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2021-07-08 07:53:49KIRAN
Some people had come to talk to me and engage in casual conversation while Aurora was gone taking people home, but none of them I thought I could consider becoming a close friend. It was true that some people were nice and personable, but there were some ugly things at this party as well.I noticed that the girls who hung around the jocks were becoming intoxicated quicker than the rest of the partiers. Maybe these girls are just drinking more than others? No, I had kept an eye on the brunette in a red top and jeans and she had only one cup. What was going on?As Aurora left the house and the door behind her shut, one of the jocks who was hanging out casually by the front door came over to gave and his friends and pulled a baggie out of his letterman jacket.The guys all gathered around the glass table, one of them pulling out a credit card of sorts and splitting the contents of the package. Fucking hell, they're snorting coke behind Aurora's bacRelated chapters
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