EMILY
It was the intermittent searing pain I felt. My eyes slid open slowly and for a few seconds, I couldn't place where I was. It was as if my eyelids intensified my headache as it singed.
When my brain caught up with the fact that I was not in my bedroom. I was startled and gasped lightly. I cringed as my breath stank like rotten mangoes. What in the f*****g hell happened to me? The unstable memories of the night came reeling in.
I remembered buying a six-pack at Felix's bar, and I didn't remember whether I even finished it. I was furious, angry at myself, and had stayed in my apartment all day, staring at the walls, berating myself for what I have become.
I didn't think twice before heading to the bar trying to drink the degree of pain inside me away.
I couldn't bear to watch t
