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Well, if she was happy doing it, then whatever. I smiled. “Sounds good.”
“But you?” Those lashes batted again. “Working at a bar? I didn’t think you drank at all,” she stated, her glossy pink lips turning down at the corners in confusion. “Have you ever been drunk?”
I didn’t get drunk. Well, because of Mom. I could feel Roxy’s eyes on me. “I will drink a beer or two, but I’ve never been drunk.”
“What?” Roxy all but shouted.
Reece and the boys looked up from their tables. I lowered my voice as I felt my cheeks burn. “Well, it’s probably good that I don’t really drink since I’m working at a bar.”
Roxy gaped at me. “You’ve never known the wonders of being shitfaced?”
“Getting tipsy is fun . . .” Katie trailed off as a good-looking man, maybe in his late twenties, saddled up to the bar.
“Whiskey. Straight up,” he ordered, his gaze flickering over me and then to Roxy, who reached for the short glass.
Katie’s gaze started at the tips of the man’s dark-colored boots, up his jeans, white shirt, and traveled straight up to his wavy ash-blond hair. “Damn, I’d like to get tipsy with that.”
The guy gave her a long, lingering look—a purely male look I’d seen tossed around a lot during my short time at the bar, that said he was all about seeing her naked. He then grinned before turning back, heading for the table Reece was sitting at.
“Anyway, your whole life is about to change,” Katie announced randomly. She plopped her chin back in her palm. “For real.”
I blinked once and then twice, and managed to ignore Roxy’s elbow that she shoved discreetly in my side. “Come again?”
“I’m telling you. Your whole life is going to change,” Katie continued, and Roxy bumped her hip into mine. “This summer is going to be epic.”
I had no idea where this conversation was going. “Well, my life has already kind of changed.”
“Oh, no. I’m not talking about what has already happened. It’s what’s about to happen.” Katie leaned onto the bar, and I thought her boobs were going to spill right out of the top of her sequined dress and wipe down the bar for me. It would be like a nipple wipe-down. “You see, I got the gift.”
The gift of stripping? “Um. What kind of gift?”
“Oh boy,” muttered Roxy.
Katie tapped a long, French manicured finger off her temple. “The gift. Sight. Psychic. Whatever they’re calling it nowadays. I get feelings about things and I just know things.”
Um . . .
I had no idea how to respond to that, and I wasn’t sure if she was serious, but Katie had always been odd, so I was going to go with yes, and Roxy was absolutely no help. From behind her glasses, she was squinting at the ceiling, her lips twitching as she pressed them into a firm line.
“So, um . . . did you have this gift in high school?” I asked.
Katie laughed. “No. I had an accident. Woke up the next day with the gift.”
“What . . . what kind of accident?” I asked, wondering if I should know or not.
“Oh Lordy Lord,” muttered Roxy.
“Fell off the damn pole.”
Oh my God. “The pole?”
She nodded as she ran a fingertip along the bottom of her lip. “Yep. Those damn bitches oil themselves up like they’re going to take a skinny-dip in a deep fryer, so sometimes the pole gets slippery if it doesn’t get wiped down. And trust me, after some of the girls, you want to wipe that pole down.”
My eyes widened, and all I could picture was a slicked-up stripper pole.
A short giggle escaped Roxy and ended in a forced, fake cough as she grabbed a bottle and then three shot glasses.
Oh no.
“Anyway, I got on the pole for a show. Busy night, too. On a Saturday, and I was doing this thing where I hang upside down.” Katie leaned back and raised her arms, and for a second I thought she was going to reenact the whole thing, and I had a feeling it was about to become a boob apocalypse. “And I was all like this.” Twisting her arms together, a rather convincing sexed-over look crossed her pretty face. “Just upside down, right?”
“Right,” I mumbled as Roxy poured brown liquid into the three shot glasses.
“Next thing I know, my legs are slipping down the pole, and I’m all like ‘Man down!’ or at least ‘Stripper down!’”
Another funny-sounding cough escaped Roxy as she slammed the bottle on the bar, and I forced myself to take several deep breaths as I murmured, “Oh noes.”
“Yep,” she said. “Cracked my head right off the stage. I was out like a belly button.”
Out like a belly button? What the what?
“And the rest is Long Island Medium history, but without seeing the dead people or the cool, poofy blond hair.”
“Really?” I gasped out.
She nodded. “So your life’s going to change. Ain’t going to be easy, but it’s going to change.”
I turned slowly and looked at Roxy.
