Chapter 409

• That evening, Jessie met up with Donna and the others at the club that they'd picked to go out to. She'd spent the afternoon with her family and ate dinner with them before meeting her friends.
• After a couple hours of dancing with Donna and her sisters, Jessie desperately needed a rest. Sliding from between Daisy and her gropey boyfriend Tyson, she wound her way through the throng of undulating people to the bar and got a glass of ice water from the bartender.
• Sliding on to an empty barstool, she sipped the water and watched the crowd of people for a while. Declining three requests to dance, she was about to rejoin the group when a tall stranger accidentally bumped into her and quickly apologized.