It's Been A Long Time... [Desperate Measures Sequel]

TwentySix

Sasha had collected me from my hotel room, she was wearing black shorts playsuit with some cute heels, her face made up beautifully and she had her hair pulled away from her face, half up and half down. She made me feel almost under-dressed in cropped blue jeans and a black crop top covered with a long sleeved red plaid shirt, my feet covered with converse. I thought it was going to be more casual than what she was wearing. 

"Should I get changed?" I asked her as I closed my hotel room door, my hands fumbling with my over shoulder handbag. 

Sasha looked at my outfit and shrugged, "I wouldn't worry about it, besides if you still feel uncomfortable when we get to Alexa's I'm sure she'll let you borrow something."

I smiled at Sasha before I heard my phone ringing. As we walked along the corridor I pulled my mobile from my bag and glanced down at the caller ID, AJ. I pressed the answer button before lifting the phone to my ear, "Hello."

"You are so hard to get hold of," AJ complained down the phone. "What have you been doing all afternoon?"

I rolled my eyes as we climbed down the stairs, "I've been getting ready, I'm going out for a bit tonight."

"Oh please don't tell me you are going out with him," AJ spoke, his voice almost sounding disappointed.

"Actually I am going out with Sasha and the girls," I told him, a smirk creeping across my face. It was nice to actually say I was doing the opposite of what he thought. "Is that okay?"

"I'm so sorry," he said. "I was just thinking about you, you don't need his negativity in your life, Tasha, you are better than that."

"I haven't even spoken to him," I sighed. It wasn't a lie, he didn't ring me back after I called him, I was quite disappointed about that, but at the same time I was happy, if he called me I would have to explain everything to him, I would have to try and talk to him like a normal person, I wasn't ready for that. 

As we stepped down the last steps and walked towards the reception I heard AJ and Luke arguing whilst he was still on the phone with me, "You guys literally-" I stopped speaking and walking instantly when I looked up from the ground and saw newcomer Liv Morgan standing at the reception, Dean next to her and his arm slung over her right shoulder and he was looking down at her. 

"Tasha?" I could hear AJ's voice speaking but I wasn't sure what he was saying, it was just a noise in my head. "Tasha?"

Tearing my eyes away I looked back at the ground as I took a deep breath, so that was why he was too busy to answer my call. "Sorry," I said in a small voice down the phone. "I-"

"What's wrong?" AJ asked me as I looked up at Sasha who looked shocked at the scene in front of her. 

I looked back to Dean and Liv, he was now looking at me, Liv oblivious to any problems as she looked at her mobile phone that was in her hands. "Nothing," I brought my voice back to normal as I tried to sound like I was okay. "Look I promise I will call you later."