Chapter 7: The Night
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"I can't believe I let you talk me into doing this." Faith said as she looked over at her partner. Bosco was drumming his hands on the top of the bar to the music that was playing in the background. "Bosco you do know that we have to work tomorrow right?"
"So what? We're adults! We had today off! Besides... you deserve a night out." He said and nodded toward the bartender. "Ma! Two shots over here!"
"No! I don't drink shots!" Faith said and shook her head with a worried look on her face.
"Well, you're gonna start tonight." He said and handed her a shot then tapped her glass with his. "Take it!"
Faith scrunched up her face and slowly took the shot then slammed the glass down when she was finished with it. "Oh my gawd!" She said and put her hand on her chest. "That was disgusting." She looked over at Bosco and he was smiling and ordering more. "No, Bosco I can't do this! That was terrible!"
"All right, I think you'll like this one." Rose said with a smile and started making Faith up a drink. "Try this."
She slowly took the shot glass and looked at Rose. "What is it?"
"It's called a Red Headed Slut."
"Oh that's great. That's a terrible name for a shot." She looked at Bosco.
"Take it before I make you take it!"
"Shut up Maurice." Rose said.
"Yeah... Maurice. Shut up." Faith said with a smile then took a deep breath and quickly took the shot. She was waiting for that burning sensation in her throat but the shot was actually good. "Ok that one was actually good." She cleared her throat and watched as Bosco took a straight shot of vodka. "I don't know how you do it. That was disgusting."
"I'm not drinking it for the taste." He said and watched his mother make up another shot. "The last couple weeks have been tough so... why not?!"
"You find an apartment yet?" Rose asked.
"No, the places I can afford are in really bad neighborhoods and the good ones are way out of my price range." She blinked a little as she began feeling a buzz. "All right, I can feel myself getting into that drunken stage so that's enough for me."
"You're not gonna stop! It's early!" Bosco said and took the next shot from his mother.
"What is this one?" Faith asked and took the other shot from Rose. "A blonde whore?"
"Ha! That's funny." Rose said with a smile. "No this is a Purple Rain."
"This is the first shot that Mike and I drank." Bosco said before he took the shot and looked at Faith as she plugged her nose and took the shot too. "You are such a rookie." He shook his head and slid the glass to his mother.
"Sorry I'm not an alcoholic." Faith said and rubbed her nose. "Gawd these shots make you hot." She took her jacket off; she had on a tight gray v-neck shirt on with her blue jeans and white tennis shoes.
"There you go! Loosen up!" Bosco said and shook her arm a little.
"Don't touch me!" Faith said and softly pushed him away and he stumbled back a little and almost fell off his stool. She began laughing as he caught himself from falling.
"Would you chill out!" Bosco said in a loud voice and sat back on his stool and grabbed the bottle of whiskey that was on the bar and poured them both a shot. "You're gonna love this." He said and slid another shot.
"No Bosco. Nothing straight and defiantly nothing with whiskey in it!"
"Stop being a baby! You're supposed to be a big bad New York cop right?" He asked and picked her shot up and held it up to her lips.
"I'm gonna end up slapping you before this night is over." She said and took the shot.
"I like it rough baby." He joked and smiled as he took the shot. He watched the disgusted look form on Faith's face after she took hers. "Oh come on! It's not that bad!" He said and she shook her head. "You need to get out more."
"No I don't! I'm perfectly fine being a light weight."
"Well, I'm not. I can't believe we've been partners for nine years and we've never drank together."
"We have drunk together. It's called a beer. The safe way to go. My fingers are going numb." She held her hands out in front of her. "Can you see that?"
Bosco looked at her hands then at her face. "Ma she's hammered!" He shouted to his mother who was at the other end of the bar talking to a guy. Rose shook her head at her son's loud voice then went back to talking to the customer. "I told you, you'd like the whiskey!"
"I hated it. I never said I liked it." She said, slurring her words a bit.
Bosco gazed closely at her face. "You're gonna throw up."
"Stop picking on me!" She said and grabbed the shot that he poured for her. "This is to my husband! God bless him!"
"Ex-husband." Bosco mumbled and took the shot then licked his lips. "When are you gonna start dating?! Cause I have the perfect guy for you!"
"Never. I'm gonna stay single forever. I'm gonna focus on my job so I can make Sergeant then get myself a nice house and get my kids and live happily ever after."
