“I’m sorry, do I know you?”

“No.  I’m a friend of Ashley’s.”

“Oh okay,” I said simply, feeling a little freaked out. 

“I was just wondering…,” Madison started, but trailed off, looking thoughtful as she gave me a once over.

“Wondering?”

“I was just wondering what she sees in you,” Madison said this with another smile, so sweet that I was having a hard time deciphering between her angelic voice and the meaning of her words.  Actually, since she just start having a conversation with me apropos to me saying anything, I didn’t know who she was talking about.  I looked at her confused, and was about to ask her what she was talking about, when Kyla walked over.

“Oh, cut the shit Madison.”

I looked up and Kyla was hovering over us, sucking on the straw of a very tall blended drink.  Madison rolled her eyes but stood up and brushed pass Kyla, but before she got lost in the crowd again, she turned back and waved.

“Nice meeting you Spencer,” the sarcasm very apparent in her voice this time.

I turned back to look up at Kyla but she was already sitting in the chair.  “Oh don’t mind Madison.  She’s actually a sweet girl, once you get to know her.  We known her for years…since we were young.”

“What’s her problem?  She just plopped her ass down and started talking to me.”

Kyla laughed.  “She has a little school girl crush on Ashley.  But Ash, just sees her as a sister.  A hot sister, I’ll admit, but a sister nonetheless.  Every time Ashley breaks it off with someone, Madison always thinks it’s her chance but,” Kyla took a long slurp of her drink and by the way she cringed, I could tell it was more liquor than anything else in that cup, “It never is,” she coughed out.

I nodded and then laughed when Kyla slapped her hand on her forehead, the expected brain freeze coming in.

“So I hear you’ve made quite the impression on my sister.”

“Have I?” I asked, my face skeptical.

“You don’t know?”

“I don’t.  She doesn’t act like it sometimes.”

Kyla nodded as if she had heard this before.  “Just give her some time.  She’s actually scared shitless of hurting you.”