Sitting outside of Super-brew coffee shop, Jade waited patiently as Veronica slowly walked up to her.
“You wanted to see me.” Veronica asked, arms folded.
“Yea.” Jade said while standing up. “I just wanted to let you know I’ll sorry for how I acted a month ago. I was having a problem, and it wasn’t in my place to take it out on you. I’m sorry.”
“Apology accepted.” Veronica said.
“I also came to ask you to please give me and Dex some space. We are going to try to work through some problems and I feel it would be easier if there weren’t that many outside distractions.”
“Oh, are you guys getting back together.” Veronica asked as she let out a chuckle.
“I was planning on it, why?”
“No reason,” Veronica said as she turned around. “He just didn’t mention it to me when he had his tongue down my throat.”
A bright flash of red filled Jades mind.
“He what?!” She screamed.
“I’m guessing he hadn’t told you yet. Gosh, maybe you guys do need to talk.”
Veronica began to walk off, her heels clicking under her feet. Leaving Jade to stand there, breathless. She knew this was a problem that needed to be handled between Dex and herself, but screw it all if Veronica thought she was going to get out of all of this unscathed. So while pulling Veronica’s shoulder to turn her around, Jade slammed her fist into her face. Jade wanted it to stop there, but Veronica recovered quickly and swung back. Catch Jade in her right shoulder. Feeling the pain mix in with the adrenaline, Jade yanked Veronica by her hair, punched her in the stomach, and then tripped her. Jade had brothers; the first thing she learned how to do was defend herself. Noticing the confrontation between the two girls, a passing by pedestrian pulled Jade off of Veronica, allowing the girl to get one free lick in before somebody grabbed her as well.
“Stay away from Dex.” Jade screamed. Her lip was busted. Her shoulder was bruised, and she felt like she scrapped her leg. But at least she was doing better than Veronica. Veronica didn’t say anything, a byproduct from the blow to the face. She instead muttered fiercely.
Jade didn’t feel any better about herself. Yeah she managed to shut Veronica up, literally, but it wasn’t really worth what was sure to follow. A ticket for fighting. Suspension from school. Grounded by her parents. All in all, she should have just walked away. But Veronica had made that extremely difficult, almost impossible. But as she sat in the back of the police car, she realized she wasn’t really swinging at Veronica. She was swinging at Dex.