#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?

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..

a bit annoyed that it seemed that my roommates had decided for me

we going?”

new club in town,”

their

drinks.”

I wouldn’t be able to get out of this if both Lori and Jessica had

tossing my bag

counter and

shower and get

with a smirk. I paused at my door, not wanting to think about Justin randomly showing up like a clone of

date,”

studying. And… It was

and returned to

Lori and I were standing in

to Jessica, who was shivering and rubbing her arms. She was wearing nothing but a skimpy, sparkly pink

replied. “I

each other and rolled

bouncer said, waving us 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

and dragged us straight toward the bar, where she immediately ordered three shots of some alcohol that I couldn’t hear her pronounce over the loud

glass with us and downing it like a ditsy sorority girl. Lori and

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

of sight, out

good just to let loose without having

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