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I looked over at Nadine It had been tworelationship with her boyfriend, Jay Not only was she depressed, because she’d hoped he’d been “The One,” but on top of that, the reason they’d split up was because she found texts and e on her with his coworker

So, we planned this trip to Toronto, intent on drinking, partying, and just putting reality and responsibilities behind us for a couple days She deserved that I deserve that And I wasn’t going to let my normalcy, et in the way of that

I was going to irls’ weekend would help her finally put Jay in her rearview mirror

I watched as she walked over to theand stared at the city “Look, I can see the tower,” she said with excitelanced over her shoulder at rinned “But we didn’t come here to see a tower, now did we?” She winked, and I couldn’t help but laugh “Let’s go to a bar tonight, or maybe a club?”

I could see in her eyes she was going to go buck-wild this weekend, and I was genuinely glad she was happy, excited

After her split-up with Jay, I’d seen a side of Nadine I never witnessed before It had really hit her hard And even though inside I was cringing at the knowledge of being around so many people, the loud o out of my comfort zone while ere here

“I’ame for whatever You decide what you want to do, and we’ll do it,” I said instead of suggesting we just veg here all night

Drinking, debauchery, and forgetting about our responsibilities for one weekend wouldn’t be the end all

I repeated that in ood tiet drunk and have a hangover the next day?

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Chapter Two

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I definitely felt out of my eleer than my thirty-two years The club Nadine picked was packed, but then again, it was a Friday night The music was new releases, ones I didn’t even listen to I was irl, but I was onto sound kind of nice That’s how I knew the alcohol was getting to ht, out of place, or uncomfortable