When Nate and Jennifer leave the bonfire, I stay put with Chelsea for a bit. We are enjoying our champagne and I decide its time to tell her about Ashley. She has every right to know, especially because I can't keep secrets from her, for too long.
"Chels, can we talk?" I ask her. She nods her head, she knows what I want/need to talk about. I begin with, "Ashley, well she and I were a couple for well, um, since middle school till the year I was to turn 18." She smiles slightly but its quickly removed and replaced with a frown. "No, please, don't frown... you have to hear the entire story before you frown." She nods as if she was telling me she understood.
"When we were young, our parents were good friends so we were at one another's houses all the time. We spent so much time together it