"You mean happily ever shitty." He said and she glared at him. "That's no way to live your life. Everybody needs to have sex."
"Bosco not everything is about sex."
"Life is about sex." He said stubbornly and poured another shot. "If you don't have sex again then you could die."
"You are so full of crap." She said with a smile on her face. Faith took the shot and made another face then slid it back to him. "Ok my stomach is hot! I don't want anymore." She stood up and almost fell over. "I need to go pee."
Bosco stood up also and put his hands on her hips. "You are so gonna fall."
"No! Stop! I got it!" She shouted and stumbled to the bathroom.
Rose walked over after the man left and leaned against the bar. "She gonna be all right?"
"Yeah she's just gotta pee." Bosco said and looked up at his mother. "Ma... I'm glad you work at this bar 'cause all these drinks would be really expensive at any other bar."
"Don't mess with her Maurice." She said and Bosco straightened his face then looked toward the bathroom. "I'm serious, she's very vulnerable right now. I don't want you to take advantage of that."
"I'm a grown man Ma!"
"I know you are." She said and put her hand over his. "But you also have a tendency of doing things like this to women and never calling them again."
"I'm not gonna do anything with her Ma! She's my partner! I don't look at her that way!"
"I hope not." She said softly as Faith stumbled back to her chair. "You doing all right Faith?" Rose asked and looked at her droopy eyes.
"Great!" She replied and looked over at Bosco who appeared upset. "Cheer up!" She said and nudged his shoulder.
"Don't touch me!" He said in an annoying voice and stuck his tongue out at her. "All right Ma! Make up one of your crazy ass shots!"
"That was... so much fun!" Faith shouted as she stumbled into the apartment.
"Shut up! You're gonna get me excited." He said and they both looked at each other. "Evicted!" He said and they both started laughing. Bosco slammed the door with his foot and ripped off his leather jacket. "I wanna beer. You wanna beer?"
"No more alcohol!" She said and fell on the couch and looked at the room as it began spinning. "We should do that more often."
"I told you. I knew you were a drunk kinda person."
"No, I don't like being drunk." She shot up from the couch and took her shoes off and walked toward the bathroom to pee again.
Bosco grabbed a beer from the refrigerator and started drinking it as he stood in the middle of the living room. He looked toward the bathroom and heard Faith knocking stuff over. He walked to the door and was going to knock when she came out and almost ran into him.
"Oh! You scared me!" She said and stared into his eyes. Bosco stared right back and looked down at her eyes and lips.
"You smell like whiskey." He said and she laughed and he smiled at her laugh.
"So do you!" She put her nose against his neck and took in his scent. "Also like that cheap cologne that you always wear."
"CHEAP!" He backed up from her and took another swig of beer. "That bottle was $29.95!"
"Exactly what I mean Bos! Cheap!" She staggered back to the couch and looked at him before she flopped down. "I don't want to work tomorrow. I wanna call in sick."
"I don't really feel it that much anymore." He said and sat next to her and watched as her eyes twitched. He smiled at the way she was acting. He had never seen her drunk before so it was a little weird. She was so free-spirited. She didn't have a worry in the world. Too bad she would wake up in the morning with a bad headache and the divorce to go back to. "Are you tired?"
"No." She said. "Yes." She said. "No." She said again. Faith looked at Bosco and laughed. "I don't know."
"Maybe you should sleep in my bed tonight. You're gonna wake up feeling like shit."
"I thought you didn't like being a gentlemen and let me sleep in your bed." She said and propped her bare feet on the coffee table.
"Oh I'm not gonna sleep out here." He said and drank some more beer. "This couch kills my back. And I have a king size bed. It's big enough for two."
Faith looked at his face and started laughing then clapped her hands together a little. "Bosco you're not gonna try and play that role so you can sleep with me." She said and smiled. "It's not gonna work."
"I'm not." He said and looked at her toes. "Just trying to be nice." He stood up to put his bottle in the garbage.
"I'm sorry." She stood up too but tripped over her own shoe and almost fell.
"You are such a sloppy drunk." He said and helped her stand up straight. Bosco looked at Faith's face and took hold of her head by her cheeks then slowly brought her head to his. Just as there lips were about to connect, Faith gagged and ran to the bathroom and emptied her stomach out into the toilet. Bosco put his hands on his hips and shook his head as he listened to her throwing up.
To Be Continued...
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