It’s a party trick I’ve been able to pull off since I was fifteen, a sure-fire way to impress people, if that’s what I’m going for. The ultimate cool-girl trick. But tonight, for the first time ever, I fail. And I fail hard. The first bottle cap lifts between my teeth as normal, but the second wrenches, the bottleneck jerks in my mouth, and suddenly there’s glass and blood and— Ow! Shit. Ow!
This happened, very memorably, at a student party at my then-boyfriend's house in our second year of uni. I wrote this specific scene – of all the characters to give this particular mistake to, it had to be Suze – and then crafted the rest of the chapter around it.
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