The bar

 Zane and Matt had just turned 21 so they hadn’t been to many bars yet till that point of their lives. They decided to drink before visiting the bar, especially Zane. He had already told Matt how drunk he wanted to be and it was Matt’s job to take care of him. By the time they reached the bar, Zane was pretty drunk already. The bar was lit up with a lot of people jamming to songs, the lighting added to the mood too. They found a table at the end of the bar. “Do you want something? Im going to get a beer for myself.” Matt asked. Zane just stood there staring at me like he couldn’t understand what I was asking him. “Uh.. no no I think I’m good.” Zane replied. Matt went up to the bar, ordered for a glass of beer. 

Few hours later, Zane was really drunk and Matt was partially drunk but he could pay attention to everything. They were having the time of their lives when a lady came up to them and started complimenting Matt’s shirt. Matt found her cute and noticed how bright red her hair was, he wondered if it was coloured because it looked a bit unnatural. She mentioned her name was Cara and she continuously flirted with Zane and Matt. Cara could tell that Zane was very drunk, Matt noticed how she kept noticing little things as if she was noticing everything. Matt went with the flow and acted like he was really drunk too, he thought since she was flirting with Zane more, it would work for him to if he acted like he was drunk. Matt was a little suspicious because he thought she was talking to him only to get free drinks. He very smoothly mentioned how he did not have much money so she could get a hint that they couldn’t buy her drinks. To Matt’s shock, in turn she offered free drinks to them and they surely couldn’t reject that offer. She kept buying both of them drinks, Matt was confused as to who she was interested in because she did not seem to make it obvious. 

Zane had to go to the bathroom, Matt offered to accompany him but he denied it. By the time Zane could get back to Matt and Cara he was kicked out by the bouncer for being too drunk and trying to kiss a woman. Thankfully, Matt noticed how Zane was getting kicked out and quickly followed him out of the bar, Cara followed them out too. Cara started insisting Zane to go home with her, saying she would take care of him. Zane was so out of it he could barely answer her question. Matt took the conversation and told Cara that Zane was too drunk and he couldn’t let Zane go anywhere as he didn’t want him to wake up hungover in someone else’s house with no car and no idea of what happened. Despite Matt saying all of this, Cara kept pushing it, saying that she would take good take care of him. Matt firmly said no because he would not leave him alone as Zane was his responsibility. Cara got a little stunned and sad, she said she was just trying to help. Matt agreed to let Zane go with Cara only if Matt would tag along with them. Matt assumed that she thought he was jealous or stopping his friend to have some fun but Zane could barely walk or even stand and anyway he had lost interest in Cara. Right after this Cara started flirting with matt and offered to get Zane a taxi to drive him home and they could go to her place alone to chill for a bit. 

At this point, Matt had a few drinks so he agreed to whatever Cara was saying. Matt helped calling Zane a taxi and helped him get into the taxi.

Cara mentioned that her car was in the next lane itself, while walking towards the car Matt slightly stumbled on the way. “Wow, you’re pretty drunk.” She said smiling as she held onto his arm. Matt started feeling anxious and slightly shy, everything was happening too easy for Matt for the first time ever with a woman and hence he felt uneasy. 

They got into her car and no one spoke for good 10 minutes until Cara slowed down the car a bit, 'Im going to stop by the liquor store and get more liquor for us. Don’t you worry I’m going to pay for it.” Matt did not want to drink anymore than he already had and plus he was very confused as to why she was offering for more liquor after the bar. Since he wanted to be able to carry myself throughout the rest of the night, he knew he made himself look stupid when he was drunk and he did not want to mess it up with Cara more than he already had. She asked him how much liquor he wanted, “A pint of liquor would be good with some apple juice.” She went into the store and didn’t come out for good 10 minutes. 

She came out of the store with a lot more than just a pint, Matt assumed she wanted to drink more and that’s why she got 2 times more than a pint. On the car ride she told Matt to open two bottles, he was hesitant and told her that it would be safer to drink when we got to her place. She insisted but she kept saying how she had done this before and it was completely safe. We passed the bottle back and forth but Matt noticed how tiny her sips were. Looking at this, Matt tried taking tiny sips too but she kept passing him the bottle and telling him to drink more. Somehow he managed to drink all of his apple juice and pretended to drink the bottle by spitting the liquor into the empty apple juice bottle. When Cara wasn’t paying attention to Matt, he tossed the apple juice bottle full of liquor out of the window before she noticed. Matt did not wanted her to know that he was acting drunker that he was, for some reason Cara believed that he was sloppy drunk when he was simply just a bit tipsy. He took a couple more sips of liquor until he finished the liquor bottle. Throughout the car ride, he called her the wrong name a couple of times to get a reaction out of her but she did not react to it instead she kept letting him call her Carla without correcting me. For some reason I thought maybe she lied to me about her name initially. They drove up to her house and Matt pretended to trip and stumble into her front door, she helped him walk and giggled while doing so. She hold me up while walking me inside, I noticed how the font door of the house was already unlocked. We walked into her house as the door closed behind us, she locked it. Matt thought that was very strange but assumed that she did not want anyone walking in on us. Matt told her that he had to use the bathroom, he walked into the bathroom and locked it. He looked in the mirror staring at his reflection and trying to figure out how weird the whole situation was. He felt very strange, like something bad was about to happen and felt himself becoming more drunk from finishing the bottle earlier. He turned on the sink to make noise and made himself puke up the liquor he drank. He flushed, went to the sink and started drinking the tap water out of his hands to sober up. He wanted to be himself when flirting with Cara but at the same time pretending to be drunk would help him. He turned off the sink and he could hear her talking to someone, “He’s drunk as hell he can barely stand up, you do it.” Matt wondered who she was talking to and do what, he decided to walk out of the bathroom and into the living room. The moment he stepped into the living room, he saw her walking into the another room all he could see was the back of her head- the strange bright hair go into another room. The house had very dim light on, so he could not see everything properly. She walked fast into the living room that was still pretty dark. “Hey, where are you going?” asked Matt in a slurred manner hinting her that he was still pretty drunk. She walked back towards him and told him, “Lets go in a room.” I looked at her bright red hair and then into her eyes, they were different, her whole face was different, it was another girl with the same hair. He was very confused the he realised that it was another girl with the same wig on. He knew the hair was too fake to be true. 

Matt started getting anxious, his heart felt very heavy- he tried his best to not look worried, it was good the room was pretty dark. It was a different girl, he took this opportunity and told her he had to use the bathroom once more giving the excuse of him being drunk. I went straight to the bathroom and locked the room as fast as he could. He put his ear on the door trying to see if he could hear anything, he heard the girl whisper something to someone again- this time it was a male voice speaking. He freaked out, he couldn’t concentrate on listening to exactly what she said but something sketchy was going on. Matt figured he had to get out of that house as soon as possible, he noticed the window and went ahead to open it. “I have to get out the house no matter what.” he thought to himself. He opened the window and jumped straight out of it without thinking twice and ran faster than he ever had in his entire life. He did not look behind or anywhere for that matter he branched straight through the backyard, jumped the fence and ran through someone else’s backyard until he hit the road and ran towards the main road. I kept running down the main road until he saw general medical pharmacy up the door. He ran inside the store and stood straight at the front of the store staring at the camera. He called a taxi for himself and went home. He tries to think what happened that night, what would happen if he wouldn’t have ran from there or what she/ they wanted from him. There were so many questions that he took few of his friends and drove up to the house the next day. It was empty, no cars, window was broken, turns out the house was a summer rental and the people had broken into the house.