I'm a 16 anno old female (about to graduate her sophomore anno of high school) & everything used to be okay. I was a 4.0 student (up until now), I had a few Friends to hang out with on weekends, I studied hard, I got along with people... But now I just feel terrible. My grade point average has dropped to a 3.7 (which is still good but... it's not good enough) & my mom never ever helps me at all: she always makes things worse with all her yelling and screaming at me to "get skinnier" and "go on lots of diets" and "lose weight lose weight!" and "go to gym te need to lose weight" but...

BOY SEES GIRL,GIRL LEARNS ABOUT BOY, BOY AND GIRL FALL IN LOVE, BOY IS SWEET TO GIRL, GIRL NOTICES A PUPPY-LIKE QUALITY ABOUT BOY. BOY GOES OUT WITH GIRLS, OTHER GIRLS, GIRL MAKES BOY FALL FOR HER AGAIN, BOY BREAKS UP WITH OTHER GIRLS, ALWAYS.
ONE giorno GIRL SEES BOY, BUT SHE DOESN'T RECOGNIZE BOY, BOY IS DRESSED LIKE A GIRL..GIRL FALLS DOWN A HOLE, BOY HEARS GIRL TALKING SHIT ABOUT HIM, GIRL DOESN'T KNOW, BOY IS DEVASTATED, FOLLOWS GIRL DOWN THE HOLE. BOY TURNS TO DRUGS, GIRL TURNS TO COMMON, FUKING SENCE, AND NOW, GIRL KNOWS BOY HEAR. BOY TURNS TO JAY, GIRL GETS DEPRESSED. BOY DOESN'T RETURN...

First of all, let me say that alcohol is one of the finer pleasures in life. Hell, I always have a bottle of Bailey's on hand somewhere in my house. But I've been thinking about responsible drinking lately, and how a lot of people, especially younger folks like me, think they know what that means, but... don't, at least, not really.

Now, te may think, "Responsible drinking tips from a nineteen-year-old American?" Well, yeah, I see where that might come off kind of amusing, but I've actually had a lot of experience with alcohol. So really I'm più like a nineteen-year-old Belgian when it comes...