Chapter Four: Some Help
Author's Note:
Chapter Four: Some Help is here! See the misadventures and the answer to the question. This chapter is definatly chocked full of humor and laughter. Until Chapter Five: Getting The Body, see ya! ;-)
-CelestialTime93
"Okay, so that only gives us five days." Inez panicked that night.
"Make that four." Matt replied, in equal panic as Inez, "One day already passed. You're only in a coma, how could your body begin to get worst after six months? Usually the minimum is only 3 years!"
"I work too much, and I barely get enough sleep." Inez replied, "The last time I had a good night's sleep was before I got the promotion at the clinic."
"So that's why you work so hard!" Matt exclaimed, "The promotion! You sent me a postcard telling me about it! Oh god, that was 2 years ago."
"See?" Inez replied, "I haven't had a goodnight's sleep in two years! Where's the sense in that? I only have 5 hours of sleep! I'm three less!"
"Tell me about it." Matt groaned, "Okay, the first thing you are doing when you return to your body, is getting some sleep! You can't stay up this late!"
"I know, I know!" Inez replied, "It's just that, the only thing that keeps me moving every day is my job. I had no relationships before, remember? Not ever. Usually, if I had a boy to think about, I can sleep easily and I probably would never have gotten the promotion as an actual doctor. Oh god, I miss being a nurse!"
"Inez, you gotta pipe down." Matt advised, "Look, why don't you come to the bar with me tomorrow. Don't worry, I don't drink liquor. Too gross for my taste. I'm only gonna stay at the bar and watch Robbie dance his butt off like usual."
"Usual?" Inez questioned, "How many times are you forced to go out to the pub?"
"Once a week." Matt replied, "He always tells me to dance or something, but I always say no."
"Well, I don't like the atmospheres of pubs." Inez frowned.
"Neither do I, but Robbie said to bring you with me." Matt replied.
"But he can't see me."
"I know, but I told him."
"YOU TOLD HIM?"
"Nezzie, we can't do this ourselves!"
"Don't call me Nezzie!"
"Sorry!"
Inez sighed. "This is getting us nowhere. Maybe we really do need Robbie's help."
"If he can last through the night." Matt frowned, "Do you know how many glasses he drinks every time we go there? 20 glasses! The next morning he gets a hangover. He could barely think. His mind is mush for 12 hours."
"Okay..." Inez frowned.
"Oh, and he thinks that I have a crush on you!" Matt said.
Wrong thing to say.
Inez raised an eyebrow. "Do you?" she asked, almost hopefully.
Matt blushed at the question. "Ahem... time for bed."
Inez sighed. "Answer me, Matt."
"Goodnight." Matt replied, turning the lights off.
Inez growled. She climbed into bed beside Matt. A tear trickled down her face.
Matt knew he hurt her feelings. He didn't mean to. He just didn't want to say the truth now.
Matt had a crush on Inez. Ever since she retorted at Matt for calling her Nezzie the first time. Which was basically the reason why he kept on teasing her. Because he loved her. Many times he had denied the thought of him actually being together with a girl like Inez. Smart, busy, everything that was opposite of Matt.
Matt wasn't exactly the brightest person, ever since he moved to New York. His job payed him high, but he wasn't happy. After his parents died, the will told him to move to New York to live a better life than in Boston. Matt just found it worst, so moved back against his parents' wishes.
Now, he was living in the same apartment as his long time friend/crush! How was he gonna live through living with Inez everyday? And what if they don't return her to her body in time?
Matt closed his eyes, drifted to sleep, feeling guilty for what he had just said to Inez.
Matt realized that Inez had her nose in a book. Like usual.
A devilish idea crossed his mind. Matt stood up slowly and carefully, making sure that Inez doesn't notice Matt getting up and going behind her.
Matt held his breath and leaned over his head beside Inez's, then said, "Boo."
Inez screamed and whacked the book on Matt's face by accident, causing him to yelp in pain.
"Matt!" Inez screamed, "You scared me half to death!"
"Sheesh, you're already a ghost!" Matt replied, holding his nose.
Inez frowned, and pulled on Matt's ear, causing him to lower his head in a jerk to Inez's level.
"Don't you dare scare me again." Inez threatened through gritted teeth.
"Alright, alright!" Matt screamed, "Just let go of my ear!"
Inez let go in a sudden gesture, causing Matt to fall to the ground.
"You sure you can ask one of your friends for help?" Inez asked.
"Hey, if Robbie believes me, I'm sure Amelia will." Matt replied.
"Hello?" Inez counteracted, "Robbie drinks 20 glasses of liquor and has massive hangovers in the morning."
"Shh!" Matt shushed. He rung the doorbell.
A woman about Matt's age answered the door.
"About time you're back, Matthew." Amelia frowned.
"I told you to call me Matt." Matt frowned, "Anyway, can I come in?"
"Sure." Amelia shrugged, as she led Matt inside.
Matt noticed Inez stayed outside. While Amelia wasn't looking, he dragged Inez in. Surprising how he could actually do that.
"Amelia, I need to ask your help for something." Matt said as they entered the living room. Two little girls were playing Tea Party on a small kiddy table.
"What?" Amelia asked.
"I have a ghost in my apartment." Matt explained, "She's really someone in a coma for six months. I know her very well."
"You know Ineza Garcia?" Amelia asked, staring at Matt as if he was weird.
"Yeah, I've been friends with her since she was nine." Matt replied, "Anyway, she needs to get back to her body in four days, or else she's gonna be lost forever. So, will you help?"
