Atomic Surf
Kelley was hoping that it was going to be the girl she met when she was running. She was disappointed to find out that it was not her; it was some other attractive brunette, but not the one whom she had a date with on Friday. Kelley begins to turn around and walk back to Ashlyn when she hears somebody calling over to her.
“Hey!” The tall brunette yells.
“Hi.” Kelley responds, disappointed that she got caught walking away.
“My name is Alex, I saw you from across the room, want to dance?”
“Hey, my name is Kelley.”
The two of them started walking to the dance floor, and Ashlyn watched the whole thing happen. Ashlyn was so excited to see Kelley finally talking to the girl that she pointed out. Kelley rarely ever talked to the girls that Ashlyn found, not because Ashlyn had poor taste in women, but rather because Kelley wasn’t always into meeting random women at the bar. Tonight was clearly different, but Ashlyn didn’t know that.
The night continued, Ashlyn meet up with some friends and was dancing, Kelley bounced between Alex and her friends and Ashlyn and their friends. The night was going pretty well in Ashlyn’s eyes, she was thinking that she was being a pretty great wing-woman for Kelley, while Kelley just wanted to leave the bar without some girl coming home with her.
Around 1:45am the bartenders called for last call, and Ashlyn decided that she was going to go grab water before they started to head out. As Ashlyn started walking towards the bar she heard somebody call out her name.
“Hey, Ash!”
Ashlyn turned around, and was shocked by who she saw walking towards her.
“Hey Tobin, how have you been?” Ashlyn asked with a huge smile on her face. She was shocked to see one of her old friends from college.
“I’ve been good, how about you?”
“Been pretty busy, working and everything.”
“That must be fun? How is the shop doing? I don’t think I’ve seen you since your grand opening like 3 years ago.”
“It has been going well, actually a lot better than expected. Apparently people like having a surf shop owned by such an attractive blonde like myself.” Ashlyn said with a smirk.
Tobin couldn’t help but laugh, “Yeah, because you are so attractive…”
“Oh shut it, we all know that it’s true.”
“Whatever helps you sleep at night Ash.”
“Fine. But hey, I gotta get running, I believe that I am possibly driving Kelley home.”
“Oh sweet Kelley is here? I have to say hi.”
Ashlyn starts walking towards Kelley and the tall brunette, and Tobin isn’t very far behind.
“Hey, Kelley are you ready to head out?”
“Yeah, just give me a second; I have to find my jacket.”
Tobin replied with, “Is this? I think it’s the same one you’ve had for the past 3 years.”
Kelley is so confused as to who is making fun of her jacket, but once she sees who is holding her jacket she can’t help but to smile.
“TOBIN?! What are you doing here?”
“I was back in town, came to the bar and ran into this weirdo.” Tobin says while pointing towards Ashlyn.
“Well it’s great to see you; I can’t believe that it has been so long since I’ve last seen you. We need to catch up someday soon!”
“Yes, just let me know when.”
“Stop by the shop sometime and we can all figure it out.”
Ashlyn starts to look around, she is beginning to notice that the bar is starting to clear out and she knows that she really needs to start heading out now.
“Hey Kelley, I hate to break up this reunion between Tobin and you, but we really need to get going.”
“Wow Ash, way to be such a buzzkill” Tobin jokingly says to Ashlyn.
Without even missing a beat Kelley just laughs and starts heading towards the door.
“Bye Tobin” Both Ashlyn and Kelley say as they leave.
Kelley gets into Ashlyn’s jeep and realizes that she never introduced the tall brunette to anybody, and never said bye to her. She started to feel like the biggest asshole, but it was too late now to go back. She knew she would be gone by the time she got back, and she had no way of contacting her.
Ashlyn noticed that Kelley was deep in thought, and decide she was going to figure out why.
“Hey Kel, are you thinking about that girl from the bar?”
“Yeah, I just feel bad that I didn’t say goodbye….”
“Really Kelley, you’re upset about not saying goodbye to some random girl at the bar, I bet you will never see her again.”
“Yeah you are probably right.”
“Plus think about it, this is a good thing seeing as you have a date with the running chick, on Friday right?”
“Yeah… a date….” Kelley’s voice started to trail off.
“Is it not a date?” Ashlyn asked, with a puzzled tone to her voice.
“It’s not a date date. It’s more like we talked about how running is better with running partners, and we thought it’d be fun to be partners.”
“So you basically lied about your date? Why?”
“I have no clue, I thought it wasn’t that much of a lie, just a slight exaggeration.”
“Haha then when is this ‘date’ happening?”
“It is happening on Friday, so I didn’t exactly lie about it being Friday. It’s just happening Friday morning at 6am rather than sometime Friday night like I led you to believe.”
“Well even though you are having your weird running date thing Friday morning, I’m still going to try to ask the cute barista out for Friday night. Well maybe not Friday night, maybe Friday afternoon.”
Kelley started to laugh, “Whatever you say…”
Before Ashlyn even had to respond they pulled into Kelley’s driveway, and Kelley was already stepping out of the car.
“Thanks for the ride girl!” Kelley said as she shut the door.
Ashlyn just waved and started to back out of the driveway. Ashlyn was exhausted, she couldn’t wait to get back home and crawl into bed. She knew she only had about 4 hours of sleep until she had to wake up, and get ready for her big day.