Horror Stories from Horrified - Volume One (2)

fuzzy at the edges with every drink Sam gulped down.
And then he saw her, completely in focus. Laura.
He gulped the whiskey back, feeling comfort as it burned in his guts. Dan said she
wouldn?t be here. Dan had lied.
She entered hand in hand with a lad he recognised from Sunday league football. He
couldn?t look up for fear of vomiting. Before he knew it, he was surrounded by the
scent of her perfume. And he was too terrified to look up.
"Hi Sam, how are you?"
When he finally did look up, he was relieved to find she was on her own.
"Great," he sneered. He noticed she was pouring two drinks.
"I assume that one?s not for me."
"Don?t be like that Sam. It?s New Year?s Eve. I didn?t want to come to a party by
myself."
"You wouldn?t have been by yourself. There were loads of people here the last time I
looked." It was meant to sound charming but he could tell by her response that, under
the influence of too much whiskey it hadn?t come out that way at all.
"Sam, please. It?s been three months. I?m the one who should be upset. It was you
who cheated on me, remember?"
He watched her walk away, two drinks in her hands. She was right. He had cheated
on her. With some girl he?d met in a nightclub and never saw again. Their
relationship thrown away on a one-night stand.
The girls in the kitchen had stopped arguing with each other and instead were
looking in his direction. No chance of a midnight kiss from anyone now. Well, screw
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