She nodded and blocked my way with a smirk. After a brief deliberation, she said, “I recommend that you make yourself decent before heading in.”

I blushed automatically. “Why? What is it?” I stammered.

Linda coughed and spoke in as normal a voice as she could muster. “Ashton has… a way with women, based on how he looks. You don’t have to make it so obvious, we’re all adults after all.”

Confused, I pulled out my compact mirror to take a look. Oh, God! My lips were swollen, hair in a tangled mess, and even the hickey, which was originally quite subtle, now pulsated an angry red.

Without thinking further, I rushed off to a washroom in the base to clean myself up.

Linda followed me close behind, her smile wide with glee. “Don’t be embarrassed. It’s normal!”

 

“Then why did you look at me in that manner earlier on?” I was speechless.

“I’m here to remind you that there is a large group of older men inside the base,” Linda giggled. “If you went in there looking like this, it would be even more awkward!”

 

I blended the hickeys in with my skin tone as best as I could, but they still showed up like angry boils. I began to panic. “Linda, help me out here. It’s not going away.”

She rummaged through her purse and handed me a bottle of liquid foundation. “Try this. I get eyebags from staying up late at night, and this helps to hide them.”

it made my hickeys almost invisible. However, my swollen lips still made me anxious. “What about my

you wear a mask?” Linda

would I find one here in the

one from her purse. “It’s yours

you, Linda! You’re a lifesaver!”

out of the bathroom, we ran into Rachel again. She was clad in black from

of me only intensified her haughtiness and made

passed a scathing remark. “It’s one thing to pretend to not want it but another to deliver yourself. You should be

This hurt me deeply.

referring to me. “There are different ways of throwing yourself into a man’s arms,”

demanded. She

your friend

fists rather than

blow. “You are, you b*tch!” she

threats

flabbergasted to react. When their voices became too loud to ignore, I came to my senses and attempted to break

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