed to stop long enough to tell Alex her problem.

“I’ve lost everything.” She whispered.

“What?” Alex was aghast, "Ella you're not making sense."

So Ella explained as clear as she could what happened. How almost all of her assets had just gone down the drain with the near impossible situation that had befallen her.

“I can’t afford to keep any of things. My house, my car, anything! And all the debt that I still have and the backlash from those investments… I’m in a lot of trouble Alex.” Ella looked into Alex’s eyes with a lot of fear, “I need your help.”

“Anything El, you’re my best friend. How much do you need? I’m doing really good at the moment so I can afford it."