"Congrats, man," Cole said as we shook hands and hugged each other.
He cleaned up nicely with a leather jacket and jeans. He had an elated smile, like our biggest supporter, but I could still see hopelessness in his eyes, even if he tried to hide it.
"Yeah, it was amazing," his friend Ale Alvarez joined in the conversation.
"Axel here turned heads, even with the ladies," James Crown commented. They were all known to be former bad boys, and they still acted like it.
I wasn't interested in the whole conversation, as my eyes darted to Destiny and Jade on the couch. It was around ten p.m., and she had placed her head on her best friend's shoulder. I could only see their heads from behind, but it looked like Destiny had dozed off on Jade.
"Give me some praise here. I helped my man," Brady
