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“I hope you guys brought your wallets,” Grady said “Everyone but Howard is pitching in for the pay”
There were calls ofWe walked into the club and ended up in the VIP area It was obvious they had all had been here quite a few tireeted Grady and soed in a group with enough room to fit all of us
“All right! Everybody, get settled down Say what you want before the waitress gets here”
“Just order beer, and get plenty of it! Does anyone want anything else?”
“Hey, I want some chips! Can’t drink on an empty stomach”
Grady ignored the rest of the guys shouting out what they wanted and turned to me
“What about you? Anything you want?”
“Just beer is fine, though chips do sound nice They don’t serve food here, do they?”
“Nope, no food We can go eat after we drink”
I wanted to come out with some co, so the food could soak up the alcohol If everyone got piss drunk, theylater, but I didn’t want to wake up toover
Instead, though, I went along with the at this every once in a while wasn’t bad Everyone was finished listing everything by the tiave her the orders, and she walked away The others chatted lightly a themselves, and I was even pulled into a few conversations
Because I’d been on several tea the ti it The waitress came back with a fels of chips and soh for everyone Then, I almost dropped my jaw in surprise when other waiters and waitresses came back with the rest of the beer
No wonder they’d have to pitch in to pay If one person paid for all of this
No one else was as surprised, so this was clearly not out of the norm, either I wondered how many extra bottles they’d added for me
“Drink up, kid,” Grady said, handing me a beer
“Isn’t all of this a bit h on the table for everyone to take three bottles and there’d probably be more leftover While it wasn’t the expensive stuff, it wasn’t really cheap beer, either
Well, not as if I wasn’t teood drink, I just wouldn’t allow myself to do it while I was alone for safety reasons
“Nah, it’s all fine It’ll be thole days before our next practice, so everyone can get drunk and have some time to recover We don’t do this all the time, it’s just special circumstances Besides, there’s a rule in this team”
“What rule?”
“Teeks before the season starts, up until our last game, we’re not allowed to drink, at all It’s one of coach’s rules He’s not going to spy on us to et ame of the season”
“I don’t plan on breaking it,” I muttered
I didn’t doubt if he caught ainst me The only rule Ben set that I had every intention of breaking was to let go of Zoe It had only been a week, and the team didn’t meet up every day for practice, either, we had days off in the week, so I didn’t see her every day, but it was still unbearable