Long Story Short (it was mistake)

Chapter Five

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I look at my phone, Conan is calling. "Why aren't you answering my f*cking call? I've called you more than 10 times." I shout.

"Hey hey hey! Easy inspector Villarico, don't be a mad woman. Don't shout, okay?" he chuckles. I just roll my eyes, sometimes I wondered how we became friends.

"Why didn't you answer my call? And why did you call?" I ask consecutively.

"Sorry for not answering your call because its my birthday today, so I'm a little busy and I called because its my birthday and we're going to a hangout" he excitingly says.

"You know I can't. I sprained my ankle"

"We're not going to the bar, we're going to karaoke bar, well, its also a bar but not the one with the dance floor. We're just going to drink, sing and make ourself wasted." He explaines."So are you in?"

"uhm... Okay, okay. I'll come later. What time?" I have no choice but to agree because I knew Conan, he'll never stop until he gets what wants.

"5 pm and by the way don't invite any boys, because its only a girls party" Conan is a gay and he's really a good guy, we know each other since college, when I get hired here I encourage him to apply too and then he gets hired.

"okay, okay, I promise, I won't" I laugh.

"I'll pick you up at 5."

"okay b***h, see you later and I'm very sorry. I forgot about your birthday."

"Nah, its fine. You always did" he chuckles.

"Now I feel like I'm such a useless friend" I pout my lips.

"Yes you are" he laughs. "By the way, why did you call me this morning?" He asks.

"Nothing, I just need your help but its all fine now, don't worry" I assure him.

"and by the way, do you know Mr. Davis?"

"Y-yeah, he's one of our inspector." I answer. Why is he asking me about Harry? That's weird.

"I mean, do you know him personally?"

"No either why?" I got curious now, of all the inspector, why is he asking about Harry.

"nothing, I just thought that you two knew each other because when you didn't go to work, he kept asking me if you are fine, why didn't you go to work, is your ankle is getting better, like that," he explains. I was surprised by what he said, why is Harry asking about me? Did he already know that I was the girl he had online s*x before? Is he stalking me? No, I don't think so. Oh my God! There are a lot of questions that I want to ask.

"Hey!"

I'm stuck here, I'm still processing what Conan have said.

"Are you still there?" Conan asks.

"Y-yeah, Uhm I'm here. Maybe he kept asking about me because I was with him when I sprained my ankle. Maybe he's just curious."

"No, I think he likes you girl" he gigles.

"I don't think so, I think he's just a good guy. And besides, he is one of the inspectors. So please, Conan, don't put an issue between us. He doesn't like me, that's it!" I almost yell at him.

"Okay, fine! I believe you, don't be so defensive" he sounds like he's not believing me at all.

"I just don't want issues from our work"

"I know, that's why I ask you. But hey! I'm your friend, so you don't have to worry about that. Your secret will be safe." he laughs. What the hell? Secret?

"Stop playing with me Conan! THERE'S NO SECRET BETWEEN US. STOP TEASING!!" I shout this time.

"Really? Okay, I believe you" he says. I sigh because he sounds like he's serious. "But I really don't. So I'll just pick you up later and let's talk about it. Byeee" and before I even defend myself, he hung up. And now, I have to tell to them about Harry because I know Conan. He'll never stop asking me until I tell the truth.

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"One shot. One shot. One shot" they all sing, encouraging me to drink the last shot of soju. I close my eyes and I forcefully drink it.

They all laugh at me, I think I already drink 3 bottles of soju. Ugh! My head is spinning and I feel like the gound is moving. We played spin the bottle and everytime the bottle hits me, they keep asking about Harry, which I always didn't answer so I end up drinking.

"Romeo save me, somewhere we can be alone, I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run." Angelica is singing on video oke. We are in a karaoke room. Conan brings all our college friends, Angelica, Kristine, Marga, Cally, and... uhm... I can't remember everyone, I think we are 10 persons here or 15? I'm not sure.

I slam my face on the table to ease my headache, although I know it won't.

"You'll be the prince, and I'll be the princess, It's a love story baby just s--" Angelica suddenly stop singing. I remove my head on the table and look at Angelica who is now lying on the floor. I immediately stand up to help her, but my head is spinning and I feel like I'm going to throw up, I ran to the corner of the room and I vomit.

"Yuuuuck Eunice! Ugh we're all messed" the girl said, I look at her to see who is she but my vision gets blurry, but I knew her. She's my friend. I just forgot her name, Ugh! Maybe because of alcohol.

"I think we're done here, look at Angelica and Eunice and me...and... you... and you... I want to sleep" Kristine said, she's a college friend too. I walk towards the couch, and I lay my body there like it was my bed, I really want to sleep too.

