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Kelsey West sat at the main bar inside The D Hotel and Casino, wondering how she would get home. A sophomore at UNLV, she had to get out of her tiny apartment to get her mind off a week full of tests she failed and money she did not have. And though the strip was not far, and where she had spent the first part of the night dancing, she came here because she was able to drink for half price and could walk the short distance home to her cramped quarters, even if she was drunk when final call came. The best part about Vegas was that it never came, which is another reason she was here. Alcohol made life less frustrating, more tolerable, and somewhat okay in the face of what suddenly seemed like a very difficult time.
When Kelsey first came here a little more than a year ago, she felt certain UNLV was the perfect place, where she could learn and thrive and have fun while she was in school. In high school she had been to Las Vegas a single time, when she was 15, as part of a cheer competition. Then, her trip had been limited to the walls of the Mandalay Bay Event Center and a couple of trips to restaurants at Planet Hollywood and a ride down the strip in a bus tour. Back then, the adult chaperones were careful to watch her and the other girls, making sure they made no contact with any of the tourists or patrons for reasons she barely understood at the time, though she enjoyed very much the attention from the boys at the pool during her little free time between competitions. Her memories of the city were therefore quite fun and chaste, and they carried over to the thoughts she had about the place when she was awarded a partial scholarship, prompting her to make a weekend visit her senior year to see if she might like to enroll in the little public university in the middle of the desert, near the hottest city in the American West. Once on campus, and with few other educational options available to her, Kelsey fell in love with the place and thought it would be the perfect combination of school and fun.
Now, the city looked every bit as ugly as its reputation. It was a shiny gem on the outside, but rotten to its core and just below the surface. A girl from rural Texas, she had spent too much time combining fun with school and too little combining school with fun. In addition to expensive tastes, her indulgence in parties, boys, and generally finding ways to avoid her responsibilities at the pools on the strip, all forced her academic career to fall off, and her low grade point average prompted the school to place her on probationary status and reduce her scholarship, leaving her suddenly a student with enough money to enroll, but none to pay rent, electricity, or anything else. The little her dad worked hard to send did not go very far, and she felt guilty taking it from him anyway. She looked up at the sign on the outside of The D, then took a drink before smirking.
The D was something of a joke in the city. It was an old, downtown hotel and casino that had been renovated with just enough money to upgrade it to the standards that one might expect to be nice approximately ten years ago. The clients and customers tended to be a bit trashier than any of the major places on the strip, and everything around the place felt simply second rate. Kelsey finished her drink and thought about how much she wanted to work somewhere else.
At twenty years old, the places on the strip either wanted her to deal blackjack or strip. She did not like the idea of either. Blackjack did not pay as much as being a hostess, and stripping was, well......stripping. To serve drinks on the strip, the major casinos only hired girls that were over 21. She learned of jobs downtown through a local advertisement, and just before the new school year began she applied to be a hostess and part time waitress here. She hoped the job would get her some work on the strip. The casino's ownership held a stake in The Mirage, and she thought perhaps she could pick up some hostess shifts at one of the nicer steak restaurants there. But already, only eight weeks into her classes, Kelsey was not getting good shifts even here, and her partying had not slowed enough to keep her solvent. She wondered often how she would pay rent, or how she would make it through the semester without having to pull up stakes and go home to live with her mom and dad.
Are you coming? she texted her friend Melissa, who was supposed to meet up with her before they both walked the six or seven blocks to the apartment complex where they both lived.
Already home, came the reply, too many moments later. Kelsey rolled her eyes and sighed. She looked around the bar and had the bartender tab her out. She did not recognize him, but thought he was cute and looked forward to working with him sometime, though she did not find him to be unusually attractive. Just another guy. She left ten bucks, before grabbing her tiny clutch purse and standing up to leave. She dreaded the long walk through the casino to Fremont Street. Her feet were killing her and her back began to hurt as well. Her head throbbed a bit from the alcohol, and she was tired from dancing and simply being up both early for class and late to party on the Strip. She wanted to get home and get out of her dress and simply fall asleep, committed to simply skipping class tomorrow, which would no doubt set her back further. She didn't care, at the moment, but knew she would the next day, as she headed out.