Amelia thought for a moment, then said to the two girls, "Okay, why don't you meet mommy upstairs. It's naptime."
The girls ran upstairs, as Amelia went into the kitchen.
She returned with an axe-like blade in her hand.
"Get out of my house!" Amelia cried.
Matt and Inez screamed and avoided the blades' blows and managed to run out of the house alive.
"I told you she wouldn't help!" Inez retorted.
"Well at least we tried!" Matt replied, "Damn! Now we're stuck with a man with a hangover every week! How are we gonna explain this to Jackie?"
"Oh, she's gonna freak." Inez frowned.
"YOU TOLD SOMEONE?" Jackie screamed.
"We need help!" Matt defended, "We can't do this alone! Robbie managed to believe me and he said he would help! He even told me to bring Inez with me to the pub tonight."
"This is bad." Jackie frowned, "Not only are you stuck with a nitwit, butyour days are shortened to one! I heard that Inez's doctors are giving up onwaking up Inez.Tomorrow is your absolute last day to reunite Inez with her body before she's lost forever."
"Joy..." Matt and Inez groaned.
"I don't believe it!" Inez exclaimed, "We have one day until I disappear for good! What has come to this world?"
"Don't ask me, I don't know." Matt replied, "All I know is that we have to reunite you with your body by tomorrow. Let's just try to avoid Robbie getting a hangover."
As the two spoke, several people stared at Matt and Inez as they passed, thinking that Matt was weird.
"That'll be a hard one." Inez scoffed.
"For once, I agree." Matt replied.
Then, somebody called, "Somebody help! My friend's unconcious!"
Matt and Inez rushed to the gathering crowd and managed to make it to the center. A man was lying unconcious.
"Oh my god." Inez gasped.
"Okay, now what do I do?" Matt muttered.
"Let's find out what's wrong first." Inez replied.
"Okay, what's wrong?"
Inez studied the unconcious man. "The repritoire system went wrong."
"The repritoire system's damaged." Matt said to the crowd.
"No, something's in his throat."
"Something's in his throat actually."
"Never mind!"
"Never mind!"
"I don't get what's wrong with him..." Inez muttered.
"Okay, could we just drop the subject now?" Matt frowned.
"Fine." Inez frowned, "Looks like we've reached our destination."
"Matt, what took you so long?" Robbie asked.
"Got a little dragged behind at Town Square." Matt replied.
"So, where's your friend?" Robbie asked.
"You can't see her." Matt replied, "Only I could see her. And she's right beside me."
"Thank you for the introduction." Inez replied sarcastically.
"Shut up." Matt muttered, making sure nobody else heard him.
"I'm gonna go to the dance floor." Robbie said, "Enjoy yourself."
Matt sighed and sat down at the bar.
"The usual please." Matt said to the bartender as Inez joined him.
Apparently, Inez, didn't know what was in the glass.
Just as Matt was about to drink it, Inez cried, "Don't you dare!"
Soon, she entered Matt's body, and started making his body jerk. The glass with the sweet liquid inside splattered all over the place, as Matt started jerk around towards the front door.
Soon, Inez pushed herself out of Matt's body and dusted her clothes.
"You just violated me infront of the whole public!" Matt shot, standing up, not even thinking about the people around him.
"What else could I do, you were about to drink brandy!" Inez shot.
"What?" Matt cried, "No! That was ginger ale!"
"They serve ginger ale in bars?"
"What, you didn't know?"
"Of course I didn't know, I never went to a bar before! Up til now..."
"Well, it was ginger ale." Matt replied.
Then, the two noticed Robbie about to drink a glass of liquor.
"Okay, now that's brandy." Matt said, "Mind if you stop him?"
"My pleasure." Inez replied. She ran towards the dance floor, slapped Robbie in the face as he was about to drink his brandy, then entered his body, making him jerk like what happened to Matt.
She lead Robbie to the front beside Matt, and pushed herself out of his body. She dusted her body more than she did after she exited Matt's body.
"Dude, you made Inez angry." Matt said to Robbie, who was standing up, "Listen. No drinks tonight. Our days are shortened to one. We have to return her by tomorrow. Unfourtuanatly, the clinic is on the otherside of town, and she needs to return by tomorrow."
"Why the shortening of days all of a sudden?" Robbie asked.
"The doctors are about to give up on my medical needs." Inez replied.
"The doctors at Inez's clinic are about to give up on her." Matt replied for Inez.
"How do you know?" Robbie asked.
"Inez told me, she's right behind you." Matt replied.
Robbie whirled around to find nobody there.
"You can't see her, remember?" Matt reminded.
"Alright." Robbie frowned, "So that means no night out tonight?"
"Definatly." Matt replied, "I'll drive to your place tomorrow morning. Wake up early! We'll have to go on a long drive to reach the clinic. I can't believe she works so far away from her own apartment."
"Hey, there's no other clinic nearby." Inez counteracted, "I can't do anything else. I only received a degree as a nurse or a doctor."
"Whatever." Matt groaned.
"You sayin' that to me?" Robbie asked.
"No, not you!" Matt replied, "Inez! She only got a degree as a nurse or a doctor. She couldn't recieve another degree, because she didn't train for it!"
"Ouch." Robbie frowned, "That means gettin' up early in the morning."
"I'll see you tomorrow morning." Matt said, "And don't drink! If you do, I'll know! You easily have hangovers in the morning!"
"Fine!" Robbie replied, as they both entered their cars and drove back to their homes.
Tomorrow was going to be a tough day.