Am I the Only One by E.K. Blair

Author:E.K. Blair [Blair, E.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: novel
Publisher: E.K. Blair
Published: 2020-07-09T23:00:00+00:00

Emma

The bass of the music thumps heavily, rattling the dance floor and sending its vibrations through my body, which is halfway to numb. With my arms in the air, I lean my head back as the guy I’m dancing with moves in closer from behind me. Lights strobe throughout the club, and Olivia’s laughter echoes from nearby.

Where?

I’m not sure.

I’ve drowned my anxiety in liquor to the point of freedom. Freedom from my financial burdens, freedom from Carly calling me the other day and stressing me the fuck out, freedom from just about everything.

One shot, two shot, three shot, blasted is what I am.

Hot Guy pillows my head with his broad shoulder as he moves in perfect time with the music. He told me his name, but that was after my blood dissolved into alcohol, and I don’t remember what it is. With his hands low on my hips, he turns me around when the DJ shifts into another song with the same beat. I slip my arms around his shoulders to keep my balance, and when one of Olivia’s friends holds out another shot for me, Hot Guy takes it and pours it into my mouth as they all cheer me on.

There’s no flavor.

No burn.

No anything as I dance the night away.

My head spins, taking me on a wild tilt-a-whirl, and when I open my eyes, I find myself on a small leather couch in the back of the club. Hot Guy is nowhere in sight, but Olivia is stumbling up the two steps to where I’m sitting. She flops down next to me in a fit of giggles as the rest of her girlfriends follow up the steps, equally amused by whatever the hell they find to be so funny.

“Are you having fun?” she yells over the music, to which I give a lazy nod. “Are you wasted?”

Again, another nod. I’m not sure how to get my muscles to move in order to talk.

Girls’ night. When the day rolled around, I was already regretting my choice to join them. It’s one thing for me to hit a local campus bar with Luca and have a few drinks, but this is the nonsense I try to avoid. Yet, here I am, in the throngs of desperate, horny drunk people who are looking for their next lay.

I’m blinded when the lights flash on, and then someone announces, “Last call!”

“Shit,” I groan, slinging my arm over my eyes.

The music lowers in volume, and a few people flock to the bar to get their last drink before calling it a night.

“I need a taxi,” I slur to anyone who’s paying attention. “Can someone call me a ride?”

“I’ll be your ride,” Olivia chirps. “I’m not tossing you in some skeezy taxi.”

My eyes fall shut as the girls continue to squeal and laugh. My hands have finally lost all feeling, causing me to grin. At least, I think I’m grinning. It isn’t until Olivia and one of her friends pull me to my feet that I realize my legs are numb too.

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