Crazy House

Chapter 13: I'm not in California anymore

Chapter 13: I'm not in California anymore

I knew I shouldn't have gone to the party when Issach texted me. I just should've stayed at home and kept to myself. But no, I just had to leave the house, and now I'm sloppy drunk and have no idea where Issach is. The last time I saw him he was having something to drink. That was about two hours ago.

I take my phone out of my pocket knowing I'm going to have to call a housemate. I only have Jessie and Liz's number and I know Liz is probably at the hospital, so I call Jessie.

The phone rings twice before someone answers, "Hello." a voice that's obviously full of sleep and not Jessie (since it's a man) says.

"Hello.. can I speak to Jessie?" My words come out a bit slurred and I shake my head at myself. My agent would kill me if she saw me like this. This could ruin my reputation.

Wait, I'm not in California anymore, so who cares?

"Ariel?" The person asks and the sleep in their voice goes away.

"Roman?"

"Where are you?" Roman asks and I hear rustling and covers in the background.

"I don't know, some party." I tell him rubbing my forehead and moving out of the way of someone who's about to puke.

"What do you mean, you don't know." He asks and I hear a door close in the background.

"Issach took me to a party and I have no idea where I'm at." I tell him moving outside where the music isn't so loud.

"Where's Issach?"

"I don't know." I tell him and he lets out a groan of frustration.

"Ask someone where you are." He says and I can hear him cranking up his car.

I grab onto the arm of some guy with a drink in his hand and he turns to me with a flirtatious smile. "What's the address?" I ask him with a frown on my face.

"542 Wilsen Lane," He says moving closer to me and I take a step away from him.

"Did you hear?" I ask Roman through the receiver, getting off the porch to avoid the guy.

"Yes," he says, "I'll be there in five minutes."

Roman pulls up in less than five minutes and boy does he look pissed. He helps me into the car after I almost trip over my feet trying to get in on my own. He buckles me into the seat before getting in the driver's side slamming the door. His hair is sticking up in some places from a bed head and his clothes are obviously just thrown on.

"Did you sleep with Jessie?" I ask him bluntly which is probably because of the alchohol in my system.

His head snaps in my direction before he refocuses on the road, his hands tightening on the steering wheel, "What makes you think that?" He asks taking a turn down a road.

"Well, I called Jessie's phone and you answered, I heard the covers in the background so obviously you were in bed." I tell him tapping my chin, "And you threw me out of your room like a sack of potatoes the second Jessie came into the room."

He runs a hand through his hair, driving with only one hand, "No, I didn't sleep with Jessie." He says with an edge to his voice, "And she needed me earlier, I wasn't going to just throw her out."

"She didn't say she needed you, how did you know?" I ask him as I start to feel sick to my stomach.

Uh oh.

Roman looks at my face and pulls the car over, "Shit," He swears putting the car in park and opening my door. He manages to get my seat belt unbuckled before I'm leaning out of the car throwing up all my food.

Roman sighs as he holds my hair with one hand and rubs my back with the other. Eventually, I'm not puking anymore, only dry heaving. Once I feel like I'm done I tell Roman and he nods, helping me back into the car.

It's quiet the rest of the car ride home, which is quite short. I open my door once we arrive at the house and I stagger a bit getting out. Roman comes to my side and slides an arm around my waist. I try to ignore the tingles running through my body from his contact but it's hard. He leads me inside the house and when we make it to the stairs he looks at me with a sigh. He swoops me into his arms and if I wasn't intoxicated I'd probably be melting in his arms.

He carries me all the way up the stairs until we reach my bed and he gently lays me in the bed. He pulls the cover up to my chin and shakes his head, "I thought you said you weren't going to go out with Issach anymore?" He pushes some hair away from my face as he looks at me.

"I said he hadn't asked me out on a second date, but he did tonight." I tell him closing my eyes and enjoying the tingles he's sending through my body.

"And now?" He asks softly.

"I don't know." I tell him rolling on my side and opening my eyes to look at him.

He's standing by the door now with a thoughtful look on his face but it vanishes when he looks at me, "Goodnight, Ariel."

"Goodnight, Roman."

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I wake with a horrible headache and my stomach is killing me.

A horrible hangover.

I let out a groan burying my head in my pillow. I try going back to sleep but I can't since my head is killing me, so I decide to get out of bed and take a long hot bubble bath. I think I spend a good hour in the tub before I get out.

I open the bathroom door just as Roman's door opens. Jessie steps out of the room in the same clothes she had on yesterday when she walked in on us watching Psych. Her hair is standing up in some places, showing that she just woke up. When she looks up and meets my eyes she seems shocked at first before they go blank.

I knew something was going on and Jessie lied. Roman lied.

And if Roman lied about Jessie he's probably lying about doing nothing about my identity.

Before Jessie can say a thing to me I go to my room and slam the door shut.

Dammit.

I shouldn't slam doors while I have a hangover.

I need to get out of this house and away from these people. I have no idea why I thought I could trust a bunch of strangers. Hell, what was I thinking? They could have been murderers. But, I was so desperate to get away from my old home and my step father. Away from all the bad things.

So the plan is to get rid of the hangover and then get out of this house.

Q/N: For some reason wattpad triple spaces my stuff when I copy it over from google drive, even though it's only single spaced. Anyways, I'm starting a blog with a couple of other people, more than likely it won't be on this account. I do have a rant buck out now called "fuck it all" so go check it out.

Song of this chapter FIGURED YOU OUT, which is an amazing song.