Pick Me Up! Special

BEAST IN THE SHEETS

Choosing a dress for the evening, I knew I had a night of celebrations ahead of me.

With everything planned for quite a while, going to a friend’s house for their birthday, before heading to Revolution and then seeing where the night would go, I’d been added into a group chat on Facebook with 30 people.

If you want to have some drinks at mine, you can, my friend Joel* messaged – inviting me to pre-drinks back in December 2019.

Knowing roughly half of the group, the party was in full swing with plenty of drinking games.

Only, there was a certain person in particular who didn’t fit in with the group.

‘Hey Kayleigh, how’s it going?’ Craig, a familiar voice, said as I poured another drink.

Having spoken to Craig at previous parties, even staying at his house one time in the past when I couldn’t get home safely, we were platonic – we’d only ever spoken at a party environment when certain

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