Reunited Love

Chapter 1

Chapter 1.

School reunion. Great. I would see all my friends again that I hadn't seen since I moved to Ireland. However I might see him or at the very least the ghost of him would be around, the one I compare all the other guys I date to. I need to get over myself it's not like I ever dated him! He was just a crush and he went to America before we even finished school. If he wasn't there, people would still mention him.

He'd done well in America after he left school, worked his way up in a big banking firm. The great Christopher Down. He was the big success story of our year.

That's why this was going to be torture. Mentions of him everywhere would remind me of every little detail of him again. I would be wound up for days. Seeing him would be worse, keeping my feelings locked up was harder when the person in question was in close proximity.

But I had to go, for Lily and for me, to maybe put this all behind me and move on.

So I put my best cocktail dress on. It was a short red satin dress with a single strap over the left shoulder in the shape of roses. The satin twisted around my body, tightening around my waist creating an hourglass figure. Adding black stilettos, it showed off my long legs. I worked out several times a week and swam at least 5 times a week so I was quite fit and had a nice healthy shape with womanly curves.

A far stretch from the chubby little thing too afraid to step out of her shell in school I used to be.

I applied a sliver of blue eyeliner and black mascara to frame my sapphire eyes and clear lip gloss on my already dark coloured lips. My cheek bones were high upon my heart shaped face with my dark chocolate hair, slightly curled, falling neatly around my face to the middle of my back.

Time to go. Time to face the music.

*

As I stepped through the door, I had a sudden urge to turn around and run. I was surrounded by the sound of music, the smell of alcohol and blinded by the darkness compared with outside. I didn't need to be here. I could see my old friends another time.

I took another look around the room. There was banners all over the room with 'Class of 1994' written across them. Balloons were hung from the ceiling with the year I had left this hell hole scrawled across them. The decorators had tastefully gone with purple and silver as the colour scheme. It was the only thing I liked in the room.

Being back here felt like I was sixteen all over again. The insecurities came back and a whole lot of memories came as well and not just the good ones.

"Evie? Evelyn Jenkins? Is that you?"

Caught. I turned to see who had seen me.

"Wow. Well, haven't you changed?" the voice purred.

Great. It was Tess; my archenemy when I was at school. I couldn't leave now. It would be a sign of weakness to her.

"Tess! Why, you haven't changed a bit," I lied. She had changed; from being a blonde stick insect to a red head with big curves and age lines around her eyes. However her attitude hadn't changed; I would recognize that scowl anywhere. It was the very same one she would give me whenever I got under her skin.

"Except your red hair, of course. It suits you." Like the devil you are.

"Thank you. I must be going now. I have to try and talk to everyone before the night ends."

With that she dismissed me. Just like school all over again, I thought and giggled to myself.

"What you giggling at?" I turned and there stood my best friend, Lily. We both squealed, jumped up and down and hugged each other. Lily was the only person from school I kept in contact with.