Euphoria

Pretty & Afraid

When Bria reemerged from the bathroom Donnie was gone. She searches their hotel suite for signs from Adonis and sighs when she realized that he had left. She sits back down on the hotel bed with her towel wrapped around her upper body and began to lather her body in shae butter, humming quietly to herself. After she was done, she slipped on her underwear and stood in front of the mirror, making note of how much her body had changed since the moment she realized she was pregnant. She palms her hands on her stomach and gently caresses its, soothing herself and whispering sweet encouraging words to her unborn child. She softly smiles at herself in the mirror and takes her attention off of herself briefly to slip on one of Adonis' graphic tees that she used as a night gown.

Once she was done getting ready for bed, she picks up the TV remote off of the nightstand and began to flip through the channels to find something to watch until it was time for her to go to sleep. After finally finding Family Guy, she places the remote next to her and picks up her phone which was on the charger by her nightstand checks to see if there were any messages from Donnie, and yet there were none.

She sighs, clicking her screen off and laid her head down on his side of the bed, taking in his scent before her eyes slowly drifted off to sleep.

It wasn't until the middle of the night before Adonis returned home in a drunken stupor. He struggled to get himself in the door and thankfully with the help of their driver he made it back safely without injuring himself or others. Donnie's clumsiness startles Bria in the middle of her sleep. She cuts the light on to see Donnie being carried to bed by their security guard Danny.

"Sorry for interrupting your sleep Bria," Danny apologized for Adonis' antics.

"It's okay..." Bria mumbled still half asleep.

"Yo, That sshit was fucking wild my man..." Adonis slurred over his speech and collapsed into the mattress laying on top of Bria.

"Adonis?" She asked, rubbing the sleepiness from her eyes.

"Where did you go It's almost three in the morning?!" Bria pulls the covers back off of her and sighs, helping him take off his clothes.

"I went out..." he says muffled into the mattress. "You're such a bump on the log..." he rambles, turning around, looking up at her chuckling at his last comment.

"I'm a bump on the log?" She repeated him.

"You're so boring...and then whenever I try to do right by you..you always wonder why I'm being nice to you like I have to prove my shit..." He hiccups, looking up at her as she took off his shoes and jeans.

"Am I not good enough for you Bria? Am I ever enough..." he slurs, placing his hand behind her back and covers his face to hide his shame.

"D..." Bria trails off and picks his pants up to fold them.

She then hears light snores coming from him moments later and then turned him around to take off his shirt so he would be more comfortable while he slept. After getting him into bed, she walks into the bathroom to grab the trashcan in case he needed to throw up in the middle of the night and walked over to her purse to take out a few Tylenol pills to help with his hangover in the morning. By the time she finished helping the sleeping giant it was near four am in the morning. She groans knowing she was about to be tired in the morning and climbed back into bed to get some rest before their long day ahead.

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The following day, Bria was the first to wake up due to her morning sickness. The smell of alcohol made her stomach churn and she realized it was Adonis who reeked of alcohol from the night before. As she hovered over the toilet puking out what felt like everything she ate the day before, Adonis sluggishly walked into the bathroom, holding his hand to cover face, blocking out the light that was irritating his raging migraine.