“Shots anyone?” she offered.
“Shots! Shots! S-S-S-hots!” Katie shrieked, snatching one of the glasses as she bounced her shoulders back and forth. A freaking second later, her shot was gone.
“Impressive,” I said.
Katie grinned.
After Roxy took her shot, both of the girls looked at me, and I shook my head. “I don’t think so.”
“Told you,” Katie said.
Roxy frowned at me. “I want to see you taste liquor for the first time, and I poured you the good shit.”
My stomach coiled tight. The idea of seriously drinking, of not having control and . . . I couldn’t even think about it.
Sighing, Katie reached over and grabbed my shot. “Snooze, you lose.” She downed it and then cracked the glass off the bar top. “Yeah, I just said that. And yeah, I got to go and make some mon-nay! See you later, bitches!”
I watched Katie spin like a ballerina on her heels and head for the door just as it opened and two other girls walked in. One of them, a busty redhead, curled her lip in Katie’s direction and then whispered something to her friend, causing the other lady to giggle.
Eyes narrowing, I realized I didn’t like that.
Katie stopped, looked the redhead straight in the eyes, and said, “I’ll cut a bitch.”
Roxy’s mouth dropped open.
I snorted. Yep. Like a pig in a cozy blanket.
The redhead paled and the other woman flushed.
“And those bitches back there won’t serve you, so you can go hang out at Apple-Back down the street.” Katie glanced over her shoulder at us. “Right?”
Since I figured I had some ownership over the bar, I nodded. “Right.”
“Be gone, bitches.” Katie all but ushered them back out the door, pausing to throw us what looked like a gang sign. “Peace out, home skillets!”
Roxy and I were quiet for a good minute and then I looked at her. “Katie’s always been a wee bit different, but I’ve always liked her.”
She nodded as she grabbed up our shot glasses, grinning. “Oddly enough, she has been right with some of her predictions. She told me something once . . .” Her tiny button nose wrinkled. “Something I really should’ve listened to.”
I gaped. “You’re kidding me, right?”
“Nope,” she remarked. “But I love that girl. Crazy shit always happens when she’s in here. And I like her feelings.”
“Feelings . . .”
“Feeee-lings,” Roxy crooned loud enough that Reece’s table turned in our direction again.
Namely Reece.
His lips were hitched at the corners as he watched Roxy spin around like a drunk go-go dancer and place the shot glasses in the tray to be cleaned. She twisted back to me and pointed. “Nothing more than—”
“Feeee-lings,” I sang, just as badly and loudly. Probably more badly. “Trying to forget my feeee-lings . . .”
“Oooof loooove,” Roxy belted out as she spread her arms and bowed dramatically.
A round of applause went up from Reece’s table, and we broke into a fit of giggles just as Jax rounded the bar. He stopped a few feet from us, grinning as he eyed me. “What in the holy hell is going on out here?”
“Nothing,” Roxy sung, and I stared at him a moment too long, but he looked good in his jeans, like always, and in his worn shirt, but then she twirled back to me. “So you’ve never been drunk?”
“Back to this again?” I crossed my arms. I’d rather be singing.
Jax’s grin slipped into a look of incredulous disbelief. “What?”
I rolled my eyes. “Is it really that big of a deal?”
“She’s never been drunk,” Roxy pointed out to Jax, who was still staring at me like I had whipped off my top and was shaking my ta-tas at him. “Like ever.”
“Do you drink at all?” he asked, strolling forward, and somehow he managed to get in the minuscule space between Roxy and me, which meant the entire left side of his body was pressed against mine.
I tried to suppress the shiver of response and lost. “I drink a beer or two every once in a while.” Truth was, I never finished a whole beer in my life.
Placing a hand on the bar top, he angled his body toward mine, which lined our hips up and put me at eye level with the tight black shirt that stretched over his chest. Oh my. I could see his pecs. The boy had actual pecs. “Have you ever drunk liquor before?”
I shook my head as I stared at his chest.
“Not once?”
“Nope,” I whispered. Staring at a guy’s chest like it was a chocolate mousse cake was dumb, but it was the kind of dumb I liked.
“Before that drink I tried, I’d never tasted liquor,” sighed Roxy. “Never been drunk. Missing out on a lot of stupid.”
“We’re going to have to change that.” Out of the corner of my eyes, I could see Jax move his other hand. My chin jerked up as he tucked a strand of my hair back behind my left cheek. “Soon.”
