DUSK

CHAPTER NINE

Well, it's official; birthdays are the most tiresome days ever, no pun intended. After a whole afternoon in the spa with the girls being pampered and it wasn't as nice as people thought since I hate it when people pull my hair but the massage was nice. Then we came back home at around five in the evening for movie marathon and I wanted to watch Mission Impossible because who doesn't think Tom Cruise is hot but the girls wanted to watch romantic movies which they won 2: 1 and we ended up watching a movie called Me before you and since Sapph couldn't stop gushing about it. I must admit though it was good because the actors had British accent and that's one of my favourite accents.

All this time, Sapph never talked to me and it was getting pretty annoying when she ignored me or only addressed Em but I decided to play along with her.

"What's taking you so long in there, do you need help?" Em asked from outside the bedroom door and I told her to chill am almost done. I stared at myself from the bedroom mirror and I didn't really like the dress.

It was almost eight at night and I was currently trying to find the perfect dress because Em said there was a surprise I still had to unravel and we had to leave by eight. I took a deep breath and walked out of my room to meet Emma whose disappointment was written all over her face when she saw me in that dress.

"I look like a potato." I frowned at her and she nodded solemnly.

"You look horrible but luckily we have three more dresses for you to try." She tried to sound cheery but even I could see that she was running out of patience. Out of all those clothes, a blue dress caught my eye and I pulled it out of her grasp.

It was a beautiful royal blue lace strapless dress that had beautiful flower patterns on the left side breast and waist. It was perfect. Em's look matched mine when I walked out of my room.

"Great, now let's go, you're late" she said as she shoved me out of the house. I was lucky she didn't notice I was still wearing my combat boots or else she would have flipped.

"I call shotgun." I shouted as I ran towards the passenger side of the car but Sapph got there before me.

"No way, you stole my boyfriend and now you want shotgun, not on my watch." She spat at me and Emma's eyes widened in shock, I think my jaw was on the floor by now.

"What on earth are you on about, she didn't take your boyfriend." Em tried to defend me making Sapph laugh bitterly.

"Really, then explain this, explain why he's looking at her like that, not even I get the same look." She spat as she shoved a photo in Emma's face. I simply had to see this because I didn't think it was true.

"Can you explain this?" Em asked as she showed me the photo which I guess was taken today of me and Ash standing outside my house; were smiling but Ash had a weird look on his face.

"Where were you that he even had to change clothes?" Sapph asked; her voice was like poison.

"I swear that was how he was dressed when we left. We only went to the arcade and nowhere else. I swear." I tried to defend myself.

"I hate to say this but they were all right, you're a slut Chloe and you always use your miserable story as a pity party. Stay away from Ashton, he's mine." She warned before she walked away in the opposite direction. I could only stare at her. That was the second time I heard that.

"What the fuck just happened?" Emma asked behind me.

"I have no idea. Let's go before I change my mind" I mumbled and tried to cheer myself up though it really wasn't working.