Always Remember

sympathetically. He shrugs.
    “Fuckin ’ girls,” he complains, dropping back to the grass himself.
    “Do you think Heidi will come here?” I direct the question to Lexy.
    She shrugs one shoulder. “I don’t know. Saph thought she might. I don’t know what she’d come here for, though. She hasn’t spoken to you in a week.”
    “Does she know that her little plan didn ’t work?”
    “No idea. Saph didn’t mention it, and neither of us thought to ask. Funnily enough, we were preoccupied with the news of her leaving.”
    “Why is she leaving?” Alec asks.
    “She lost her job, thought she could live off Daddy, and he refused. She has to move back in with him and her mum,” Jen explains.
    “And Saph knows this how?”
    “One of Saph’s guy friends was pretending to seduce her and he was at Heidi’s when she spoke to her Dad.” Lexy pauses. “She’s kind of… influential.”
    “She paid this guy?” Alec ’s eyebrows raise.
    I shake my head. “ Saph wouldn’t have paid anyone. She’s… Shit. Well, she’s a bit of a tease. She’ll promise him something and not deliver, but she always gets what she wants. If you’re male, you’re capable of being wrapped around her little finger.”
    “The only person resistant to her charms is sitting right in front of us,” Lexy says dryly.
    I smirk, resting my head against Jen’s. “I’m only into blondes.”
    “You ’re only into one blonde,” she says.
    “I ’m only into one blonde,” I correct myself. I feel her nod her head.
    “Sam?” Mum shouts from the back door.
    “Mm?” I look up.
    “Heidi ’s at the door asking for you.”
    Jen scrambles up and storms across the garden, followed by Lexy, before me and Alec even think about moving. We stare at each other for a second.
    “Shit,” Alec mutters.
    “Fuck shit asshole is more like it,” I respond, jogging across the garden and into the house. We pass through the kitchen and into the hallway.
    “No.” Jen shakes her head. “I don’t care if you’re here to see Sam, you can go and fuck yourself with a teaspoon for all I care. You’re not welcome anywhere on this property.”
    “It ’s not your house,” Heidi argues.
    “No, but its mine,” Lexy interjects. “You have five seconds to explain why you ’re standing on my doorstep before I let Jen remove you.”
    Judging by her clenched fists, Jen would love to remove Heidi.
    From more than this house.
    “I want to see Bing.”
    “Sam,” I correct her, leaning against the railing. “My name is Sam. Don’t forget that, Heidi.”
    “Noble. You dropped your nickname.” Her voice is sweet despite the sneer on her face. “I was just bringing you a few things from our time-”
    “Really? You have used condoms?” Jen puts a hand on her hip. “There’s a bin at the end of the drive. In fact, while you’re dropping them in there, just climb in yourself. That’s where trash belongs, after all.”
    Heidi sighs raggedly. “Perhaps you should see them, Jen. There ’s a few dated pictures here.”
    “Go on then, I ’ll humour you,” Jen says dryly.
    Heidi delves inside her bag and pulls out a few pictures, handing them to Jen. Jen snatches them and flicks through them. She reorganises them neatly, puts her hands at the top, and tears straight through the stack. Lexy and Heidi watch with their mouths open, and me and Alec both have to hold in our laughter. Lexy’s mouth closes and twitches into a grin.
    “I guess that ’s what Jen thinks of that,” Lexy states.
    Jen rips through the pictures again. “Unless I ’m mistaken, five seconds was up a while ago.” She slaps Heidi in the chest with the ripped images. “Nice try. Don’t try art on an art student, sweetheart, because any art student worth their shit can see those dates have been photoshopped on. Your bitch really does know no limits. Like I said, nice try. Your last ditch attempt at getting him back failed, just like every attempt before now.”
    Heidi ’s face contorts in anger, her mouth twisting to the side and her eyes narrowing.
    “Let me give you some advice.” Jen steps in front of Lexy, her back to us, and I guess she ’s looking Heidi right in the eye. “It’s only two words, and simple enough for an airhead like yourself to understand.”
    “I bet I know what those words are,” Alec whispers, nudging my arm. I smirk, nodding.
    “Ready for my expert advice?” Jen asks. “Fuck. Off.”
    “Before she makes you,” Lexy mutters.