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Chapter 3; Smart or Stupid.
Delos Redfern
I actually counted how many lines the ceiling had. Seven hundred and fifty five. Who ever designed the ceiling, had to be a genius. Who ever built the ceiling would also have to be a genius. So many geniuses in the world, that's why our society is so advanced. Vegas is a great example to prove how advanced we are. Just look around the whole city. So many buildings properly made. Clubs, stores, malls. So many things that could only be built if people had knowledge. If people were smart. Only men could accomplish stuff like this.
Smart men…
An average smart man would get a great education so in the future he can support his family and himself. A smart man would chase down his career dreams and would end up being very successful . A smart man would meet the love of his life and would marry that one girl in a church surrounded with friends and family. A smart man would take his wife to an exotic and romantic country so he could spend his honeymoon making love to her.
To fucking bad I'm not fucking smart. Why Delos? Why did you have to screw up?
Was it really necessary for my life to get even more fucked up? It just had to be me, right? I had to be the one to get so fucking wasted that one night in a club. I had to be the one to take a stranger up to my room, make sweet sex to her and not remember a fucking thing about it. Even better though, I had to be the one to get married at 23. It just had to be Delos fucking Redfern!
"Fuck" I stretched out the 'ck' sound as I yelled that beautiful word out. I had a pillow covering my head as I laid on my bed with my arms and legs stretched out. Since the moment my thumb felt that ring on my ring finger I had collapsed on my bed. I dragged a pillow to cover my face and I started yelling out every possible swear word I could think of.
'Maggie', the girl I had slept with and by the looks of married, had said something about changing and needing a minute. I heard her footsteps before I heard a door slam. I assumed she went to the washroom as I kept trying to remember what exactly happened. My assumption was correct seeing how seconds later I heard drops of water. She was taking a shower, just fabulous.
As I listened to the sound of the running water my mind kept trying to reach out for any memories of last night. The only thing I actually remembered was that me and Ash had started a drinking competition as soon as John ditched us to follow a girl around. After a couple rounds, I remember a girl- well actually, I remember Maggie asking us if she could join. Seeing how I remember her sitting next to me as we chugged down our drinks, we probably had agreed to her joining us.
I barely remember anything after that. Actually, I remember nothing after that.
Fuck. My. Life.
'I'm a dick- I'm addicted to you…' Letting the pillow fall, I lifted my head up as I heard that song play.
'…I'm trying, to pretend that, I'm addicted to you…" It was a ringtone seeing how it kept getting louder. After realising the sound was coming from somewhere in the room I stood up lazily from the bed and tried following the sound before it died.
I ended finding a blackberry under my boxers. 'Kit-cat' was calling. I didn't have to even think it over to know this phone belonged to Maggie. I glanced at the closed washroom door before doing the stupidest thing ever.
Answering the phone.
"Hello?" I said slowly stretching out the 'o' a little. I didn't get an answer in return so I spoke again "Hello?" I waited for a minute, I could clearly hear the breathing of whoever kit-cat was. I decided to try one last time, if no one answered I would just hang up. "Hello?"
"Give me that" I heard a distant voice coming from the blackberry before I heard some rough noises. "Who-the-fuck-are-you" I moved the phone away from my ear as soon as I heard those words. The person had probably yelled right on the phone and seeing how it was a guy who had spoken it ended up sounding so much louder.
"I-uh-" Yeah, I know that sounds rather stupid for me to say.
"Morgead! Give me my phone" I heard a distant voice, it belonged to a girl seeing how it was a little high-pitched. "Who are you?" The guy- Morgead- I assume, asked me once again as he clearly ignored the girl.
I froze not knowing what to say. I looked around for no apparent reason as I bit my lip. I glanced once again towards the direction of the washroom and noticed something. The door was slightly opened. I quickly picked up my boxers that were on the floor and I put them on as Maggie came out of the washroom.
"Answer the damn question!" I ignored the words as I bit my lip harder.
