Jason jammed his thumb over his shoulder and I followed his thumb to a group of lads seated across the pub. "Me and the lads decided to come here for a few pints before we headed out to a club. I spotted you at the bar and had to come say hey in case I never got the chance again. It's not everyday someone as gorgeous as you crosses paths with someone like me after all."

What?

Seriously, what?

"Are you jokin'?" I blurted.

Jason raised his eyebrows. "No, why?"

I shook my head. "Because you're gorgeous."

I wanted to die when a huge smile almost spilt Jason's face in two. "I'm glad you said that because I think you're gorgeous, too."

I was starting to sweat, that's how flushed I was.

Jason chuckled at me and changed the subject to more mundane things and after a while a lad from his group of friends came over and nudged him. "We're headin' off, man. You comin'?"

Jason kept his eyes locked with mine as he said, "Nah, man. I'm good here."

His friend chuckled and winked at me. "Yeah, I thought you might say that. See you tomorrow. Bye, gorgeous."

Two males called me gorgeous tonight!

Two!

"You don't have to stay here with me. I'm sure me friend will be along-"

"I want to stay here with you and I'm kind of hopin' your friend doesn't show up. I want to keep you all to myself."

Oh, my God.

As if on cue my phone rang and because I didn't have an inkling of what to say back to Jason I quickly got my phone from my bag and answered it.

"Where are you?" I asked Aideen when I answered.

"I'm leavin' in five minutes. I got stuck with runnin' night detention at the school," Aideen replied in a huff.

"Take your time, I've got company," I said making Jason grin as he drank the remainder of his pint.

"Male or female?" Aideen questioned.

"Male."

"Can he hear what you're sayin'?"

"Yes," I replied then held up one finger to Jason indicating I would be only a minute longer on the phone, he nodded and smiled at me.

"Is he hot?"

I inwardly rolled my eyes at the question but said, "Like you wouldn't believe."

Aideen screamed so loud that I pulled my phone away from my ear with a hiss. "I'm not comin', you stay with him and have fun. You hear me, Keela? Fun!"

I was mortified, the entire bloody pub could hear her.

"What do you mean you aren't comin'?"

Jason smiled and he leaned forward and brushed his finger over my exposed knee. I tensed and locked eyes with him, my breath quickened and my pulse spiked.

"Go have fun! Call me if you need me!" With that said Aideen hung up. I wanted to crawl through my phone and slap Aideen silly, Jason could be a murderer for all she knows!

I looked away from Jason and to my phone with a frown. "Me friend isn't comin'"

Jason grinned at me. "Don't worry, I'll look after you."

I smiled at his flirting and said, "How do I know you're capable to look after me?"

I gasped as the stool I was seated on was suddenly yanked towards Jason, his right hand moved to my waist and his face was a hair's breadth away from mine.

"I'm more than qualified for the job," he said then flicked his tongue over my bottom lip. "Trust me."

I did trust him and trusting that arsehole was the biggest mistake of my life. I frowned at my thoughts and Aideen noticed, she sighed and rubbed her bruised cheeked.

"I'm sorry Kay, I shouldn't have mentioned Micah or him. I forgot."

I shrugged. "Don't be sorry. I'm goin' to have to get used to hearin' his name, he is marryin' Micah after all."

Aideen scoffed. "I can't believe he used you to get back at Micah when they broke up and now they are gettin' married. I hate the fuckin' pair of them."

"I hate them too."

Aideen shook off her anger and retook her seat at the table but she shot back up when she looked at her plate. I laughed when I realised what had just happened.

"You bastard! You fat, greedy bastard!" Aideen bellowed as she searched the room for Storm.

I glanced at the table and shook my head, both mine and Aideen's plates were cleared of food and Aideen was on a mission to wring Storm's neck. He knew that as well because he was hiding from her.

"Where are you?" Aideen hollered making me burst out laughing.

Storm was a big dog, a really big dog, so the fact that he could hide in my tiny apartment cracked me up. I laughed even harder when I heard my bedroom door close. Aideen legged it from the kitchen and ran down the hallway to my bedroom door. I walked to the room after her and continued to laugh.

"I can't believe you ate our breakfast! You're a greedy fucker of a dog!" Aideen hollered to Storm who was now lying on my bed.

He raised his ears at Aideen's shouting but other than that he did absolutely nothing, and it only served to make Aideen even more furious because of it.

"I fuckin' hate him! He is literally like a man, a fat useless man."

Storm farted in response and it had Aideen and myself fleeing my room - me still in a fit of laughter and Aideen bursting with anger.

"Why do you baby him so much? He is a pathetic dog Keela, he is literally good for nothin'!"

I shrugged. "He doesn't have to have a purpose in order for me to have him, Ado."

Aideen threw her hands up in the air. "You got him as a guard dog."

I smiled. "He guards his food, that's worth somethin'... right?"

Aideen stomped into the sitting room and angrily sat on the settee. "You're unbelievable!"

I chuckled as I fell onto the chair next to her. "You still love me though... right?"