When he exposed my left cheek, I jerked back, banging my butt into the ice well. I could see Roxy watching us, brows raised and grinning. God, this bar needed to be busier on Thursday nights so it would leave Jax less time to torture me.
And Jax was really in the mood to torture me with his charm and flirt. He dipped his head, and I knew it wasn’t just Roxy watching us. “What else haven’t you done? I think you said something about this before.”
My breath caught in my throat and then was released. Him being so close threw me. “I haven’t been to the beach.”

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Nah, jika ia merasa bahagia melakukan itu, maka apa pun. Aku tersenyum. "Kedengarannya bagus.""Tetapi Anda?" Mereka cambukan batted lagi. "Bekerja di bar? Saya tidak berpikir Anda minum sama sekali,"ia menyatakan, bibir merah muda mengilap menolak di sudut-sudut dalam kebingungan. "Apakah Anda pernah mabuk?"Aku tidak mendapatkan mabuk. Yah, karena ibu. Aku bisa merasakan Roxy di mata saya. "Aku akan minum bir atau dua, tapi aku belum pernah mabuk.""Apa?" Roxy semua tapi berteriak.Reece dan anak-anak memandang keatas dari meja mereka. Aku menurunkan suara saya saat aku merasa pipiku membakar. "Yah, itu mungkin baik bahwa saya benar-benar tidak minum sejak I bekerja di bar."Roxy menganga padaku. "Anda tidak pernah mengenal keajaiban sedang shitfaced?""Mendapatkan mabuk adalah menyenangkan..." Katie membuntuti sebagai seorang pria tampan, mungkin di akhir dua puluhan, dibebani sampai ke bar."Wiski. Lurus ke atas,"ia memerintahkan, dengan tatapan yang berkedip-kedip atasku dan kemudian ke Roxy, yang mencapai untuk kaca pendek.Katie tatapan dimulai di ujung boot berwarna gelap manusia, up jeans-nya, kemeja putih, dan bepergian ke rambut pirang abu bergelombang. "Sialan, aku ingin mendapatkan mabuk dengan itu."Pria memberinya yang panjang, berlama-lama melihat-lihat murni laki-laki telah kulihat terombang-ambing banyak selama waktu singkat saya di bar, yang mengatakan dia adalah semua tentang melihatnya telanjang. Dia kemudian menyeringai sebelum berbalik kembali, menuju meja Reece duduk di."Pokoknya, seluruh hidup Anda akan berubah," Katie mengumumkan secara acak. Dia menjatuhkan diri dagunya kembali di telapak tangan. "Untuk nyata."Saya berkedip sekali dan kemudian dua kali, dan dikelola untuk mengabaikan Roxy di siku yang dia mendorong diam-diam di sisi saya. "Datang lagi?""Aku bilang. Seluruh hidup Anda akan berubah,"Katie terus, dan Roxy bertemu pinggul dengan saya. "Musim panas ini akan menjadi epik."Aku tidak tahu mana percakapan ini akan pergi. "Yah, hidup saya sudah agak berubah.""Oh, tidak ada. Saya tidak berbicara tentang apa yang telah terjadi. Itu adalah apa yang akan terjadi. " Katie bersandar ke bar, dan saya pikir payudaranya akan tumpah keluar dari bagian atas gaun sequined dan usap bawah bar untuk saya. Itu akan seperti puting menghapus-down. "Anda lihat, saya mendapat karunia."Karunia pengupasan? "Um. Apa jenis hadiah?""Oh anak laki-laki," bergumam Roxy.Katie mengetuk panjang, Perancis terawat jari off Candi-nya. "Hadiah. Penglihatan. Psikis. Apa pun yang they memanggil itu saat ini. Saya mendapatkan perasaan tentang hal-hal dan saya hanya tahu hal-hal."UMM...Aku tidak tahu bagaimana menanggapi itu, dan aku tidak yakin jika dia serius, tetapi Katie selalu aneh, jadi aku akan pergi dengan ya, dan Roxy adalah benar-benar tidak membantu. Dari kacamatanya, dia adalah menyipitkan mata memandang langit-langit, bibirnya bergerak-gerak seperti dia ditekan mereka ke baris perusahaan."Jadi, um... Apakah Anda memiliki karunia ini di sekolah tinggi?" Saya bertanya.Katie tertawa. "No. saya mengalami kecelakaan. Bangun keesokan harinya dengan karunia.""Apa... apa jenis kecelakaan?" Aku bertanya-tanya