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Work has been crazy and stressful. I've been working practically nonstop for two weeks, and tonight is going to be the craziest of all thanks to Halloween. However, I do have tomorrow off. Finally. And I haven't seen Ryan since the weekend she stayed at my house. I haven't really talked to her all that much either. Not that I haven't wanted to, but because of transfers and a recent firing, we're all working overtime to make up for being without a couple of people. I'll be ready when they hire someone.
Tonight, my partner, Fredrick, and I are patrolling downtown. Halloween brings out all the crazies. We're nearby for any fights or disturbances or anything that we may be called for. There are a couple others in the area as well. It's almost two in the morning, and we're parked along the street after getting some coffee.
The sidewalks are filled with people in costumes, most probably bouncing from club to club. Half of them are drunk. Just as I wonder what Ryan may be doing tonight, Fredrick says something inappropriate, which he does often.
“Holy shit. Look at her. What I would do to get with her. Man.” He shakes his head at the pair of girls walking past us.
When I look, I see that it's Ryan. She's with Viv, who is dressed as a nurse, and it looks like she's some sort of sexy saloon girl from a western or something. There's a feather boa dangling from her neck to match her black and red outfit. The “dress” barely covers her ass or her breasts for that matter and she's wearing black stockings that stop mid thigh. They are stumbling down the sidewalk, laughing. She's obviously drunk even though she's underage. It shouldn't surprise me because when I first met her, she was hungover.
“Damn,” he whistles as she tumbles forward, her ass showing, and Viv barely catches her.
“Shut up,” I grit, suddenly feeling very possessive over Ryan. I do not want him to talk about her, especially not like this.
“What?” he asks, oblivious. “She's hot. They both are, but redheads are supposedly crazy in bed.”
“Will you stop?” I mumble before getting out. I hear him asking why, but shutting the door cuts him off. He scrambles after me.
“Ryan,” I call out before they get too far. Her giggle is loud, but they turn.
“Gabe! Are you my birthday present?” she yells in one big slur. Birthday present? It's Halloween. How drunk is she?
“You know this chick?” Fredrick says as he finally catches up to me.
“Yeah, I'm dating her.” I hear him say “oh” right before we reach the girls. “Woah, hey, Ryan.” She clumsily wraps her arms around me.
“Best present ever!” she yells into my ear. Ryan sloppily kisses my neck. “You coming home with us?”
“Is that where you're going?”
“Yep! Well, we can't find my car, and we know we don't need to drive, so we were going to sleep there. See? Drunk but smart, Gabe!”
“Fredrick and I will take you home. Come on. Fredrick, help her please,” I say, referring to Vivian.
“Should we be doing this?” He asks skeptically.
“Help her,” I snap. He isn't about to question me right now. Ryan's hands start to wander down my chest as she mumbles something about missing me. “Ryan,” I tell her softly, grabbing her hands. “We need to walk.”
“Always a downer. Damn goody-good. Let's walk then!”
Once I wrap an arm tightly around her waist, it's like Ryan gives up. She leans into me completely and lets me lead her to the car. We get them both into the back seat, Ryan mumbling to Viv about her birthday. Surely, it's not her birthday. For one, she is drunk on Halloween, so maybe she's just wanting it to be her birthday. Wouldn't she have told me that today is her birthday? I could have tried harder to get off work to do something with her or bought her something had I known before right this second.
As we head to her apartment, the mumbles cease. I glance in my rearview mirror to see that they are leaning on each other, asleep. Great. It's going to be fun getting them up those stairs and into the apartment.
“I'm, uh, sorry about what I said,” Fredrick tells me.
“Don't worry about it. Just help me get them up to her apartment when we get there, and I'll forget you ever said it.”
When we get to the complex, I wonder what Ryan was talking about. Her car is here, so they didn't drive downtown. She wouldn't have ever found her car because it wasn't there. What trouble would they have gotten into if we hadn't have seen her?
Fredrick helps me wake them up enough to get them out of the car. He walks behi
nd me with Viv as we go up to her place.
“So sweet,” Ryan whispers.
“You owe me,” I tell her, although she probably won't remember tomorrow. “Is today really your birthday?” I can't help but ask.
“Yes. That's what I said, Gabe.” She laughs softly. “Funny, right? I was born on Halloween and I'm my parents' worst nightmare. How fitting.” Ryan starts giggling like it's actually funny.
