Strangers || Halsey

Ch.19

Jersey didn't need another drink. In fact she knew she was one drink away from truth vomiting everywhere. But when she saw Ashley right behind her she grabbed a beer because how could she say she needed a drink and not actually grab one.
"Is everything here alcoholic Jesus?" She said trying to steer the conversation in any direction other than what she knew Ashley was going to want to talk about.
"Are you going to tell me what's wrong?"
Jersey started to murmur at the same time she began to chug her beer so what she was saying was inaudible in an attempt to be somewhat charming and defuse the situation.
So Ashley stood there staring at her, eyebrows furrowed and patience wearing thin.
"You know, I don't get you." Ashley said frantically pouring a shot then drinking, pouring then drinking,pouring then drinking.
Jersey stayed silent.
"Like you reach out to me in a super cute strange way then I'm like feeling us and then you ghost me then I meet up with you cause you reach out again then everything's great then you're being weird and I'm no going to chase someone who keeps running every time I finally catch up." Ashley took a sigh of relief maybe it was the adrenaline of performing and then dancing with her and a mix of the alcohol that made her say everything that had been on the tip of her tongue.
Jersey stayed still processing everything that had just been thrown her way. She found herself struggling to form a sentence or to even react in any way.
"Cool."  Ashley said and walked away bottle in hand. A few more minutes passed and Jersey's brain was going in circles. Ex boyfriend, ghosting, strange and cute...feeling us. Feeling us she said she was feeling us...as soon as that clicked in her brain her head started to pound even harder. She didn't know what she was gonna say but all she knew was she needed to find Ashley.
Searching through the whole house frantically. Only seeming to run into drunk strangers.
"Jerseyyyyyy." A drunk Micheal walked her way with a drunk Calum following behind.
"Michael,have you seen Ashley." She said with an urgent tone. Michael looked at her with a confused look but he knew all the details would be shared with him later when he was sober enough to understand sensitive material.
"No sorry Jers." She groaned and then looked at Calum with slight hope.
"If I remember right she was like on the roof."
"What are you talking about?!" Michael said to him.
"Yeah man the girl with the blew hair right she was on the roof I saw when we where smoking outside."
"Oh yeahhhhh you're right, he's right." Michale said with a slur. Jersey blinked a few times trying to make sure she heard right.
Then without hesitation Jersey ran out to the backyard and saw the only person she wanted to talk to sitting on the roof with a half empty bottle in her hand.