"I know you. You love the thrill, the rush, the danger. You're attracted to it like a bee to honey. You did not enter into this kicking and screaming."
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Beneath the glittering skyscrapers and high tech industries lies a city with a dark undergr...
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Maddie put out her sixth cigarette of the night, leaving it a glowing stub along with the other five slightly smoking sticks and the four empty beer bottles that rested on her desk. Johnny had texted her a few hours ago to tell her that he wouldn't be home until very late, when she would supposedly be in bed, so he told her to order takeaway or something similar and head to bed, he even suggested studying letting her know that her uncle clearly hadn't been in contact with his son.
Mark was also out, where Maddie wasn't one hundred percent sure but as he worked at the same place as Johnny he also probably had some strange working hours. Maddie wondered around the apartment bored out of her mind. As she did so she couldn't help but notice how nice it really was, it was in a good central spot, had a good view, wasn't too noisy for a city, which only made Maddie more curious as to what her cousin and his friends actually did for a living.
Maddie just sighed and opened the fridge again instinctively going to grab another bottle of beer, but it suddenly became obvious to get that she'd drunk the last one that there was. This was a problem for many reasons, one because she'd have to explain to Johnny why when he left there were four beers in the fridge and why now there were none, and also because Maddie was still bored out of her mind and the alcohol and nicotine were the only things keeping her from buying a one way ticket out of the city.
With a sigh Maddie slammed the fridge closed and rummaged around the kitchen searching for a liquor cabinet. When she finally found it she browsed the multicoloured bottles before pulling out one that looked remotely like vodka, it had a legible 40% on it letting her know she was probably about right. She opened another cupboard which she knew had the glasses in and pulled out a double shot glass.
She poured a sloppy double shot and poured it down her throat enjoying the way it sort of burned. She'd had beyond an awful day, every teacher already had a thing against her when she arrived in their class room, already assuming the worst so that's exactly what she'd given them, even after her uncles warnings she still didn't play the perfect student or pretend to be someone she wasn't. The alcohol was helping her forget all about that though.
As a general rule the more alcohol she drank the easier it was to forget everything but then she would undoubtedly make more mistakes which required more alcohol to forget throwing her into a vicious circle that had lasted for the past few years. She suddenly missed home, but not her parents or apartment she missed the familiarity of the city, how she knew how to get to her favourite night club like the route was engraved into her skin.
As she mused about her home town her drunken brain came up with a wonderfully terrible idea. Without consulting the still rational side of her she grabbed her phone and the vodka bottle leaving the shot glass where it was. She opened google and typed in 'best night clubs near me' tapping the top one, it was called 'Dark & Wild'. She rushed back to her room and threw open her wardrobe, already messing up the organised arrangement which had only lasted a day or so.
