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Alice

“How ht?” My sister Lydia asks her favorite question I grip the steering wheel tighter, listening to her cough through the speaker “The club had a great night Not many people know that Valentine’s Day is one of the busiest nights at a gentleman’s club”

Gentleman’s club

That’s funny I haven’t seen a gentlee since Marvin ‘Popcorn’ Wooster took over The former oho hired me ran a decent club Dale kept it clean, the bouncers took care of the creeps, there were no ‘extracurricular’ activities allowed

Now, it’s sticky carpet, private back roos you’d iht in It’s hard to pin down his age but maybe sixty-five? Maybe seventy-five who knoith deep pockreasy co the rot gut whiskey he always has handy

His foggy white right eye, the result of being sprayed with o by a dancer who apparently was tired of taking his shit, tops off his look

“Ishe will leave it alone

The chugging sound of the engine inthe road ahead pure white

“You knoe need to make a payment on the house, Alice Can you come back later today? I need—”

We need to rove where I’m in my freshman year, and I lived with my best friend Bria for the e schools Lydia decided to take the little bit of life insurance ot as a down payment on a rundown house in another seedy toest of The Pines where we grew up

So I’ comes from when she needs money

“I know You told et there The roads are getting crazy bad”