Young Adult

Chapter eight - The drunken truth

This house still seems barren, I'm used to living in huge houses but I feel so desolated here. I have no way to contact my friends as I'm not allowed to travel, I'm too scared to reach out to Lily and my family lives in England.

Mr Reed and I never rally talk unless it's at a workplace setting, I think he's just waiting for me to regain my memories - or maybe he just doesn't like this version of me.

Either way, I'm bored. It's been more or less a week working and I've noticed that I'm basically a glorified secretary; everyday I bring Mr Reed his morning coffee and tell him his schedule, my only highlight of the day is when I can sit in on team 1's meetings on the projects they're working on.

However I'm not allowed to do anything really, atleast old me made some good friends, Kelton and Lyn are quite funny for artists.

And on my hours of spare time at work I'm creating some drafts and rasters for the project secretly. My mastermind plan is that stupid Dave deletes all of the files, and after everyone celebrates Dave being fired I sweep in to save the Dave. (I don't like Dave because he asked if I was wearing Gucci and I said that it was Dior, but he just replied with 'is there a difference?')

"Addy!" Lyn made me jump by tapping on my desk, "what do you need? Mr Reed is still in his meeting with the board directors if that's why you're here." I smiled, she shook her head
"Oh no it's not that, I don't want to disturb Ezra, I was just wondering if you two wanted to come for a drink with a couple of us to celebrate you being at work officially for a week now."

I bit my lip to stop myself from agreeing straight away incase I regret it, why would I regret it? Mr Reed. He has specifically told me not to drink anymore, but he didn't say I couldn't do it in a group setting.

"Sure we'll be there!" I answered, waving Lyn goodbye, setting aside the cons this could be a great way to ask Mr Reed why he's ignoring me even when he said he'd try to get to know me.

Mr Reed was running late from the board meeting, so I decided to head straight to the bar and ask me to meet us there. Probably not surprising that he whipped open the door and tried to drag me home before being coerced to stay for one drink by the others, he finally sat down so the hangout could begin.

"Where's Dave?" I not so secretly smiled at the absence of his presence, Kelton shrugged "he doesn't really like these kinds of things, and I'd thought it'd be best for me and Lyn to be here for your first after work 'hang'."

Stupid Dave. But that makes sense. I perked up to the occasion "so what do you normally do at these kind of things, I only know party games."
Lyn shrugged "then let's play never have I ever, me and Kelton always wanted to know what you were like before you lost your memories, do you guys want to play?" I nodded, not the area I wanted to take tonight, but it's a good way to get to know my new friends.

Mr Reed tugged on my arm "one drink remember." He whispered, I nodded - he didn't say anything about the strength of the alcohol though!

"Okay I'll start off asking you a question." Lyn said, "never have I ever made out with a stranger." Only Kelton drank this round so he asked the next question, "never have I ever been arrested." I sighed and drank, I could feel Mr Reeds sharp gaze fixed on me.

"What happened!" Kelton asked, I forced a smile "nothing much I was just caught being a minor at a party, I got realised with a warning." I nodded, technically it was the truth - but saying that I was actually arrested for being a suspected accessory to murder would probably end the party even before it begun.

"Okay! I'll ask the question now," I spoke after drinking some of my special (tequila, rum, whiskey, vodka mixed in beer) drink "never have I ever been slapped." Only one person drank again, but this time it was Mr Reed who drank.

I smiled at his bashful look, "I broke up with a girl when she thought that it was a proposal." Maybe it was me discreetly sipping on my drink, but I laughed. I stopped, thinking that he would be angry at me but he seemed to smile aswell.

We played a couple more rounds, but we scrapped the game after a while. We had a good couple laughs until Kelton asked about the elephant in the room, "so now that you have your memories back, how did you get in that accident six years ago."

Mr Reed gave me a look signaling that we could go home, but after some thought I decided just to tell them. "It was the day of my graduation," I began to nervously stroke the label on the beer I had swiped from Kelton.

"I was at my graduation party at a rented out nightclub where my boyfriend at the time worked, he was a year older and a musician and we had dated for around seven months at that time. I wanted to go home because I wanted to talk to my sister but I couldn't get a taxi and my friend Charlotte was not drinking at the time, so I was searching the place to ask her to drive me home,"

I took a breath to compose myself "I found her after a while, but she was with my boyfriend. that part I'll leave to your imagination as to what they were doing. I just wanted to go home at that point so I stupidly took the keys to her car and tried to go home, but I crashed it and now here we are ... sorry that it's not that exciting."  I smiled trying not to cry.

"We should probably go home now, my drivers here and Addy's quite drunk." Those words were the last things I heard before I fell asleep, I'm guessing Mr Reed carried me into his car as when I woke up he was tucking me into bed and taking off my shoes.

"Don't leave yet" I tucked in his sleeve, still half asleep.