Debbie And Drowsy: A Short Story

Debbie and Drowsy were two sisters who lived in the town of San Gobble De-Gook. Debbie was blonde blue eyed and popular. Everyone in her high school loved Debbie. Her sister Drowsy was not so popular; weighing in at 400 pounds and having lost three of her teeth in a golfing accident. Due to both her appearance and lack of friends Drowsy was also drifting into a state of deep depression. Their home life wasn't much better than Drowsy’s appearance, their father, a functioning alcoholic would consistently beat Drowsy when he was drunk. Their mother had left when they were only 3 years old. Being twins, Debbie and Drowsy were much closer than most teenage sisters. For their 16th birthdays Debbie had the idea that it would be fun to go down to the local bar, being 16 in San Gob meant you could finally drink legally. As usual stepping into the bar all eyes went to Debbie. Not minding at all, Debbie promptly went up to the tall attractive man at the end of the bar and started talking to him. Drowsy not being much of a looker or social butterfly went to the only thing she had been taught by her father, to drink and drink hard. By the time Debbie had three different men buying drinks for her, Drowsy was belligerent and talking to everyone in the bar. A man tried to grab Debbie arm to get her attention but, drunk Drowsy thought he was trying to hurt her and stepped in front of
When she came into Drowsy room there was no one there, just a note Drowsy had left for her sister. The note Read “Dear Deb, went out to get some stuff be back tonight.” Debbie didn't think much of it and headed to school. At school everyone was asking Debbie about the obese “man” that got punched in the face last night at the bar. Debbie explained to them what Drowsy had done and as usual everyone laughed. Walking home from school, Debbie thought about her sister and how lucky she was to not be