"Just one more step, darlin'," I said as Kyra teetered on the edge of the stairs. After she'd spoiled my plans for the evening I was almost of a mind to let her fall.
All I wanted was to get halfway drunk and fuck my brains out. Instead, the girl I'd expected to be giving the high hard one tonight had misjudged her drinking stamina and had vomited all over herself and the bar. At the moment, she neither looked good nor smelled good. I leaned her against the door while I looked through her bag for her keys. She mumbled incoherently.
When the door unexpectedly opened, she fell through the doorway, flopping onto the floor inside with a thud. If she had been sober enough to tense up, she might have broken something; as it was she slapped the floor like something boneless. I looked up in surprise at the person who opened the door.
A man stood there in boxer shorts and a t-shirt. He was lean with short, styled blond hair. He stood over Kyra and sighed. "Oh, not again!"
I introduced myself, curious about who the strange man was in my date's apartment.
"I'm her cousin, Leslie. Call me Les."
I stepped over Kyra so I was on the inside. Les and I each lifted a floppy arm and dragged the rest of her through the doorway.
"Can you give me a hand?" Les asked. He really meant could I carry her to her bed. He was small and slight with a feminine figure; I doubt he could have lifted Kyra, petite as she was. I picked her up, followed Les to her room and set her down on the bed. I left the room for Les to cover her up. She was not waking up anytime soon.
I stood in the living room by the front door. I had no real reason to stay; after all, even though I saw her safely home, Kyra was not my responsibility. On the other hand, leaving without saying goodbye felt abrupt, maybe rude. I might want Leslie's goodwill down the road; if I tried to date Kyra again, he could remind her that I had acted the man of honour.
Les came through to the living room and sighed. "That girl, I just don't know about that girl."
"Does she do this a lot?"
"No, this is nothing. Sometimes I have to go out and find her sleeping in a doorway."
"She likes her fun."
"She likes her booze."
I couldn't argue with that. Booze didn't seem to like her much though.
"Say, you look alright," Les said. I didn't know what he meant at first. "Alright to have a drink?"
The hour was late. The night was too far advanced to find any fresh pussy tonight. What the Hell, I thought, why not have another drink? I nodded.
"Bourbon, Scotch, Rum?"
I took a Scotch, neat. Les led me to a couch and told me to have a seat. When I fell into the comfortable sofa, I suddenly realized how much I had to drink earlier in the evening. I was tired. The lounge seemed to swallow me whole.
Les settled in beside me with his back to the armrest and his legs crossed so that he was facing me. He was talkative enough for both of us. Where do you live? What do you do? That sounds interesting. He was good at small talk, and he was good at refilling your glass so quick you couldn't stop him.
"Isn't that refreshing after a hard work day? And after a disappointing evening?"
I started to remark upon the drink, which was good, but then I realized he had alluded to my evening with his cousin.
"It wasn't all bad. We had a good time dancing."
"But this isn't how you planned to end your evening, was it?"
"No." The alcohol had loosened my tongue.
"I bet you had some preconceptions about what you would be doing about this time of the night?"
"I didn't have any expectations." I didn't want to insult Les by giving him the impression that I thought his cousin, Kyra, was an easy skank.
"Oh, come on," Les insisted. "Don't tell me you don't know her reputation."
I knew one other guy who had been with her, and he said she sucked like a Hoover. But that was one guy's opinion of her; it didn't constitute a reputation as far as I was concerned. I denied all knowledge of Kyra's reputation to Les.