<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/TkNo2mb.jpg?1)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Ashleigh Slater (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=281599.msg13854315#msg13854315)<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>(as pictured)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Hilton Ballroom (moving from Bar to Window)<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Autumn (Mellific)<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Ashleigh felt the situation becoming very crowded. Between the guys swarming over Katie and her lack of cool when it came to not touching Autumn this was in danger of spiraling out of control. It didn't help that seeing Autumn was making her fall right back into old habits right away. She mentioned her wires not showing and Ashleigh couldn't help but respond, "No you covered them up fine sweetie but you loaded the boring personality again." She instantly balled up her fist and mimed shoving it in her mouth. "Dammit!" She swore. "That's not why I'm here!" She said, looking to Autumn with pleading eyes as if to say please understand that was a knee jerk response!<br/><br/>"Yes, okay, out of here, too many things, not the right things, other things!" She muttered as she turned and led Autumn away from the bar, managing to just barely leave before she could hear the revelation of who Katie really was, and luckily so she had only so much brain power to divert at this point!<br/><br/>She had to consciously not take Autumn's hand like she always had back in the day when they were together, but having a drink to carry at least gave her something to do with it.<br/><br/>"Okay." She said as they found a window, she noticed Autumn was actually checking the locks, "Hey stop that I was serious." She said, hoping to actually get her attention. "There's something I need to say to you."<br/><br/>She opened her phone and went to her apology app, opened up the Autumn note, and took a deep breath, steeling herself to say something important. She spoke at a volume low enough to avoid being casually overhead.<br/><br/>"Autumn, I'm very sorry." She said, obviously speaking from a rehearsed script. "I cannot apologize enough for the way I allowed my addiction to harm you so many times over the years. As a recovering sex addict I now see that the ways I behaved towards you and the harm I caused can never be made fully right, but I would like to offer any sort of amends I can to help make you whole and restore the..." She paused, seeing the look on Autumn's face. "...what, no I'm serious let me finish!" Trust Autumn to not take this seriously! "The damage that I caused."<br/><br/>She closed the app and looked at her old flame, obvious emotion in her eyes at her insecurity over how this first apology would go. "I um, I'm sorry and um, if I can offer uh, amends I'm...oh fuck say something!" She stammered, taking a very deep gulp of her icy cold vodka.