'This story is going to make my mum so worried.' says one Vogue writer.
He looked like a semi-pro soccer player, all cheekbones and glow in the way guys in their early 20s often are. He pulled me away from my friends to the bar, where he bought me a shot. Spun me around until I felt the sambuca sticky between our fingers. Aniseed and mint on his lips when we kissed. “Stand up straight,” he said afterwards, putting his hands on either side of my torso.
There were no taxis, so the four of us climbed onto a rickshaw with me on the guy’s knee to make extra room. I looked out at the city from under a border of pink fluff, the high rises gloomy and gray except for the occasional yellow square puncturing through it like a Mondrian painting. Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” blasted through the speakers. Ubers whooshed past us to pick up girls with sore feet from clubs they didn’t want to be at anymore. It felt as if the city belonged to us.
Two middle-aged women burst through the door, screaming and shouting, grabbed me and my friend by the scruffs of our necks and clip-in extensions, and dragged us down a flight of stairs. The guys we were with just sat there watching, occasionally trying to placate the women by saying something like “leave it out” or “come on.” They looked scared but not shocked, as if they’d watched this happen a number of times before.
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