She was wearing clothes now. She had on that shirt I remembered from last night, the white strapless 'Bite me' shirt. She had her black jeans on with that fancy belt and she was barefoot. Her eyes fell straight on my right hand- the hand I was holding the phone with. She walked towards me as I stretched out my hand. She swiped the phone away from me and quickly placed on her ear.
"Hello?"
As soon as she had the phone she walked away from me as fast as possible. She was pretty much in the other side of the room. I picked up my shirt from last night that was placed on a table, then I headed towards my closet and pulled up a pair of jeans. I dressed up fast as I heard Maggie talking softly to Morgead guy. What was he anyways? Boyfriend? Brother? Friend? He sounded like her boyfriend to me…
"Cant explain… yes I'm okay… hold on… just call me later…ugh, forget it!" I saw Maggie hang up before she threw the phone across the room, it almost even hit me.
"We need to talk" She told me sounding really mad. I sighed before walking towards her. She walked towards the couch that was placed right in front of the bed and sat there. We both locked eye contact as soon as I sat on the bed.
"Delos?" She asked me raising her eyebrow. I nodded before remembering I never told her my name. She must have guessed what I was thinking from the look I was giving her. She pointed at my left hand "read it" she said.
I raised my eyebrows before I took the ring out of my finger. What did she mean by-oh.
'Bond For Eternity; Maggie & Delos'
Those words were carved in the inside of the ring. I sighed for what? The third time? Ugh. Again I ask, why me?
"I found our wedding certificate" Maggie told me as I felt the last bit of hope I had leave my soul. Wedding certificate? Really? What's next? A video with all our good moments together? Ha. What good moments? I cant even remember how the sex went! And that was the only actual moment I really had with her, unless I count the getting wasted together.
Maggie pulled out a paper from her pocket before handing it to me. I unfolded it before scanning quickly through it. All I had to read to clarify that my life was fucked and that I just made the biggest fucking mistake in my life was; 'Delos Redfern and Maggie Redfern'.
"Our you shitting me!" I yelled before I ripped it in half.
"Are you stupid!" Maggie yelled before snatching the two pieces away from me. I gave her a 'wtf' look as she looked like she was about to cry now. Don't tell me she likes being married…"This is the only prove we have of our marriage!" She yelled furious.
"I Don't want to be married!" I yelled back.
"Neither do I! That's why we need this damn paper!" She yelled probably trying to control herself from hitting me. I could tell she really wanted to. "If we want to annul this damn marriage, we need the fucking certificate!"
That actually made sense so I decided to hit my head for being so stupid before I went to search for tape.
"Do you remember…anything?" Maggie asked me as I searched for duck-tape in one of the drawers. I knew I had tape, I just didn't know where exactly.
"If your asking about the sex and wedding, no. I remember the drinking" I told her as I gave up on the tape. I went back to sit on the bed.
"I refuse to believe we had sex" She cried out firmly crossing her arms. "There is no prove what so ever"
"We were naked" I stated.
"We could have just stripped"
"Do you want me to sm-"
"Shut the fuck up!" She snapped. "I'm still a virgin, okay!" I could tell those words slipped out of her mouth. She placed her hands on her face as she laid back on the couch. Great Delos. You didn't just fuck a stranger. You fucked a virgin stranger. Anything else that's going to make me feel like shit? Can things get any worse?
"Look, I'm sorry, but we cant be blind at this moment. He have to deal with the truth and you know that we did in fact…" I hesitated "…have sex and-" I froze as a thought popped on my mind. My eyes slowly widened as repeated what she had said. She was a virgin… okay, so does that mean she doesn't take birth control pills?
