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I answer looking at the tv as I take another gulp, we watch a random movie about something where someone did something or someone. It was boring so I down an entire jar while I timed myself then karma took over and she did the same just to see who could win.
Thankfully all my practice had done me well because I won by 10 entire seconds it was so much fun.
“What the hell are you doing?”
Joe asks me, I frown at him
“What does It look like I’m doing?”
“Like your playing a drinking game with your wolf”
I nod
“Oh well then you would be right, it’s fun you should try it”
“What? No, my wolf doesn’t want to die of alcohol poisoning”
I wag my hand at him
“Oh please that doesn’t happen”
He snorts
“Just because you have spent the last 2 years perfecting your alcohol tolerance does not mean it’s not real”
I shrug taking another swig, by now it was going down like water on a hot summer day.
“I wonder what you're going to do when the drink stops working?”
My heart nearly stops beating at the terrifying thought
“What the hell, why would it not work?”
“Well eventually you will become tolerant of it”
“Your lying”
I snap
“He’s lying”
Karma snaps pushing forward to peer out of my eyes
“He’s lying I can smell it, he’s just trying to scare us”
“He wouldn’t do that, omg did you do that?”
I ask him, he shakes his head chuckling at us
“Yes I’m lying, but seriously you're on your 7th jar and I’m only on jar 2, there is something wrong with you”
I down the last of my glass and add the jar to the rest of them
“Number 8 and I’m still winning”
“Yeah seriously joe you're letting down the team”
Karma pushes forward to tell him
“It’s really weird having a conversation with a drunk, her wolf and myself all at the same time”
“Yeah we are awesome that way”
She answers
“So I was wondering, what’s it feel like to kiss someone?”
He starts choking on his drink, coughing and spluttering like he’s about to die
“I think you broke him”
“You have never kissed anyone?”
I shake my head, opening a new jar
“Nope”
“Not ever?”
I shake my head
“That’s like the saddest thing iv ever heard, no wonder you're a drunk”
He says, I pout sadly at him. He was right, 18 and iv never been kissed.
He jumps up coming to my side and lifts a new jar out for himself, he downs half the jar as I down my own. He shakes himself as the liquid hits his throat then he smiles at me.
“If your mate comes to kill me in my sleep for doing this I expect you to take the blame”
I frown as he grabs my shirt and yanks me towards him, slamming his lips against mine. It instantly feels weird but I don’t stop it.
“Is this how it’s meant to feel?”
Karma whispers, slightly tipsy as he awkwardly sticks his tongue in my mouth
“This is gross, why is kissing so gross”
She snaps
“We should stop this”
I ask her, she shrugs
“Why, you're already doing it”
She answers just as joe pulls away
“Damn I’m good”
He says proudly, I just look at him unsure of how to say that that was possibly the most disturbing thing that’s ever happened to me.
“Thank you”
I sag back as karma laughs in my head thinking it’s hilarious. I down the drink in my hand as he moves back to his side of the couch.
“Well this just got f*****g awkward”
I say out loud, he snorts and laughs as I just stare at him. Unsure of what the hell to say.
“Maybe we should just leave”
Karma whisper,
“We can’t do that, he will think he did something wrong”
“He did, that was all types of wrong, have mum come to collect us. Say it’s a kingdom emergency”
“Will that work?”
“Please try something, I can’t look at his face without laughing”
“Mummmmmmmmmmmmyyy”
I open the link between us
“Whattttttttttt”
She answers immediately
“So you know when your friend goes on a blind date and she asks you to ring her in 20 minutes in case she needs to escape”
“Mmmhhmmmm”
“Well I didn’t go on a date but joe just kissed me and now shits weird, can you come to collect me and pretend there is an emergency then tell him I moved to Egypt for work so I never need to see him again”
All I hear is laughing down the link for a long time as joe just goes back to watching the movie like he didn’t just ruin our entire friendship
“Kind of wish we were paying him to be our friend, it would be so much easier to fire him than to ghost him”
Suddenly mum appears in front of me making joe scream and jump away clutching his chest
“What the fuckkkkk”
He screeches like a big baby
“There you are! Why is your phone off? We have an emergency at work come on we need to go”
I jump up and grab 2 jars and hand them to mum and then I take 2 for myself grabbing her arm
“Oh s**t how disappointing, sorry joe I’ll see you around, thanks for everything. bye”
And we are gone….
As we appear in the living room I sag in relief
“Thank the heavens that was t*****e”
I take the jars from a mum who’s busy shaking her head
“You are crazy, you know he’s going to feel that right?”
My heart constricts, my jaw ticks and I clench my fists opening the jar and taking a swig.
“Don’t care!”
I say taking a seat on the couch with my drink.
“What happened, it’s not like how you think it is”
Mum says nervously
“Are you seriously taking his side? After what he did?”
She shakes her head giving me a sympathetic smile
“No love I’m not, I won’t ever do that but there are reasons that I can’t explain that make it so it’s not his fault”
I frown looking at dad who was busy staring off into space
“What does that even mean mum? What’s he doing?”
I say pointing at dad
“Work, ignore him. Look it’s hard to explain but what happened was not his fault”
“Why what happened?”
“I can’t say but trust me”
Karma growls in my head, turning and storming to the back of my head and slamming the door in my face. I don’t blame her, I’m pissed at that answer.
I lift the jar and down it, then I lift a new one, my head finally getting light as I drown my sorrows, too pissed off to talk anymore.
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