Aideen shrugged. "I'm fifty-fifty right now."

I nudged her and said, "Bitch."

Aideen snorted and relaxed into the chair. "So... last night was crazy, huh?"

Alec Slater's smug face flashed in my mind and I tensed.

"Yeah, crazy."

Aideen cleared her throat and said, "I can't believe you physically assaulted someone."

I turned my head and gaped at her. "What?"

Aideen shrugged. "You pushed Alec to the ground. He is like six foot somethin'. He's really tall, even compared to you, which is sayin' somethin' so I don't know how you managed to get him on the ground."

I held up a finger and said, "First of all, I pushed him, I didn't pound on him which doesn't count as physical assault." I popped up a second finger. "Secondly, I caught him by surprise which is why he fell so easily, he wasn't expectin' it." I stuck up a third finger. "And lastly, I did it to defend you. His misses did that to your face!"

Aideen reached up and touched her face, hissing a little before she lowered her hand. "She was an old shag of his, not his misses."

I huffed. "Same difference, she was still linked to him."

Aideen sighed. "They did help me though, Kay... Kane especially."

I groaned. "Stop it. Don't be thinkin' he is some kind of hero, the lad looks like trouble."

Aideen frowned at me. "That's very judgemental, Keela, just because he has scars means he is trouble?"

I opened my mouth but closed it.

Aideen smiled at me so I glared at her making her laugh. "I know you're just angry because I got hurt. I love you for it but there is no need to be angry at the Slater brothers for it."

I grunted. "Okay, fine, I won't be angry at them for that but I will be angry at Alec for the things he said to me."

Aideen nodded her head. "I don't blame you, he was crude and a complete dickhead."

I raised my hands. "Thank you!"

Aideen laughed then. "I can't believe how rowdy you got. I have never seen you act like that before, you're usually a little pushover."

I frowned and slumped my shoulders a little. "I am with me family because it's easier to just be quiet around them, but you got hurt and I got mad... I couldn't help it. Besides, it's not like I murdered anyone."

Aideen grinned. "You threatened it enough."

I glared at her. "Shut it."

She cackled a little making me grin. I yawned and then stretched before looking at the kitchen table. I stood up and moved into the kitchen. Aideen cleared off the table and put the dealf in the sink, she washed them then left them on the draining board to dry.

I focused to the kitchen table and began to stack up the magazines. When they were in a pile I looked at the table and stopped for a second. I picked up the envelope that Mr. Pervert dropped off last night and sighed as I turned it over and ripped it open, not caring about the contents inside.

I turned the card in my hand over when I pulled it from the envelope. I opened the pretty cover and read the first line. I dropped the card on the table and stepped back.

"Oh my God!" I said, starring down at the table.

"What?" Aideen asked as she came into the kitchen, I pointed at the card without looking away from it.

She moved around the table, picked up the card and read it. "No fuckin' way!"

I nodded my head.

"They invited you to their weddin'? The evil fuckin' bastards!" Aideen growled.

I felt a little dizzy so I pulled out a chair from my kitchen table and sat down before I leaned my head forward and placed it on the table and let the tears come. "Why would they do this to me?"

"Because they are evil, pure fuckin' evil!"

I cried hard when Aideen began to read out loud the wedding invitation to Micah's and Jason's wedding. She stopped midway, ripped the invite up, got her lighter from her purse and lit it on fire. I sat up straight and stared at her when she walked to the sink, dropped the burning innovation into the sink then poured water on it. The fire alarm went off from the smoke so Aideen stood up on a chair, pulled the battery out of the alarm on the ceiling then got down and opened the windows in the apartment to air it out.

I didn't move as she did all this, I could only sit there and cry.

"I still can't believe I didn't recognise Jason, I'm so stupid. When he pulled me at the pub last year I thought he really liked me. He was with me for six weeks just to get back at Micah for cheatin' on him. That bastard made me fall for him and he knew it!"

Aideen moved in front of me and kneeled down. "You had never seen Jason in person, you don't go round to Micah's house at all. The most you had seen is pictures of him on Facebook. He dyed his hair black and hit the gym since his school year ended. He isn't the same person that's on his profile picture, he looks very different so this is not your fault. He played you, that fucker took your virginity for fuck's sake!"

I sobbed as I leaned forward and wrapped my arms around Aideen and squeezed.

"We will just pretend you never got that invite, okay? We're here all day, I can arrange all my course work for the students who are attending summer school this year and you can write some more of your book. What do you say?"

I groaned and pulled back from our hug. "I can't even think about writin' at the moment. I just want to go to bed and not get up ever again."

When Aideen slapped me across the face, it me took a few seconds for the pain and realisation of what she did to hit me. "What was that for?" I snapped and lifted my hand to my now throbbing cheek.

"For gettin' yourself into a slump over a prick who does not deserve it!" Aideen stated.

I frowned and continued to rub my cheek as I said, "Sorry."

"Don't be sorry, not for anythin'. Okay?"