safety pin

Chapter 8

"I'm a very strong believer that whoever is meant to be in your life will always gravitate back towards you, regardless how far they wander."

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I and the girls were entering the party that a friend of Grace and her boyfriend was throwing and since they haven't seen each other in a really long while they invited her to the party and, of course, she made us come along too, Scar and Candy knew them too but I didn't since I was too caught up with Jack's shit. Their friends originally are living in Ireland, but they decided to come here for the holiday and also to see them. I didn't mind coming with them that time and of course they noticed that, but none dared to question it since they've always wanted me to come with them to places and occasions like these so that we can have more fun together.

My eyes caught a blond girl heading towards us with an enormous smile on her face and a really short red dress.

"Oh my god! Ash!" Grace squealed, hugging the blond girl tightly, then the rest of the girls hugged her too and greeting her then she looked at me with a smile.

"You must be Jade! I'm Ashley, but please call me Ash. Nice to meet you."

"Nice meeting you too," I replied, returning her warming smile, shaking her hand. She seems so nice but also so tired, I wondered idly why..

"So where's your boyfriend?" Candice asked. Ashley rolled her eyes at the sentence.

"Probably sucking off some girl's face or something." I double checked whether she was joking or not, but she said it in a straight face with no hint of sarcasm in her voice. Was that a normal thing these days?

And as if Ashley was reading my mind she turned to look at me.

"He was my boyfriend, maybe will be in the future I don't know." she said, shrugging.

Oh

 "You broke up? Again?" Scar asked. Again?

"Yeah but we managed to stay besties, ain't that fun?" this time I'm sure she was being sarcastic and now I think I understand why does she look tired.

"I can't believe you both.." she said in disbelief and judging by the conversation I can tell that it has happened a number of times but they go back together at the end.

Sounds familiar? Ha ha 

She just shrugged it off and smiled a sad smile.

"Come on, let's get you some drinks." She guided us to the kitchen as we were having a light conversation we heard someone with a very thick accent talking to us.

"Is it just me or did I just saw the prettiest ladies in the whole party?" I looked at a black haired guy, wearing a black button up that was half way unbuttoned and black leggings, and I must say he looked attractive for his own good, is that the boyfriend they were talking about?

"You haven't changed a bit, I see." Candice chuckled, hugging him and then they did the same thing and I stood like a potato.

"So who's that pretty lady here?" the guy, Ken, asked the girls while smirking at me and I wondered if he always talk like that.

"Hi, I'm jade." I shook his hand with a tight smile on my face.

"Hey beautiful,"  I wanted to take my hand out of his grip but he tightened his grip on my hand so I snatched it away forcefully, looking at Scar as in saying 'what the fuck?'
"You will get used to this." she whispered in my ears, shrugging.

"You're giving the poor girl there weird vibes, be civil please." Ashley said to Ken.

"Ken and civil cannot be in the same sentence babe, c'mon girls we can go and play beer pong." He replied.