“Yeah well I know it was shitty and I apologized and tried to explain. Then I kind of told her I loved her and she freaked outover that. I tell you I have no fucking clue when it comes to dealing with women.”
“Obviously. You’re lucky she didn’t tell you to fuck off.”
“I know.” I did know it too. I was freakin’ lucky she hadn’t left me. “I hope Cyn is right and she wasn’t pissed off again when she went to the room. I don’t think I can handle all this arguing. We never had a fight and since I’ve been here we’ve had two. I’m over it now.”
Wrath laughed and smacked me on the back. “You aren’t even fucking close to done. Trust me, bro. It’s just the beginning. You’ve been lucky with Michelle. Look at the shit Chaos and I did with our women. This is nothing.”
“It didn’t feel like nothing.”
“Yeah I get that, but just remember to think before you talk. You’ll save yourself a lot of grief. Sally told me that and I swear it saved my ass a few times.”
“Thanks. I’ll try to remember.”
The elevator doors opened and I almost walked right into a guy waiting to get on the elevator.
“Sorry dude, didn’t see you.”
“No problem.”
After the doors closed Wrath looked back at the elevator. “Hey did you know that guy?”
“No, you?”
“Nope. So what the fuck was he doing up here? We have the whole floor.”
I got a sick feeling in my stomach and ran down the hall to the room. Sliding my keycard in the lock I opened the door with Wrath right behind me. The bedroom door was closed and I couldn’t hear anything but the sitting area was trashed. The cushions on the sofa were pulled off, the chairs turned over, and glasses smashed. It looked like what you’d see on TV when the cops came in after a place had been tossed. The weirdest thing though was the vase with the roses was fuckin’ fine. Just sitting over by the mini-bar. It was moved but other than that perfectly fine. What the hell?
“What the fuck happened here?”
“I don’t know, but I’m going to find out.” Opening the bedroom door I expected to find Michelle awake and pissed off. Instead she was lying in bed, looking like she was asleep. “Babe?” I put on the bedside lamp and as I reached to shake her I saw one single rose lying next to her. There was something definitely wrong with this picture, especially when I shook her and she didn’t respond. Exchanging glances with Wrath, I didn’t know what the fuck to think.
“I’m going to check on Teresa. I’ll text you, bro.”
I nodded and sat on the edge of the bed. She was breathing but not waking up. There was a half empty water bottle next to the bed but no alcohol. “Michelle, babe, wake up.” Shaking her a little harder she stirred, and mumbled something I couldn’t understand. To say I was fucking freaked out would be a total understatement. Why wouldn’t she wake up? I pulled out my phone and called Wrath.
“Hey, is Blue okay?”
“Yeah. She’s fine. She was sitting in bed watching TV when I came in. I asked if Michelle was pissed off and she swore she was fine.”
“Well something is fuckin weird. I’m calling the front desk. I can’t get her to wake up.”
“Fuck, okay. I’ll call Chaos. We’ll come over.
“Okay.”
I hung up and dialed the front desk from the room phone. “This is Eric Matthews. Do you have a doctor on call? I think something’s wrong with my girlfriend, and I think someone broke in.”
“Are you sure, sir?”
“Yes. I sure as fuck didn’t trash my own room. I just got here and I know she didn’t do it.”
“We don’t have a doctor but I can call an ambulance for you.”
“Yes, do that, and I want security up here now!”
“Yes, sir. We’ll send someone up immediately.”
I kept shaking Michelle, hoping to wake her up. I had a really bad feeling about this. She wouldn’t have taken something, would she? Downstairs she’d stuck with wine because of work so I didn’t believe she’d taken a sleeping pill. I’d never seen her with stuff like that before.
