Old Faces and New Places

Singing with Alex made me rethink the past days, even the pasts years. I needed to clear my head and think about my next move, do I forgive Alex? Ruffling my hair I pushed open the metal door that lead outside. I sucked in the fresh air, leaning my body against the wall a few fans must have been there because three girls approached me.

"Um hello Ashley we were wondering if we could get a picture of you and your autograph?" one of the girls asked nervously, she pushed her hair behind her ears and handed me her phone. Extending out my arm I pulled her into a hug and snapped a picture. Doing the same for the other two girls I also signed some photos they had.

"The performance you did with Alex was amazing! it must be great to work with him!" one of the other girls gushed

"Yeah its a walk in the park" I said sarcastically, the girls smiled at me sweetly as they said their goodbyes and walked away giggling.

When they were totally gone i reached into my back pocket and pulled out a pack of cigarettes. Placing it in between my lips I also took out my lighter and clicked it on. I watched as the tiny flame danced around. I ran the flame under my hand letting it heat up my palm before igniting my cigarette. Taking a drag the door to the venue opened.

"Every time you take a hit of that you shorten your life" Alex said grabbing the cigarette from my hand and crushing it on the ground. In response I put three cigarettes in my mouth and lit all of them. It was hard to juggle them in my fingers but I managed.

"You were always difficult you know that" Alex laughed, he edged closer to me. I felt his breath on my neck, before i knew what was happening he swiped the cigarettes from my mouth only leaving me with one.

"If you're going to slowly kill yourself at least don't try to speed up the process, I want you around." He caressed my arm, Alex turned around and walked back inside. Shoving myself off the wall and I followed pursuit. Opening the door someone grabbed me by the waist and pulled me into the closet.

A girl stood in front of me but I couldn't make out all her features except her short brown hair.

"Who are you and why did you pull me into the closet?" My voice was low and my breath quickened.

"Who I am doesn't matter but all you need to know is to not forgive Alex so easily. He may seem to be alright, like he wouldn't hurt you anymore but believe me when I say he would do the same thing all over again and hurt you even more." She whispered, should I believe this girl was the biggest question swirling through my head.

"how do I know that I can trust you?" My eyes trying to see if I could find a feature that would be able to help me identify who this mystery girl was.

"Because he did the same to me, well he didn't propose, but I forgave him and he stabbed me in the back again." She said anger filling her voice

"okkkaaay well im going to go" I backed out of the closet, this girl creeped me out and the sooner I was out of there the better.

I ran down the hall and when I saw Jack I threw my body into him glad that I saw a face I knew.

"Whats wrong buttercup? You look like you saw a ghost?" He asked cupping his hand around my cheek.

"You could say that" I laughed nervously as Jack and I walked down the hall to meet up with the others.

Notes

wowowowow sorry this is so short, I know this probably sucks and I apologize!

I will soon start writing longer chapters when the plot starts to get better, promise.

~sam

ashley's outfit