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She laughed. “Don’t worry. I would never say anything, but it appears that you are a bit distracted. I typically know that look, mostly because I see it on the face of several girls around here every single day.”
I laughed. “But what about the no fraternizing rule?”
“Oh, it’s a rule,” she said. “And no one is going to break it, but we all have our eyes locked on the guy we want if that rule ever goes away.”
I laughed. “You think that this rule has a shot of not appearing in the annals of history anymore? Good luck with that.”
“Well, you have to be somewhat optimistic,” she said. “But seriously, who would you choose?”
I wasn’t sure I wanted to play this game. I didn’t know anyone here that I trusted that much with a secret. I wasn’t sure why, but I had the feeling that Becky was fishing for something that she could use against me somehow. I felt that she was a little bit threatened by me in general and wanted to take me down a peg, maybe make me feel inferior.
“No one,” I said. “I wouldn’t think of breaking that rule. It’s in place for a good reason.”
“Hey, ladies,” Jasmine said entering the room. She also grabbed some coffee and let out a wide yawn as she did so.
“Rough night?” Becky asked.
“Yeah, I was out too late. My girlfriends dragged me to this new club opening up called the Hell Beast club. What in the world was I thinking?”
“Hell beast club? What type of place is that?” I asked. It sounded curious, but not the type of place that Jasmine might hang out.
“It’s some dive heavy metal bar, but somehow it’s getting really popular and poppy at the same time. It feels like the owners are totally stuck in the eighties.”
“Well, that sounds like my kind of place, then,” I said.
“Uh, oh. Are you getting into this eighties nostalgia scene, too?” Becky asked.
“Yeah. I love the eighties. They had the best music and the best movies. All my favorites.”
Becky shook her head smiling. “Why does that not surprise me?”
“What?” I asked with a giggle.
“I sometimes think you have nineteen eighties John Hughes, teen girl hair.”
I was confused. My hair is mostly straight down my back and there has never been that much style in it. I like to keep things natural and no one has ever said it needed changed. And even if they suggested it, I wouldn’t bother.
“I’ll take that,” I said. “I love those movies.”
“Me too!” Jasmine chimed in. She gave me a high five and we shared a giggle.
“There is too much fun going on in here,” Teri Calendo said arriving on the scene. Out of the group of us, Teri had the most style and spent the most time in beauty salons. She was a tough girl, but she spent way too much time worrying about her looks. It seemed that she was always going on about some new guy she was dating, and we were just supposed to keep up. Never mind that she dated another guy every few weeks, or at least that was what the girls had been talking about yesterday. I’ve always done my best to stay out of cliques and I hate gossip, but this was too sweet to ignore. Besides, I was trying to make some friends. I was the new girl in the great big city. It was very intimidating.
“Right on schedule!” Becky announced giving Teri a high five when she walked in. Teri was a pretty redheaded girl with a bubbly spirt and a huge heart. Whereas Becky could be cold and even vindictive, Teri was quite the opposite.
Teri sat down at the table and leaned back in the chair. She had been through something that she wanted to talk about, that much was clear to me. I was only mildly interested. Teri was the shallowest of the girls, from what I had gathered thus far, but then again she might actually have had the most interesting story.
“What’s up with you Teri?” Jasmine asked.
“Mark, that’s what,” Teri replied. “That man is on so much thin ice with me.”
“Do tell,” Jasmine encouraged. “Spice up our lives as much as you can, please,” she said.
“Ok, well the jerk takes me out last night to a nice dinner at Shawn’s Palace. You know the place? It is usually awesome, right? Well, the dinner was fine. The service was fine. I didn’t see a problem.”
“So, what happened”? Becky asked. She appeared to be getting annoyed that the story was taking too long.
“Well, towards the end of dinner, I catch him checking out this sexy girl walking by with another man. This guy looked like her father. This girl could not have been more than twenty-one. She had to have been celebrating a birthday or something. The man blatantly looked at her right in front of me!”
