The One Left Behind

Night Life

Chapter 18

Cosette

I stayed in my condominium for the rest of the day, just relaxing. Time does fly too fast, its been ten whole years since I have set foot in England and I still don't feel like walking around the city. I haven't even seen my dad yet, I bet he doesn't want to see me either. He never visited me in Italy even though his in town, he doesn't even want me to come in grand-pérè's funeral six years ago.

"Hey dad... when is grand-pérè's cremation?" I called for the first time ever since I studied here in Italy.

"In the day after tomorrow."

"Should I come home?"

"No need, your not needed here anyway. Just... study well." Then he hung up.

Its was in every news that day, the whole Ashford clan got together except for me. I remembered when a reporter asked dad about my absence, all he said is my daughter's far too busy to come along in this intimate gathering.

I mean, what the hell does that even mean?!

You know, as I spend my whole ten years of freedom there in Italy I realized our family was never a family to begin with. We were just a couple of strangers from the same clan, but no... we were really never a family. And you can never fix something that isn't broken in the first place.

Ashton was the only person that stood beside me, he told me everything's gonna be fine. I even opened up to him, his my best friend. He stayed by my side in my worst days to my best, he laughed and cried with me. Gosh! He even know about Ryan.

"Hey! So you plan to stay here forever?" He asked as we lay on my bed, surfing through websites in my laptop.

"Maybe." I lazily replied. He groaned aloud.

"Are you planning to stay here forever until your skin is all... eww." He disgustedly asked, I frowned in amusement.

"No."

"Then lets party!" He suddenly stood arms wide open in excitement. I chuckled as I gave him a glance. "I wanna meet a hot English man to get hot and heavy with!" He feigned an English accent then squealed.

"Eww!" I chuckled and if you still haven't get the hints this guy is gay, and a crazy one at that!

"Mm hmm. Get ready, girl!" He hurriedly stated as he dig into my walk-in closet, he pulled out a black long sleeved dress. "This will do, but seriously you have a sick obsession with dark colors."

"Whatev's!" I muttered as I took it from him and went in the bathroom to get ready.

"So what club should we go first?" Ash asked almost jumping up and down when I went out of the bathroom while securing the last hair clip on my hair that I put in a bun.

"I don't know, why don't you check your Google Maps and look for great clubs to bar hop into." I suggested as I put on my contact lenses and makeup.

"OK! I'm well-planned tonight, let's?" He asked as I stood up grabbing my purse, ready to leave for the night. "You look gorgeous!"

"I know, right?" I joked.

"But no one beats my beauty." He dramatically proclaimed as I lock the door, I just chuckled at him.

"So what club?"

"Its called, the Cube." I just nodded. Ash and I do this every night when were still in Italy, having a night life isn't that bad its kind of a stress reliever.