"Welcome to Allure"
Life itself is hard as it is.
It becomes even harder when you're left alone to care for your younger sister.
Shailene will do whatever it takes to properly provide for her sister. And the need to do so places her in a difficult l...
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THE EXOTIC DANCER CHAPTER 009 ✔ "Gossip"
By the time everyone had started to pile out and go home the girls were having a little party of their own. Everyone is extremely excited. Max pours out drinks and announces that they are all on him tonight.
He glides a small shot glass across the bar and to me, lifting an imaginary one up to his mouth, throwing his head back dramatically as he acts out drinking one as if trying to teach me how to do so.
I roll my eyes and nod, taking them small shot glass between my fingers. I tilt my head back and gulp it down quick. The alcohol stinging my throat causing me to let out a cough as it rolls down.
It's been awhile since ive had a proper drink. I don't really get the time to go out drinking with friends. And i don't really have the friends either.
As of now, Max and Megan are the only friends i have who i could actually see me going out to drinks with. Everyone else just isn't my age. I think drinking with Joe may just kill him. Cindy has a very strong opinion on alcohol so i doubt i would ever see her within a bar. And i would kill Lucy if i ever knew she had a drink before she's of age.
I was a teenager not too long ago, i understand the appeal. I get what it's like to be young and want to try things. I did too. You may not even want to do it, but after a while the world makes you feel like your missing out on something.
If she tried it once i would be upset but i would understand.
We all experiment with things and we all have to learn the hard way how those things affect us.
I can't always be there to keep her from doing wrong. Sometimes she will fall down a path i wish she would and will have to get herself out.
As much as i wish i could always be there for her and always save her when she falls i still believe its healthy and good to be able to save yourself as well. She has to know i'm not always going to be here.
I want her to be able to be independent.
I hope i'm doing well in teaching her to do so.
I look up to see Max downing shots like it's his job and i begin to realize maybe its okay that i don't go out drinking with friends. All it would do is worry me.
I don't have much time for friends right now anyway.
I'm busier than ever, and having friends while I'm working like this would only set me up to let people down.
