#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?
me when I got home. Jessica was sitting on the floor with a little handheld mirror as she did
out
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Jessica said matter-of-factly, not
up from the
stopped in the kitchen and cocked my head. “Oh?” I replied, a bit annoyed that
we going?”
new club in
“It’s their grand
drinks.”
to get out of this if both Lori and Jessica had already made up their minds. I loved them, but they were
tossing my bag
and
shower and get
a smirk. I paused
date,” I replied.
studying. And… It was
and returned to
were standing in line outside the club, waiting
was wearing nothing but a skimpy, sparkly pink dress with heels while Lori
trouble,” Jessica replied. “I hate having to deal with coat
and I looked at each
He let us through without so much as checking our ID’s, which he had been doing with all of the girls so
she immediately ordered three shots of some alcohol that
music, clinking her shot glass with us and downing it like a ditsy sorority girl. Lori and I gave each other another look
some drinks that we could actually sip and not have to drink all at once, then headed for the packed dance floor. The sweaty mob of horny college students swayed and bounced as one big unit to the music, the flashing lights making them look like they were moving almost robotically. Jessica, of course, wanted to be right in the center of the group and wriggled her way in
sight, out of
shot we took at the bar started to hit, and soon I was dancing along with my friends. It felt good just to let loose without having
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