To say that I was jones-ing for some alcohol would be an understatement. You know that feeling you get when you just want to get plastered drunk? So drunk you want to forget your name and wake up the next morning and have to ask what happened in order to find out? Yeah, that’s me, right now. After everything that has been happening the past few weeks, I am in dire need of hard liquor and Ashley’s company. Since I already had one and the other was promised then I was feeling pretty good about the night.

We finally pull up to her apartment and make our way to her floor. As we turn the corner from the stairs to the main hallway I see a girl sitting in the fetal position outside of a door. It’s not until we get closer that I notice it’s in front of Ashley’s.

“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me right now.” I hear Ashley say under her breath. I look over to her and she’s giving me the most annoyed look.

I’m still confused as we keep walking until we get to the girl. The girl hastily gets to her feet, so fast that she almost falls over. When she gets up I notice the black circles under her eyes signifying where her mascara has been rubbed off and her eyes are blood shot. I think she’s just been crying over whatever she came to see Ashley about but when she can’t keep her balance for more than two seconds my thoughts begin to wander.

“Hey Ash.” The girl slurs out with a phony grin and almost falls on top of Ashley. Yeah she’s definitely drunk; I can smell the alcohol on her breath from here. I position myself behind Ashley to help keep her balance and also get the girl off of her before she takes both of us down.

It’s not until Ashley pins the slightly bigger girl by her shoulders to the wall, trying to keep her there so she doesn’t fall again, that I’m able to really see who it is. Lo and behold it’s the same girl that Ashley was with at the movies the night she and Carmen met, and the same girl that was in Ashley’s bed the night Ashley tried to seduce me on her couch. I can’t help the jealousy that races through my body and feel my fists clench up. Ashley saw what was going on in my head and reached down to my hand in an attempt to relax me.