I looked at her debating whether to ask her or not. She was sitting up straight now and her eyes were focused on me. She was waiting for me to say something. "Do you… take…pills?" I didn't want to say the word 'birth' whatsoever so I hoped she would understand what I intended. She looked at me for a while before she finally got it. Her mouth fell slightly open as she shook her head.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck! I don't- I don't remember a condom- fuck. Fuck. Fuck! Okay, maybe she was right. Maybe no sex. I can live with that. Right? No sex- nothing happened, right! Ignoring every fucking thought in my mind I rushed to the washroom and went straight towards the garbage bin. It was empty. I ran around the room picking up stuff from the floor as I searched for a damn condom.
"Oh god" I heard Maggie murmur before she covered her mouth with her hands.
Fuck. My. Life.
Jezebel Redfern
"Shut up!" I yelled as Morgead and Rashel kept yelling at each other. Gosh, talk about kids- pfft, and they are older then me.
"I should have been the one talking!" Rashel cried out clearly ignoring me. "You wasted the call!"
"Why don't you call her back?" I asked sitting down as both Morgead and Rashel kept yelling at each other.
I waited for either of them to answer my question, but they never did. I think they didn't even hear my question. They are so damn loud. I tried trying to calm the down numerous times, but like I said, they don't even hear me. I swear, we are going to get kicked out soon enough. Mostly, as soon as the people next door hear. Heck, I bet the people in the room above us probably already complained.
Why am I worrying about getting kicked? Fuck, I should be freaking out about Maggie. Its not like her to sleep somewhere else and not let us know. I called Thierry and Hannah earlier and they didn't seem to know anything either. They got a little worried as well, they were even planning on coming over and all, but of course I said fuck no to that.
If its not enough with Rashel and Morgead, why don't I just throw Thierry in. More torture for my ears is never a good thing. I could just imagine Thierry, Morgead and Rashel yelling at each other as Hannah freaks out and calls the police and I slowly die. What a way to spend your day.
"Get the fucking door!" My eyes widened a little as I leaned back. Rashel and Morgead were both looking at me.
"Why me?" I asked not remembering hearing anyone knock the door.
"Rashel?" The voice came from far away. I looked towards the closed door and took a guess that John was probably hear to pick up Rashel for their 'date'.
With out a second thought Rashel ran towards the door. Morgead gave me a questioning gaze before he sat next to me. He tried putting his arm around me but I simply pushed him away. However, that didn't stop him. He grabbed one of my hands and pulled me towards him, once I was close enough he placed his other hand around my waist and pulled me on top of him. I gave up just then as he had both his hands around my waist. Morgead lacks a lot of things- like being romantic for once. However, he never seems to lack strength and cockiness.
Sighing as Morgead kept kissing my neck I paid attention to Rashel. She had let the John in. They stood near the door, I think Rashel was telling him about our 'missing' friend. I decided I was going to like this guy seeing how he looked like he was actually paying attention to Rashel instead of just staring at her boobs, like her stupid ex boyfriend.
"Who is that?" Morgead whispered in my ear making me shiver. I heard him laugh softly before he kissed my neck again.
"Rashel's date, I assume" I told him as I leaned back. I turned my head a little so I could catch his lips. He smirked as I gave him a small kiss. A kiss that was going to turn out to last longer then it should have if it wasn't for Rashel's coughing.
"Gross" She said before walking towards us as John followed not far behind.
"Hey dude!" Morgead yelled out rather excited. "I'm glad your finally here, Rashel hasn't shut up about you. She has been talking for hours now" I tried elbowing Morgead as Rashel shot him death glares and restrained herself from attacking him, maybe because I was in the way. I focused my eyes on John as Morgead kept talking. Surprisingly, he looked very happy. Every word Morgead said made John's eyes spark.
"Shut it already" I told Morgead I finally got the chance to elbow him. "Ignore everything he just said. He is being stupid" I saw disappointment in his eyes which just made me like him even more. "I'm Jezebel Redfern. Rashel's friend since childhood"
John gave me a smile before taking the hand I was offering. "John Quinn" he said as we shook hands softly. "Redfern, eh?" He raised an eyebrow before shaking hands with Morgead. I nodded as Morgead said his name. John smiled before laughing, I gave him a questioning gaze. "Sorry, I just happen to know two people with the same last name"
"Really?" I asked with disbelief. I thought my name was rare.
