Icing on the Cake

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Later that evening, I couldn’t stand to be in the house.

I couldn’t stand to see Julia sit by a window still, just starting blankly.

I couldn’t stand Calum’s sympathetic gazes and comments towards me that I know are masks to his own pain.

I couldn’t stand the twins indulging in their blissful ignorance that we somehow had to find a way to delicately destroy.

Pulling out my phone, I texted Karen asking if she was doing anything. When she said she wasn’t, I told her that I would pick her up in an hour.

Once I picked her up, we took an Uber to a night club.

“Let’s dance.” I said. “And drink.”

After getting in, we went straight to the bar. “Four shots of Malibu.” I said to the bartender, and he promptly took my money while pouring the liquor.

Both of us pounded a shot, and I indulged in the hard liquor that burned my throat on its way down.

“Again!” I said while grabbing the next shot.

“You can have mine!” Karen said, who was already grabbing the edge of the bar for balance.

“Gladly.” I sputtered as I downed both shots back to back.

A warmth morphed all around my chest as I felt the obnoxiously loud EDM music beat through the building.

“Let’s hit the floor!” I half yelled, because it was loud.

Calum was texting me asking me where I was, and I ignored them. I didn’t tell him where I went, but I was ready to forget about my life for just a few hours.

The rest of the night was a masking cocktail of shots and jump dancing on the floor. It ended with a cliché vomit in the backseat of an Uber. Oops.

Notes

I SAW GREEN DAY THE OTHER NIGHT OMG

It's been so long tho how are y'al doing?