‘’Chug, chug, chug, chug...!’’
Valentina obediently chugged her third beer as the small crowd gathered around her cheered. The Crypt was open for business but the group had put a small amount of time aside to celebrate Raphael turning twenty. They had wanted to go out for burgers, but Raphael said he was too busy. He wasn’t even in the club anymore, only three hours since opening. No one knew what he was busy with but between his absence in the past two days and Buster’s confinement his bed, pretending he was having a cold, Val was left to distract her friends from the heavy, strange atmosphere that came with being incomplete. Jamie, Gus and Art cheered as Val raised her empty glass in the air with a victorious whoop, ‘’nice one,’’ Jamie said approvingly, jumping behind the bar with the easiness of a kid whose been running away from the police since he was twel
