Embarrassing myself in front of my best friend’s stepbrother

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Aimee widens her eyes when I tell the bartender, “Another gin and tonic, please.”

“Um, Raven, I don’t mean to sound judgmental, but isn’t that, like, your fourth gin and tonic?” my friend asks.

“I think it’s my third,” I say.

“It’s your fifth,” Sam, the bartender, says gruffly.