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    That One Night
    That One Night
    That One Night
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    That One Night

    By Sarah Billington

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    Can a friendship that lasts just an hour be completely perfect?

    A year ago, Annie and Bree were best friends, then they graduated high school and it turns out a year is a long time.

    When Annie shows up at her best friend's birthday hoping to slip back into the friendship that was, she discovers she's no longer a part of Bree's world and decides to slip out quietly without making a scene.

    But a chance encounter on the way out means that sometimes you can find friendship when you least expect it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSarah Billington
    Release dateJul 19, 2012
    ISBN9781476240855
    That One Night
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    Sarah Billington

    Sarah Billington is an Australian writer and editor who likes to write stories with love, laughs, suspense and zombies. Sometimes all in the same story. Her favouritest thing to write about are those horrendously awkward moments that come with being a teenager. Or a human being. Sarah was extremely accident-prone and klutzy as a kid and teen, so her cup runneth over with experiences of horrendously awkward moments to draw from in her writing. Thankfully, she has grown out of her klutziness. Mostly. She is, however, still an embarrassment.She loves a variety of random things, which include Swing Dancing, Ice Hockey, Roller Derby and is a bit obsessive about paranormal investigation shows and channel E!.

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      That One Night - Sarah Billington

      That One Night

      A Short Story

      by Sarah Billington

      Copyright © 2010 Sarah Billington

      www.sarahbillington.weebly.com

      Cover image © massonforstock

      Cover Design by Billington Media

      That One Night by Sarah Billington is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

      Smashwords Edition

      This ebook is a work of fiction. Names, characters and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Other Titles by Sarah Billington

      About the Author

      Chapter One

      When the guy in the green and cream cardigan arrived and distracted Bree, I should have realized it was over.

      I’ll just be over there, I’d said, carefully picking up my pint of Guinness off the bar (that’s what you drink in an Irish pub, right?) and making my way to an empty green leather booth. Bree had nodded and turned her attention to the guy in the cardigan with the five o’clock shadow and thick brown hair that swept over one eye. I placed my drink on the table, slid in with my present for my bestie’s twenty-first birthday and waited happily, excited for her to join me so that we could catch up, make up for lost time and rekindle our friendship.

      That was twenty minutes ago. My smile and good humor had faded as I watched from my booth, alone, as Bree and all her pals from college cheered and raised their hands in the air in celebration at that guy’s arrival.

      Skyyyyyyy! They said as one, and the guy shrugged and said, what’s up, guys, before he was folded into a group hug, guy-fived from the boys and kissed on the cheek by half the girls. I watched as Bree laughed and rubbed her cheeks, complaining that his stubble was scratchy. Her new boyfriend (who she hadn’t even told me existed), rubbed her shoulders and shook hands with this Sky person, before nuzzling Bree’s neck and making her giggle. Someone handed out shot glasses and the whole lot of them slammed tequila and started talking about the

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