Standing up, you reach for her arm. "Come on, , it's over. Everyone here can see you're losing."
"I -i - it's not over 'til itsh over. Bartn'ner, will hav anotherr."
The bartender looks to you for confirmation, but you shake your head. "Could you call us a taxi?"
The next few hours are a fiasco. refuses to quit and still keeps insisting she can beat you. Eventually you just give up and tell her she's won. The first taxi won't accept a drunk passenger, so you have to stand and wait for half an hour until a friend of his shows up, listening to brag about beating you. She passes out in the taxi on the way back. You don't have enough loose cash for cab fare and the only other money you can find is quarters at the bottom of 's purse. After counting out the man's payment, you realize that you don't know the school's policy concerning drunkenness on campus. You wind up forgetting 's shoes in the taxi.
To avoid trouble, you take the long way back to her room, carrying her alone since you don't want to risk asking for help. Then you get lost, partly because of your inebriation. When you finally get to her room, you can't find the key, and there's nobody in there to let you in. You try to take her to your room, but it's also locked, and you never got a key.
Eventually, you take her to the only private place you can find: the roof. Besides, you reason, the fresh air will do both of you good. You finally get there and you step out, walking her next to you. The roof feels a little sticky and there's an odd smell, but it doesn't seem to be a problem. stumbles and falls on her ass a couple times, dragging you down to the surface on the roof. You give up, and the two of you lie down on your backs just before you recognize the smell around you as tar. Yup, the roof has a nice smelly sticky coating of tar on it to help with waterproofing. There's tar on your legs, asses, backs, and hair.
You carry her back down to the showers to get the tar out of her hair, losing her socks back on the roof. You can't find the men's showers (ARE there men's showers here?) and take her to the women's showers, where you slip on the floor and fall down, cushioning with your body. You can't find the light switch and cut the back your hand on SOMETHING deeply enough to start bleeding. Dragging her to the showers, you strip off the clothes you both have on and realize that your wallet is missing.
When you get the showers going, you learn that they don't have hot water at 2:15 in the morning. Who knew? And the cold water is cold enough to induce hypothermia, so showers are out of the picture. You drink some water and have her drink some also to rehydrate, but the water tastes horrible. And you can't find any soap or shampoo you could use anyway. And then you can't find where you put the clothes.
Finally you give up. So what if you get arrested and expelled? Who cares? You lean against the wall, put pressure on your hand to stop the bleeding, hold 's head in your lap, and fall asleep.
Time passes.
The lights turn on, and you wake up. |