Adrienne
By:
Savannah Gibson
Ashley Angel sighed as heaved the phone over his head and sent it smashing,
noisily into the wall across the room. " When will she ever learn!?"
he yelled, running a hand through his hair, and looking at his best friend Erik
Estrada. " She thinks she can just play me like some fool. I've given her
everything that I have, and she thinks its not enough. God. What is her
problem!?"
" I
don't know man. It sounds like she's got a major case of bitch- itis."
Erik said shaking his head, as his hand reentered the bag of Doritos in his
lap. " So was it true that she was messing around with that Smith
guy?" Erik asked turning around in his position on the sofa.
" She didn't deny it, that's for sure. She
didn't admit that they were together the whole time we were, but she said that
she'd kissed him. I felt like asking her if she was thinking of me, but I bit
my tongue." Ashley said flopping down on the sofa beside Erik and shoved a
handful of broken chips into his mouth.
"
Damn!" he yelled outloud. The more Ashley thought about his now
ex-girlfriend Adrienne Farris the angrier he got. He grabbed the television
remote control from the coffee table in front of him and threw it as hard as he
could into the wall, and it fell, broken beside the mangled phone. Just then a
knock came at the door.
Ashley sighed as he walked towards it, figuring it
was Adrienne, coming over to the apartment to beg him for forgiveness. A
routine that unfortunately Ashley knew all to well. She would cry and tell him
she was wrong and loved him, and then his soft heart and her stunning looks
would convince him to take her back and the process would start all over again.
Ashley shook the thought out of his head as he pulled open the door.
In the hall stood a short young woman, about his
age, with a confused look on her face. " Can I help you?" Ashley
asked, his voice matching the confusion stamped across her face.
" Actually I just moved in across the hall,
and I heard some loud noises coming from over here and I just was checking to
make sure everything was alright." the girl said. " By the way, I'm
Jodie. Jodie Bishop." she finished, outstretching her hand, to shake his.
" I'm Ashley Angel... the noise you say? Long
story." Ashley managed a smile. Something about this girl's presence was
astounding. " Come in... I'll make some coffee or something..." he
offered, stepping aside so that Jodie could enter the apartment. Erik
immediately turned around, and waved at the girl who was now in their presence,
but soon returned to his normal position.
" Do you want something to drink or eat or
anything. I feel it's only polite to offer." Ashley asked, opening the
refridgerator and taking out a can of soda. Jodie smiled faintly and looked
around the room, not speaking. " Have a seat, please." he said to
her, pulling out a chair from the messy kitchen table. He handed her a can of
soda.
" Thanks." she said sitting down across
from him. " Who's your friend in there?" Jodie continued to ask,
pointing into the living room area.
" Oh
thats Erik. Don't mind him...he's a little out there." Ashley told her,
pointing out that the television screen was blank and Erik was laughing at it
hystarically as though a show was actually on. Jodie cracked a smile. " So
what brings you to New York City?" he asked her.
"
Broadway. I've always dreamed about it. How bout you? Have you lived here
forever?" Jodie asked in return. She pushed a strand of her blonde hair,
which was falling from her ponytail, out of her eyes.
" Nah.
I moved here a couple years ago. I'm from California originally....so you wanna
see your name in lights?" Ashley smiled, as he watched her speak.
" Yeah. I mean I think it would be so
glamorous. I just love it, I've seen it but I want to be it you know? I'm just
stupid I guess." she said blushing, as she noticed him watching her.
" Well I better go, I still have a lot of unpacking to do. It was nice
meeting you Ashley. Bye...uh Erik or whatever!" Jodie said getting up
suddenly and walking out the door and into her own apartment. Ashley shrugged
as he walked back over to where Erik was seated, and had successfully peiced
together the remote, and sat watching TRL on Mtv.
The next
day, Ashley was feeling much better about the previous day's events. "
Adrienne, I thought I knew you, once again you used me..." he hummed the
first thing that came to his head. He quickly shook the thought out of his
head, and fixed himself a quick bite to eat. He was planning on asking Jodie if
she needed any help with her things, seeing as she was living by herself. He
opened the door to find Adrienne standing there, her hand had been getting
ready to knock on his apartment door.
" What
do you want?" Ashley asked, already knowing why she was there. He stood
leaning his muscular body against the frame of the door.
