Down & Out

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Part Fourteen: For You I Will

Marissa lay awake in the bed she'd been confined in for the past few days. It was hard for her to fall asleep, without Alex's comforting hand in her own, and without Alex's thumb grazing her knuckles. She'd grown accustomed to the feeling, and at that moment she realized how much she missed it. She'd also grown accustomed to the sound of Alex's voice, without it the room was utterly and eerily quiet.

Marissa grabbed the ipod sitting next to her, and turned it on. Looking through her play lists the first one caught her attention. It was simply named, A. Without bothering to see what songs were on the list, she selected the first song, and closed her eyes letting Rachael Yamagata's voice lull her to sleep.

Alex glanced at the clock on her dashboard, she'd been driving for almost an hour and a half. Parking her jeep in the nearly deserted parking lot, she jumped out and made her way towards the bar. It was eleven, and the bar was surprisingly empty, except for a lone figure slumped forward in his stool.

"Hey." Alex said sitting next to the man with empty shot glasses in front of him.
"Alexxx." He drew out, "Your backkkk…"
"Yeah Decan, I am. Looks like you had a lot to drink."
"He didn't really have that much, he wanted extra glasses so he could pour them into each other. You know how he is." Billy said, wiping another glass.
"Makes sense, if he drank all of these he would have passed out by now." Alex muttered, gesturing towards the glasses. "So Decan, you gonna tell me what happened?"
"Nothingg. You left me!" He bellowed, putting his head down on the counter.
"I didn't leave you. You know I had to be in Newport."
"You left me for a girrrlll. I needed you." Came Decan's semi muffled reply from the counter.
"I didn't leave you for a girl. I'm here now, tell me what happened."
"I'm sad." He stated simply.
"Why're you sad?"
"She broke up with me." Alex placed a hand on his back, and began rubbing circles, trying to give him some comfort.

Alex knew Decan was hurting. He was the type of guy that would do anything for a girl, he would treat her right, and do whatever he could in his power to make her happy. But his downfall was he fell fast, and hard.

"It'll be okay Decan." Alex said choosing her words wisely. Alex stopped moving her hand, and leaned in close to the counter, listening to his heavy breathing. She knew he'd fallen asleep.
"Should I take him home?" Alex asked Billy, who was clearing the glasses in front of Decan.
"Nah he'll be okay. He can sleep it off on the couch in my office."
"Okay." Alex said standing up, she took Decan by the hand, and swung his arm around her neck, supporting his body with hers. Staggering at first, she made it to Billy's office, where she dumped Decan on the couch. Grabbing a blanket from the drawer, she flung it over Decan and made her way back to the bar. Jumping onto a stool, she rested her elbows on the countertop, watching Billy.

"You want anything to drink?" Billy questioned.
"Um can I get a glass of water?"
"Water? In a bar?"
"Gotta drive back to Newport, you know how it is."
"No I don't, you never check in with me!" The older man said with a laugh. "So how're things going with you and your girl?"
"Okay, first she's not my girl."
"Fine Alex, how are things going with the girl that's not your girl."
"They're…" Alex said starring off into space.
"That's very specific, I'm glad you could tell me that much." He replied placing a bottle of water in front of her.
"Well it's just…hard."
"How so?"
"I haven't told her about our history…"
"Why is that?"
"I don't know if I'm ready to relive it…I mean by like actually telling her, everything. You know what I mean? I mean when she was unconscious I talked about us, what we used to be…but now that's awake and can respond to things I say, it changes it." He merely nodded, as a sign for her to continue.
"Like today, I brought some stuff to help her memory and whatnot."
"Did it help? Did she remember?"
"She remembered parts of things…key things in a sense." Alex said taking a swing of the water.
"Why are you scared Alex?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Trust me I know the scared Alex look. I know you convey this bad ass attitude all the time, but the look I see in front of me is not the bad ass. I see a girl, who doesn't know what to do from here, and I see a girl who's scared out of her mind. So tell me what's scaring you."

Alex took another sip of her water, and placed it down in front of herself slowly. Trying to formulate the simple words in her mind, and in her heart. "I think I'm really falling for her again…and I don't know if I'm ready for her to hurt me once more."

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