Chapter 5
Roxxy awoke to a feeling that used to be familiar, but that she hadn’t had ever since she swore off hard partying and vowed to get her act together. That was right after she spent a few months with an alcohol-monitoring bracelet around her ankle, taking court-mandated breathalyzer tests until she’d proved she was truly on the wagon. Many of her friends from back then had gone through the same thing, and went right back to partying after the bracelet was removed. But the whole situation had embarrassed and humiliated Roxxy to no end.
She spent a long time after castigating herself and thinking about what could have happened if she’d run into another car as opposed to a telephone pole. No, she’d decided then and there she didn’t want to spend her life in and out of rehab. She was
