Ashley was still talking but Madison tuned her out. She didn’t really want to hear what else Ashley had to say. There was too much hurt and anger between all of them.

 Besides from the amount of pills she’d found in her guitar case Ashley had a serious problem.

Again.

 Idly she wondered why she couldn’t just let Ashley destroy herself, if that happened her life would be much easier without the daunting cloud that was Ashley Davies hanging over her.

 She flicked a glance in the rearview mirror and found that Ashley had stopped talking. She turned her gaze to Spencer who was looking straight ahead, apparently ignoring Ashley.

 Which of course Ashley deserved what with saying she hated them. Hate being such a…strong word. Dislike, sure. Acute dislike even better.

 But hate?

 They’d done a lot of stuff together but not enough to garner the dreaded and over used H word.

 But then again Ashley wasn’t in her right mind.

 When she’d had Dr. Martin Dashell look Ashley over he’d assured her except for a slightly accelerated heart rate and her apparent weight loss she was good to go, at least for this trip.

 He’d made the arrangements with The Meadows with Christine’s help.

 Madison hadn’t really known what she was doing as she’d made these plans. Pulling up and seeing Ashley in person for the first time in years had not been…good.

 Ashley looked like hell, her clothes hanging off of her and her once vibrant eyes were dull and blank. Whether it was the drugs or something else she wasn’t sure.

 She hadn’t been tempted not to help out Ashley when she’d called, which had surprised her. She had always imagined that if Ashley called she would totally ignore her, just blow her off as Ashley had done on more than one occasion.

 Calling Spencer had been the next logical step. She couldn’t have done this without the blonde and knew Spencer would have been hurt and angry if she hadn’t told her about Ashley.

 The tension in the car was starting to get to her.

 She’d felt this tension before.

 All kinds of emotions most of them bad just crowding the air so much so that she actually rolled her window down.