Chapter 4- Waiting for the End

Adam felt cold. Maybe he had left the ceiling fan on or Eli lowered the temperature in the house he thought. With his eyes closed, he tried to get the covers on him, but didn't feel them until he got to his stomach. Adam pulled them up and over his head, stretching his leg and finding something weird. His bed was on a wall, but his foot had yet made to contact with the wall. He stretched out more, trying to find how he had fallen asleep. Adam stirred in the bed before lifting his head off the pillow and rubbing his eyes open. He let out a yawn before getting up. He looked up. There was no ceiling fan. He looked around him, at the bed. This wasn't his bed.

He still felt the room was cold, but it was due to the high powered are conditioner that hotels use for their rooms. He groaned and got off the bed, taking the sheets off of him. His head was pounding, not a bad case of being hung over, but enough for a small head ache. It was then he remembered. He remembered last night. "Crap" he got out, swallowing saliva as his throat felt dry and scratchy due to the alcohol. "Holy crap" he said as he looked around. "What did I do?" Adam couldn't really think clearly until it hit him like a large slap to his face. Fiona, her body intertwined with his, her moans.

"Oh fuck..I fucked Fiona" he said out loud. It wasn't till now that he made out the apparent sound of the shower running. Fiona must have been taken a shower. Adam looked around and found his boxers, putting them on quickly and looking for his clothes. His head spin in every direction that it could before he found his pants and shirt on a chair, Adam thinking she must have picked them up and placed them there before she went and took her shower. Adam wasted no time and put on his pants and button up his shirt and looked for his socks. He quickly looked and didn't find them, looking under the bed and not seeing them there, but he saw his shoes. "Fuck it." He said and put them on, feeling his pockets for his wallet and cellphone. "Cell phone..cell..phone" he walked over to the night stand and saw it there sitting, again it must have been her since he didn't even know half of the things that happened or couldn't remember them right now. He grabbed it and pushed it inside his pocket. Just then the shower head turned off and he could hear her pull the curtain away.

"Shit" he whispered and didn't hesitate. He had his phone, checked his wallet again and walked over to the door, opened it and closed it behind him, not caring if it slammed or not. He walked over to the elevator and pushed the down button a few times, pacing a bit before the doors opened and he stepped inside, pushing the door closed button a few times trying to make it to the lobby already.

Adam goes to the corner of the elevator; putting his head on the wall as his body leans against it. "Fuck what did I do?" he ask himself. "I slept with her. I fucking slept with her. God why her? I'm such an idiot!" the elevator stopped at the third floor, Adam standing straight now as another person got in, Adam not making eye contact with them. He hears a few sniffs coming from the girl and looks over. The woman clears her throat. He smell like he was a brewery or rather the after smell of the alcohol secreting from his sweat. "So-Sorry" he whispered to her and she nodded politely. Immediately as the doors open, she stepped off, Adam dragging himself to do the same.

Adam took in the lobby now, noticing how big and nice it was, a fancy place none the less as he had expected from Fiona. Juts her name in his head and his starts for the lobby doors. The doorman opens the door and greets him. "We're happy you enjoyed your stay" he tells him. Adam smirks a bit. "Is there a taxi I can get?" "Taxis' come around here every hour for some of our guest. We have a phone. Would you want me to call one up for you?" The doorman goes over to the valet stand and grabs the phone to call a cab for Adam.

Fifteen minutes later and the cab arrives, Adam getting in and giving the driver his address as he relaxes and put his heads against the glass of the door, closing his eyes, trying to escape from the memories of what had happened. "Hard night" he hears as the taxi driver starts with the small conversation. "Big time" Adam answered back. "Well maybe you could start with a shower, son if you don't mind me saying" "Crap what time is it?" Adam asked the guy, suspecting that his phone was dead and he had no watch to look at. "It's actually uhh 10 in the morning" the driver informed him looking at the radio watch.