"Okay! Let's go home girls. Come on!!" I think it was Conan who speak. "Come on!! GET UP!" He claps his hands. I ignore him. I'm still lying on the couch, trying to sleep.

Someone is shaking me but I have no strength to open my eyes. "Are you going to stand up, or I'll call Harry?" I immediately got energy when I heard a name Harry.

I open my eyes and get up.

"Harry? Where's Harry?" I panick."Is he... here? Oh no, this can't be happening. GET OUT HARRY, GET OUT!!" I shout, I look around to find him.

"Where is he? Can you guys please... uhm... get rid of him? He can't see me like this. Huh? Get rid of him. Wher--" someone slaps me hard enough to sobber me up.

"Ouch! That was pretty solid slap haha" I laugh, I massage my right cheeks.

"Are you awake now?" I look closely to see who slaps me. I touch her face with my both hands. I blink my eyes maybe for a hundred times to identify who she is.

"Jhane?" I remove my hands on her face, and I smile. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm awake now, hehehe thank you... for the slap" I yawn while scratching my hair. "But I feel sleepy."

"Let's just sobber up in the car, okay? Because we can't control our self if we are here. There are a lot of alcohol here" I think its Conan, but I don't believe it's him. He sounds responsible.

"But... can we just sleep here? Just for a second or... for a minute or... for an hour? Or maybe for tonight?" Angelica asks. Oh! Look at this b***h, she's already drunk.

"No! When I say that we're going home, we're really going home. It's my birthday and everyone should obey me. Now, everyone! Let's just sobber up in the car."

"I, I, captain!!" I salute him and I laugh. Conan helps me to walk. He's also helping Kristine on his left side.

"Oh my God, I can't handle drunk girls anymore" He screams.

When we reach the parking lot, I excitedly run towards the car. Finally, finally!! I can sleep now, I open Conan's car and I lay myself in the backseat and close my eyes but I can't sleep, some of our friends lay in their car too.

I have no idea how long we stayed in the parking lot, I still feel dizzy.

My body is shaking, I feel like I'm on a roller coaster ride. I open my eyes immediately.

"WHAT THE HELL CONAN!! WHY ARE WE IN A ROLLER COASTER!!" I can't open my eyes clearly. I feel like my eyelids are very heavy that I couldn't even open them.

I hug myself. My body is shaking because of this roller coaster.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME" I lean myself on the seat, I don't have enough energy to move. "THAT WE ARE GOING TO RIDE A ROLLER COASTER!!" I say, half asleep in my seat.

"WE'RE NOT IN A F*CKING ROLLER COASTER RIDE EUNICE!! WE'RE ON MY CAR!! AND I'M TAKING YOU HOME SO PLEASE SHUT THE F*CK UP! OR ELSE WE MIGHT HAVE AN ACCIDENT BECAUSE OF YOUR NOISE!"

Is he shouting?? At me??

"so... you think the roller coaster will explode? And we're both going to die. Just like what happened in... in... final direction 3?" I yawn, still leaning on my sit.

"Final destination b***h, not direction" he corrects me.

"Direction, destination, location its all the same. But I don't want to die. NOT YET!!" I tightly close my eyes and hug myself. I feel like there are some tears forming in the corner of my eyes. "I don't want to die" I mutter.

"We're not gonna die b***h" the roller coaster stops from moving. I open my eyes to see Conan staring at me.

"Get off."

"Is the ride over?" I look around. Oh! We're in my condo, how did we came here?

"Yes it is over, so please get up, so you can go home and sleep." He gets off of the car and opens the door in the back seat for me.

Wait, we are in the car?

"Why are we in the car? How did it happen? Huh? Tell me?" We walk inside the condo, wow... this condominium is... beautiful.

"Wow! Is this a palace? No... Its a condo... right? Right? Right?" I look at him. The person who's helping me to walk.

"Huh?" I blink for a few times. "Who are you? Where... Where are you going to take me? Are you going to... kill me?" I ask. We enter the elevator and he clicks something.

I sit on the floor. I really want to sleep. I hug my knees, and I lay my head on it.

"Stand up Eunice! Or else I'll drag you out of this elevator."

"I won't, not until you tell me who you are" I look up at him, he looks like a bad guy. I think I already saw him before... but... I forgot when or... where... or how.

"I'm Conan, your friend. So get up now"

"You are not Conan. My friend Conan is... a good guy. YOU'RE NOT CONAN... I SWEAR. So please... tell me, huh? Who are you?"

"F*CK! I'm spongebob squarepants" my eyes went wide. I stand up and jump on him. I open his mouth to see his teeth using my fingers.

"What the f*ck are you doing?"

I remove my hands on his mouth. "Spongebob doesn't say, "f*ck". You are fake hmp... and you have a lot of teeth!! Spongebob only has... 2 teeth" I show him my two fingers.

