#Chapter 40: Girls Night Out
Nina
“Fancy seeing you here,” Justin said with an oddly warm smile. “Can I sit with you?”
I bit my lip and glanced around quickly, half expecting Lisa or someone else to be snickering nearby as if this was all a prank — but there was no one else. It seemed as though he came alone. Why was he acting so different all of a sudden and dressed like Enzo? It all felt a bit weird and I didn’t really want to stick around to see what would come of it.
“I was actually just leaving,” I said, shutting my laptop and standing as I slipped my things into my bag. Justin looked immediately saddened, but what could I do? He was my ex and I had made it clear, multiple times, that I
wouldn’t be open to any sort of
friendship or relationship with him
after I found him cheating on me with
Lisa in my own bed!
“Oh,” Justin said with a sad frown, his
shoulders drooping. “Well, see you
around, then.”
I managed a pitiful smile before turning on my heel and practically running out of the coffee shop.
What was all that about?
waiting for me when I got home. Jessica was sitting on the floor with a little handheld
out with us
33
Jessica said matter-of-factly, not
up from the
bit annoyed that it seemed that
we going?”
new club
their grand opening.
drinks.”
I wouldn’t be able to get out of this if both Lori and Jessica had already made up their minds.
tossing my
the counter and heading
shower and
at me with a smirk. I paused at my door, not wanting to think about Justin randomly showing up like a clone of
a date,”
And… It
and returned to
few hours later, Jessica, Lori and I were standing
said to Jessica, who was shivering and rubbing her arms. She was wearing nothing but a skimpy, sparkly
“I hate having to
I looked at each other and rolled
as checking our ID’s, which he had been doing with all of the girls so far.
and dragged us straight toward the bar, where she immediately ordered three shots of
get wrecked!” Jessica shouted over the music, clinking her shot glass with us and downing it like a ditsy sorority girl. Lori and I gave each
like they were moving almost robotically. Jessica, of course, wanted to be right in the center of the group and wriggled her way
sight,
my friends. It felt good just to let loose
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