“Yeah, it’s me. It’s good to see you again.” Cole reaches her hand out to shake Ashley’s but Ashley treats it as if she’s looking at a disease and gives her a questioning look.

“What are you doing here?” Ashley finally asks.

“I go to school here at NYU. I met Spencer yesterday here and helped her study.” Cole says, dragging me into whatever kind of reunion this was between the two. This brings Ashley’s attention to me.

“This was the Cole you were talking about?” Ashley questions me.

“Yeah, so what?” I say, trying to comprehend the situation. Ashley grows suddenly silent and examines her shoes.

“Yeah Ash, so what if we met each other?” Cole asked, sounding as if she already knows the answer to her own question. I look between the two of them, expecting some sort of explanation.

“We just used to know each other, that’s all.” Ashley says but doesn’t look up from the floor. I look over to Cole who is still smirking, then back to Ashley.

“Okay, yeah Cole already told me that.” I say. Ashley jerks her head up to Cole and if looks could kill then Cole would be dead where she stood.

“She did?” Ashley says through clenched teeth and I look down to see her hands beginning to ball up. I look at Cole who still has that fucking stupid grin pasted on her face.

“Look, what the fuck is going on here?” I say, trying to keep this situation under control so we don’t cause a scene in front of this big crowd of people in the coffee house.

“Just what Ashley said, we used to know each other. Didn’t we Ash?” Now she’s just trying to get a rise out of her.

“Yeah, no shit. I figured that one out already.” I say still not getting any valuable information and growing more and more frustrated with every unanswered question. “Ashley what is going on? How do you know her?” I ask, trying to get Ashley to look at me and answer me, but nothing seems to be working.

“We’ve known each other for a long time.” Cole says, never looking away from Ashley’s bowed head. “We had a history together but then she got into drugs and I couldn’t handle it anymore.”