The elevator opens, and this guy drags me out of the elevator. He walks so fast and I almost run, I look around but everything is blurred and I can't figure out where we are.

We stop in front of the door.

"Oh? It is my door." I look up at him. "Why is it here?"

"JUST OPEN THE GODDAMN DOOR, GO INSIDE AND SLEEP!!" he shouts. Why is he shouting? I knew it. He's really a bad guy.

"Noooo, I won't open it" I cross my arms on my chest.

"Why?"

"Because... If I do that, you'll be able to see my passcode, and... if you see my passcode... you might uhm... go inside when I'm asleep and kill me. So... I'm not going to open this... Goddamn door"

"I'm not playing with you, Eunice. JUST OPEN THE F*CKING DOOR" he shouts at me again.

"Its not a f*cking door, it is a... GOD.... DAMN... DOOR" I emphasize the words goddamn.

"Whatever. I'm going to leave now, just make sure that when I leave, you'll get inside that door and sleep. Okay?"

"Uhm... Okay" I nod. He turns around and walks away. "Bye byeee" I add, but I think he's already gone. I yawn.

"One. One. Zero. Nine" I click my passcode of my door.

"Sorry! The passcode is incorrect."

"Huh? Why? Are you saying that my passcode is... wrong?"

"Eleven. Zero. Nine" I try again.

"Sorry! The passcode is incorrect." the robot says. I try to find the letters but there are only numbers.

"Sorry Miss, I think... you are the one who's making a mistake here. I can only enter passcode, not a password. Can you just... open the door? For me?" she doesn't answer.

"One. One. Zero. Nine" I try once again.

"Sorry! The passcode is incorrect."

"s**t!" I bang my head on the door. "I want to sleep."

"Why is my passcode not working? My passcode is my birthday. So, why?" I mutter, still softly banging my head on the door.

Maybe someone changes my passcode, right? But... who would it be?

"Excuuuuuse meeee" I shout. "Uhm... Does anyone change my passcode hereeeee? Please tell me if you change it. I really wanna sleep" No one answers me.

Ugh! I feel like my head is cracking in two, I really want to sleep. I look at the door that next to mine, maybe I should just knock every door here and ask if they change my passcode.

"Helloooo" I knock on the door that is next to mine. "Is anybody there? Heeey?" I knock again but no one is answering.

"I just uhm... want to ask something. Heeey" I'm now banging the door when it suddenly opens and a guy came out.

Oh? I think I already saw him before. I blink my eyes while scratching my head.

"Who are you?" I ask, I still have blurry eyesight and I feel dizzy, I can't figure out how he looks like but I can see that he has a blue eye.

"You don't know me?" He asks, he leans down and smells me, "Wait. Are you drunk?"

"No, no, no, no, no, I am not... drunk" I grin. "I'm just uhm... I feel uhm.. I'm sleepy" I add.

"You are drunk, you should go to sleep."

"I SAID I'M NOT DRUUUNK! And by the way, who are you? Are you the guy that kidnapped me?" I tiptoe to see his face clearly, but I really can't remember him.

"Kidnapped you? Did someone kidnap you?"

"Yeah and... I think it's you, right? You are the guy that kidnapped me and put me on a roller coaster ride."

"No, I'm not" he answers.

"Hmm? Really? Oh sorry" I fly my hands in the air. "Who are you then? Are you... the real spongebob? Huh?"

"Spongebob? Hell no!!"

"Oh yeah! You are not him, 'cause he doesn't say bad words." I hold his two cheeks with my two hands, and I close the gap between us.

"But do you... uhm happened to change the passcode of my door?" I ask, still in my tiptoes.

"No, I didn't. Maybe you just forget about it" He chuckles. I remove my hands on his face. When I'm about to lean myself on the door, it suddenly opens so wide and I seen a huge sofa, my eyes automatically turns into heart shape.

"I-Is that your sofa?"

"Yeah" he answers.

I run inside his house, not asking for his permission. I jump on his couch and lay myself there. I close my eyes and try to sleep. Its very comfortable here.

"What are you doing Ms. Villarico?" the guy speaks, I slowly open my eye and I continuously blinking.

"I-I'm trying to sleep, can't you see?" I say, still laying on his couch.

"Why? You should sleep in your own house"

"Because I can't open my door, someone changes my passcode. Can I just sleep here? Just for a minute? Or maybe an hour? pleaseee?" I pout my lips.

"Okay, okay, but please don't do anything. Just sleep"

"I, I captain" I salute him and I close my eyes again. Wait, how did he know my name?

"Wait, who are you? And uhm... how did you know my name" I get up because I'm really curious.

"I'm Harry" he chuckles.