The Guy Upstairs

Chapter-9 You and Me?

Diane (07:45 pm)- Horsie??!!! Where are you?! A message from Sullivan appeared on my screen.

Diane (07:45 pm)- Hello??!! I need you!

Diane (07:45 pm)- Horisie!! SOS!!

Diane (07:45 pm)- Oh my god! Where the fuck are you??!!

Athena Butterfly Horsie (07:46 pm)- Yo Diane! Calm down!! What happened? What's going on?

Diane (07:46 pm)- Save me!!

Athena Butterfly Horsie (07:46 pm)- Okay, but from what??

Diane (07:46 pm)- This lady! She's crazy!

Athena Butterfly Horsie (07:47 pm)- So bitches do be crazy. XD

Diane (07:47 pm)- No! What?!

Athena Butterfly Horsie (07:48 pm)- I am assuming you have calmed down a bit after my horrible joke. Now give me some context Diane. What is going on and whom do I need to save you from?

Diane (07:48 pm)- From this lady called Sophie!!

Diane (07:48 pm)- She won't leave my house! She's gonna suck the life out of me!

Athena Butterfly Horsie (07:49 pm)- Okay, still not helpful. Let's start with the basics. Who is this Sophie?

Diane (07:49 pm)- Okay so she lives in the house right in front of mine. Last night she came by asking for smokes. And to quote her directly, "Do you guys have something hard to smoke?"

Athena Butterfly Horsie (07:50 pm)- Wait wait wait. So she has been at your place since last night? And more importantly it does seem like she was looking for cigarettes. XD

Diane (07:50 pm)- No! Ugh I'll tell you everything once we meet. For now all you need to know is that she came by yesterday night and she and Loki hooked up. Then today she came by again and now she won't leave.

Athena Butterfly Horsie (07:51 pm)- Damn Diane, you're packing some hot gossip there. Okay I have an idea! So I will come by your flat and "pretend" to be Loki's fiance and will make a big scene. Now all you need to do is tell Loki that he might get slapped. And by might I mean definitely so prepare him.

Diane (07:51 pm)- As fun as that sounds, I don't think it will work.

Athena Butterfly Horsie (07:52 pm)- We won't know until we try it. I'll come directly to your flat once I reach. Be there in ten minutes!

I smiled as I locked my phone screen. It was so weird. Why would Sullivan ask for my help, out of all the people he knew. I mean I was not the only one he knew in the entire building, he had multiple friends, then why ask me? And the most puzzling part for me was, if he so urgently wanted this person out of his house, why ask someone who is miles away?

As soon as the cab stopped, I jumped out and ran towards Sullivan's house. It was a quick flight of stairs away, the benefit of living on the first floor I guess.

Athena Butterfly Horsie (08:05 pm)- Open the door I am outside!

I texted. Within a moment or two the door flung open and Sullivan appeared, with a wide smile spread across his face.

"Where is she?" I inquired.

"She just left," he replied.

"Darn it! I was so pumped up to slap Loki," I joked. I could see looking uncomfortably at me.

"Oh don't worry it was supposed to be more for the aesthetics" I added and Sullivan laughed.

"Loki Athena, Athena Loki" he said, stepping aside. I smiled and waved at Loki and he smiled back.

"Okay I will be up on the third floor. Do not open the door if she comes back!" Sullivan instructed Loki as he locked the door behind him.

"Explanations please," I said as I started walking up the stairs.

"So, yesterday me, Loki and Arthur were having a few drinks and this girl Sophie came asking for smokes. That is when Arthur invited her in, you know to have a few drinks with us. And she got really drunk. She started falling on top of me and then Loki, it was a whole thing in itself. But you know, bro code I started pushing her towards Loki," he paused and my eyes widened as I unlocked my main door.

"And then she and Loki started making out so me and Arthur told Loki to take her in his room. Then they went to his room and did whatever and then she came out running, looking all freaked out. That is when me and Arthur shared that look of oh was it that big? But apparently she was freaking out for a completely different reason. She was freaking out because Loki had thrown up," he added.

"Oh fuck! Was her pussy that stinky?" I laughed.

"Yeah god knows. Anyways then she sat back down with us, drank a little more and left. Today she came back out of nowhere and started yelling at Loki. Then we took her in and calmed her down. She then started getting really touchy with Loki, and I am sitting there watching her feed him fried rice while kissing him," he paused.

"Ew, that is gross," I said.

"I know right! I mean if it's chocolate, or something like that it is sexy, but fried rice?! Anyways then she started talking to me so I started playing music. But that didn't help. She started jamming to the tunes so I started watching BoJack, I thought this might bore her and she will leave. But no! She started watching it with me!" his eyes widened.

"The force is strong with her," I teased.

"Anyways, then I looked at Loki and said, Don't you have to be somewhere? He nodded and that is when she started yelling at him yet again. Poor Loki got so terrified that he was like I will cancel my plans, but she continued yelling and then she left," he ended.

"Okay was it actually that weird or I just felt it was weird?" I asked.

"No, it was very bizarre. And there is something wrong with her! I don't know what she does but it seems as if she is high most of the time. Yesterday also she came asking for a hard cigarette. And it felt as if she couldn't stand straight on her feet. You know what was the worst part of all this? She finished my entire box!" he cried.

"Well honestly that is completely on you! Why did you offer her your good cigarettes? You should have ordered a crappy, cheap one and given it to her. I doubt she would have even known the difference," I commented.

"Yeah, but it was lying on the bed and she was smoking one after the other. It was a whole different deal in itself," he flailed his arms around.

"But why were you stopping me? I mean yeah I get it she lives in the same building but there is a very slim chance she would have ever seen me," I said.

"No she would have definitely seen you," he replied.

"How?" I questioned.

"So she is the one who is always sitting out on the stairs with an IPad and Apple Pencil, doodling. I am pretty sure even you would have seen her," he said.

"Oh yeah! I vaguely remember seeing someone like that. That was here?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah that's her," he replied.

"Okay I am judging Loki's standards really hard right now," I commented.

"Oh come on! She doesn't look that bad! I mean she is pretty fuckable if you cover her face. You know pussy is pussy and game is game," Sullivan joked and we both burst into laughter. I loved these small moments between us. Pure joy, pure bitchiness. Two people being themselves in the most naked way possible. Without having to bother with the veil of fakeness and deception. This is what I liked about Sullivan, his honesty. The fact that how blunt he could possibly be without worrying about how someone else would perceive what he had to say. It was a type of honest I desperately wanted to be, but due to the constraints of society, could possibly never be.