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Chapter 1 - Now That We're Grown Up

It was a late afternoon on a warm Sunday and there sat Dasia, Nene, Laura, and Tani at a restaurant table dining for their annual get-together. They've been best friends since childhood and only started their group gatherings when they've all started their twenties. This particular day their friendship took a turn for the worst. 

Dasia had too many glasses of wine and became a bit tipsy and started behaving very toxic. Dasia sits her glass down and grabs ahold of Laura's hand to tell her a secret but it was of malicious intent. She stares Laura in the eyes and says drunkenly "I kissed your crush and ate your custom candy bag at your eighth birthday party." Dasia then laughs hysterically with a coldness in her eyes. All the girls except Dasia, didn't find it funny and were disappointed with the way Dasia was behaving, and Laura was mostly disgusted. Dasia stops her disturbing laughter and is puzzled by the reaction of the other ladies. "Why isn't anyone laughing?" she asked, and everyone responded at the same time "Because it's not funny!" Dasia rolls her eyes and continues to drink her sixth glass of wine. Time goes on and Tani calls for a waiter to bring the bill so they can leave. Nene places her money on the table next to Tani to pay for her meal. Then heads out to the parking lot to start the car for the rest of the girls because they came together. 

The rest of the girls came and got in the car and everyone rode in silence. Dasia sat in the front while Nene drove, and Laura sat behind Nene while Tani sat behind Dasia. After a while of being in the car out of nowhere Laura frustration became a burst of anger "So kissed my crush, ate my candy, and helped me look for it?" Laura asked rhetorically, then she and Dasia began to argue. Tani is in the back trying to defuse the situation and Nene is in the front dissociating from their nonsense. They arrive at their first stop, Dasia's house. Both Tani and Nene say their goodbyes but Laura ignores it and glares out her window with her arms folded instead. "Bye everybody! See you later…Laura!" Dasia says, in a cavalier manner. Laura responds by shouting "Bye…you fat bitch!" Tani giggled and Nene smirked and shook her head and drove off to drive Tani home next. While Dasia was gone, they bonded immensely. Reminiscing about old memories when they were in high school. They get to Tani's apartment complex parking lot and before Tani goes inside they make a plan to go somewhere without Dasia to let her "wine down." Tani goes to her apartment and Nene takes off to drive Laura home. 

The next morning Nene texted the group to check up on the girls. "Hey! How is everyone doing today?" she asked, trying her best to break the tension. "I'm great!" Tani responded, not having a care in the world about the fight between Laura and Dasia. "I'm doing fabulous honey. I don't know about others though." Dasia responds in a condescending manner. Laura was just going to respond by saying she's good but after seeing Dasia's message she became furious. "You're such a bitch Dasia! I hate you!" Laura sent that message then abruptly removed herself from the group chat and ended up blocking Dasia from all forms of communication. Nene told Dassia off and deleted the whole group chat so they can just text each other individually. 

 

That afternoon Nene, Tani and Laura decided to go on a tour through a fruit orchard. They arrive at the orchard and meet their tour guide Jacobe. He begins showing them around the cherry isle first. As they're taking a walk they stopped to take a picture with the tour guide. Tani, who took the picture, immediately posted the photo on social media after she had taken it. Dasia saw the post while she was scrolling and relaxing at a spa with some of her more exclusive friends. It made her jealous and feel excluded. So she started brainstorming to plot against them. Tani, Nene, and Laura's tour had come to an end after a couple of hours. Jacobe gave them gift bags and the girls said their farewells. The girls made a last minute decision to go and spend the night at Nene's house but their location was on. Dasia saw it and rushed to Nene's house to confront them. She burst through the doors and shouted obnoxiously because they left her out of the group get-together. They started to explain why and that it wasn't of ill intent but she didn't take it as that. Dasia shot out Nene's front door outraged by them not inviting her even though she was already out with others. 

The night came and Nene and Tani called Dasia on a threeway but she didn't answer. So they tried again and again until she did. Dasia picked up the phone and expressed that she was done with them and to stop calling her phone, then hung up. Nene and Tani were appalled by Dasia's demeanor toward them. They weren't expecting her to lash out like that. 

 

Tuesday, Nene and Tani sat outside of Dasia's house all day until she came outside. Dasia descended down the stairs and entered the car. Nene and Tani sat and explained why they didn't invite her and it was because Laura was there and they wouldn't have felt right putting them two into the same environment after a conflict. Dasia told them she forgave them but inside her heart she really couldn't let it go. She went back inside and pursued the idea of plotting to turn them against each other. Forming the most egregious idea to make them feel a worse pain than she felt just by them leaving her out. Dasia contacted both of Nene and Tani's ex-boyfriend's and gave them their new information since both Tani and Nene cut them off because they were abusive.

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