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Pre Drinks

"Mila, you're coming out tonight, right?" Her best friend, Elisa, questioned as she fell into the chair beside her. The chair spun away with the force of her fall, and Mila had to help her friend drag herself back over to their desk.

"Of course, it's Meg's birthday party. I wouldn't miss it for the world." She replied, turning to the piles of work set on the desk before her that had been eating at her will to live since she had clocked in eight hours ago.

Mila Overton had spent the last five years of her life working alongside Elisa Hampton at the Acrefield Modelling Agency in London. No matter how long she had managed to hold down this job, she would never be used to the overwhelming workload that always managed to end up on her desk every single morning.

"Good, because you're coming over to mine to get ready." Elisa declared as she sipped at her coffee, staring at Mila through her large rimmed glasses.

"You've decided this have you?" Mila glared as she pretended to sort through the files in front of her, she heard a mumbled yes from the girl next to her, "I suppose if you're offering pre drinks, then I could get ready at yours."

"The vodka is waiting for us already. Can't you hear it calling us?" Elisa climbed out of her chair and started spinning Mila's around, "Mila.... Come drink me Mila.... Nice, yummy vodka...."

Mila swatted Elisa hands away as she began waving them in front of her face. The two looked at each other and started laughing.

"What's this about vodka?" Meg swooped in and grabbed Elisa's coffee from the desk, perching herself where Elisa's chair should have been.

Meg was the Agency's leading model and was drop dead gorgeous. Meg looked like she could have been a child of Aphrodite, or at the very least blessed by the goddess. Mila was pretty sure that Meg wasn't her sister though.

"Hey, my coffee!" Elisa tried to grab at the coffee that was quickly disappearing as Meg tried to chug it before Elisa could get it.

Meg held it out of Elisa's reach, "Snooze you lose, Blondie." Elisa wafted her hands trying to get her coffee back, but only managed to smack Mila in the face instead.

Meg eventually gave Elisa her coffee back and sat down on Mila's desk, messing up the semi - organised files. "So what did I hear about Vodka?"

"We're getting ready at Elisa's for tonight." Mila attempted to pull the files out from underneath Meg before all of her progress for the day was completely ruined. "Obviously that means we're going to be an entire bottle deep before we even make it to the club."

Meg pouted and shimmied over so that she wasn't sitting on the paper that Mila so desperately needed, "I wish I could join you, Mum and Dad are insisting I have a birthday meal first though. I'm turning 24, I don't need to be babied."

Elisa, hit at Meg's shoulder, "Be thankful for the free food. I can't remember the last time I went out to eat." Elisa sighed as she thought of all the food that she could have been eating right then instead of working.

"If it's any consolation, it doesn't get better at 25." Mila chimed in as she finally managed to shuffle her files back into partial order.

"Thank you for your wisdom, old lady." Meg hopped off the desk and danced over to the office coffee machine, how she could drink so much coffee when she had just had half of Elisa's, Mila didn't know. "At least you only have one parent that drags you away."

"Thanks for reminding me of my absent mother, Meg. It means a lot." She was going to receive horrible acne for that tomorrow, she just knew it. It was worth it to see the minorly guilty look on her friend's face. The trio began laughing, Mila wouldn't have allowed anyone other than the two with her to make a comment like that. Aphrodite may not have been the best mother, but she was better than some of the others that Mila knew of.

"Girls! Quiet!" Mr. Erikson's voice called from his office, his head popped around the door and stared at them, an amused grin on his face.

"Yes sir" The three of them chimed, giggling to themselves.

***

Mila and Elisa knocked into everything as they attempted to get ready. The idea to start drinking before getting ready was not the brightest either of them had ever had. In fact, it was a rather idiotic idea. The two of them would have been happy with merely getting into their outfits, let alone doing their makeup as well. It was all part of the fun, though.

"Do you think I should go for the red or the black dress?" Mila questioned as she looked at the selection of dresses she had brought with her. They weren't going anywhere particularly fancy, just their local club, but the trio had wanted to dress up for fun.

"Neither, go with the green, it brings out your eyes." Elisa called from the bathtub where she had spontaneously decided to start shaving.

"You sure?" Mila held up the emerald dress that she had thrown into her bag without even really considering.

"Uh, yeah. You look sexy in it. You'll definitely get laid if you wear that." Mila looked at her friend who had managed to make shaving look like Olympic gymnastics.

"You say that like I want to get laid." Mila shook her head at her friend as she began to put the green dress on, Elisa might have been onto something with the colour, it did look quite good.

"Mila, you haven't gotten any in like forever, live a little." Mila was still trying to wrap her head around the fact that she was still living at 25, let alone learning what to do with that life. She thought that she was doing quite good, she had a steady job and two amazing friends, and she hadn't had a monster attack in eight months. Clearly she was doing something right.

It was quarter to eight and the trio had planned to meet up at the club for around nine. They had around half an hour until they had to leave, and Elisa wasn't even dressed yet, and Mila hadn't even thought of what to do with her makeup.

The doorbell rang and Elisa almost headbutted the sink as she attempted to get out of the bathtub in nothing but a towel, "Stay there, I'll answer it. I don't need you in the hospital before we've even made it to the club."

The door swung open before either girl could reach it and the voice of Megan Louise called through, "I got out early!" She waltzed into the bathroom and took in the scene of Mila half dressed and Elisa practically naked, "I brought more alcohol..."