Who: Kip Pryor,
Clint Chevalier and
Lincoln ColeWhat: Grief and regrets
Where: Clint and Lincoln's place (and whoever else lives there too)
When: After
thisKip had lost all track of time. He didn't know how long he had been asleep. He could barely even remember getting back from the hospital. He thought he had some vague recollection of Clint carrying him, but it was hard to say. Could just be some warped dream he had. He had a lot of those detoxing. Or maybe they were hallucinations. He didn't know what way was fucking up right now. Everything felt wrong. Everything felt useless.
When he woke up, he still felt like he had been hit by a road train. Or maybe a whole convoy of them. He felt like all his bones were broken because he was in pain, and his head was still thumping. The curtains in the bedroom were drawn. He didn't know if it was night or day. All he knew was that he needed to seriously use the bathroom. He sat up woozily, and nearly tripped on the bucket that was sitting there. He had done many hours of heaving into that. It was lighter out in the hall, and he had to squeeze his eyes shut against it, feeling his way blindly for the door to the bathroom. He knocked. No one was in there.
He felt like he needed a shower, but he didn't trust his legs to hold him up, so he wasn't going to risk it. He did what he had to do, washed his face, brushed his teeth. Tried to avoid looking at himself in the mirror, but it was impossible. He looked like a zombie. It wasn't even much of an exaggeration. His hands were still shaking. He noticed that when he rubbed his eyes. Instead of going back to bed, he gingerly made his way out to the living area. He knew that the place Lincoln and Clint lived was massive, and they had their own part of it to themselves. Clint had said it was so he didn't have to kill himself going nuts with lesbian interior decoration. Probably a good thing. Kip wouldn't have wanted to inflict himself of anyone who didn't know him.
There, he found Clint and Lincoln making out on the sofa. He turned his head, trying to shield his eyes. In no way was he a fucking prude, but this was guilt about intruding on their private time. Nothing more. He already felt bad enough about that as it was. "Sorry, I just... can I have some of those pills that stop me feeling like I'm gonna barf? And maybe something for my head?"