“Ten, nine, eight …"

This isn’t how I was expecting to ring in the New Year, with my girlfriend and my best friend. I feel bad, the two don’t really get along and I can’t blame them, I give them both equal attention but that doesn’t stop them from constantly wanting more of me.

“Seven, six, five …” The crowd chants with their loved ones hugged close.

Ashley slipped her arms around the blonde and hugged her tight, smiling gently at her girl. The younger girl was already tipsy from the vodka cranberries earlier that evening and gave her a sloppy smile in return for the embrace.

“Four, three, two, one” Bazookas start to be blown and noisemakers turned.

“Happy New Year” the brunette yelled above the music, leaning in to give her date a warm kiss. She pulled back briefly, resting her head on the girl’s shoulder. She glanced at Spencer standing awkwardly behind her girlfriend, her eyes were downcast, a small frown was set on her face. Ashley reached behind her date and tapped Spencer on the shoulder. The blonde’s tired blue eyes looked up at her friend. The brunette gave a quick wave, “Happy New Year” she mouthed before her girlfriend of two months, Leslie, pulled her into a heated make out session.

Spencer stood silently, watching the couples of the room begin to ring in the New Year. She and Ashley and her, had decided to go to Aiden’s New Year’s Eve party. His home was filled with inebriated high school students who were now drunkenly toasting one another and divulging New Year’s resolutions of great proportions. I will tell Ashley how I feel. She tossed another furtive glance towards Ashley and Leslie. She frowned as the blonde’s hand snaked it’s way under the hem of Ashley’s halter top, clutching one supple breast and massaging it roughly. Spencer watched her friend moan into the kiss and Spencer, disgusted, turned away quickly, her face turning a beet red. You don’t have any right to be upset, you had the chance to tell her how you felt months ago and you blew it.

Spencer and Ashley had been friends for a little over a year, and Ashley had drifted from relationship to relationship, while the blonde remained single, slowly falling deeper and deeper for her best friend.