You probably want to read chapter 1.....
Coming back from the restroom, I stumbled a bit. Shaking my head I thought to myself, no more of that Devil's Iced Tea.
Having had two, for a girl that never drinks, was a bit much. Through blurred fish eyes I could've sworn I saw, Mrs.Anders? Becca? What do I call her now? Wait, she's leaving?
Before I could think, clear my head, I heard Miss Jane.
"Over here little miss big tits."
Too tipsy, well, drunk actually, to realize she called me that in a crowded room. A room full of professionals. Business people.
Unaware of the chuckles and giggles, the crowded bar just a roar to my ears, I made my way back to the table. My purse sitting where I thought I left it. Miss Jane eyeing me with a smirk.
Still trying to act, dignified. Trying to maintain I slid back into the booth, my skirt sliding up a bit. My panties just flashing. Just.
"Where umm, where was Mrs. Anders going?"
Miss Jane smiled as she took in the view of my legs, my long toned flawless legs. "Oh she's just off on an errand," she replied. "Don't you worry your pretty little head about her."
I hiccuped and wiped a bit of drool off my lip, red gloss smearing a bit. I know. Classy.
"Miss Jane," I slurred, "uumm I need to get back to work I think."
"Of course doll," Miss Jane said with a smile, "but drink this first, it will help you feel better. "
I took the glass. The cool looking liquid clear and clean. Thinking it was water because, I'm sure Miss Jane had my best interests at heart, I took a long deep drink of the elixir. A deep life bringing drink.
Of course it wasn't water.
Miss Jane giggling. Me coughing. Choking. Liquid fire burning through my esophagus. Blazing a trail of pyroclastic flow slowly down where it created a lake of fire in my tummy seeming to remind my stomach lining I was damned for all eternity.
The last thing I heard as I kicked off my heels and ran for the restroom as though the Devil himself was crawling up my throat was Miss Jane chuckling. One word. See if you've heard it before. Everclear.
Things got a little, confusing, after that.
Explosively purging what I could only assume were my internal organs followed by my skeleton.
Some girl asking if I was okay. Some girl saying in long drawn out fashion, "Ewwwwww!"
That's about the point it all went black. Well black with a fiery red border. And it wasn't even two in the afternoon yet...
Mrs. Rebecca Blaine...3 years earlier....
Finley. My dear Finley. College sweetheart. At long last has proposed. Of course I said yes. How could I not?
Dear sweet, handsome, wealthy, educated Professor Finley Anders.
I am so excited I can hardly finish the mornings work. Think I'll head down to the lounge for a noon drink. Just one. A personal celebration.
We have put our careers first throughout our lives. Putting off marriage. Unable to conceive , children were never a concern. Now at the top of our professions, the time has come at last to take the final step.
My dear Finley.
Sitting at the bar, enjoying my zinfandel.
I never noticed her until she was next to me.