The rapid, repeated, ringing of the slot machines struck her senses as Kelsey stepped onto the casino floor. As she exited into the bright, oxygenated air of the casino, she dreaded the walk through the building, across the long expanse of Fremont Street with its street shows and light show tourist traps, and around the corner, and seven blocks away to her apartment. She stopped and looked in her clutch to see whether she even had cash that could get her a cab. She only found six dollars. She ran her hand through her hair and slowly began the walk in her heels, contemplating how much her feet hurt already. She found an empty table in the blackjack area and leaned on it only long enough to remove her shoes to allow herself to plod along up the long hallway toward the exit. Her head still pounded from the alcohol and noise, and she began to feel simply exhausted as the hallway seemed to stretch on forever. As she got to the front of the casino, she stopped again, struggling to replace her shoes as it was unthinkable to walk barefoot across the disgusting street outside. She thought she would never make it home at this rate, and she couldn't imagine the hangover she would have the next day. She sat down on a nearby bench and dialed Melissa's number.
"Hey," she said, when her friend answered. "I need a ride."
"Kelsey, no," Melissa whined. "I'm already in bed. It's two-thirty! Where are...."
"Melissa?" Kelsey looked at her phone, noticing it had not merely dropped a call, but was dead in her hand. Dammit! she thought to herself, a tiny tear welling up in her eyes. She wiped it away, making an effort to compose herself, though unable to shake her alcoholic fog and headache. She managed to stand back up and continue her effort to leave The D, heading home to an uncertain tomorrow, and beyond, which upset her even as she focused on just going home. As she opened the door to the casino, she noticed she was facing the wall of the parking garage that surrounded the North and West sides of the building. Where....am I at? she wondered, realizing she had somehow gotten turned around inside the place. She immediately turned back inside and began the trek back across the casino, still looking for the entrance that would get her to the front, so that she could leave. She was not the first person drunk and lost on the casino floor. She knew that was how they got you to stay and gamble. But she simply had no desire to try her luck any more. She just wanted to go home
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When Kelsey first came here a little more than a year ago, she felt certain UNLV was the perfect place, where she could learn and thrive and have fun while she was in school. In high school she had been to Las Vegas a single time, when she was 15, as part of a cheer competition. Then, her trip had been limited to the walls of the Mandalay Bay Event Center and a couple of trips to restaurants at Planet Hollywood and a ride down the strip in a bus tour. Back then, the adult chaperones were careful to watch her and the other girls, making sure they made no contact with any of the tourists or patrons for reasons she barely understood at the time, though she enjoyed very much the attention from the boys at the pool during her little free time between competitions. Her memories of the city were therefore quite fun and chaste, and they carried over to the thoughts she had about the place when she was awarded a partial scholarship, prompting her to make a weekend visit her senior year to see if she might like to enroll in the little public university in the middle of the desert, near the hottest city in the American West. Once on campus, and with few other educational options available to her, Kelsey fell in love with the place and thought it would be the perfect combination of school and fun.
Now, the city looked every bit as ugly as its reputation. It was a shiny gem on the outside, but rotten to its core and just below the surface. A girl from rural Texas, she had spent too much time combining fun with school and too little combining school with fun. In addition to expensive tastes, her indulgence in parties, boys, and generally finding ways to avoid her responsibilities at the pools on the strip, all forced her academic career to fall off, and her low grade point average prompted the school to place her on probationary status and reduce her scholarship, leaving her suddenly a student with enough money to enroll, but none to pay rent, electricity, or anything else. The little her dad worked hard to send did not go very far, and she felt guilty taking it from him anyway. She looked up at the sign on the outside of The D, then took a drink before smirking.
