"I guess..."

"If I'm making you uncomfortable you absolutely don't have to do it, I'm just offering you the option."

Audrey comes in closer to Hannah and sits next to her at the bar. 

"... Okay, give me a second to get my thoughts straight here."

"Gladly."

"Bars aren't like how I imagined."

"I mean, I know a bar that's like what you imagined, this is the Rose Bowers, if you want to drink to get drunk there are places. But most places aren't like that."

"I talked with people, I went out with a girl who hit on me, things were pretty cool. I didn't need alcohol to do any of it though."

"Why are you concerned about needing alcohol? Can't it just be a nice-to-have? I don't need chocolate either, but I still like having it in my life."

"I guess that makes sense."

"And you said you had never tried it before."

"This is about your firsts thing, isn't it?"

"Damn, you caught me. Whatever shall I do."

Audrey smiles. "Alright, let's say I do want to try a drink, hypothetically. Since I was so wrong about what bars are like maybe I'm wrong about what alcohol is like too. What would you recommend?"

"Hot or cold drink?"

"There's such a thing as hot alcohol?"

"There is definitely such a thing as hot alcohol. Irish coffee, sake, mulled mead, hot cider..."

"Huh. Somehow I'd never really put that together."

"... Let's say I just want your top recommendation for me specifically, as someone who's never had alcohol before."

"You like apple juice, right?"

She blushes. "Um, yes..."

"Then I'd recommend a hard apple cider for your first drink. It's sweet and rich and hardly tastes of alcohol at all."

"Yeah, I've heard it... bites, they say?"

"It does, a little. It's kind of a hot sensation, more obvious if you're drinking something harder like whiskey. There are a good few drinks that you'd barely notice they're alcoholic."

"And I wouldn't get drunk from just one drink, right?"

"You're a pretty slim girl, so you might be something of a lightweight; still, even then a single drink isn't likely to get you drunk. You'd probably feel some light effects though."