🌱Nodus Tollens🏛️ - haikaveh/kavetham

Where it all went wrong

I found myself at the bar again, my head down on the table with my free arm holding my drink tightly. I'd been scammed again, and didn't want to go home to Alhaitham and explain that I'm yet again unable to pay rent for the fourth month in a row. I'd only had.. nine or so bottles when the bartender cut me off since I was no longer all the way there. I can't feel my face or my legs, however I can feel the warmth of the tears in my eyes as I throw my head back and down my last bottle, slamming it on the counter. I hate the taste, but love the feeling. People looked at me with pity as I just sat there; practically begging the bartender for just one more drink with tears streaming down my cheeks. Eventually, security was called and they made me call someone to pick me up. Are they serious? I can't even see my phone screen.

It took me ten entire minutes for Tighnari to pick up, given it was four in the morning. I started blabbering on the phone through sobs about how they were forcing me to leave the bar. "Tighnariii... please come get me, the bartender is abusing me..-" Quickly, the phone was taken from me by security and they began speaking to him themselves. "He is not being abused. Please come get your friend, sir. He is acting irrational and said he was going to, and I quote, 'jump over the counter himself and take the bottle from us on his own.' He is completely drunk out of his mind and we have already cut him off for the night." A long, dramatic sigh could be heard from the other side of the phone. "Tell him I'm on my way. I'll be there in five, and the next time I have to pick his sorry ass up from the bar at such an hour I'm leaving him there." He hung up, and I was given my phone back. "Don't do anything stupid, go sit over there until he's here." I stumbled over to a booth in the corner and put my head down. Did they really just put me, a GROWN MAN, in timeout??

I can't believe he has to pick me up because I was being "irrational" and an "alcoholic" Like THEY even know what that means! I have self control, I am NOT an alcoholic. People are really just throwing those words around nowadays!

I was woken up by someone hitting me on the head, slowly sitting up to see not only Tighnari, but also Cyno behind him with his arms crossed. They both looked at me with disapproval as I just laughed nervously and stood up; wobbling a little bit and playing it off by placing my hand on the table. "Hey guyss, so we going or what?" I smiled sloppily, my eyes were half-lidded and my face was flushed. I reeked of alcohol and they just walked away "Are you coming or what?" Tighnari spoke, causing me to snap out of my trance and laugh again-following behind them. Outsiders looking in would say I was running from a crocodile-well, walking, but I was so drunk I seriously thought my legs were on the wrong sides and I was walking in a weird zig-zag pattern to the car. They got into the front and threw me into the back. I sat there and clutched my head, my migraine already forming from the amount I had drank. Cyno broke the silence, he was the one driving.

"So, what happened this time?" He sounded sarcastic and sighed. "This is the third time we've picked you up this week. Kaveh, seriously, it's Wednesday. Who drinks on a Wednesday?" I just stared at them, only comprehending half of what he said before breaking down into sobs again. I spilled everything. I told them about how much debt I'm in, how I was scammed AGAIN, and that I was living with Alhaitham.

WHAT??" Cyno and Tighnari exchanged quick glances, Tighnari almost jumping out of his seat to turn around and look at me. I was too drunk to really understand what I had just told them and the weight of the situation, so I just stared back with tired eyes. I had just poured my heart out after years of keeping everything to myself, for me to most likely not remember this in the morning. The only reason they didn't know that I was rooming with Alhaitham was because everytime they dropped me off I made them do it about a block away and wait until they drove off to actually walk home. This time was different though, I was the most drunk I'd been in a few months and this time they were actually driving me completely home. "Dude... That's kinda gay. Like, living together and stuff" Cyno commented, which earned him a LOUD sigh from Tighnari. "Cyno, WE live together."

We arrived at Alhaithams house, I groaned and my eyes were red from crying. I was hiccuping and sobbing all at once as Cyno dragged me out of the car and we walked to the front door. I had my head in my hands as Tighnari snatched the key from me and unlocked the door quickly. He swung it open, and sure enough there he was. The man I didn't want to face, sitting with his legs crossed on the couch holding a book. He was just WAITING for me to come home. However, the sight of Tighnari and Cyno looking concerned and the state I was in made him stand up and walk towards us, he actually put the book down for once! "I'mm sorry hic ALhaitham.." I was disoriented and one of my eyes was almost closed. Soon enough, I blacked out completely and collapsed. However, I didn't hit the ground?

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Authors note-

Let me know if you enjoy the story, I wrote this in docs initially and have just started publishing it because my friend told me to! (1016 words)