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Her companions are wearing brightly colored dresses, laughing and talking as they enter, but the brunette is silent. She scans the room, assessing the place and the people in it. Her smile is

that guy in the booth?" "Yes. He's been fucking Shay since we got here. I chide, "Chelsea, for God's sake, don't look at him." "Why the hell not? He's fine." She sends him a wide smile. The look he sends her back is so icy it could break a stone. With a low whistle, she turns to us. "Wow. Ten for face, zero for personality." "Maybe his dog died," says Angel. Chelsea looks at me and jokingly suggests, "Maybe you should go over there and cheer him up." "Very funny." "It wasn't a joke." "Give me one good reason why I would like to talk to that man." "Because it's my birthday and I want you to do it." She smiles and takes another sip of her drink. My heart sinks. She always smiles like that when she's about to dig in her heels. The last thing I want right now is to be on the wrong side of her stubbornness. "He does not want to talk to me." "I bet his dick does that." "If his dick has the same personality as its owner, I'm not interested." "Give it a break, girl. No one is asking you to marry him. Just go there and talk to him! "So I can be publicly humiliated when he throws his drink in my face and tells me to get lost? No thanks." "I bet you a hundred dollars he doesn't throw his drink in his face." "No." "Please?" "No." "Please?" "No." "Come on. If you don't do it for yourself, do it for me." "This is blackmail." She widens her eyes innocently. "Remind me again whose birthday it is?" When I make a sour face but don't respond, she's going to kill me. Leaning forward, she smiles. "If you go talk to that guy, I promise I'll stop calling Chet an idiot. In fact, I will never say anything mean about him again." I pause to examine her expression. She looks serious, but Chelsea is slippery. She will conveniently forget this conversation in the morning if it suits her. "Okay, you're on. But you have to record yourself saying it and send it to the group text." "Why?" "Permanent evidence. If you break the agreement, you will have to buy me, Jen and Angel new iPhones." Jen and Angel scream with laughter, but Chelsea's eyes widen in horro