‘Hello. Everything okay there?’
Apple’s friend looked uncertain. The birthday girl was now resting her head dizzily on the woman’s shoulder.
‘Apple’s not feeling very well’, she said, smiling compulsively. ‘I think we’ll go back to the hotel now. She’d better have a good sleep, and with any luck, tomorrow she’ll only have a mild headache.’
‘A f*****g big headache,’ the other man interrupted, howling.
‘Say no more! I have no idea how we will pull ourselves together by tomorrow morning’, the woman said.
‘Call a taxi at the reception’, Hayden added. It didn’t escape his attention that Apple was about to collapse.
She tried to save her dignity with a sour smile on her face.
‘Knocked myself right out, haven’t I? The truth is that I very rarely drink, but since this is my birthday… I prob
