~KaelThe music was too loud,or maybe my head was just too full.Alice was laughing beside me, glass in her hand, already on her second or third. I’d lost count. Lights flashing, bodies moving, people shouting over nothing.Normal people stuff, I didn’t belong here.“You’re thinking again,” Alice said, nudging me with her shoulder.“I’m always thinking.”“That’s your problem brother.”I scoffed lightly and took another drink. It burned going down, but not enough. Never enough.Alice leaned against the bar, watching me instead of the crowd. “You know you don’t have to go tonight.”I knew what she meant, the meeting, the house, them.“I do,” I said simply.She sighed. “You always feel like you have to prove something.”I didn’t answer that, because she wasn’t wrong.I just didn’t want her saying it out loud.A few minutes passed in silence. Then she slid
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