I walked in my apartment and Alex was sitting on the couch watching Orange is the new Black. He paused the show and turned around right away. "Why didn't you come home last night?"
"Well I got drugged, almost got raped, And G-eazy saved me and took me home." I said with a sarcastic tone and smile.
"Haha yeah, good one. What really happened?" He asked.
"I'm not kidding." I said with a straight face.
His face turned serious. "You're seriously not joking?"
"Dead serious. Where do you think I got this shirt" I say tugging at my shirt. I explain the whole night to him.
He hugged me and apologised for not noticing Jacob putting the drug in my glass. He blamed himself.
"If it was anyones fault, it was mine. I wasn't paying attention to my drink." I remembered all the times my aunt had told me to always hold my drink from the top and never set it down.
"Well thank god someone noticed and did something about it." He was still in shock.
I hugged him one last time. "I'm exhausted. I need to take a nap."
"Alright you go do that then." Alex returned to his show as I walked into my bedroom.
I sat down on my white comforter and stared at myself in the mirrored closet doors in front of me. Wearing G's shirt made me so happy. I grabbed my purse and rustled through it to find the paper Gerald had given to me before I left. I unfolded it to find it was a phone number, most likely his. This meant I had no choice but to make the next move unless G wanted to drive all the way to my house again.
I closed the drapes and hopped under the covers. I slowly faded away thinking about what had happened this morning.
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I woke up to the sound of sirens outside my window. It was already 5:00 pm. I went on my phone and checked Instagram. Gerald had just uploaded a picture of the concert from last night. Black and white, as usual.
My stomach grumbled. The only thing I had eaten today was the waffles G had made for me. I walked out of my room into the kitchen and grabbed a bowl of cereal. I brought it over to the couch where Alex was still binge watching Netflix.
"I invited Ali over. She should be here any minute." Alex said.
"Alright, sweet." I thumbed up.
The doorbell rang and Alex buzzed her in. She walked in a few moments later "Hey guys!" She walked over to the couch, sat down in between us and started digging in her purse. "So Nessa, Alex told me what happened." She paused and continued digging. "Thats some fucked up shit. But also congratulations." She winked at me. "And to celebrate, I brought these." She pulled out joint papers and weed.
"Yes!" I said as Alex walked over to the window and cracked it.
Ali rolled one, lit it, and handed it over to me. I took a hit and laid back as she rolled another for later.
"No thank you." Alex said as he pushed my hand away.
We passed the joint until the night ended in a cloud of smoke.
