Unexpected Guest

A loud thud rang out through the house downstairs, making me jolt awake, my body trembling lightly as I sat up on the guest bed listening for any more racket. Jumping as I heard another loud thud followed by a few poorly choosen words. I scurried from the bed sprinting across the room to the door; cracking it just enough for me to peek through the small opening. Not hearing anymore noises or cursing from down below. I gather the small bit of courage I could aquire and made my way down the hall to the stairs, as reached the stairs the sound of glass shattering bounced off the air in the house followed by a " Oh for fucks sake! That's going to be great to fucking clean up in the morining Darren!" I hear a voice bellow out. I hurried down the stairs flicking on the livingroom light were alll the camotion seemed to be coming from. Stepping into the livingroom I am met with an upset Tawnya and the guy I presume to be Darren stuck in the frame of Tawnya's coffe table and glass scatterd around him and all over the tan carpet.

" Great Darren, look what you have done on top of breaking my table! I'm so sorry honey that we woke you up! I pray that Tasha stayed asleep because you'll have hell to pay besides shattering my table if you did!" Tawnya whisper yells looking at me with a frown, before she directs her anger towards a slurring Darren. " Well sense you are awake now, do you think you could help me get him unstuck," she asks me shaking her head and chuckling softly. " Yeah I can, but you gotta give me a few seconds to go grab my shoes so I don't cut my bare feet on the glass," I quickly say before sprinting out of the livingroom and up the stairs. Reaching the second floor I go and check on Tahsa to make sure she hasn't been ruffled awake by all the craziness, sighing with relief seeing she's still magically asleep even after all the loud thuds and shattering noises.

I hurry to the guest bedroom and pull on my scuffed up tennis shoes. As I make my way back down the stairs I hear Darren's drunken words " I'mmm sooo soorrie Taaawya, tthhe tabbble loook likke thhhe cowwch jussst shinnie," he tries to explain to her. " Your trying to tell me you plopped down on my coffe table all because you thought it was my couch just shinnier," she scoffs out not believing the words she just heard from his slurring mouth. Darren shakes his wobbley head back at her in response. I giggle inwarldy at the seen in front of me. " Okay Jasmine come over to this side and when I get to three pull as hard as you can okay," Tawnya's voice boils out in slight frustration. I nod my head quickly moving to the right side of Darren getting a firm grasp on his arm that he held out for me to grab as Tawnya grasped his left arm.

" Ok, one, two, three!" she screeches out yanking Darren forward as we pull him from the frame of the table. Darren coming close to tumbling over me as he recovered his footing from the force of being pulled roughly. " Well I guess there goes the idea of you sleeping on the couch with this mess every where, Jasmine if it doesn't inconveice you to much, can Darren crash in the guest room and you can sleep in my room for the rest of the night," Tawnya asks looking at me showing her annoyance and how tired she was. " But where are you going to sleep?" I inquire, wanting to know as my nerves started to rise as the thought of Darren being just acrossed the hallway in his drunken state. I didn't want to jump to conclusions that he would try anything to harm me. But my past experiences with people who consumed alcohol weren't the best. " I can just pull Tasha's trundle bed out and crash there for the night," she replys with a gentle tone. Thinking over her words my heart starts to pound in my chest. " No Tawnya I'm shorter so I shound take the trundle bed and you can sleep in your bed," I remark hastly, as I look over at her with a small amount of pleading in my eyes hoping that she will understand why. 

" Yay that's fine, Tasha will be excited you had your sleep over in her room when she wakes up, plus, she needs to stay upstairs for a bit after she wakes up so I can get this mess cleaned up in the morning and you being in her room already will be a good distraction," she breaths out heavily, shaking her head in the process. "Can I ask you one more favor, might be a little dangerous for a few minutes... but would you be willing to help me get him up the stairs into the guestroom?" hesitating at her words not really wanting to ask me again. " Yeah I can help you, I need the exercise anyway with lifting," I respond acting like I was hoisting something up with my biceps. She giggles quietly smirking in my direction. She moves to the left side of Darren as I take the right side again. We sway back and forth heading to the stairs trying to take all the brute force of his weight as we clammered up the ten steps. A few times I worried we were going to go crashing over the railing, but luck was on our side. We managed to make it up the stiars without falling back down the steps or putting any holes in the walls. After reaching the top we hung onto a passed out Darren that made it feel like we were carrying a giant boulder. Gently pushing the door open with my shoe. We scurry inside the room over to the bed laughing a little at the motion of Darren bouncing on the mattress from his weight as we let go of him.

Tawnya and I huffed and puffed falling to the floor as our legs finally gave out recognizing we were done. We both sat there breathing heavily for quite sometime, before we stood and removed our selves from the room heading downstairs to grab a drink of water. Showing the exhaustion in our bones we both placed our head on the cool surface of the wooden table glancing over to each other on and off. Hearing Tawnya snicker as she went to say " Well that'll be the last time I offer any a place to stay to a fellow coworker after they've been drinking all night." I grimaced at all the hard work it took us to get one man up stairs to a bed. " Yeah, I've never been one to understand the appeal of drinking, it smells horrible ninety percent of the time and if you drink way to much you risk getting sick, a huge migraine and in worse cases you pee all over yourself or be irresponsible and drive intoxcated," I state with a grotesque face. " Yeah me either honey," she answers rolling her eyes at the situation of people drinking. " Well I suppose we should go our seperates ways and head up stairs to try and grab those last couples hour to sleep while we still can," Tawnya softly says, yawning at her own words as she jestered towards the stairs. 

My body felt like I was still carrying that boulder as I trudged up the staircase next to Tawnya. Both our steps were slow and angozing as the muscles in our bodies screamed not to be used anymore. Tawnya and I said our goodnights and headed into our rooms seeking relief. I was glad T had two nightlights to help light up her room. I surely would of fallen a few times over all the toys strung from one side of her room to the other and woke her up. Quielty I made my way over to her bed, bending down I yanked on the trundle underneath cringing at the high pitched sqeaking that came from the wheels as they rolled along the floor. Looking over at T I watched as her cute face scrunched at the noise before she turned over facing the wall. I darted out the room to the hallway closet to grab an extra pillow and blanket before finally settling down onto the pull out bed. Laying down I relaxed letting a huge yawn escape from my mouth. Closing my eyes a small smile tugs at my lips as my mind brings me back to the beautiful dress and jewelery I was secretly given this evening. My brain becoming a hopless romantic at the thought of meeting the person who thinks I'm beautiful as I drift off into a blissfull sleep. Something that has been out of reach to me for a very long time.