Quinn nodded before smirking. "You know, just like them, I think the name fits you"
I smiled taking that as a nice comment just as Morgead started laughing. "So are your friends, rude, hot headed and do they happen to have anger management problems?" This time I elbowed him twice before I stood up away from him.
"Actually, you just practically described them" Okay, scratch everything I said about liking John. Rashel and Morgead erupted with laughter as I shot John daggers through my eyes. He gave me an apologetic smile.
Boy, if you weren't cute. Rashel would be dateless by now.
Maggie Neely
Yeah Poppy, ill be careful.
Don't worry mom, nothing will happen.
I know Hannah! I wont drink to much.
Miles, I know all this already, ill be fine.
Why are you giving me a lecture dad? Mom already explained everything.
Jez, I don't need birth control pills.
A condom, really Morgead? I think you are the only one that needs it…
Every little thing everyone had ever told me ran through my mind as I felt my world crashing, my dreams all dieing and my future…my future right now was fucked. Could I even think of a future for myself any longer?
Your future is with your husband…Fuck no! My future was definitely not with 'Delos'. Even if you are preg- I'm not!
Ugh. This really wasn't the day for my brain to divide into two parts. The optimistic part and the pessimistic part. Right now, I loved the optimistic part. 'No kid because you didn't have sex'. That's pretty much what it was telling me. Pessimistic part could honestly die right now, all it kept saying was; 'Yes pregnant because you had unprotected sex'.
What am I going to do? Ugh, the real question should actually be; What the hell did I do? Why was I so stupid? Why me!
"So…" Delos said probably tired of thinking over this situation. I was getting tired myself. Thinking about it only made me want to kill myself.
"So…" I said as I played with my nails.
"I'm sorry" I blinked with surprise before lifting my head up to lock eye contact with the most exotic yellow eyes I've ever seen. For the first time I actually studied his face perfectly. His perfect face actually. Well at least I married someone hot. I thought as I tried hard not to look down at his lips which he seemed to be biting right now.
"Your sorry?" I hated how it sounded, like a question and a statement.
"I swear I didn't- I" he hesitated not braking eye contact with me. "I didn't take advantage of you" he spoke those words gently as I saw his left hand move. He placed it on my knee. Both Delos and I weren't wearing our wedding rings any longer. We decided to take them off and put them in a bag with the wedding certificate.
His words definitely shocked me. I didn't actually really consider the fact that he might have taken advantage of me. I know exactly what alcohol does to people, specially me. 'I'm sorry' I couldn't help but repeating those words in my head. He was sorry. I don't know what for exactly, but he was sorry.
"I'm not a ladies man- actually that a lie, but honestly I don't really- I never- I mean, you- and- I just-girls really-"
"Delos" I said as I placed my hand on the hand he had on my knee. "I'm sorry too"
He looked taken aback, actually, his mouth kind of fell open. "Your sorry?"
"You don't look like the type that would want to get married with someone like me- let alone have a-" I stopped myself before saying the word 'kid'. Me and Delos both knew there could be a chance of that happening, but there really was no need to mention it. "Look, what I want to say is that this is my fault as well"
"I do want to marry someone like you" His words caught me of guard. I didn't even know if I heard him correctly. "I mean, someone pretty and firm like you, not really- I -uhm" I giggled as he once again bit his lip. Definitely a habit.
"I get what you mean, look why don't we-" I was going to suggest we find out how we are annulling our wedding when I got interrupted by a loud knocking on the door. I quickly turned my head towards the door as Delos stood up and made his way there. Without even asking who it was he opened the door. Three seconds later a guy with blonde hair walked in ignoring Delos' comment of not saying good morning.
