Chapter 6: whiskey
Tammi was standing at the foot of the bed staring at her. "Sar, are you ok? I heard you yelling."
Setting up on bed. Sarah looks up at her. "Ya, I'm fine. Just a bad dream."
"Well come on down I have something thing for you." Smiling Tammi walks down the hallway.
Picking herself up out of bed, Sarah goes after her friend." Tammi I told you not to get me anything." Entering the kitchen she sees Tammi setting at the table with two three letters of coke and a bottle of whiskey. Sarah rolls her eyes as she sits as the table.
Smiling as she fills two glasses with ice."Sar do you remember, what we used to do in my dad's study?"
Sarah's eyes get big."You mean, is that what I think it is?"
Feeling the glasses with coke. She looks up." It's the same kind too."
Putting her face in her hands." We used to get so drunk on that. How did he never know? We must have drunk a bottle every weekend."
Smiling Tammi puts a glass in front of her. "He knew."
Looking up in shock. "What did you tell him? When and how long did he know??"
Sitting across from Sarah. Tammi takes a drink." He told me that he knew the first time we did it."
Sarah takes a long drink before looking up at Tammi. "He never told on me, and the whiskey was in the same place every time. Why?"
"He told me that your life was hard enough at home, so he was going to let you have some freedom, and hey I got to drink too so all was good."
"But he got on to us for every little thing we did. You'd think he would crack down on some big thing like drinking."
Taking another drink as Tammi talked." Any way he all ways told me that he knew one day we would go to a bar, and some guy would try to get us drunk, and he wanted us to be able to drink an guy under the table."
Putting he glass down. "Man I knew I wanted to live with you when we were growing up. Your dad was the best."
Tammi just smiles. "Your dad was good too."
Letting her smile fade. " Ya to you maybe. You didn't have to live there. It was hell."
"No I didn't. Is that when you met that Jareth guy?"
Putting her head down on the table. "Do we have to talk about him. Can't we just have fun getting drunk and talking like we used too?"
"Fine but to marrow I want to know all about him got it."
Smiling as she takes a drink. "Ok, how are you and what's his face doing?"
Setting her glass down as she looks at Sarah. "I'm so sick of him. He won't let me talk to anyone not even my mom."
Finishing her glass in one drink, Sarah got up to make another one. "That's your mom you have a right to talk to her."
Handing her glass over to Sarah." He says while I'm living with him he can tell me what to do, and if I don't, I won't have a place to live."
"Bullshit, I want you to move in with me."
"I don't think I could. You said you like being here by yourself"
Putting the drink in front of her. Sarah sits next to her friend. "I lied. It is a big house, and I did at first. I would like it if you moved in with me."
Taking a long drink, before looking at Sarah. "I don't know. I would love to live with you but I don't think he would like it."
Slamming her glass down." I don't care if he likes it or not, and if he doesn't we can wish him away."
Trying not to laugh."Could we really do that? I mean you would have to see him again."
Taking a drink." You don't think that I'm crazy anymore?"
"Why do you think I'm wanted to drink to night? I got to see for myself that he is real, by the way I'm sorry for being mean to you about him all these years."
Smiling as she drains the glass." It's no biggie. I would have done the same if I were you."
"Damn Sara you're drinking fast. Slow down I can't keep up."
Making another drink. "Well I just...when it comes to him drinking is the answer."
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Jareth hurls the crystal at the wall. Plopping himself into a chair he closes his eyes." Sarah..Sarah.. My dear Sarah. Is it a good thing that you have to drink to deep your mind off of me?"
Pulling another crystal from the air. "My sweet, why must you temp me so?"
Leaning his head back. Just as his eyes close they open once more."Maybe the more you drink the deeper you will sleep. I will give you a dream tonight. Just like you said, and you will know that this one is from me, my sweet"
Standing up he takes his owl form and flies out into the night.
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Tammi smiles as her friend tells her to shut up. "Does he really kiss like that? If that how it is in the dreams just think what it would be like when you're awake."
Downing the rest of her drink."I have no plans to find out. It just if my dreams keep going the way they are I know it won't be long before they get sexual."
"Oh come on Sarah, that would be a good thing. Then you would know what you have been missing."
"I can't believe you said that. No way am I lousing my you know what to him."
Laughing Tammi tries to take a drink, but ends up spiting to out."Come on Sarah that would be the thing you would all ways remember. Lousing it, to the Goblin King."
"No thank you I've held on to it for 21 years, and I'm not going to give it away the first time he tries. Plus I don't even really know him."
Tammi looks up from fixing another drink." Then get to know him. I would if I were you. Just think he is the Goblin King. He could have picked anyone but he picked you."
Sarah drinks half the glass." I want to know why. Why me? What's so good about me?"
"Sar stop it. Why don't you just ask him."
"Like he will really just stop what he is doing to come down here and talk."
Tammi smiled."Then ask him in your dream. I do remember that he dropped everything to come down here when you called him this mooring"
Looking up at Tammi."I can't ask him in my dream. I can't think when he is around. Ya, about that, he was in my room, and I was in my bathrobe. Kind of hard to ask him why me when I'm almost have nothing on, and the way he looked at me. Like he wanted to take what little I had on off."
"I know it's just me, but with the way he looks I would have let him."
Trying not to sleep she puts her head down."I can't drink this stuff like I used to. It's hard to keep my eyes open."
Tammi gets up and puts the glasses in the sink." I think I'm going to call it a night."
Getting up she goes up to her room."Good night."
Not feeling like getting dressed for bed. She crawls into bed.
Just as she is on the edge of sleep she hears him say her name. Opening her eyes she is standing in a room with nothing but a dark wood four post bed.
Lying on the bed with nothing on, but paints, looking her over is Jareth. "Ohh no."
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