>be me, 13 >alcohol kinda seemed scary >i sticky noted everything in the fridge to ensure I didn't fall for the "vodka in a water bottle" trick. >the cousins I lived with thought this was hilarious. Said they'd get me one day. >??? i ignored them, they were stupid anyway. >not thinking they could fill my sticky note bottles with vodka, I lived safe, in my opinion. >over a year after I started this "sticky note labeling" they started getting suspicious. >parties became a common thing around this time so I got pretty chill about alcohol. >every bottle I drank wasn't labeled after I hit 16, I stopped worrying about it but still never drank alcohol. >cousins eventually realized this. >hey wanna go for a drink with us? they'd ask every week, looking for some kind of response. I never got the hint. >uknowit.jpg >coming up on my 17th, they did it. >knowing I wasn't prepared, they set up a fake bottle in the fridge. >thinking it was water, I chugged half. My throat burned so, so much. >every time I swallowed, it was like fire. My head hurt quite a bit for the first few hours. >so being logical, I laid down and constrained myself to my phone. No going outside like that. >thinking became hard. I remember texting my ex >and I sent drunkenly, "would you read the first letter of every line?"