#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?

was sitting on the floor with a little handheld

out

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Jessica said matter-of-factly, not

from the

stopped in the kitchen and cocked my head. “Oh?” I replied, a bit annoyed that it seemed that

we going?”

club in

their grand

drinks.”

both Lori and Jessica had already made up their

I said, tossing

the counter and heading to

shower and

over her shoulder at me with a smirk. I paused at my door,

a date,”

studying. And… It was

grinned and returned to her

later, Jessica, Lori and I were standing in line

but a skimpy, sparkly pink dress with

much trouble,” Jessica replied. “I hate having to

looked at each other and rolled

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

and my hands and dragged us straight toward the bar, where she immediately ordered three shots of some alcohol that I couldn’t hear

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 other another look at our friend’s

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 with Lori and I on her heels. I took a big swig of my drink and scanned the crowd, happy to see that neither Enzo nor Justin were around; or at least, I couldn’t see them anywhere, which

of sight, out

to let

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