After finishing my (M, 23 at the time) last courses at university, I moved to a new city and started working there. My official graduation wasn’t for around six months later, so I got the train back for the ceremony. Initially I had contemplated staying with friends, but eventually settled on getting a hotel room – you know, just in case.
The ceremony was nice enough and afterwards there was a reception with champagne, and me and my group of uni friends started to get a bit tipsy. We decided to head out to a trendy cocktail bar for the rest of the evening. One of my friends, Julien, didn’t come with us at first since a friend of his, Ana, was in town that weekend. They would join us later.