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Jameson

Coastal party, alcoholic coma, repeat

It took five days and seven pregame lattes to realize this was the practiced, yet unspoken mantra of the season for every rich kid here in Corona Del Mar who didn’t spend their summer abroad

Today being a party day means tomorrow’s schedule is already penciled in, and it will be an eventful ‘do nothing but rot in front of a giant television while feeding each other pain pills and swearing to never drink again day And let’s not forget the late-night dinner that is guaranteed to follohich willat their boyfriend for flirting with the waitress of the hour Poor waitresses

And my parents said life would be less predictable here

I wonder if they can feel how hard lobe?

Noat the tip of the dreaded hill every bad birthday card teases past the age of twenty-nine, they have no idea what being on the edge of eighteen looks like

They’re clueless, and to be honest, they like it that way As if the do defense duo of Filano Laould bother theless hters Not that this isht to make sure their ticket is well-punched and properly publicized? That’s a hard no

I’m not sure what’s worse, that they don’t check in or the fact they are aware they don’t have to

Thou shall not disappoint thy parents; words equivalent to downright dullness if you ask my peers, but I don’t share their sentiment and they don’t follow it

A my parents off? Yes, but where they do as they wish and bet on forgiveness later, I tread carefully at the start Like an acrobat on a tightrope, I balance like a pro, never allowing myself to fall over the dreaded ‘did you hear about the Filano’s daughter’ line

My sister, on the other hand, leaps without looking, unconcerned with the mess she makes on her way down

If it were up to my parents, they’d have married her off to the former district attorney back in Naples when they learned he was asking questions they couldn’t afford him to find the answers to, the whole ‘keep your enemies close’ and all that

A women marry seasoned, older men, my mother’s words echo in my ears

I think she adopted such an idea after stepping into what, in many ways, was a man’s world Not that it stopped her