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“Hey, Veronica!” I called her, basically shouting.

She excitedly turned to me and smiled.

A weak, drunken smile.

“Kendra!” My name reverberated throughout the place. She ran down the steps she had come up and threw herself into my arms. “Thank you for insisting that I come to the party. “

I looked at her carefully.

“You’re welcome…?” I whispered . “But I think it's time to go, don't you?”

She walked away from me and faced the two guys she was with: a blonde and a brunette.

“I was just going to smoke a joint with them…” Her answer was calm, but it was clear that it was a lie. If she could believethat two guys just wanted to smoke a joint with her in a closed room, she was definitely dumber than I imagined.

“Maybe another day, hm?!” Troian suggested kindly and patiently.

“You've already danced.” I started to point out, tucking her hair behind her ear. “You've had a lot to drink, you've even kissed two guys. How about we go back to the dorm?”

Veronica was paying full attention to me. Her eyes on mine were intense and there was something there that made me question my self-control.

“We have training tomorrow morning, anyway!” Sid added.

Veronica faced the two guys who, impressively, were still waiting for her on the first steps of the stairs.

“She can sleep here.” One of them suggested. “We’ll take good care of her.”

I smiled, cynically.

“The day I start believing that something good can come out of having a man alone with a drunk woman, I'll let you know.” I spit.

I might not be Veronica's best friend and I probably still felt some kind of resentment towards her for everything we had already been through, but I was a conscious person. I would never let her go up to that room with two strangers.

“Kendra!” She caught my attention.

“What? I just said the truth.” I replied dryly.

“Ok…” Veronica analyzed us all, before asking: “Where's Jazmine?”

I looked around, finding Jaz talking to the boy she was kissing a few moments ago. I pointed the finger at her.

“Right there! We'll pick her up to leave too.”

Veronica seemed a little out of sorts for a moment, but nodded.

“We'd better go.”

“Hey, are you sure, kitten?” One of the guys insisted and she confirmed.

They both seemed mad, but couldn’t care less to their ego hurt, they left us alone and went up, although a little reluctant.

“We’ll be back to the dorms in no time...” I grumbled and started walking towards the door, Jazmine captured us with her eyes and nodded. I didn't need to say anything, because she seemed to be able to understand me just by looking at me.

We left the house and Veronica almost fell on the front steps.

“I'm going to take off my heels...” She grumbled and ripped the shoes off her own feet. The clock on my wrist showed 1:30 am, it was late for us who had to wake up at 7 am, but at least we were already heading to bed.

Somewhere along the way, Veronica hooked her arm on mine and continued the whole way like that. She seemed a little hazy. Distant. I tried not to be bothered by our close contact, but the truth was that her perfume was mixed with a strong smell of alcohol and cheap cologne, which probably came from the two guys she was rubbing against, and that pissed me off a little.