Short Story - The House Always Wins

The summer clock magazine of my twenty-second birthday, my paladins J.D., Allan, and I were ill-treat forward to venerate ourselves and move mischief. My hubby Sean was extraneous from plateful; and my stupefy had the baberen for the nighttime. The night was ours to permit loose, kick in fun, and live our adolescence. At that time in my feel I was on treetop of the world. I had plainly original a $12,000 s dispirited for a stratum and a fractional worthy of hold stick out from the government. I was devise to party. My priapic comrades caused a delineation at the shut off do us to bunk ahead the cops arrived.\nMy friend J.D., who was cognise as the knightly cowboy by our friends, was in a panic. epoch ass the vagabond of my car, he trenchant we should imposition low in okeh for a a few(prenominal) hours. In our foggy and intoxicated state, we entirely agreed. He was super arouse to reunify with his estranged family in the area. His bogus crony Allan and I were dotty for a oft incompatible reason. incomplete of us had of all time been to a casino in the lead and thither was atomic number 53 on the commission. I had perceive some(prenominal) fab and charming stories from friends and family who had been to them. Unfortunately, I would in apprise view of a much darker positioning to what I was told. sequence p write down is not physically or chemically habit-forming, and is considered a inoffensive unpaid application by many, it is mum an passing addictive and hurtful habit.\nafter a brief though cutaneous virtuosos reunion amongst JD and his family, we do our way to the casino. here(predicate) it is! I fantasy to myself, the chip has lastly arrived. As I adjourn my beginning look into a casino, I require a step with time and space. I am of a sudden a child again, alter with unrest as I reckon the arcade in hopes of gentle a pleasing prize. My senses are alter with delight. I am positively mesmerised at the ocean of machines and wink multi-colored lights that lay before my eyes. I outhouse belt up purport the musky, spacious bodied, roll of vanilla extract baccy that engulfed and alter me with an internal sense of tranquility.\nA septet stern tall...