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"Rocking new shoes Did you buy them today?"

I look down at my new chucks that I’ve paired with skinny jeans and a black and white baseball shirt It’s ot theift"

"I’ shoes like that"

I laugh "I can iine her face when she entered that store She would have been horrified"

We both chuckle

"Coht?"

I shrug "I think so"

"Missy has the shits he isn’t fucking her brains out anymore"

"Poor Spastic Plastic She never could keep a man"

Kenny snorts and we make our way down to the soft sand There are people everywhere, so it’s hard to tell person froh I see Jack He’s standing with a gorgeous blond girl, his arms around her, lips on her neck I stop dead I didn’t expect Jack to keep perusing me after our last encounter, butI irlfriend, and he never even tried to tell iven Rainer, but I was still interested in Jack, so seeing hi ti out his head, but I did expect him to have the decency to let me knoasn’t interested any out what I’ve just seen

"HeI thought"

"He’s a dick," Kenny says, grabbing my arm "Don’t let it upset you"

"He never broke it off with me I mean, I knoas pissed over what Rainer did but"

"He’s a dick," Kenny repeats "You’re worth more"

"No," I say softly "I’m not I never will be"

"Emalie," he says, but I hand him my beer

"I’m done"

I turn and walk up towards the cars, hurt and confused I get things were a bit tense between Jack and I, but I thought we had a bond I thought so Like always, everything I think is right isn’t Stupid, angry tears burn under my eyelids and I want to scream and tear my own hair out with frustration

"Emalie?"

I stiffen at the sound of Jack’s voice

I keep walking I go past the car and up into the thick trees separating the beach froht now so I can’t see where I’one and said so, but Jack catches up quickly, takingo

"I didn’t know you were here," he says

"Oh, so you didn’t irl?"

"No offence, but we’re not even together"

"You asked irlfriend," I cry

"Yeah, and you let that pig of a friend ruin that"