Cleo woke up with what had to be the worst hangover of her life. Head pounding, stomach rolling and that horrible dry taste of old gym socks in her mouth. Despite the room spinning around her she attempted to stand and failing at that crawled from the couch to the bathroom. The room tilted and twisted as she made her slow way across the floor fingers digging into the carpet. Making it to the toilet was a near thing. Her stomach heaved and she vomited a thin dribble of bile tinged with red. Not the torrent of liquid and solids she’d been expecting that normal followed a night of drinking. A second round of heaving and nothing came out. Groaning she pushed herself up enough that she could rinse her mouth out at the sink. Sliding back down she curled up on the floor resting her head on the cool tiles. Strands of hair wet with splash back clung to her face. She couldn’t find the energy to care or push it away from her face. …show more content…
Her head pounded harder as she tried to remember. She'd ran a couple jobs, went to the bar for work. The night had finished late. After that it was blank. Curling up into a shivering ball she slipped back into sleep. The sound of the door opening and slamming closed pulled her awake for the second time. She was still in the bathroom but at least her head didn't hurt quite as much and the room wasn't spinning. "Cleo you home?" Jenny her room mate. Only one person had a voice that chipper. Heavy footsteps towards the open bathroom door made her head want to split in two. "Rough night?" Jenny didn’t wait for an answer. ”Poor baby. At least your boy brought you home." Cleo managed to look up at her.”Boy?” She
He just turned and left without a word. I touched Lennie’s grave. The rough touch of the wood deflecting to my fingers. I walked back to the ranch. Everyone was asleep. I wanted to run away tomorrow but I couldn’t let this chance pass up. It also prevented any chance of Candy following me. I tiptoed out of the room and went straight to the woods. I made sure to mix myself in with the shadows of the trees. I saw the river and It felt like I did it...until I felt something grab me by my neck. I quickly got flipped over and pushed to the ground.
Sitting on the edge of the bed, she began applying liquid stitches ointment Dr. Browdeski had given her to fully mend her wounds. When she’d finished, she grabbed a cold bottled water from the mini fridge in their bedroom and popped a couple of the Oxycontin painkillers the doctor had prescribed for her. After washing them down she started feeling the numbing effects of the narcotic. Going downstairs to the bar, she fixed a stiff glass of vodka, hoping that it would put her exactly where she needed to be, in the bed and out of her misery, even if only for the
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I trudged up and down the stairs, hauling the majority of my belongings behind me. As I rounded the corner, I saw her, my future roommate. Overwhelmed by panic, it took all my willpower not to turn around in that instant. Mustering
As the dizziness of Vodka washed over Scarlett’s brain. Sebastian’s image washed over Molly’s. It was Molly’s first time at a party like this, after all she did like her innocent reputation. Scarlett however was not a newcomer to highschool parties that ended in vomit, her rebellion wouldn’t let her miss a single party all summer and she decided that this time she’d drag Molly down with her. Scarlett stood suddenly, where is Zavier anyway? Her boyfriend had been missing for about an hour and being drunk wouldn’t help him stay faithful, Scarlett tried to move forward but her legs felt like jello and she fell over on to the floor. Spontaneous laughter sounded from her as she realized she had fallen, Molly laughed as well as she stood to help her friend from the floor.
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After a few minutes, she slowly opens her eyes. Seeing the coast was clear, she tries moving again.
she always used to wish for a way to escape her life. She saw memories
Heels click against the cool sidewalk. Tonight she was going to forget about everything. The boy that she just walked in on sleeping with her best friend was not going to get her down. Her black dress seemed to give her the extra confidence boost that she was feeling right now, or it was the bottle of whiskey she had in her purse that was halfway gone. The bar she walks in has a wall of musky scent blocking the entrance. She didn’t care, because right now all she needed was more booze.
The brunette drank wine straight from the bottle as Netflix played in the background and she scrolled through her phone, going through her contacts in hopes of finding someone to talk to. It was a Friday, her first one back, and to spend it alone at home would be doing herself a disservice. Not here, had a baby, moved, started doing drugs - there was one reason or another why she passed by each person, but when a familiar name came up she had to
At least, until she woke, and the consequences wrought by yesterday’s activities would swing by in full force and smack her in the face. Or rather, torso—heck, maybe even her whole body. She expected all of the soreness and tender pain her stiff injury would bring as soon as she attempted to move. She expected her body and brain to complain the moment she opened her eyes, wanting to sleep for at least another full day before they’d be willing to function properly. She expected to find a rather restless day—she was never good at just lounging around to recover from anything.
She stared in morbid fascination at her life draining away, violent sobs ceasing at the sight of each bloody drop. The blood soon coated her artist’s hands, then her leg, and finally the carpet underneath her. Realizing this was it, all the pain was finally going to be over, that no one would ever be able to throw cruel remarks her way again, she stretched out on the floor of her room, spreading her arms out in a twisted version of a snow angel. Red soaked the carpet, faster than she dared hope and dared believe, and letting out a twisted laugh, she sent one final ‘fuck you’ to all those who had said she was too weak to do anything for
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