#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?

on the floor with a little handheld mirror as she did her makeup, and Lori was texting on the couch

out

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Jessica said matter-of-factly, not

from the mirror..

“Oh?” I replied, a bit annoyed that it seemed that my roommates had decided for

we going?”

new club in

their grand

drinks.”

that I wouldn’t be able to get out of this if both Lori and Jessica had already made up their minds. I loved them,

said, tossing my

the counter and heading to my

shower and

me with a smirk. I paused

wasn’t a date,”

studying. And… It

and returned to

I were standing in line outside the club,

who was shivering and rubbing her arms. She was wearing nothing but a skimpy, sparkly pink dress with heels while Lori and I were both comfortable in the cold with our jackets

replied. “I hate having to deal with

each other and

forward. He let us through without so much as checking our ID’s, which he had been doing with all of the girls so far. It seemed that they just wanted as

bar, where she immediately ordered three shots of some alcohol that I couldn’t hear her pronounce over the loud club music. The bartender filled three shot glasses and handed

music, clinking her shot glass with us and downing it like a ditsy sorority

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 with Lori and I on her heels.

sight,

dancing along with my friends. It felt good just to let

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