Consolation Prize
I stared at it, trying to remember if those things meant you’d killed someone and gone to jail for it or if you’d just been close to someone who’d died.
“Seriously,” Teardrop slurred. “Do her tits taste like chocolate?”
“Hey, come on, man,” one of his friends encouraged, taking his arm and trying to pull him back. To us, he said, “He’s drunk.”
“Huh,” I answered dryly. “I’ve gotten drunk a lot without fucking insulting people.”
“Colton, let’s go,” Julianna spoke quietly into my ear as she tugged me away.
I was about to follow her lead when the dumb drunk broke away from his restraining friend and made a beeline for her.