“Christian you HAVE to go with us to the bar tonight I’m not letting you sit at home instead again...” Alyssa and a group of co workers always went to the bar Friday nights after our shift at the hospital, I would always rather go home and study for school but ‘tonight would be different’ I told myself. “Hey Alyssa, I’ll join you guys tonight at the bar!” I joyfully exclaimed. Alyssa and our Co-worker Brianna lit up with joy seeing as I never go out with them to relax. “Really?!” Alyssas face was full of happiness and excitement. “Maybe you’ll find a man tonight” Bree said jokingly. I laughed but deep down I really did want to fill that empty place in my life.
“See you guys there around 8?” I asked and they agreed. I decided to go back to my house to change out of my work clothes and into something decent. It was 7:30pm and it was time to head out and meet up with the girls for the night. I drove to the bar, parked and sighed, full of anxiety not wanting to get out. ‘Why did you open your mouth’ I thought to myself. If I just kept my mouth shut I would be at home right now studying but I’m not. I’m here...
My phone started to buzz, it was Bree. She texted saying that they were here and going inside to order us our first round of the night. I took a deep breath and got out of the car. ‘Make the best of tonight’ I told myself over and over again making my way into the bar. I went inside and met up with the girls. What felt like hours had only been about half an hour sitting there with the girls as they got shit faced and I was nursing my drink not looking to get black out drunk tonight. I went up to the bar and sat there for awhile, while the girls were dancing to Cotten eyed joe making a fool of themselves stumbling around.
I ordered myself another drink and went on my phone for a few minutes. It had to have been less than ten minutes before I hear a “hey there pretty lady” from next to me. ‘Great an intoxicated man hitting on me.... why me?!’ I thought to myself. I looked over to the man and he was smiling ear to ear just staring back.
“What’s your name?” The man asked me, taking a seat right next to mine. I gave him a weird look and replied “Christian, what’s yours?” Not wanting to make conversation but also trying not to seem rude. “Well it’s nice to meet you Christian, my name’s Travis”. I nodded “nice to meet you Travis” I went back to sipping my drink trying to let the conversation go cold. Hoping he would move on to some other floozy but he didn’t... he kept watching my every move as if he was studying me.
“What brings you here Christian?” He asked me, still watching me intensely. “I’m here with my friends they’re over...” I looked around noticing that my friends were gone. How dare they leave me here alone with this man! I could feel my cheeks get hot with anger and embarrassment. I looked back at the man who looked confused. “I was here with my friends... I’m not sure where they went though...” i grabbed my wallet about to head out the door to go find my friends and he gripped onto my wrist stopping me..
