Lovebug

Sleepy

9:15 am.
I wake up on a couch in a place I've never seen.
I smell coffee.
I'm going to die here.

"Good morning, princess!"
It's Ruth.
Thank god.
Maybe.
She walks into the room holding a pot of coffee in one hand and a full mug in the other.
She places the mug on the table in front of me.

"For me?" I ask
"Duh."
I am hesitant to take a sip.

"How did I get here?"
"I got my friend to drive us home, dummy."
"You left me there alone."
"For several hours actually."
"Why?"
"To see what you'd do."
Puppet master. Freak.
"Oh.."
"It was disappointing to say the least, when I came back you were still dancing, staring at the ceiling."
"Sounds about right."

I can never tell what she's going to do next.

"Anyways, wanna try something else?"
"Like what?"
"Yes or no, Eileen."

I wish she wouldn't call me that.
I really do hate her.

"Fine."
"Great. Trust me you'll love it."
"Okay. I trust you."
"Alright, Rock on. Drink your coffee and get dressed."
"Dressed in what?"

She gestures for me to wait where I was.
In 2 minutes and 24 seconds she comes back and chucks a ball of clothes at me.

It's a black sweater and jeans.
Both way too big for me.
I don't have her curves.

9:21.
I change into her sweater and reuse my old pants.
The sweater is huge on me.
9:22.
I chug the slightly cold coffee in 12 seconds.
It burns on the way down.
It burns like alcohol.

"You look hot, get your shoes on."
"Where are we going?"
"Shut up and trust me."
I hope she knows how awful she sounds when she talks like that.

9:23.
My shoes are on.
No socks.
9:24.
We leave through the back door of Ruth's house.
She says she doesn't want to wake her roomates.
9:24.
"There was vodka in the coffee by the way"
"I know, warn me next time maybe?"
"Not gonna happen."
"You're lucky I like you."
I lied. I don't want her to put something worse than vodka in the next one.
"Believe me when I say you're the lucky one."

We walk for 7 minutes and 13 seconds until we reach a parked car.
Ruth opens the passenger seat door revealing a skinny, sleep deprived looking man with blindingly bright yellow hair.

"Get in."

I open the back door and sit down.

"I'm Sleepy." He says to me
"I drove you home last night."

"His name is Matthew."
Ruth snaps back
"Fuck off Ruth."
"I'm Lovebug."
"Nice to meet you Lovebug."
"Her name is Eileen" she says

God.

"C'mon Ruth." He says with a sigh
"Nicknames are dumb."
He starts the car.

"Where are we going?" I ask again
"She told me not to tell you."
Sleepy says.
"Can't you just let me surprise you?"
"I don't like surprises."
Or being willingly murdered in a storage unit somewhere.
"Of course you don't"
She scoffs and turns around.

At 9:33 we start driving.