Suzy’s Strange Saga

“…Suzy…” you hear a voice whisper.
“Mgh.” You answer.
“Suzy…get up…I have to go pee!” the voice says again. Your eyes are still closed, but you recognize it as Julie’s.

“Guh. Well go! Why do I have to get up?!” you say angrily with your eyes still closed.
“Well because you arm is wrapped around my waist and your leg is intertwined with one of mine that’s why!”

Now you open your eyes and realize what Julie has just described is true. Julie looks at you over her shoulder.

“Hey don’t blame me, I stayed on my side of the bed. I’d enjoy this longer, but I really gotta pee!”
“Shit.” You say and remove yourself from your entanglement from Julie’s body. Julie smiles at you and then heads to the bathroom.

Great, now she’s going to read something into it. Though you do wonder how the hell you got into a spooning position with her. Maybe you were dreaming about Bobby.

Speaking of Bobby, while you’re checking the time on your cell phone, you see that he’s left messages again. After you recent “night cuddling” with Julie, you think it might be best if you do call Bobby if only to deter Julie from getting any ideas.

“Hello? Bobby?” you say.
“Yeah.” Bobby answers. He sounds pretty flat.
“Well you called me, so I assume you wanted to talk to me.”
“Yeah I did, I wanted to talk to you yesterday about something else, but I’ve changed my mind about some things since then. So I’ve got something new to tell you, and given that you didn’t bother to talk to me yesterday I think you’ll be fine with it.”
“What are you talking about?”
“I’m talking about us. Breaking up for good. It’s obvious that this isn’t working. I tried to bring you into my world, but you just refuse to meet me half way.”

You can’t believe you’re hearing this!

“Meet you half way? You want me to be one of your wives in your fucked up religious cult compound that’s what you want! Face it, you’re not going to give up your sister Diana and that bitch would kill me as soon as I stepped foot in that place!”
“Well…you obviously have valid points, so why are you arguing with me on this?”
“Because you’re trying to make out like I’M the bad guy here! I’m not the human sacrificing cultist Bobby and yet I looked past that because I loved you! You say I didn’t try to meet you half way? I proposed long ago that we BOTH leave our fucked up families behind and start a new life together! I was willing to change, YOU weren’t!”

At this point there is a long pause.

“Well? Don’t you have anything to say?” you ask.
“No, except…it was just too much. Guess I take after my dad after all. I’m sorry, but my God and family come first. Even before you. I’ll always remember…the good times we had. May Tiamat’s Chaos take mercy on you.”
“Oh fuck you and Tiamat!” you exclaim and hang up.

Its weird, but you start to sob a little bit. You sort of knew your relationship with Bobby was on borrowed time anyway, but it still hurts now that it’s officially over. He was your first love after all and now that’s gone.

Meanwhile Julie is standing in the bathroom door watching you.

“Suzy, I heard some of that…and I’m truly sorry about you and Bobby. Really, I mean that. You’re a kind and decent girl with many wonderful qualities. He had a treasure in you and he doesn’t know what he’s lost.”

Hard to tell if Julie’s just trying to flatter you or she really does mean it, but either way it’s still nice to hear right now.

“Did you want to talk about it?” Julie asks.
“No, not really. It’s over and that’s that. Best to not dwell on the past and move on right?” you say.
“Probably. Well I should probably see how much damage my home is in from last night and see who’s still lingering around. I’ll leave you alone.”
“Wait, I’ll come with you. I mean I live here too now, I might as well help you clean up. Besides, for the first time I think being alone might be a bad idea. I’m just going to end up dwelling on Bobby. I need to keep my mind on other things right now. I probably should try to make up with Donna as well. We kind of argued yesterday.”
“Yeah, I wondered what happened about that. When she stormed in yesterday I asked about you and she mumbled something about you being a bitch. Then later at the party I asked again about what happened and she still never answered.”
“Nothing really happened, she just jumped down my throat for a perceived insult, but I guess I should make the peace being the older sister and all.”
“See? This is why you’re so wonderful!” Julie smiles and the pair of you exit your room.

The house actually isn’t in bad shape. Julie remarks that usually the parties only get really out of hand on Saturday and Friday nights. She also remarks that she thinks this the first time in quite awhile that she woke up without a hang over since she didn’t really drink as much since she was mainly with you the whole night.

“It’s a bizarre feeling, but I have to say it isn’t an unpleasant one.” Julie says.

From the living room you hear the sounds of a vacuum as well as a TV.

“Who the hell would be vacuuming?” Julie asks.
“Donna?” the moment you say that, you and Julie both look at each other and say “Nah.”

When you arrive in the living room, you see a man probably about your age calmly vacuuming as he periodically looks at the TV screen, which is one of those Ground Zero infomercials. There are actually a couple of other people in the room flopped out on the furniture or on the floor still asleep, but the man merely vacuums around their sprawled out legs or bodies. You and Julie find the sight to be quite the peculiar one.

He notices you both and turns off the vacuum.

“Oh hey. You…you’re the owner of this house correct?” he asks.
“Yes I am, who are you?” Julie answers.
“Oh I’m Johnny. Sorry if I woke you and your girlfriend up, but I couldn’t in good conscience leave your house in such a mess. So I found your vacuum and tried to clean up a bit. Sort of a wild party last night huh?” Johnny says.
“Eh, had wilder. Never had a guest actually clean up though. Kinda weird, but hey I won’t turn it down. I don’t remember you from last night; though I have so many people at my parties I never know half of them anyway.”
“Oh, I’m not very memorable anyway. I’ve always kind of just blended in with the crowd. I heard about this party from a friend and figured I’d come since I don’t get out much. Did you want me to leave?”
“Doesn’t make difference to me. Like I said, I’m not going to turn down a guest that helps clean up.”

Johnny nods and returns to cleaning up, while Julie turns back to you.

“Hrm, he’s an odd one, but at least he’s helpful. Anyway, let’s go check and see if Donna’s upstairs.” Julie says.

You and Julie leave Johnny to his cleaning to go find your sister. After checking the bedrooms, you don’t find her (Though there are a couple of people still sleeping in said bedrooms) you wonder if she passed out on the lawn or something.

You and Julie start descending down the stairs.

“I dunno, while I’ve certainly passed out on the lawn, Donna has never gotten that bad. She’s more likely to be in the basement.”
“Well I guess you could look outside and I could look down there for my sister…”

Suddenly Johnny interrupts.

“Excuse me. Sorry for overhearing, but did you say you were looking for Donna?”
“Yes, she’s my sister.” You say.
“Oh…so you must be Suzy. Heard her talk about you last night.”
“Nothing good I’m sure. You know where she is?” you say.
“Unfortunately I don’t. I mean I remember seeing her leave with a couple of guys and another girl last night, but I didn’t know them either. I was under the impression they were going out to get more beer or drugs or something, but they never came back.”

You shake your head and sigh.

“Great, she probably got herself fucking arrested by the cops last night.” You say.
“Well we don’t know that.” Julie remarks.
“Maybe. I guess I’ll know if I get a call from the police station. Whatever, I know she’s like a cat and always lands on her feet, so I can talk to her later.”
“You sure you don’t want to still look around the house for her?”
“Well if she’s here, she’ll probably turn up while I’m cleaning this place a bit.”
“Okay, well I’m heading back upstairs to get those assholes out of my bed and clean up whatever mess is up there.”

Julie heads back upstairs nodding to Johnny who is now picking up garbage by hand and putting it in a bag. He nods to you briefly and continues his work.

Well mind numbing clean up work should certainly help keep your mind off Bobby (and the possibility of Donna being in jail) you’re just wondering if you should help Julie or Johnny.