The D was something of a joke in the city. It was an old, downtown hotel and casino that had been renovated with just enough money to upgrade it to the standards that one might expect to be nice approximately ten years ago. The clients and customers tended to be a bit trashier than any of the major places on the strip, and everything around the place felt simply second rate. Kelsey finished her drink and thought about how much she wanted to work somewhere else.
At twenty years old, the places on the strip either wanted her to deal blackjack or strip. She did not like the idea of either. Blackjack did not pay as much as being a hostess, and stripping was, well......stripping. To serve drinks on the strip, the major casinos only hired girls that were over 21. She learned of jobs downtown through a local advertisement, and just before the new school year began she applied to be a hostess and part time waitress here. She hoped the job would get her some work on the strip. The casino's ownership held a stake in The Mirage, and she thought perhaps she could pick up some hostess shifts at one of the nicer steak restaurants there. But already, only eight weeks into her classes, Kelsey was not getting good shifts even here, and her partying had not slowed enough to keep her solvent. She wondered often how she would pay rent, or how she would make it through the semester without having to pull up stakes and go home to live with her mom and dad.
Are you coming? she texted her friend Melissa, who was supposed to meet up with her before they both walked the six or seven blocks to the apartment complex where they both lived.
Already home, came the reply, too many moments later. Kelsey rolled her eyes and sighed. She looked around the bar and had the bartender tab her out. She did not recognize him, but thought he was cute and looked forward to working with him sometime, though she did not find him to be unusually attractive. Just another guy. She left ten bucks, before grabbing her tiny clutch purse and standing up to leave. She dreaded the long walk through the casino to Fremont Street. Her feet were killing her and her back began to hurt as well. Her head throbbed a bit from the alcohol, and she was tired from dancing and simply being up both early for class and late to party on the Strip. She wanted to get home and get out of her dress and simply fall asleep, committed to simply skipping class tomorrow, which would no doubt set her back further. She didn't care, at the moment, but knew she would the next day, as she headed out.
The rapid, repeated, ringing of the slot machines struck her senses as Kelsey stepped onto the casino floor. As she exited into the bright, oxygenated air of the casino, she dreaded the walk through the building, across the long expanse of Fremont Street with its street shows and light show tourist traps, and around the corner, and seven blocks away to her apartment. She stopped and looked in her clutch to see whether she even had cash that could get her a cab. She only found six dollars. She ran her hand through her hair and slowly began the walk in her heels, contemplating how much her feet hurt already. She found an empty table in the blackjack area and leaned on it only long enough to remove her shoes to allow herself to plod along up the long hallway toward the exit. Her head still pounded from the alcohol and noise, and she began to feel simply exhausted as the hallway seemed to stretch on forever. As she got to the front of the casino, she stopped again, struggling to replace her shoes as it was unthinkable to walk barefoot across the disgusting street outside. She thought she would never make it home at this rate, and she couldn't imagine the hangover she would have the next day. She sat down on a nearby bench and dialed Melissa's number.
"Hey," she said, when her friend answered. "I need a ride."
"Kelsey, no," Melissa whined. "I'm already in bed. It's two-thirty! Where are...."
"Melissa?" Kelsey looked at her phone, noticing it had not merely dropped a call, but was dead in her hand. Dammit! she thought to herself, a tiny tear welling up in her eyes. She wiped it away, making an effort to compose herself, though unable to shake her alcoholic fog and headache. She managed to stand back up and continue her effort to leave The D, heading home to an uncertain tomorrow, and beyond, which upset her even as she focused on just going home. As she opened the door to the casino, she noticed she was facing the wall of the parking garage that surrounded the North and West sides of the building. Where....am I at? she wondered, realizing she had somehow gotten turned around inside the place. She immediately turned back inside and began the trek back across the casino, still looking for the entrance that would get her to the front, so that she could leave. She was not the first person drunk and lost on the casino floor. She knew that was how they got you to stay and gamble. But she simply had no desire to try her luck any more. She just wanted to go home
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