58. Strippers

Abigail Hayes

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The party was held anyway.

And Olivia was in attendance.

She told me it was her first time at a club but I doubted it because she was acting like a natural. It seemed like she had been in here before. It made me wonder how easy it was to fool the bouncers for a bunch of young teenagers to be let in without a chaperone.

Maya took the honors of renting a room and we kept things light because I was pregnant after all. I couldn’t drink but at least I could dance with my friends.

Maya had invited three other girls we met in college, Everleigh, Emery, and Evelyn, and all six of us partied together. Three of them were triplets and that was why their names all started with E. They were identifiable though as none of them looked like the other.

“If Maya didn’t call me today, I would never have known you were getting married.” Emery, one of the triplets, spoke up, shouting so she could be heard above the loud music.

I shot her a weak smile. When I said family and friends, I r