"10 in the morning? Crap my job" Adam grabbed his phone and turned it on, hoping that it still had some juice to make a phone call. The screen started to come up and he saw that he had a few missed calls. He clicked on his boss' number and heard it ring. "Where are you, Torres?" he heard his boss and pulled the phone away from his ear. He didn't need the headache to get worse. "I'm sick" he lied. "You're sick? You're sick? Our dead line for this project is due tomorrow and you decided that today you are sick? You come in after lunch, you work on this and I might not consider firing you, you got that?" Adam rubbed his forehead. "Yeah yeah. Sure not problems, sir and again I'm sor-" That's all he could get out before his boss hung up. No he had more problems. "Could you speed it up a bit?" "Yeah sure, kid" the driver went a little faster.

Adam opened the door to his house, using the spare hidden key in the patio. "Hey dude" he heard as he got in. "Where have you-" "I can't talk. I'm taking a bath" he told Eli and headed for his room, taking off his shirt and going into the bathroom. He took a cold shower, trying to cool himself off from all that was going around him. He go out and dried himself off and went for his closet, taking out his clothes and putting them on the bed. He put on his boxers and undershirt before putting on his work shirt and pants. He went over to the bathroom mirror and combed his hair before tucking in his shirt. He flew to his room once more and grabbed his cologne and sprayed it all around. He grabbed his blazer and tie and went to the bathroom, putting tooth paste on his toothbrush and putting on the side of his mouth and he went to the living room again.

"Yeah you're bossed called earlier" Eli gave him the late news. "Yeah I know" he mumbled putting on his tie and knotting it. "I told him to call your phone and I guess he did." "I called him back and he is pissed" Adam informed him. "I didn't think you were going to stay out that late. I would have made up an excuse for you" "Tried it. Didn't work." Eli nodded and took a sip of his coffee. "So..where did you go last night?" Eli asked him, Adam continuing to brush his teeth and ignored the question. He went back to his bathroom and finished cleaning before going to his room and getting his socks, shoes, belt and putting them on. He walked back out and Eli stared at him the whole way. "Somewhere" he answered. "Does somewhere have a name or did you not get it last night? Who is she?" Eli asked.

Adam went to the coffee maker and took a cup from the cabinet and poured it straight black into it, tasting the horrible combination of coffee and toothpaste mixing in his mouth. "God" he groans before he gulps it down. "That must have tasted disgusting" "I need to wake up" he comments. "Oh hey I'm heading for the store to pick up the groceries. What time do you have to be at work?" "After lunch so I have a few hours." Adam took another sip before opting on adding at least milk to the coffee. "Then you can go with me then" Adam agreed and waited for his friend to change, still thinking of what Eli would say when he told him what he had done and with whom.

"Hey so where did you go last night?" Eli asks Adam as they park at the store. Adam takes off his seat belt and steps out of the car, knowing that he couldn't avoid the question so much longer. "I hooked up with someone" he blurred out as they headed in. "No shit. I already figures that out. Was it that cute blonde with the tits or the so called poet girl that didn't looked like she had taken a shower or well a few years" Adam furrowed his eye brows as Eli got a shopping cart. "What? No! It was neither, especially that chick. Dude what the hell do you think I'm into?" Eli shrugged and went over to the apples. "You want some?" he asked and Adam nodded as he grabbed a bag and opened it as Eli put some in.

"I actually-" "Hey I'm getting some peaches." Adam only nodded. "Just look at the list" he told him and Eli pulled it out, going through it and picking up a bag and going over to the bananas. "I actually have something to tell you." Adam leaned on the banana stand as Eli started to look at them, thinking he could pick them out. "Ok who was it?" Eli already expecting the conversation to go back to topic other than produce. "..Fiona" Adam mumbled.

