Chasing Leah (Journey #1)

And she hadn’t changed much in the year and a half since I had broken it off. She was a little shorter than me with long blonde hair and a rack that I know for a fact is fake. She looked like a typical blonde Barbie and had pretty much the brains to match but we had some fun together and she really was a nice girl, just not the right one for me.

“Oh you know Chase, not the same since you broke things off.” Ah the guilt trip even Ashley knew how to play those. She sits down in the seat across from me, plopping down her overly looking expensive purse that I’m sure her daddy bought for her.

“So Chase like I said fate intervened today. I so need a favor from you, please?” She pouts out her pink puffy lips at me. Why do girls think that’s sexy? And what will I be getting myself into if I do any kind of favor for her?

“Remember how you ditched me that one night because something came up with your family? I was totally looking hot all dressed up and then you called me last minute to cancel?” I crook my head at her. Of course I do one of my little sisters, Sarah, had been rushed to the emergency room after falling off a balancing beam at one of her gymnastic things and cracked her head open. Even after explaining the situation Ashley had bitched at me for like a week about standing her up. I ended things with her pretty quickly after that. Not that the situation mattered apparently. I just nod my head at her bracing for what she’s about to ask.

“Well there’s a party tomorrow night and my date cancelled at last minute. Will you pretty please take me?” And now she’s resorted to her little girl voice that I just love. Great. And she’s probably talking about the same party that I was already planning on going to so I know I’ll run into her there.

“Um I don’t know Ash. I have a thing before that so I was gonna get there late and….” She cuts me off with a wave of her perfectly polished nails. “Not a problem Chase. We could meet up, I totally don’t mind being late.” Yeah I know that for a fact, she was never on time for anything with all of the time it took her to get ready.

“Well…..” I try to come up with some kind of excuse without hurting her feelings. Ashley might come off as an uppity bitch sometimes but she can be really sensitive. And I did kind of destroy her when I broke things off. Apparently she thought we were going to get married and have babies together after only being together for about two months.

“Please Chase?” she begs. “You kind of owe me, it took me like a month to get over you and seeing you today totally means you owe me.”

I huff out a breath at this. Of course she’s going to pull that card. “Fine Ashley. Me and the guys are going to be at Kilroys, do you want to meet up there?”

“Ah perfect Chase!” She stands up and plants a kiss on my cheek and I inhale a nosefull of her overpowering perfume. “I’ll meet you there, I can’t wait! Gotta get to class, I’ll see you then.”

Oh great I can’t believe I just agreed to that and who knows how Leah will be when she sees me with a date. Maybe she’ll want to confess her undying love for me when she sees me with Ashley. Nope not Leah, a smirk creeping up on my face as I picture her in my head.





Chapter 13


Leah

I finished up my shift on Thursday around 4:00 and Remy offered to drop me off at home. She was heading over to catch Mark and the bands performance at the same place I had seen them perform and then she was going to meet up with me at the party. My phone rang and I grabbed it out of my purse as Remy drove towards my complex.

“Hey Al,” I answer. “Yup, uh huh, ok, ok, fine Ally. We’ll see, I have final say. NO MATTER WHAT!” I add forcefully. “’Kay see ya in a minute.” I hang up the phone and look over at Remy who has a confused look on her face. “What was that about?”

I huff out a breath, “Uhh Ally! I told her that I was not dressing up, I really don’t want to go as a naughty nurse or a school girl. But she insists on at least picking out my outfit. We’ll see about that one.”

Remy giggles at me as she pulls up to the curb to drop me off, “Oh Leah it’s just a onetime thing every year, a little dressing up won’t hurt you. Besides you don’t wanna make me look like a total slut all by myself with what I have planned to wear for Mark tonight,” she says with a sly grin.

“Trust me Remy there will be lots of other sluts around. But you have too much class for that, Mark will still wanna do you by the end of the night.” I scoop my purse up off the floor and open the door. “Thanks for the ride Rem, see you tonight.”

“Bye Leah, take it easy on Ally you know how she loves to use you as her own personal dress up doll. And you know she always makes you look even hotter than you already are. She doesn’t try and put you in any of that crazy shit she wears,” she says with a smirk.

I wave over my shoulder, “I know. Bye Rem.” And jog up the stairs to see what Ally has in store for me.

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