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Following that horrific night at the bar, things in my stomach couldn’t settle.
I wasn’t sure if it was simple anxiety, stress, or that I just never fully recovered from that mysterious bout of illness that I had suffered through a few nights prior.
It didn’t matter one way or another. The only thing that did matter was the humiliation that hovered over me like a dark cloud that night at the bar with Madi, Colter Sloan and his mysterious, beautiful, and insufferably condescending girlfriend.
I wasn’t aware of most of what the girl was talking about which only served to make me feel even more inadequate than I had already felt being there.
Madison and Colter seemed like laid back
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