Chapter 1: Disappeared

Sensitive Rudy, sick from last nights binge once again, splashes water on his face over and over trying to relieve himself of the hangover he can only regret himself...well...his other self about. Grumbling, comes Jackass Rudy from the bedroom where a blonde woman lays deshevled from a evenful night herself of fucking and nonsense.
No shirt and just white tighty whities, he rubs his head.

"Oh, Fuck Sake. My head is poundin' "
the Grumpy one says loudly.

"You over did it this time," Sensitive Rudy says rather quietly,
wincing to the sound of his other halfs' loud voice,
"You don't need to be so loud."

"WHAT!"
he says loudly with a chuckle, then grabs his head
"Ah Shit! Fuck! My Head."

Sensitive goes and leaves the bathroom and puts his clothes on as Jackass brushes his teeth.
He looks at the mirror seeing his other half fall over on the girl while puttin' his pants on.
Rolls his eyes as the girl is awakened so rudely.

"Aye, the fawk. What the hell?"

Shading her eyes the blonde looks around the rather messy flat of Rudy's apartment. Rudy dashes to behind the door as the other Rudy, finally with pants on follow suit and they combine back together again.

"Aye, good mornin'...uh...um...what was your name again?"

"Lily"

"Ah, yes Lily like the flower."

"Oh my head...Fawk."

Her blonde hair was just a mess and still had no clothes on just a blanket covering her blessed areas.
Rudy looked at every move she made, almos hoping she would drop the blanket.

"Where are my clothes..." She rubs her eyes a bit to see better, "Well? Where are my clothes?"

Sensitive Rudy obviously put them neatly on the chair with her shoes. Guess to make Jackass seem rather...respectable.
He points to the chair where the neatly folded clothes with shoes on top are set. She looks at it and kind of smiles wryly.

"Thank You. Sorry for snapping. I am not a morning person."

Before Rudy could say anything she quickly gets her clothes and pushes Rudy out of her way to the bathroom and locks it, turns on the shower and the sound of flowing water fills the bathroom.
Rudy still in shock leans against the door and shouts,
"Don't forget to clean behind your ears. Men don't like unclean ears."

Silence.

"Lily, um...there aren't any towels in there. You have to come out here to get them."

Still Silence.

Rudy starts to get nervous. The sound of water falling on the porcalain tub has him daydreaming, dirty things.
He looks down at the bulge forming in his pants.

"Oh shit. Stop Rudy stop that right now."

His Jackass self comes out for a moment.
"Stop what? We are normal men, we have urges and we like it. Don't sound like such a bottom queen."

They both look at the door...no sound...no sound of water...
they both wait and look at the door for almost five minutes...
not even so much as the shower curtain being moved...

They start to shake the handle.
"Lily! Lily! Are you okay?" says the Jackass
"Oh fuck what if she is dead" says the Sensitive
"She can't be, she had to turn off the water you idiot...LILY?"
"Okay...okay...then on 3...one... two..."
"No no No wait wait..if we break the door how are we going to fix it..."

"Ugh..."

"What if shes dead?"

"Oh now you think she's dead! One."
"Two."

"THREE!"

They both run and burst thru the door with out making the hinges fall apart.
But there is no sign of Lily.

"Lily...?"
Silence...the Rudys look around..
in the tub...
behind the sink
everywhere.
They look at each other completely bewildered.
Lily was no where to be found.

Back at the bar, Curtis is cleaning the place up for another day as Kelly strolls in.
"It's dead," she grumbles.
"Its 10 in the mornin', ya think a party was going on in here?" he scoffs.
"2"
"2? This early?"
She smirks quickly and turns her back to him leaning against the bar.
He rolls his eyes and puts two mugs under the tap and fills them with the cheapest beer.
"Why here so early? Aren't you supposed to be with your boyfriend?"
"SETH is doing some business, he got a call...an emergency I guess."
She turns to the two beers gleaming on the bar counter but looks at him.
"Wa? Yoh got a problem with me and Seth...togetha?"
Curtis puts his hands just as a straggler comes in. Its Rudy.

He walks in and his sensitive side takes a seat at the bar as Jackass sits at the booth. Both still dumbfounded by the mornings' odd turn of events. They just sit. Quiet. Both of them. It made the room seem...stifling as if it was happy hour and there were too many people in the small bar.

"Whats wrong with yoh?"
Kelly stares at them wondering what the hell shut them up. It never happens especially Jackass.
The silence finally broke with Sensitive saying, "I don't know, she was there then she wasn't I just...damn how?"

Curtis makes two shots with out even a thought. Something was up and the best way to make Rudy talk is with a drink.
He steps from the bar and hands the shots to each Rudy and they both down it with out a flinch or a scrunch of their face.
Like it was just water.

"She was just gone."

"Who?" Curtis asks "Who is this 'she'?"
"Lily." says Jackass like everyone should have known her name.
"Lily disappeared after last night."
"After a good Shag is more like it"
Sensitive rolls his eyes and continues explaining,
"She went to shower and locked the door on us. A few mins later the water went off and there was no sound."
"Not even the sound of the shower curtain. Ten maybe fifteen minutes went by and we strapping lads broke down that big door.
Didn't we?"

Curtis interjects, "That door has been wanting to come off its hinges for the longest and I have seen your place...complete dump."

"Well we did break it down and when we looked she was gone. No clothes. No Lily."

"She couldn't have gone out the window or anything too small."

They all looked at each other and Kelly just rolled her eyes and throws back the second mug of beer,
they all stare at her as she doesn't even take a breath to finish the large mug.
"Well apparently you were not a good enough shag then."
She slams the mug on the bar gives a quick smile and leaves the bar.

She keeps walking down the street towards Seth's place, but senses someone is watching her.
She looks over her shoulder but no one is there but the sidewalk. She walks a bit further but hears the scuffling of feet but once again no one is behind her.

She turns back around and there is Seth.

"OH FOR FOKS SAKE!"

"I am sorry I am sorry, did I scare you?"

She trying to catch her breath sorts her mind for a moment before even looking at him.

"I'm fine. What was that all about?"
"What?"
"The Call."
"A trade."
"Well, we gotta pay the bills somehow."

She looks at him but doesn't press for information. They head back to his place but she still looks over her shoulder,
still feeling like eyes are watching her every move.