" Can I come in?" she asked him, in a
not-so-pleasant tone.
"
No." he replied sternly, not budging from his position.
" I
just wanted to say that I am sorry for my behavior, and I understand if you
hate me." Adrienne said, expecting him automatically to forgive her.
" Good, now you finally understand my
feelings." he said coldly, shutting the door behind him and crossing the
hallway, just as Jodie, as if planned, opened her apartment door.
" Hey Ashley." she said friendly, in a
much better mood than she'd been in the day before.
" Hey Jodie wassup?" he asked her, eying
Adrienne out of the corner of his eye.
" Nothing. I was getting ready to head to
Mickey D's. Wanna join me?" Jodie asked noticing the pleading expression
stamped across his face.
" Yeah sure." Ashley replied without even
looking at Adrienne. He then followed Jodie downstairs and out the front doors
of the apartment complex. " Thanks so much." he said to her.
" No problem. You looked as though you were
about the throw up so I figured what the heck, I'd save the janitor from a
carpet to clean." she told him laughing slightly. " Who was that?
Your stalker?" she asked him.
" No why do you say that?" he asked her
curiously. " She was standing outside your apartment last night. I thought
she'd knock or something, but she just stood there and then ended up leaving. I
was watching through the peep hole in my door." Jodie said blushing, as
they walked in the direction of the McDonalds Restaurant on the corner.
"
She's my ex girlfriend, Adrienne. She's the biggest bitch that you've probably
ever met." Ashley replied. " She broke up with me again, and that was
the final straw. I'm not putting up with anymore of her shit."
" What
was she at your place for, not that it's any of my business." Jodie asked.
" She was trying to get me to forgive her and take her back. I thought it
was pretty hilarious actually, because she was giving me this whole 'I
understand if you hate me' speach and I just told her that I was glad that she
finally understood my feelings." he said. Jodie laughed lightly, at his
comment.
" Sounds like she's got one of those
bigger-than-life ego's right?" she suggested, and Ashley just smiled a
nodded in response.
" I was going to go over to your place and
offer to help you, but from what I saw it looked like you've got everything
pretty much settled." Ashley said.
" Yeah, but you could still come over. We
could rent a movie or something. It could be fun." Jodie said smiling, as
she tucked a peice of her blonde hair behind her ear, and kept walking. Ashley
watched her shy actions, and walked beside her, watching her.
" That
would be great." he said.
" Really?" she questioned, looking as if
it was a shocking answer.
"
Yeah, like you said. It could be fun." Ashley said.
" So it's a date then..." she replied
smiling at him, as they entered the restaurant. Ashley only nodded. A date?
Wow...with someone other than Adrienne.
That night at seven o'clock, Ashley stood in his
bedroom. " Green shirt? Grey shirt?" he asked Erik, who was sitting
on the bed. He held each one up to himself. Erik just sat there with a puzzled
look on his face, which was normal for him. " Oh your no help."
Ashley said, putting on the grey shirt and running a hand through his hair.
He looked in the mirror and dabbed on a bit of PS
cologne. This was Ashley's first date with someone other than Adrienne in
nearly a year. He walked to the front door of his apartment with Erik, and
locked it behind them. But to his suprise, Adrienne was standing outside his
door once again.
" Go away Adrienne. Ashley has a date."
Erik said walking past her shoving her lightly as he moved. Adrienne's mouth
just gaped open as she watched Ashley knock on Jodie's apartment door and step
inside, after she answered. He waved sarcastically as Jodie shut the door
behind him. In a cloud of furry, Adrienne stormed out of the complex.
" She is starting to scare me." Jodie
said. " She stands out there all the time. Is she insane or what?"
she asked Ashley, as she took his jacket and hung it in the closet.
" I
don't know if she thinks I'm going to take her back or what, but she's wrong
whatever she's thinking." Ashley said, as he followed her to the sofa.
" So what movie did you get?" he asked her sitting down, beside her.
" Lord of the Rings. It just came out. I know
its long, but I figured if you didn't want to watch the rest tonight, we could
always finish it another time." she replied, hitting the play button on
the remote to the VCR, and then fast forwarding through the previews. The two
of them sat there and watching the whole three-hour movie. It was eleven
o'clock before Ashley left Jodie's apartment, after ordering pizza.
