Chapter Three
The Other Side
It has taken twenty-one years, but Kelly is finally a card carrying adult. She could have a drink at a bar using her own driver’s license. She did have a drink now and then, but at least now, she is of legal age. There had been one incident, a couple years back, when she had a borrowed driver’s license at a bar. The owner caught her, and a security guard called her father. Kelly was crushed. Her dad came down to the bar and picked her up.
Her dad commented, “Kelly, I can understand you having a phony ID, but why did you give them your real phone number?”
“I was scared.” She barely held back the tears. Now that she is twenty-one, she is finally past that inconvenience.
Kelly’s family had a big birthday dinner for her at a favorite restaurant. A drink and wi
