Drinking: A Narrative Fiction

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It was like any other morning, she was still asleep in her bed in the nobles castle that stood quietly within the deep forest, next minute she was sleeping the other she got hit with a pillow full of feathers that flew all over the bedroom. She awoke in a meager angry mood after getting hit with a pillow, then being forced to stand up front waiting for a group of people that were meant to appear that day, she waited for hours nearly dark and no one showed. The next thing she did was to decide onto going into town for a beer since she was having such a shitty day. She then met the man she was destined to run into again, his name was Edward, course she didnt find out till they started drinking, having him slip a knock out pill into her drink

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