" I had a great time." he said to her as
he took his jacket. " Why did I bring this? I live across the hall."
he said laughing, feeling incredibly stupid.
" Its alright. You probably just weren't used
to going on a date across the hall." Jodie smiled at him as she replied.
" Yeah...anyways I was thinking maybe tomorrow
we could go out for dinner if you aren't busy that is, and you want to."
Ashley suggested.
" Let me think....yeah." she said
pretending to have a hard desicion. " Same time?" she asked him. He
nodded and walked out the door and crossed the hall to his apartment, before
waving at her and shutting his door. One date down. One to go, but it wasn't
too hard. It was actually fun, he thought.
The following day, Ashley stood in his apartment
once again, this time with the help of his friend Marie, trying to decide on
what to wear. " Well where are you taking her?" Marie asked him
inquisitively.
" This italian restaraunt on 5th Street."
Ashley said.
" Fancy?" Marie asked, and Ashley nodded.
" Dress shirt...blue. Dress pants...khaki. Black loafers. And where that
expensive cologne that your mom got you for Christmas." 21 year old Marie
said. She was in town for the weekend, to visit her friend who was living in
NYC.
"
Okay." Ashley said, grabbing the clothes and heading for the bathroom. A
few minutes later he emerged, fully ready to go. " Tie?" he asked.
Marie nodded and helped him tie it.
" Perfect. Now go get her. I'll just stay here
in case that creepy girl comes around." Marie said after hearing all about
Adrienne.
" Alright. Behave." he said, as he
grabbed his apartment keys and walked out the door. Jodie was ready as soon as
he knocked on her door. She was dressed in a long black dress, with sphaghetti
straps and a scrunched tie-front.
" You look beautiful." was all that
Ashley could say as she locked the door and headed to hail a cab with him.
" Thanks. You don't look half-bad
yourself." Jodie replied, blushing slightly at the compliment. Soon the
two were on their way to the quaint little Italian restaruant. When they got
there, the waiter showed them to their table quickly and the other waiter took
their order.
" This
place is nice." Jodie said smiling, as she sipped her wine.
" I love it." he said. Just then he
spotted a familiar face out of the corner of his eye. Adrienne. " She followed me to the
restaraunt." Ashley said angrily, yet a softly as he could.
" Who?" Jodie asked. Ashley nodded his
head in Adrienne's direction but to his suprise she was with another man.
" Oh nevermind then." Ashley said
smiling. It was Erik.
" Isn't that your friend?" Jodie asked.
Ashley just smiled and nodded. Then all of sudden, from the table behind them,
raised voices were heard loudly.
" NO ADRIENNE. I'M SICK OF YOUR SHIT. YOU LIE
TO EVERYONE. WE ARE OFFICIALLY THROUGH. JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS, ADRIENNE FARRIS
IS THE MOST CONCEITED BITCH IN ALL OF NEW YORK." Erik said standing up and
walking out of the restaraunt, throwing his napkin down.
Adrienne stood there looking bewildered as everyone
laughed around them including Jodie and Ashley. She quickly ran out of the
restaraunt in tears. " Guess Adrienne got what she deserved." Ashley
said.
" Did
you plan that?" Jodie asked.
" Nope...Erik did." he said laughing, as
the waiter brought their meals.
The End
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Savannah what you thought of this
story!
Some plot ideas credited to The Calling, and Reagan
R. Copyright © 2002 PrincessAna Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author's Note: This story is completely a work of
fiction, created by me and with a few name ideas from my friends Rissa, and
Reagan. Please DO NOT copy my story, because that is a very indecent thing to
do to another writer. The characters came out of my head so please do not use
them on your stories. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to
email them to me at Sphinx218721@hotmail.com...oh any I DO NOT OWN OTOWN
Cast
of Characters:
Adrienne
Farris: (Looks based on singer Ashanti): Adrienne stands
about 5'6", with long dark hair and brown eyes rimmed with a light green
tone. She has light brown, more caramel colored skin.
Ashley Angel: Ashley
stands at 6'0", with short blonde hair, and a medium complexion. Ashley's
eyes are a hit attraction, sparkling a brilliant blue color.
Jodie Bishop: (Looks based on actress
Reese Witherspoon): Jodie stands about 5'3", with medium length cropped
blonde hair, and green eyes.
Erik
Estrada: Erik stands at 5'10", with brown hair and
creamy brown eyes.