jika saya harus tahu atau tidak."Oh Tuhan Lordy," bergumam Roxy."Jatuh tiang sialan."Ya ampun. "Kutub?"Dia mengangguk sebagai dia berlari jari sepanjang bagian bawah bibir. "Yap. Sialan pelacur minyak sendiri atas seperti mereka akan mengambil skinny-dip di deep fryer, jadi kadang-kadang tiang mendapat licin jika itu tidak mendapatkan dilap. Dan percayalah, setelah beberapa gadis, Anda harus menghapus tiang itu.Mataku melebar, dan semua aku bisa membayangkan adalah tiang penari dipercantik-up.Tawa pendek lolos Roxy dan berakhir pada batuk dipaksa, palsu seperti Dia menyambar botol dan kemudian tiga gelas shot.Oh tidak."Pokoknya, aku punya di tiang untuk menunjukkan. Sibuk malam, terlalu. Pada hari Sabtu, dan aku melakukan hal ini di mana saya menggantung terbalik. " Katie bersandar kembali dan mengangkat lengannya, dan untuk kedua saya pikir dia akan menghidupkan kembali seluruh hal, dan saya mempunyai perasaan itu akan menjadi Wahyu payudara. "Dan aku adalah semua seperti ini." Memutar tangan bersama-sama, lihat sexed-atas agak meyakinkan menyeberangi wajahnya yang cantik. "Hanya terbalik, kan?""Benar," gumamku sebagai Roxy menuangkan cairan cokelat ke dalam tiga gelas shot."Hal berikutnya yang saya tahu, kaki saya tergelincir turun tiang, dan saya semua seperti 'Man turun!' atau setidaknya 'Stripper turun!'"Another funny-sounding cough escaped Roxy as she slammed the bottle on the bar, and I forced myself to take several deep breaths as I murmured, “Oh noes.”“Yep,” she said. “Cracked my head right off the stage. I was out like a belly button.”Out like a belly button? What the what?“And the rest is Long Island Medium history, but without seeing the dead people or the cool, poofy blond hair.”“Really?” I gasped out.She nodded. “So your life’s going to change. Ain’t going to be easy, but it’s going to change.”I turned slowly and looked at Roxy.“Shots anyone?” she offered.“Shots! Shots! S-S-S-hots!” Katie shrieked, snatching one of the glasses as she bounced her shoulders back and forth. A freaking second later, her shot was gone.“Impressive,” I said.Katie grinned.After Roxy took her shot, both of the girls looked at me, and I shook my head. “I don’t think so.”“Told you,” Katie said.Roxy frowned at me. “I want to see you taste liquor for the first time, and I poured you the good shit.”My stomach coiled tight. The idea of seriously drinking, of not having control and . . . I couldn’t even think about it.Sighing, Katie reached over and grabbed my shot. “Snooze, you lose.” She downed it and then cracked the glass off the bar top. “Yeah, I just said that. And yeah, I got to go and make some mon-nay! See you later, bitches!”Saya menyaksikan Katie berputar seperti balerina di belakangnya dan kepala untuk pintu seperti itu dibuka dan dua gadis lain masuk. Salah satunya, busty redhead, meringkuk bibir Katie arah dan kemudian membisikkan sesuatu kepada temannya, menyebabkan wanita lain tertawa.Mata penyempitan, aku menyadari bahwa aku tidak seperti itu.Katie berhenti, memandang si rambut merah langsung di mata dan berkata, "Saya akan memotong seorang pelacur."Roxy's mulut menganga.Aku mendengus. Yap. Seperti babi dalam selimut nyaman.Paled si rambut merah dan memerah wanita lain."Dan orang-orang sundal kembali ada tidak akan melayani Anda, sehingga Anda bisa nongkrong di Apple-kembali di jalan." Katie menoleh bahunya pada kami. "Benar?"Karena saya pikir saya punya beberapa kepemilikan atas bar, saya mengangguk. "Benar.""Hilang, pelacur." Katie semua tapi diantar mereka kembali keluar dari pintu, berhenti sejenak untuk melempar kita apa yang tampak seperti tanda geng. "Perdamaian keluar, penggorengan rumah!"Roxy dan aku tenang selama menit baik dan kemudian aku memandang dirinya. "Katie selalu sudah wee