Playing It Safe

A/N: This story contains a lot of mature ideas. Alcohol will be portrayed alot as well as drug use and sex. This book is intended for mature audiences only who are over the age of 18. You have been warned.

The past twenty years of my existence could be summed up into one word.

Subpar.

If anything it could be summed up into several different words: subpar, ordinary, drab, and a plethora of others.

You see for as long as I knew I was never the girl with abounding luck on my side. I was never the girl who could rely on her looks to get her through life, nor was I the girl with an inheritance waiting to kick in so I could finally start 'living.' I grew up understanding that sometimes no matter how hard you try, you never get everything you want.

I woke up every day and continued living my subpar life and for years I was okay with doing just that. I went to high school, graduated with honors, got into college on scholarship, and studied for a career that was going to take me years to get a degree for. In all senses of the word, I was content.

However, content is not a word that belongs with living and it does not pair well with the word life either.

I woke up one day at twenty years old and decided to change everything.

I flipped my life upside down.

I became the girl who took risks. I became the girl who lived to be wild. I became the girl who would not let a soul stop her. I became the opposite of my previously subpar life.
Before I knew it I was changing everything in my life.
All it took was one night and four people to show me that everything I wanted was waiting for me to take it.
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"You play things safe." he took a long drag of the blunt. My eyes flickered to his lips and the smoke tumbling out of them. His eyes danced over to mine and I forgot how to breath when his lips curved upward into a smirk.
*Extended in Fast Forward