It hadn't taken long for Jasmine and Debbie to rebuild their relationship when Jasmine had returned from prison. Of course Debbie was angry with her for saying she wasn't coming back but she eventually forgave her and even began to understand why she did it. However, as always, it didn't take long for their newly rekindled relationship to collapse as Jasmine learnt of Debbie and Andy's secret relationship. It was quickly revealed that Jasmine had already been out of prison for a week when Debbie had decided to sleep with her old ex-boyfriend Andy Sugden.
"What the hell were you doing with Andy?" Jasmine snapped as Debbie walked through the door.
Debbie stopped quickly in her stride and looked up at her. "What do you mean? Jas do you seriously think I'd sleep with that loser again?"
"Tell me now. Did you sleep with him or not?" Jasmine retorted sharply.
"Yes Jas I did, but it was one time and I-" There wasn't time for Debbie to say anything else before Jasmine slapped her and stormed out in a rage.
It seemed odd for Jasmine to take refuge in the local pub, but when you're living with the person you were arguing with it's hard to find any place that is even remotely private. Another odd thing was that instead of acting like she usually did when she was upset, keeping to herself and blocking everyone out, Jasmine felt herself strangely drawn to the blonde woman sat a few seats away from her. What was a woman like her doing drinking alone on a Friday night? Surely she had something better to do.
"Can I help you?" The woman asked her.
Shit, Jasmine thought, she'd caught her staring at her. "Sorry, just day dreaming."She said quickly.
"Don't worry about it. I do it too, Rhona goes mad at me for it." She replied cheerfully. "I'm Vanessa by the way, you?"
"I'm Jasmine, Jasmine Thomas." She replied quietly. She had to be careful, God knows what kind of stories had been told about her whilst she was away. She didn't want to scare her away.
"Oh you're… right… okay. I thought you were new around here. Then again I'm still pretty new myself."
Well done Jasmine, she said to herself, she's probably thinking of running away now.
Just as the awkward silence had began to settle between them Rhona walked through the door and sat herself down in the seat between Vanessa and Jasmine.
Thank God for that, Vanessa thought to herself. "Did Paddy hold you up again?"
"Yeah he kept going on about how I hadn't fed Leo yet, I thought he was at least capable of that." Rhona replied and got her purse out to buy a drink.
"Well that's men for you." Vanessa replied and finished her drink off. "I'll have another one as well please Chas."
Jasmine sighed, everyone seemed to ignore her once they realised who she was. You deserve it for what you did, she scolded herself inside her head. She had always known that now she had been to prison it would be harder to make friends, especially in Emmerdale where everybody knew her, but she didn't think they would know her just by her name. For the rest of the night she tried to ignore all thoughts of her conversation with Vanessa that came to her.