bit berbeda, tapi aku selalu menyukai dirinya."Dia mengangguk sebagai Dia menyambar up kami gelas shot, menyeringai. "Anehnya, dia telah benar dengan beberapa prediksi nya. Dia pernah mengatakan kepadaku sesuatu... " Hidungnya tombol kecil berkerut. "Sesuatu aku benar-benar harus sudah mendengarkan."Saya menganga. "Anda sedang bercanda saya, kan?""Tidak," Dia berkata. "Tapi aku mencintai gadis itu. Gila kotoran selalu terjadi ketika dia sini. Dan aku suka perasaannya.""Perasaan...""Feeee-lings," Roxy crooned cukup keras bahwa tabel Reece's berubah ke arah kami lagi.Yaitu Reece.Bibirnya yang dipasang di sudut-sudut saat ia melihat Roxy berputar di sekitar seperti penari go-go mabuk dan tempat gelas shot di atas nampan untuk dibersihkan. Dia memutar kembali ke saya dan menunjuk. "Tidak lebih dari""Feeee-lings," Aku bernyanyi, hanya sebagai buruk dan keras. Mungkin lebih buruk. "Berusaha melupakan saya feeee-lings...""Oooof loooove," Roxy bersabuk keluar ketika ia menyebar tangan dan menundukkan secara dramatis.Putaran tepuk tangan naik dari Yosefina Meja, dan kita masuk ke fit dari cekikikan seperti Jax bulat bar. Dia berhenti beberapa kaki dari kami, menyeringai seperti dia bermata saya. "Apa di neraka Kudus yang terjadi di sini?""Tidak ada," dinyanyikan Roxy, dan aku menatap kepadanya saat terlalu lama, tetapi dia tampak baik dalam jeans-nya, seperti biasa, dan kemeja dipakai, tapi kemudian ia dililit kembali ke saya. "Jadi Anda tidak pernah mabuk?""Kembali ke ini lagi?" Saya melintasi lengan saya. Saya suka akan bernyanyi.JAX di grin menyelinap ke tampilan percaya kekafiran. "Apa?"Aku berguling mataku. "Apakah itu benar-benar bahwa masalah besar?""Dia tidak pernah mabuk," Roxy menunjukkan kepada Jax, yang adalah masih menatapku seperti aku telah melecut off saya top dan gemetar saya ta-tas kepadanya. "Seperti pernah.""Apakah kamu minum sama sekali?" Dia bertanya, berjalan-jalan ke depan, dan entah bagaimana ia berhasil mendapatkan di ruang kecil antara Roxy dan saya, yang berarti seluruh sisi tubuhnya kiri ditekan terhadap saya.Aku mencoba untuk menekan shiver respon dan hilang. "Aku minum bir atau dua setiap sekali dalam beberapa saat." Kebenaran adalah, saya tidak pernah selesai bir seluruh dalam hidupku.Menempatkan tangan pada bar atas, ia miring tubuhnya ke arah saya, yang berbaris pinggul kami dan menempatkan saya di tingkat mata dengan kemeja hitam ketat yang membentang di atas dada. Oh saya. Aku bisa melihat nya pecs. Anak laki-laki memiliki pecs sebenarnya. "Apakah Anda pernah mabuk minuman sebelum?"Saya menganggukkan kepala ketika aku menatap dadanya."Tidak sekali?""Tidak," bisikku. Menatap dada seorang pria seperti itu kue mousse cokelat adalah bodoh, tapi itu jenis bodoh aku menyukai."Sebelum minum itu aku mencoba, aku tidak pernah mencicipi minuman keras," mendesah Roxy. "Pernah mabuk. Kehilangan pada banyak bodoh.""Kami akan memiliki untuk mengubah itu." Dari sudut mataku, aku bisa melihat Jax menggerakkan tangannya lain. Dagu saya tersentak seperti ia terselip untai rambut saya kembali di belakang pipi kiri saya. "Segera."Ketika ia terkena pipi kiri saya, aku tersentak kembali, memukul-mukul pantatku ke es juga. Aku bisa melihat Roxy menonton kita, alis dibesarkan dan menyeringai. Tuhan, bar ini diperlukan untuk menjadi sibuk pada Kamis malam sehingga itu akan meninggalkan Jax kurang waktu untuk menyiksa saya.Dan Jax benar-benar dalam mood untuk menyiksa saya dengan pesona nya dan bermain-main. Ia mencelupkan kepalanya, dan aku tahu itu tidak hanya Roxy menonton kami. "Apa pun belum Anda lakukan? Saya pikir Anda mengatakan sesuatu tentang ini sebelumnya."Napas tertangkap di tenggorokan saya dan kemudian dirilis. Dia menjadi begitu dekat melemparkan saya. "Aku belum pernah ke pantai."