As Alaska came to the end of her third bottle of alcohol she was sure the room had started to spin. Or maybe she was the one spinning. Either way, Alaska felt the dizziness over take her; it wouldn't be long before her legs gave-away beneath her and she knew was in need of some sort of support. Hands fumbling for the first surface they could find in order to keep her balance, the girl clamped her eyes shut in a hope it would stop everything from twirling and sucked in a couple of deep breathes. Alaska hadn't been planning on getting drunk, in fact she didn't even know how it happened - one moment she had been sitting in her room, exhausted from her emotionally draining talk with Travis's dad, and the next she was stumbling out of her room in search for more of the poisonous stuff that would ensure she stayed wasted. The tiniest part of Alaska felt ashamed of herself, disappointed even. When it came to cutting down on alcoholic beverages, she'd been doing overly well. But the past few days had been different; she craved the stuff more and more. She constantly found herself pouring Vodka into whatever she drunk, no matter the time of the day, trying to hide the fact that she was slipping back into the person she use to be before The Exchange from both herself, and everyone around her.
"Oh, I'm so wasted." Alaska informed herself, pushing her body weight off the counter top and out into the garden. The crisp evening air served Alaska exactly how she had been hoping it would, the cold helping to clear her clouded brain. In the distance, on the ground, a figure came into view, and for just a moment excitement brushed over the drunken brunette, her blurred vision leading her to believe it was Hunter's frame laying on the ground until she moved in closer. When her mind finally caught up with her vision, Alaska felt a dark anger in the pit of her stomach. But surprisingly, it wasn't the type of anger that made her want to scream and shout and hit the boy. It was more of a sad kind of resentment that made her want to cry and shout instead, to push at him over and over until he fell back into a time before their argument had happened, to force him to undo what he had done to them. Without even noticing it, Alaska's legs had guided her straight to Caden's side, hands clenched at her side. "Why?" Her voice came out weak at first, defeated almost. But the liquour running through her blood stream urged Alaska to be brave, to be stronger. "Why did you do it? Why did you turn into this, why did you turn against me? Why did you stop being the person I need?"