Chapter 71

• Ashley
• Ashley stopped pacing and stood at the window, staring down at the street. It had rained earlier, and although there were puddles in the streets and along the curb, there were people everywhere. Shopping, walking with friends or family, talking on the phone—everyone immersed in their own worlds and ignoring the worlds of the people around them. Sometimes it seemed like people weren’t real to each other unless they were forced to interact, and even then it was easy to just view them as one thing instead of many. And that was how almost everyone viewed her.
• A rich girl who lived to party.