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"Okay, come again?"

Jake rolled his eyes. "We're going to the beach. Are you coming with us or not?"

"Um," Bonnie hesitated and looked past Jake to his car, where Finn, Elle and Lady were sat. They were actually serious. They were going to the beach at seven at night in the middle of February. "You're crazy. We'll freeze."

"Actually, it's kind of nice out." Jake commented, glancing around himself. "It's sort of a Glassrock tradition. The first nice day of the year, there's a party on the beach later. You should come. Everyone is there, usually."

Bonnibel hummed in thought and leaned against the doorframe. "What do you guys do?"

Jake shrugged, and Bonnie could tell that he was starting to become impatient. "Not much. We just hang out and have fun, you know?"

Bonnie pushed herself from the doorframe and grabbed her purple sneakers from where they were sat by the radiator. "Alright, I'll come along. How far away is it?"

"Around ten minutes." Jake replied, "The party is on the sands and there's a load of stores on the roadside if you want to look in those. Considering you're not into drinking, you'll probably want to look around the stores."

Bonnie finished pulling on her shoes, and she grabbed her coat on her way out of the door for good measure. "Okay. Am I in the backseat?"

Jake opened the back left car door for her in confirmation. "Yeah. Hope you're okay with being in there with Finn and Elle. They can be loud on drives."

Bonnie laughed as she sat down, but didn't comment. Instead, she greeted her other friends with a smile. "Hey, guys."

Elle beamed at her. "Hey, Bonnibel. We didn't think you'd come. Phoebe texted and said that you probably wouldn't like the whole party thing."

"Parties aren't my scene, I will agree," Bonnie shrugged, "but still, I figured it'd be nice to...open up. Try new things."

"It'll be super fun," Finn told her, "I went last year for the first time and it was great. I don't really remember it all that much, but it was still cool."

Lady laughed. Judging by the look on Finn's face, what she was about to say wasn't good, at least for him. Everyone else's smirks set off some alarm bells. "Finn drank a little too much of the Coke that was available. Turns out it was mixed with vodka and he ended up wasted."

"Wasn't it Marshall who spiked it?" Jake laughed and glanced at his brother in the rear-view mirror.

"He said it wasn't." Finn muttered and sent Lady his best scowl. Apparently he hadn't wanted that story to resurface. "But it was probably one of his friends."

"Maybe it was Ash," Elle's face morphed into one of disgust at the mention of this person, "He's a total wad. I'd expect that kind of thing from him."

"Ash?" Bonnie frowned in confusion, "Does he go to our school?"

"He graduated a year ago but didn't get into any colleges. Mostly he just hangs around town, drinking. He can be kind of violent at times, too." Jake explained. Bonnie decided that she really didn't like him. She wasn't one to judge from rumours, but that was a bit too much.

Lady added a little bit of extra information. "He's also Marceline's boyfriend."

Alarm bells rang in Bonnie's head. She'd met him before, about a month ago when she'd ran into them. Marceline had been especially mean on that particular occasion, and Ash was a different story all together. Not only had he been rude to her, the way he'd spoken to Marceline...