It was a long and stressful day for Christine. She had guilt she'd failed a child, a child very similar to her own son. Attempted to help a mother with an addiction but failed. She'd tried to ring Connor, she felt alone she had no one to talk to, George was to busy with Carol, audery was to involved with the browns and Sonya was just Sonya. Tom had gone, grandley had gone, she didn't even think about talking to Simon about how she was struggling to cope. And Connor didn't answer the phone. She bowed her head in sorrow and when she looked up she was faced by the enemy. The pub. "Christine don't" she told herself but only a few seconds later she found herself doing the walk of shame into the pub, 'Christine come in just turn around and walk out! You've come so far!' But instead of walking out she found herself stood at the bar waiting for the barman to serve her he looked up at her as of to say what can I get you and it took her a second to process it all
"I'm going to ask you something a wee bit strange" she said "I'm going to ask you to get me one drink, and your not allowed to serve me anymore no matter what I say" she said hesitantly "Infact if I keep asking I want you to throw me out, you got that" the bar man nodded "good Large vodka no ice" she stood there hesitantly she'd done so well it would be stupid to mess it all up now wouldn't it? He passed her drink part of her just wanted to leave it there but the other part of her just wanted to drink it up. And that's what she did. She'd told that bar man to only let her have one drink one only one but then some man came over and offered to buy her another one she could hardly rember this man, it was all a bit of a blur really one drink turned into another and the last thing she remembered was being sat at a table surrounded by drunk men betting she could do one more shot. She wished she'd never drank that shot. She wished she'd never walked into that bar at all. If only she hadn't sipped that drink. Her whole world would be flipped upside down. Her little boy would have to pick up the pieces again. And it was all down to a bar man promising not to serve her more than one ...
