#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

going out with

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Jessica said matter-of-factly, not

from the mirror.. novelxo.com fast

cocked my head. “Oh?” I replied, a bit annoyed that

we going?”

new club in town,”

their grand

drinks.”

be able to get out of this if both Lori and Jessica had already made up their minds. I loved them, but they

said, tossing

and heading

and get

was your date?” Jessica asked, looking over her shoulder at me with a smirk. I paused at my door,

wasn’t a date,” I

studying. And… It was

grinned and returned to her

Jessica, Lori and I were standing in

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

replied. “I hate having to deal

at each other and rolled

of the girls so far. It seemed that they just wanted as many college girls as possible inside, which was a

where she immediately ordered three shots of some alcohol that I couldn’t hear her pronounce over the

it like a ditsy sorority girl. Lori and I gave each other another look at our friend’s goofy behavior and took

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.

of sight, out

dancing along with my friends. It felt good just to let loose without having to deal

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