Just Friends

CHAPTER- 15

SUSAN

Alec shoved the key into the lock to Jade's apartment.

This was the third key he was trying. As a reply to, "Unlock the door." a thoroughly drunk Jade had handed him a bunch of keys before sitting down on the floor.

Even as he struggled with the sheer number of keys, Jade was sitting and giggling away to glory.

"You know Jade, this will be faster if you get up and tell me which key it is!" Said Alec who was exasperated.

Jade laughed at that like it was a joke, "You know Alec your girlfriend has a horrible choice. I mean that green dress, who in their right mind spends money on a dress like that for themselves. It's horrible."

"Uh huh..." Alec replied still trying to unlock the door.

"And Julia was describing the beige suit she wore the day you'll came... Let me just say it sounds horrible!" Jade said and started laughing again.

Being drunk somehow reduced Jade's vocabulary to only a few adjectives.

The last few tequila shots had surely been a mistake, thought Alec as he finally opened the door. He pushed it and walked in.

He turned around to see Jade still sitting on the floor outside the apartment and talking to herself.

"Okay! Jade we have to go inside. We don't want to wake the neighbours..." He walked out and pulled her up onto her feet.

"Oops!"

Jade stumbled. Alec pulled her up just in time to stop her from falling.

"Oh! Alec just a last drink. I'm not even tipsy! Tipsy my foot! You'll learn your lesson when you wake up tomorrow... All the best with the hangover." Alec mumbled as he supported her till the bedroom, imitating her pleas from earlier that evening.

Jade just kept giggling. Drunk Jade reminded Alec of a five year old Jade.

"I'm drunk!" Jade stated as she plopped down on her bed.

Alec looked at her, "Now are you!" He said sarcastically. "You need to change."

Jade completely ignored him and started pulling at the covers.

"No... No... Change first. Okay. Jade change." He again pulled her up and made her stand on her feet, "I'm outside you change. Okay?"

Jade nodded her head, a pout playing on her lips.

Alec walked out.

It had been a mistake to let Jade drink so much.

She would have a horrible hangover the next morning.

But who was he to say anything to her about drinking too much. He had almost the same amount as her to drink. But all the tension of taking Jade back to her apartment and convincing her that calling her editor while she was drunk was not the best idea, had one good effect. It had drained out all the effect of the alcohol and he was no longer drunk.

He sat on the sofa and sighed.

Suddenly a loud noise came from the bedroom.

Alec jumped up and ran to Jade, images of her on the floor with a bleeding head playing on his mind.

Instead of all the horrible things that had gone through his mind, he found Jade sitting on the floor and laughing.

She had changed into a loose T-shirt which fell till get knees.

"What happened?" He said, picking her up from the floor.

When she had caught her breath, she said, "See what fell out of my cupboard."