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CHAPTER THIRTEEN

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CALEB.

I wake up the next morning with a tongue as thick as mud and as dry as sandpaper plus my stomach rolls with every little movement. My head throbs like it’d been hit multiple times. My hoodie smells like liquor and drool and weed.

There’s a vague memory of Vanya trying to drag me home, it felt like I actually went with her. Must have been a dream, that’s why I’m here in a jumbled mess of arms and limbs on the couch. My phone is wedged under my hip, buzzing.

06:06 AM. Saturday, 24 September. Thank fuck it’s the weekend.

Vanya is nowhere to be found.

As I try to pull my legs out of the mess, I feel something rough against my skin. A damn sequin dress. Red and glittery. I remember it from last night. Of course I fucking remember. Chris. I think his name is Chris. Chris in bright red sequin dress pirouetting like he was born in it.

It started as a joke, he came in already wasted, dared himself to wear a dress which he got from god-knows-where. Next thing he strutted
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