"- You're already a big girl. Take any boy, just for one night. Use him, enjoy yourself. Look, everyone does it," Ilona says, sweeping her hand across the nightclub hall. "Anyone would be happy, trust me," and her lips are already stretching into a predatory smile as she catches a hungry glance from an Eastern handsome man.
"You have to love yourself, you know?" she says casually, pushing herself up a little from the bar stool and shifting her hip.
I completely agree with her. You have to love yourself.
But I feel out of place in this dancing, partying crowd.
I lift my eyes.
And suddenly I catch a man's gaze on me.
My heart seems to be squeezed by an invisible steel hand.
It feels like, for a second, I forget how to breathe."
My friend dragged me to Egypt on a last-minute package deal so I could change my surroundings. Move on from the toxic relationship I was stuck in like a fly in syrup.
But I could never have imagined that these few days would turn my whole life upside down.