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Oh, thank God I close ainst the sun and the relief that swa deal when I’ve done it hundreds of tirateful that I didn’t spend last night fking this girl who I actually can not stand in the light of day
"That’s not going to happen," I tell her after a second "You should take theto, but after Luc turns down her offer of a quickie, she grabs the cash and reaches for her phone
I start toward the bathrooly ill
"Hey! Where are you going?" Luc de to puke You’re welcoust, but he lets me pass as he heads over to the bed to help Stacy find a cab company
It’s just one arten
After a shower thatmyself out of the bathroom to find that all traces of Stacy’s existence have been wiped out of one, and so are her shoes, her purse, everything--including her
I breathe a cautious sigh of relief Though I don’t know she’s gone for sure, with any luck she’ll have left the pre htstand next to the bed is a cup of black coffee and two painkillers I take them both, so desperate for the relief that I don’t even care that I’ve probably scaldedsome breakfast But just the idea takes more effort than I’m capable of, so I lie back down in bed and stare at the ceiling Except now that I’m awake and mostly sober, I can smell her in my sheets, a co else that turns ain
Suddenly I can’t take it for one second longer I bound to my feet and rip the black sheets off , and kick thee of the bed and just sit there, my head in h ?" he asks in a voice that isn’t exactly syht be surprised Come on I made breakfast" He turns and walks back out the door, and for long seconds I think about not following hiood will that do? The drapes are open, the covers are gone, and I’ honest, totally sucks
When I get downstairs, there are two huge bowls of cereal on the table along with a gallon ofto the coffeepot and pouring another cup It’s shaping up to be a five-cup
"Yeah No thanks to you That chick was like a fking octopus" He shoves a bite of Cheerios into his row another arot her out of here she’d violated al in twenty-seven different countries"
"Sorry about that," I say with a wince Now that I think about it, I’ pretty da so drunk that I brought hoer is one thing Doing it when I’ is totally another And bringing her back to ht in bed with me when I don’t actually sleep with anyone, ever--is totally fking nuts
Just thinking about her in bed with me makes me a little crazy, which onlybuilding and building since the moment I walked out of Ophelia’s apartht off before it can even forirl barely twenty-four hours She’s just another girl, just another resort bunny who’s here for a season and then gone There’s no reason to let her get in my head and fk with me like this No need to pay any attention to her No need to take anything she said seriously
Except she was being serious when she said all that shit toto fkshit out there to hurtto have sex with o away
That’s dedication,repulsive I am, but still, this is a new level Even for me
Suddenly I want another shot of tequila so badly that nore the urge, but it’s been a hell of a week already and it’s only Sunday A few more shots won’t hurt anyone
Except as I wander toward the bar for the Herradura, Luc stops ?"
"Getting a drink" I hold up the bottle "Want one?"
"It’s ten o’clock in the fkinga late start I should probably have two"
"Really?" he asks, ripping the bottle of tequila out of my hand "This is really how you want this to play out?"
"No, hoant it to play out is with that bottle of tequila in my hand, not yours Give it back"
"Fuck, no" He walks to the bar sink, empties the entire bottle of Selección Suprema
"That’s three hundred dollars’ worth of tequila you just poured down the drain, you know"
"Yeah, well, you’re in theaway about five million dollars in talent and endorsements, so what the fk Three hundred bucks doesn’t really mean shit to you, does it?"
"Not really, no" I reach under the bar and grab one of the spare bottles I stock up on this time of year, in case of just such an intervention
Luc watches in disgust as I crack the shit open and take a long s right from the bottle It burns all the way down, but that’s okay It’s just proof that I can still feel so like a total loser, you know that, right?"
"That’s not acting It’s just truth in advertising,another swig