"We are in trouble dick head, you are not going to believe this but-" The guy froze as soon as he saw me. He raised an eyebrow before turning around and facing Delos. "Uhm?" he spoke as he made a lot of hand gestures.
"Ash?" I asked surprised I actually remembered his name. It was definitely Ash, Delos' friend who also participated in the drinking competition. He was the one that allowed me to join them. So in a way, this was kind of his fault.
"Maggie?" He asked as he turned around once again, this time facing me. "You're the girl from last night" he said more to himself then to me. "What are you doing here?" he asked as he looked from Delos to me. Ash saw Delos role his eyes before I think he got it. His mouth formed an 'O' as he went to sit on Delos' bed. He sat there for five seconds before I heard Delos snicker. Ash's eyes widened before he stood up fast.
"You guys slept together?" Ash asked not really shocked. I nodded.
"Wait until you hear the rest" Delos mumbled as he went to sit on the bed. Ash gave him a questioning gaze before he turned his attention to me. I sighed before I explained everything that, well, we assumed happened. Pretty much everything we knew.
I started the little story with; "So we got wasted and…"
Hannah Snow
"Please?" Thierry asked me one last time as I still thought of an excuse to say no.
"I don't know…" I said as I looked at the small building. Well, terrifying small building. Thierry's amazing idea had been to go a haunted house- this man lacks a little bit of romance.
The haunted house he had picked had to be the worst one yet. In groups of four we would go in and make our way towards the top and then we would have to come down by down to the first floor by ourselves. I really couldn't do this. This goes against everything I pretty much stand for.
"Hannah please. It will be fun, nothing wrong will happen" With the kisses Thierry gave me between every word I was convinced. I gave him a smiled before telling him to go buy the tickets. I sighed softly as I looked up the sky. It was a nice day. The sun was shinning so bright. I cant believe this haunted house was actually open this early. Must be because its so damn dark in there.
Sighing one more time I asked for forgiveness before Thierry came back. "We have to wait for two more people so we can go" He kissed me on my forehead before we held hands and walked towards the entrance.
We waited for about ten minutes until a couple showed up. The girl seemed very excited as she dragged what I assumed would be her boyfriend towards the place where Thierry bought the tickets. The guy pulled out his wallet as the girl heard every word the ticket seller was saying. After two minutes of conversation he pointed towards us.
They walked calmly holding hands. Thierry smiled happy knowing that we would finally enter the damn haunted house. When the couple finally reached us the girl was the one to speak up first.
"Hey, looks like we are a group" She said with the brightest smile. "I'm Raksha, but most people just call me by my last name, Keller"
"And, I'm Galen" Thierry and I both shook hands with both Keller and Galen. Thierry introduced himself first before introducing me as his girlfriend of six years. They congratulated us before admitting they were dating for five years now. I couldn't help but to think they made the cutest couple I've ever seen. I mean, me and Thierry make the sweetest couple and Jez and Morgead make the sex couple. Something about Galen and Keller made them look so cute together. I think it was simply the love they had for each other.
"So shall we enter?" Thierry asked not trying to hide how excited he was. Keller immediately agreed, but me and Galen shrugged.
"The lady said we had to go in a line, so who want to be in the front?" Thierry was about to volunteer but I elbowed him. Keller saw that and laughed. "Okay, ill be first"
"Great, Thierry your last, I'm second last" I told Thierry as he smiled still happy. Keller stood right in front of the door. Galen was behind her, he put his arms around her waist. I put my hands on Galen's shoulders as Thierry grabbed me by the waist.
"Lets do this" Galen said as Keller opened the door.
I couldn't help but to feel a little bad about this…
'In a perfect world, this could never happen'
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Also, one last thing. I had this story planned out and everything but recently as I have gotten closer to God and all, I have been watching a lot of Christian movies- one of them being To save a life(I recommend you watch it). I really liked it and it gave me a really good idea. I want to teach something with this story just us much as I want you guys to enjoy it... so I'm adding a little twist.
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