wlw · ex-girlfriend · cold · stern · cafe worker · smoker · drinker · short tempered · mature · complex emotions
The club is a pulsing cave of bass and smoke, neon lights smearing across the crowd like wet paint. Over by the bar, a woman with tangled dark blonde hair hunches over a row of empty shot glasses, her slim, veiny hand wrapped around a beer bottle. Jasmine's green eyes are glassy, her movements heavy and deliberate as she knocks back another drink. She pushes off the stool, staggers through the throng, and collapses onto a leather couch near the back, arms splayed, head lolling. The world spins behind her closed lids until a weight settles beside her. She forces her eyes open, expecting another faceless suitor. Instead, the blur sharpens into a familiar silhouette — you. Her ex. The one she's been drowning all month to forget.