Beautiful Dreamer

18. Be Specific

"Try and focus Rey and tell me where you live."

"At my house..."

"Yes, I know, but where? What is the exact location and building number?" Ari asked impatiently, unable to endure dealing with a drunk Rey. 'He is annoying just as he is when sober.'

"You keep asking me the same thing over and over... Can you say specifically?"

"Your house! Your address!" Ari exclaimed, seeming frustrated. She had already been in a bad mood before she'd arrived at the bar, Jin being the cause of it. Yet, another person was fanning her fire with a newfound addiction to her hair. "Where is it? Whichever place you're staying or your house, as you've put it? And stop touching my hair!"

"So many questions... One at a time, please."

"Yet another test of my patience,"  Ari grunted under her breath. "Start with directions."

"Specific directions?"

"Yes. Be very specific."

"Okay." Rey sulked, then shut his eyes momentarily as if trying to remember. His facial expression kept shifting from drowsiness to instant excitement, as if something humoured him. Judging by his slurry speech, there was no doubt he had had one too many with Jin before Ari's arrival. "First, I normally take the last train, then get off to the left path and follow a veranda to a lower basement level two. Don't go to the left; you'll come face-to-face with a wall. The neighbours say there used to be a house there that was sealed off. Weirdly enough, I never met anyone at all in this block despite the thin walls. I think that's why no one took my apartment. You should see it. It's enormous, and once I clear my debt, I plan on buying a big bed. My feet tend to stick out of the one I have now..."

"Rey," Ari interrupted. "I never asked you to tell me all that."

"But I'm getting to the specifics."

"Are you normally like this when you are drunk?"

"No... Maybe..."

Ari rested her forehead on the steering wheel. "I feel like I'm becoming dumber by the minute.."

"Certainly not. I find you extremely intelligent." Burying his head into Ari's neck, Rey leaned closer, clinging onto Ari and added, "You equally smell nice like my ex-girlfriend."

"You bloody..."

Rey chuckled and began stroking Ari's hair once more. "She was as pretty and quirky as you are."

"Don't compare me to some random girl...! Wait a minute..." Ari instantly raised her head to look at Rey. "Did you just call me pretty?"

"Manager Mun said the same about you as well."

"You two often talk about me, huh?"

"Of course. You are an interesting subject to manager Mun."

"Tell me more."

"What do you want to know?"

"What you two say about me, what else?"

"Well, you'll have to be specific. It's a lot of stuff, you know."

"You know what?" Ari sighed in surrender. "Some things, it's better just to keep them a secret. For now, we need to get you some water to drink."

"You and who?"

"Pardon?" Ari asked, unable to comprehend what Rey meant.

"You said we need to get water for me when only the two of us are in the car."

Ari let out a heavy sigh. "Rey, don't ever go drinking alone."

"I couldn't say no. I wanted to close the deal with that client. Turns out he is a big pervert."