Not Helping

“Hey, Cadence,” Ashley said, also sounding like a Fakey McFakerson. “Oh, Aurora, you poor thing!” she gushed, coming past Cadence into the room with her arms open. “I heard all about it. Poor dear! Elliott is such a loser!” She wrapped her arms around the redhead, and within seconds, Aurora was bawling again. Cadence stood by the door for a moment with her arms folded, thinking of all the time she’d just wasted.

Aurora was compelled to go over the entire fight again while Ashley listened and bashed Elliott every second she got. Cadence kept her mouth closed most of the time. There was one time, when Ashley called Elliott a sad SOB that she had to interject, asking her to be a little less critical of their teammate. Ashley apologized, but the next chance she got to say something negative about Elliott, it came out of her pretty little mouth, and Cadence was left wondering if she’d always felt that way about her friend or if she w