another backdated thread :D Who: Ashleigh and Ed What: fighting! angst! woe! Where: outside Ed's apartment When: Sept 25, 2005, evening, sometime after this Rating: PG-13? Probably some bad words. :| Open or Closed: Closed!
Smelling that guy on Ashleigh had been like a kick to the gut. Ed has been giving her time. He'd been taking her out when she'd allow it, he'd not been pushing her. Things had started to get pretty physical a few times, but she always stopped him and.. he'd respected that. He'd tried so hard not to push for more than she was ready for while working to prove that this was more than just some passing fancy of his. He even thought he was starting to get somewhere with her.
Until she slept with someone else. Ed honestly didn't care how or why it had happened. The only girl he'd ever loved had slept with someone else while they were supposed to be trying to work things out. He was unbelievably hurt by that and a little bit angry, too.
When Jeremy followed him out of the girls' dorm, it didn't take long for Ed to explain and it took even less time for Jeremy to suggest they go get a drink. Nevermind that they were both underage. There were plenty of bars in town they could get served at.
Several hours later, Jeremy had left him and Ed was drunkenly wandering up his own street. He'd been near home for a while, now, but he hadn't quite made up his mind to go the rest of the way yet. Drunk dialing Ashleigh or finding someone he could sleep with, just to get back at her, also sounded like appealing options. He knew his own best friend would definitely support the latter course of action, but a part of him couldn't bring himself to actually do it.
All those thoughts fled his mind, anyway, when he finally approached the outside of his building and found Ashleigh sitting there on the steps, apparently waiting for him.
"You shouldn't be out here so late," he slurred. "'s not safe.."