"I'm sorry, it sounded like you said-" Eli put the bag down on the cart and looked over at Adam. "Are you serious?" Adam looked down at the floor. "Adam, are you fucking kidding me?" "Dude, public place man." Eli stepped closer to his best friend. "Are you kidding me?" he whispered. "Are you fucking kidding me with that bitch again?" Adam rolled his eyes. "Eli. Stop" "The only reason I could stand her was because you and her had something. Other than that I'm just polite to her" Eli grabbed the cart and went over to the cereals, Adam following him, hands inside his pockets.

"Adam let me tell you what I told you so many times after she got out of your life like the bitch she is. She. Is. Poison." Eli stared down his friend, looking him straight in his eyes as he said that. "That girl is more poison than any snake out there. She is heartless, she is a user and she is poison, alright? And she's already toyed with you once. Don't let her do it to you again" Eli saw how broken his friend was after Fiona so he knew what he was talking about. "Eli, it was just sex" "Yes! But you know what, Adam" Eli grabbed his favorite cereal and threw the box into the cart. "She is a manipulator and a liar. God! I don't even know why, why it would even be a good idea not only to sleep with her, but to talk to her as well." "Eli, if I can let it go, why can't you?" Adam tells him. "I saw how heart broken you were, ok? The first time and I'm not ready to see you like that again. You suffer, I suffer and she already made you suffer. She inflicted you with her poison and she's going to do it again."

Adam was silent "Maybe th-" "She's getting married!. She's with some other guy, Adam. Do you really think that what happened last night, what words she said yesterday meant something?...It was a slip up between both of you. You're just her toy" Adam shook his head. "I just thought-" "You're her puppet. Stop being her puppet." Eli looked seriously at Adam. Adam knew why he felt this way. Out of everyone in his life, Eli got to see the damage after Fiona left the most out of anyone. He knew that Eli held that grudge, Adam admitting to himself deep down inside he felt one too. "You're nothing but something to forget right now. To forget what she is doing with that other guy, bro" "Don't say that dude" Adam sadly mumbled. "What do you want me to say? Oh hey! Umm great you slept with the girl who has a fiancée and is getting married in no less than two weeks. Yeah sure man. Totally ok with you and her sleeping together. I give you my best wishes I'll be your best man at you wedding..oh wait.. she's marrying some other dude! She literally left you with your heart broken and had no remorse about it and didn't give you a second glance as she walked away." Eli cut the sarcasms seeing the sad look on Adam's face. "Dude, I'm just trying to help you not fall into the black widow's net. If I didn't care, I wouldn't get involved." Eli patted his friend on his shoulder and they went on going through the list, Adam not putting any attention to it.

She can't be doing this on purpose, can she? Adam asks himself as they pull up to the house, spotting an unknown car in the drive way. Eli put the car on park and got out, Adam getting out too. He opened the trunk. As Eli did this, the door from the driver side swung open and they saw the red head step out. "Oh no" Adam whispered. "Dude, what is Holly J doing here? Do you think she knows?" Adam didn't know how to answer that.

"Adam, can I talk to you for a moment?" Holly J went straight to the point. "I think she does" Adam told Eli and walked over to the red head, Holly J getting in her car again and Adam joining her in the passenger seat. He looks at the side mirror and looks at Eli open the garage and take the groceries in through the garage door, having to walk close to them and glancing every once and a while. "Why were you at her hotel, Adam?" he hears Holly J ask. "What?" "I saw you this morning. I was going over there to have a girl's day out with her when I saw you get into a cab, in front of her hotel. You were wearing the same clothes from yesterday, at the party"

"I-" Holly J shook her head for him to stop talking. "She's getting married, Adam. You lost your chance-" Adam scoffed. "Are you kidding me? I lost my chance? She left remember? She turned her back on me, I never did that to her. She did it to me like I was some sort of worthless doormat she could step on whenever she wanted and leave whenever I wasn't useful for her. You know what, HJ" Adam opened the door. "Go back to you friend, alright. If you want to know so badly what did or didn't happen last night, go ask her" Adam slammed the door and walked over to Eli, helping him out as he heard the engine of Holly J's car start and saw her leave.

End of Chapter 4