”I got her number! Can’t wait to call that one. I think she actually might not be crazy like the other girls I usually meet in the streets,” said Nicky with a smile and a roll of her eyes.

Alex was happy for her friend but suddenly felt the burn of disappointment again.

”Yo wait where’s Piper? Last time I saw you two were so close I couldn’t tell who was who…” Nicky said poking her friend in the side jokingly.

”She had to go back to work, can we leave now?”

Nicky knew her best friend more than that. She’d been out with Alex a hundred times and never saw the connection Alex had with Piper before. Every other time they went out together it ended with Alex running up to Nicky telling her to find her own way home and that she’d text her tomorrow. Nicky always knew what that meant; she was leaving with some beautiful stranger she had just met. So when Nicky caught on that something happened between them tonight she had to figure out what it was.

”Vause, what happened?” as they walked out the front door of the bar.

Alex didn’t want to jump in a cab. She wanted to walk and clear her head with her best friend and enjoy the cool breeze of the early morning air.

Nicky hurriedly tried to catch up to her best friend to get the story.

”It’s nothing, can we just walk and not talk?” Alex said, pleading her friend.

”Alex!”

’There’s that familiar voice again,’ Alex thought. She hated it in that moment but it made her smile, her name coming from that perfect voice.

”Alex!” again, as Piper ran up behind the two women now stopped on the sidewalk.

Alex turned to see Piper standing right behind her, breathing heavily from her sprint.

”Piper seriously, let it go!” Alex scoffed and turned to keep walking down the sidewalk. She hated being so mean to someone she just met but she felt that the harshness was needed. She definitely felt something for this stranger but she was not about to get caught up in the drama.

Nicky, seeing the tension between the two, walked over to the nearest bench, sat down and lit a cigarette. Something that seemed to be a bit of a theme for this crazy night.