Cigarette Earrings and Female Rivalry
I was recently in the toilets of a local pub with one of my best friends (where some of the best stories begin, I swear). She's definitely one of the coolest people I know, and this particular night she had a single cigarette earring dangling from one ear and a purple jewel stud in the other, with a stud and chain in her second lobe piercing. I should also mention she's planning to wear a suit to her Archery Ball, consisting of black platform heels, tight black leather pants, and a baroque burgundy blazer with nothing underneath. She's basically the definition of confidence. Now, any woman who's been out clubbing knows that bathrooms are where friends are made. And these two slightly tipsy women approached my friend and immediately started fawning over her single cigarette earring, asking if they could take pictures of it, where she got it, was it real? I stood back and watched this merry scene with a sense of realization washing over me. So much of my high school...