The Night it Happened

Her nails tapped against her wine glass, she smiled down into her drink and mulled over the thoughts of the week. It had been suspiciously quietly causing her body to shiver involuntarily at all the admin she had to do the previous days. Carla was laughing slightly internally at the thought of her jinxing her entire life as her work-life balance had just been fixed. Looking up she saw the bartender rubbing a glass clean, she smiled and use one of her fingers to push her glass towards the bartender who luckily got the message and refilled her glass leaving her hands redundant all of a sudden. She eventually sent the message to her hands to pick up her phone, she rolled her eyes dramatically at the number of messages she had yet to go through but as soon as that glass was placed in front of her again she found herself drinking the blood-red liquid.

"Red wine for the lady"

"I won't deny that, make it a bottle then I may consider getting away from this bar" Carla murmurs before looking at the figure

"A bottle then"

"Here" the bartender smiles placing the bottle in front of them both, she smirks taking in the label and nodding impressed "Malbec, our finest"

"Impressive" she nods with a playful smirk, she slides off the seat and heads over to the abundance of sofas and she sits followed by the guy who offered to buy her this bottle "So then, I must thank you for that"

"You looked lonely" he muses leaning back against the seat and picking up a glass, he pours her some of the wine "And as someone as beautiful as you shouldn't be left alone in a place like this"

"Oh leave off" she cackles leaning her head on her arm as she takes in this man's features

"It's true" he smirks, she bites her lip "You're absolutely beautiful"

"Someone's obviously been pre-drinking, I must feel the need to catch up"

"So it's a competition now?" he proposes, she smirks and nods picking up the bottle to refill her glass "Well I must admit it's an interesting topic choice"

"Hardly" she rolls her eyes biting her lip "What brings you here then?"

"Rough day, you?"

"Snap, just time to let loose and have fun after a long week of admin and paperwork, trust me I need this bottle and someone to have a laugh with"

"Well I'm more than interested" he smirks, she giggles and bites her lip "So what do you do for a living?"

"Oh" she falters slightly, she didnt really want to reveal what she did as it usually scared people off once they knew so she went with the lie "Uh just your generic accountant"

"Hey accountants earn a fair bit" he points out, Carla bites her lip and nods raising her glass to her lips to hide her expression "Nowt to be embarrassed about"

"So what do you do?" she turns the conversation onto him

"Uh" he falters "Nothing at the moment, currently on a visit here to see family, you know"

"Oh I get it, you don't have to tell me-"

"No it's not that," he says, she narrows her eyes "It's the genuine truth"

"Right" she confirms with a small smile "Either way I think thats great, helping out your family and taking the time out to see them"

"Only if they felt that way eh?"

"Trouble in paradise then?"

"Something like that" he mutters before wanting to switch the conversation onto her "It doesn't matter"

"Well I won't pry," she says picking up the bottle and groaning, he frowns "Already polished off all of that bottle"

"We must have needed it" he smirks, she laughs slightly dropping her gaze and biting her lip

"I'll get another, that's if you're staying and it wasn't a quick drink?"

"Far from it" he smirks, she chuckles and heads to the bar...

She stretched her limbs and rubbed her tired eyes, she forced them over before groaning quietly in response. She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and looked at the time, she gasped knowing she needed to be home for work tomorrow and that was when she realised she was naked. Closing her eyes she turned her head and bit her lip knowing she had definitely slept with the guy at the bar she met moments prior. Carla pinched the bridge of her nose trying to decide what to do, either way, she made her way into the bathroom to freshen up before returning and seeing him still asleep so she dressed and ran her fingers in through her hair cursing internally at the fact she took her makeup bag out of her bag when she got in knowing the pocket hairbrush would be really useful right now. Soon enough she made her way out of the room not even attempting to wake her little fumble and phoned her friend to come and collect her.

"Go," Carla says, "Just go, Michelle"

"What have you done now?" she groans quietly starting the car and driving off "Who did you sleep with?"

"Oh leave off with those psychic abilities" she snaps back leaving Michelle to smirk and roll her eyes at her friend's defensiveness "I just need to get home and get to bed"

"I still don't know why you're going in tomorrow if you're in this state-"

"It's none of your business" she snaps once more, Michelle sighs as she pulls her car up to her friends flat "Thanks I owe you one"

"You do" Michelle confirms before driving off, Carla sighs and heads up to her flat knowing tomorrow would be another day killer hangover aside...