I'm a schoolteacher in an Inner-city Hellhole and my friends call me Julie the Schooly.
It had been a pretty shitty week teaching 7 and 8 year olds who had already given up on the learning process; so had been looking forward to getting 'fall down drunk' on Friday night since second period on Wednesday morning. The plan had worked and I could hardly stand up as I staggered to the taxi rank near the railway station at midnight.
"Shit!" I grumbled when I saw the length of the queue. There must have been 50 people there and even in my alcohol fuelled state I knew that meant at least a 30 minute wait at this time of night.
"Hey;" I tugged at Sara's arm, "do you see those two lads in the cardigans?"
"Where?" She squinted at the queue as she wasn't wearing her glasses.
"Near the front." I slurred, "The fat one's wearing glasses."
"Oh!" She gulped in a mouthful of air, "Why?"
"I know them. They live in my flat." I stated with great aplomb.
"They live in your flat?" Jilly giggled as she pushed me so hard I wobbled on my platform shoes.
"No, silly." I corrected her, "not MY flat but the one on the first floor...you know...the fat girl with pink hair."
By now we were about 6 feet away from the two nervous looking Emo kids as a taxi pulled into the rank and they were next in the queue.
"Hey gorgeous!" Gilly shouted and waved her cigarette at the boy in glasses, "My friend lives next to you; can she share your taxi? She'll give you a wank if you say yes!"
If I'd even been halfway sober I'd have been mortified at her offer but I wasn't; so just giggled and pushed her backwards making her nearly fall off her high heels.
The slimmer and smaller of the two shrugged his shoulders and beckoned me towards the car.
I drunkenly grinned and theatrically held my arms out in apology to the rest of the queue before I crawled into the back of the black cab probably flashing my red polka dot thong down the back of my jeans to the young lads. As it pulled away I waved with both hands and blew kisses to my friends who had booked a mini-cab to take them to the other side of town and back to their husbands.
"I'm Woody." The tall chubby one introduced himself with a silly wave.
"I'm Sash." The other said with a grin
"I'm Julie." I grunted as I wrestled with a seat belt that was obviously broken and a danger to the public.
"Do you want me to do that for you?" Woody asked and leaned forward 'accidentally' brushing his mop of dyed black hair then the back of his hand against my boob. Click-click and the belt was in position.
I took a gulp of stale air, gave him the thumbs up signal and tried to focus my eyes. Woody was nearly 6 feet tall but quite chubby with his belly hanging over his tight black jeans. He had an unruly mop of black hair with a fringe that hid his eyes. He was wearing thick black plastic framed glasses.
Sash was much shorter and skinny. He had bright orange hair that looked like it hadn't seen a comb in months. His face was covered in freckles and he had a metal ring in his nose and two steel pegs in an eyebrow. They were both wearing cardigans β one light blue the other red, and check shirts like all of the Emo kids that hang around the City Centre on Saturdays.
We sat in an embarrassed silence all the way back to the Estate that we lived in as the taxi driver practiced for the Monaco Grand Prix. When he stopped opposite our flats I fumbled in my purse for Β£5 to pay towards the fare.
"We're going for a pizza," Sash mentioned as casually as possible, "do you want some?"
My stomach was still reeling from the crazy taxi ride but I still looked at my watch and shrugged my shoulders.
"Yes; that's a good idea." I lied. Anything would have been better than going back to my empty flat; and sharing a pizza with two pasty faced lads was slightly better than 'anything'.
"We've got beer and vodka." The red haired lad broke the silence as we waited for his friend to be served.
"Great." I replied. The smell of the food was now making me hungry and I was regretting not ordering one for myself.
There was very little conversation as we tramped across the concrete parking lot in front of the flats but I gathered that they'd been to see a band and they were flat-sitting for Woody's sister while she was in Australia.
I was pleasantly surprised at how neat and tidy the flat was but slowly realised that it was actually a girls flat and not actually two Emo kids.
Woody poured me a huge glass of vodka and coke and I settled onto the white leather sofa to eat a slice of pizza. The conversation wasn't over stimulating but they told me that they both worked at a Supermarket and I told them about my boring job in the city centre school and I remember laughing at our different music and film tastes. As we relaxed I realised that the lads were constantly moving around for a secret look down my scoop neck t-shirt or down the back of my jeans when they crossed the room to change cd's or go to the bathroom.
Obviously two 20 year old Emo kids weren't ever going to be high on my list of prospective lovers but as I'd not had a taste of cock since I dumped my bastard of a boyfriend four months previously; I was enjoying the tease.
By 1.30 I felt my eyes getting very heavy and I fought to stay awake but apparently failed. The next thing I knew was when I woke with a throbbing head and a mouth like the floor of a budgies cage. Someone had draped a quilt over me which I folded and left on the sofa then stumbled across the dark room. The walk up 5 flights of stairs to my own flat wasn't easy as I was still drunk but also hungover. As I slowly made my way up the last flight I adjusted my bra strap which was hanging down my arm and tried in vain to fasten the top button of my jeans which I must have left open after a visit to the toilet.
I woke on Saturday at 11ish, put the kettle on for a cup of strong coffee and took two extra strong paracetamol. I made my way into the bathroom and flopped onto the toilet. All of the previous nights alcohol whooshed straight through my like a brewery horse, then I let off a fart so loud you could have heard it two streets away. But it made me feel better and a damn site less bloated. As I gained my senses I had a good scratch of my pubes (as you do on a morning) only to find some of them were matted together plus there was a dry patch of skin on my boobs.