Aspen woke up to the sound of some stupid, generic ringtone filling her small apartment. 

She slowly pulled herself upwards, her head felt heavy and her cheeks were sticky with tears. Vaguely she remembered having some kind of nightmare about Angels, Demons and Mirrors. Taking a slow, calming breathe she tried to shake away the unpleasant dream an reached towards her phone that had been placed on the coffee table and continued to buzz incessantly.

"Hello?" Her voice was groggy, and she hadn't even bothered to look at who was calling her. "As! Shit I've been knocking on your door or ten minutes, where are you?" She immediately recognized the voice of Ty Dang. Her neighbor who she had become fast friends with in the past couple of years. "Shit, sorry Ty. Just a sec." She hung up the phone and stood up from the couch. Her body felt stiff and tired, she could vaguely remember coming home and falling asleep. It was weird, like she was missing something but when she thought too hard about it her head ached. She chalked it up to just a bad dream and with a shrug rushed to open the door for Ty.

"I'm sorry, I was sleeping. Did we have plans?"

She watched him slowly shake his head no. "I just thought I'd drop by." He seemed distant, kinda shaken. But that wasn't too weird for Ty. He always seemed a little shy, but he was nice. "Well hey come in," she opened the door to give him room to enter the house. It was dim inside, and she must have accidentally left the window open because it was freezing. She hurried to close it, inviting him farther inside. "Hey, do you wanna go out tonight? I mean it's eleven on a Friday night. We could go get a few drinks." She really didn't want to stay in this apartment. It felt weird and cold, and something about it felt unsafe. "Yeah, I suppose. B-but you're okay right?"

Aspen nodded and hurried to her room. "I'm all good." She raised her voice as she hurriedly threw on some new clothes. A skirt and shirt that weren't fancy but also weren't as casual as her jeans and sweater has been. "Just don't want to be cooped up." It wasn't exactly a lie. "C'mon lets go."

Quickly enough the two were in Ty's car and then inside the hot, sweaty bar and sipping on drinks.