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She shot up from her bed breathing heavily. It was a dream, her mind told her. "AH!" she yelled. She threw her alarm clock across the room. She sat there thinking and wondering what she was going to do. They only thing she knew was that what that man, Johnny, told her the previous day got to her and got her thinking.
She got up, changed, and went for her morning jog. Every morning since she was about 10, she got up and went for a 3-mile jog, maybe more if she were up to it. Today was a different day. She jogged near the beach, like every morning for her first mile. She stopped when she saw Bradin limping out of the water. She ran up to him. He looked up at her.
"Where's your stuff?" she asked.
He pointed to a towel and bag that weren't that far away. She placed an arm around his waist and his arm around her and helped him to his stuff. She helped him sit down before sitting beside him.
"Are you okay?" she asked.
"I guess," he responded softly with a shrug.
"I guess I'm just wasting my time here trying to make things work," she said as she got up.
"You drank!" he yelled making her turn around, "How could you?"
She turned around and looked at him. "You think I would drink?" she asked.
"It's what Lacey said."
"And you believe her," she said not believing what was happening, "Someone spiked my drink. Not in a million years will I drink if I'm upset. It will just make me worse."
"But you do drink," he told her.
"Once in a blue moon. Before that night, I haven't drank since...one day two years ago at a party that my parents threw. They let me drink. I only drank up to my limit, which was one bottle of some mix drink. Then, I felt sick and stopped. I will do it again when I turn what ever the drinking age is and dirnk all of that night to celebrate and on some holidays. But I would never drink if I'm upset or anything like that. I'm not going to do something else that I regret."
"Something else?" he asked.
"Something else," she repeated. She turned to walk away when she felt him grab her hand.
"Meet me tonight...here on the beach," he said.
She turned around and saw him looking at her. She nodded. He smiled and kissed her hand before letting her go until that night where he would try to change everything between them.