Our Inner Demons

Chapter 15

"Celestia, I'm so glad I see you again!" Sabrina hugged me while walking into Conor's apartment.

"What do you mean? We saw each other yesterday."

"I know but since we all got into a fight I wasn't sure when I was gonna see you again. Luckily Connor decided to apologize. But I still don't know what it was all about."

"It was nothing..." Jake seemed nervous about us possibly getting deeper into this topic.

"So, Connor, what kinds of drinks do you have?" Sabrina asked getting cozy on the couch.

"I'm afraid I don't have any. Gina made me get rid of everything after you had a relapse in my apartment. She even had me throw away Coke for some reason..."

"I thought you stopped doing drugs."

"Not that c... The drink."

"Oh, the Coke! Sure..." She winked at him showing that he didn't believe what he said.

"Well it's because it's unhealthy. Nothing but a healthy lifestyle for him from now on." I said proudly that I was making Connor a better person.

"Good for you, Connor. But that sucks for the rest of us..." She looked at Jake waiting for him to agree with her which he usually did.

"I think you could use some water for a change." He said.

"So how do you think we're gonna have fun? What are we gonna do?"

"We don't need alcohol to have fun." I smiled at her.

"We don't?" She was confused.

"No. We can play a game."

"Oh, I don't know about that..." She didn't seem to be into that.

"Come on, it will be fun. What do you guys say?"

"Is it like poker or something?" Connor asked.

"The last thing you need is a gambling problem." I said rethinking that the same second as it sounded kinda harsh. " We'll play truth or dare."

"Actually that's not a bad idea. There's a lot of stuff I wanna find out about these two." Sabrina laughed.

"Great. Who's gonna start?"

"I'll ask Jake first!" Sabrina was determined.

"Oh, here we go..." Jake was nervous.

"Jake... What's wrong with you?"

"That's not a real question." I said.

"What do you mean?" Jake possibly thought that she was drunk again. And so did the rest of us.

"I mean, why were you at our support group? We all met there, we used to hang out... I mean we know you also had a drinking problem in the past but we still don't know why."

"Sabrina, I think that's a little tough question to ask..."

"No, Celestia, that's fine. I'll answer it. Okay, well..." He sighed. "As you all know by now I used to be an alcoholic. I mean you can't really say that... My problem was not that severe at all. But I did a stupid mistake one day. I was at a party."

"I knew it!" Connor shouted.

"Connor, please..." I said. "Just let him finish his story."

"Okay, well, anyway... There were these guys at the party that was really cool and popular and they told me if I wanted to hang out with them I had to steal a car and drive it around the block. So basically it wouldn't even be stealing because I would eventually return it. I did as they said, I stole the car and I drove around the block even though I was drunk so I eventually got lost because I didn't know the neighborhood and suddenly everything looked blurry." He stopped. Whatever he had to say next was obviously very difficult for him.