"Good morning", Rachel said as she brought Brimstone a cup of coffee. He grunted and popped his back as he sat up.
""What is this?", he asked.
"Coffee, it's literally like gasoline for the human body".
"Gasoline?", Brimstone said obviously oblivious to what gasoline is.
"Never mind, just drink it. It's hot so I figured it would be good for you". Brimstone took the coffee and drunk it in one huge gulp.
"Oh, wow. This stuff is wonderful".
"Good, I'm glad you like it", Rachel said with a smirk.
"I have to go get ready for class it starts in half an hour. I will ask about you today. See how I can get you signed up. For today and probably the next week or so just stay here. You can go on the balcony, just don't go out in public. You can watch whatever you want on TV. You can have whatever you want out of the refrigerator. You can basically do anything you want to within these walls, okay?".
"Yeah, okay. That sounds fine". Rachel gave him the remote and went and got dressed and left. About 15 minutes later the phone rang, Brimstone had never heard a phone ring before.
"Okay, let's see. How do I turn this TV on". He pressed multiple buttons before it came on. Then came the phone. He raised an eyebrow and wondered where it could be coming from.
"What on earth is that?", he said looking around. He finally saw it sitting on the table beside the couch. The red light on it was blinking.
"Um, hi. Can I do something for you to make you stop that sound?". The phone kept ringing and ringing and he was getting frustrated.
"Shut the hell up!", he screamed. He smacked the phone and the back of it broke, it fell to the floor and he could hear Rachel's voice.
"Oh, my God. Rachel how did you get trapped inside this thing. How can I get you out?". He could hear her laugh from the other side.
"I am not trapped, I'm in my car. This is called a phone you can call and talk to people in different places with this thing". She could hear him pulling the phone away from his ear as if to look at it and say.
"Amazing", in an astonished voice. She put her hand over her mouth to keep from laughing.
"Listen, I need you to get inside the table beside the couch, where the phone you are holding was sitting. On the top drawer- ".
"What in the heck is a drawer", he said. Rachel realized this was going to be difficult. She explained what the table was and where it was.
"Now there is a paper that says do not disturb, I need you to put it on the outside of the door, that way the cleaning lady will not bother you today until I am home, okay?". She was hoping he would reply with a simple okay.
"Okay", he said as Rachel sighed with relief. Brimstone hung the sign on the outside of the door and returned inside. He sat down on the couch and turned on the tv.
"Only a week until Halloween. I think all of Portland is very excited for the annual trick or treat festivities", the newsman said excitedly.
"What is this Halloween?", Brimstone thought out loud. He tried to think and finally gave up and got the phone to call Rachel.
"Oh, my God", Rachel said as her phone rang out loud in class.
"Rachel, who is that?", her teacher Martha asked. Rachel hit the mute button and she could have swore she heard Brimstone scream from her dorm. The day went by and the longer the day went, the more bored Brimstone got. He went and got into the bathtub so he could get hot and use his powers to see what was going on in the Underworld.
"I can see it happening, Hades", Brimstone's mother Persephone said.
"He is falling for that girl, I can see it. And not that that is a bad thing. She is very nice, but she isn't quite as breathtakingly beautiful as I".
"Oh, piss off, mother. I am not falling for her, I don't even know what that means. But I can assure you she is much more breathtaking than your old ugly mythological face", Brimstone said, knowing his mother could not even hear him. Now mad, Brimstone got out of the bathtub and heard someone in the living room.
"Oh, yes. We have hit the motherload with this one", the man said.
"Hey, hey!", Brimstone shouted.
"Who's there", the man said back. Brimstone got out and put his clothes back on, went into the living room and met the man face to face who was trying to rob Rachel's dorm room.
"Hey, man. You aren't a college student. You sleeping with the one that lives here?".
"Uh, no. I slept on the couch". The robber raised an eyebrow.
"Well, seeing as how you have more tattoos than I do, I'm sure you've been in prison before. So, help me loot this place".
"Loot? What does that mean".
"Oh, don't screw with me. You know how to rob, take stuff that isn't yours to get money".
"You want to take Rachel's things to make a profit for yourself?".
"Yes, can you help-". That is all the robber got to say before Brimstone knocked him out cold. He tied him to the dining room chair and waited for Rachel to get back.