Truth Forever 15

Cali

“He said what?” Gem froze from her place behind the bar, the empty glasses in her hand forgotten as she turned to where I was perched on stool, my arms crossed on the wood as I waited for her afternoon shift to finish.

Not that I wasn’t enjoying myself. There was a freedom to being here. I had felt it from the first moment. This was a place where you could just be …. well just BE. There was no judgement.

“Truth said what?” She repeated when I didn’t answer quick enough.

“He said he had something important to ask me.” I took a sip of the cola in front of me. I wasn’t above day drinking. I had done more of that than was healthy over the last few weeks. But I didn’t want to be falling asleep on Gems sofa before six because I was steaming.

Doing that was a great way to have the piss taken out of you forever. A lesson I had learnt the hard way my first week. I wasn’t going to make that mistake again.

“Important to ask you?” The glasses slipped from her fingers and crashed to the flo