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The night is still very young and the bar is still very much thronged with people who had come to have a shot or two.
Kayla hit her shoulder against Ben who wouldn’t stop telling her to drink what her body could carry. Their team is celebrating a solved case and she’s willing to get waste since she took a major role in the case.
Ben watches her grabs another bottle of liquor from the table, his eyes not leaving her face as he watches her wrap her cute little lips around the bottle. “Hey, that’s the third bottle you would be drinking in a row.” He half yells to her.
Kayla drops the bottle angrily on the table, which attracts the attention of others at the round table. “My apologies, sir!” She bows to the chief of the department and the man smiled it off before taking his eyes off her.
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Kayla crosses her arms around her chest. “You… I don’t know what your problem is with me.” She scoffs at his face.
Been removed his palm from his face and stare at Kayla who wouldn’t stop giving him a deadly look. “What? What is it now?” He groans, getting hurt at how deadly she’s looking at him.
“What do you mean by ‘what’? Why would you keep on scolding me like I’m a child?” She spat angrily. She is a fucking adult, why would he keep on keeping count of how many bottles she has drunk.
“Hey,” Ben sigh sadly. “Look, Kayy…”
“It’s lieutenant Dean.” she corrects him and he nods his head so she could shut up.
“I am not scolding you, I’m just trying to keep a close eye on you, I don’t want you to get wasted.” He yells back at her.
The music is blasting from the speaker which would make it difficult for others to hear what they are saying.
Kayla drops her hand to the table and starts making sounds with her fingers. “Why would you keep a close eye on me? Am I your business?” she scoffs and picks the bottle from the table, she moves it to her mouth and gulps down a large quantity.
“I don’t care about whatever you do or say, but please drink responsibly.” Ben retort. He grabs his bottle of water and gulps a large quantity down his throat.
Among the department, Ben is the only one who doesn’t drink alcohol. He request a bottle of water so he wouldn’t feel left out.
“Just because you don’t drink alcohol doesn’t mean others will be like you. Stop judging me with your boring lifestyle and stop pestering me.” Kayla hiss at him.
Ben gulp down like never before. He knows how tired Kayla is and he isn’t sure she can hold her liquor in that state.
“Fine, whatever. Drink all the drinks for all I care.” he blurts out angrily, shifting a little bit away from her and turning his attention to the lady performing on the stage.
Kayla picks up the bottle, she tries drinking from it but she realises the bottle is empty. She groans and opens another bottle. But this time, she decide to drink from the cup.
She pours her glass and drops the bottle on the table. She tries lifting the glass but her hand seem a little heavy. “What is wrong with this stupid glass!” she yells and quickly holds her head in her hands. “Ahh,” she cries as her head starts banging heavily.
She suddenly developed a headache and she wonders why. “What is wrong with me?” she groans as the noise from the speaker is adding to her headache.
She relaxes on her seat for a while and decides to go to the washroom. She stands up from the seat and her legs seem light to carry her weight.
“Ahh!” she cries out as she falls back to the seat, she’s almost falling to the floor but a junior from her department quickly grabs her and put her back on the seat.
She groans heavily and pads her elbow on the table. “I don’t know what I’m doing here, do you know all these people?” Kayla asks the guy from her right.
The guy notice that she is a bit drunk but couldn’t put himself to say that to his senior. “Ahh, lieutenant Dean, I think you should head home.” The guy whispered to her.
Kayla moves back to her seat, her sight is getting blurry but that doesn’t stop her from replying to the arrogant guy. “You…” she points at the guy. “How dare you thin like stick tell me to head home? Where is your manner?” She grabs his collar but another hand grabs her hands and pulls her off the guy.
“Kayla…” Ben is trying to address her but Kayla slaps his hand off of hers.
“It’s lieutenant Dean, you fool.” She mumbles.
Ben shakes his head, still stubborn even in a state of drunkenness. He chuckles and turns to the chief. “Lieutenant Dean is a little tipsy, I will take her home,” he says to the man before taking her out of the noisy bar.
“I don’t want to go home, I’m so tired and I want to sleep,” she complain bitterly. She slides her hand off his shoulder and moves away from him.
She tries walking back inside the bar but Ben pulls her back and she hit her head against his chest.
“What happened to the Kayla that is making mouth earlier?” Ben scoffs, he sweeps her off her feet as she suddenly stops moving.
He place her gently in his arms and smile at how cute she still looked even after getting wasted from four bottles of the drink he couldn’t tell what the name was.
“Hey, do you see that?” Kayla asks, pointing at the cars that are speeding on the road. “Those are the giant and I used to draw as a kid, with Nicholas.” she rolls her eyes.
Been chuckles at her silliness, how can a normal Kayla call a car “a giant ant” if not that she’s drunk?
He opens the car door and carefully drops her on the passenger seat of his car. It’s a good thing she didn’t come to the bar with her car, who would help her take it home?
“Oh, you also have a giant ant?!” she gasps, tapping her finger on the side mirror.
Ben gets inside the car and stares at Kayla for a while. “Yes, I also have a giant car. Now, please keep quiet.” he cries out. He couldn’t believe Kayla could be that talkative and the fact that she was not in her right sense annoyed him a lot.
“Did Nicholas teach you how to draw it?” She pouts her lips like she is sad, recalling the guy Nicholas.
“No, I draw it on my own,” Ben says and moves from his seat. “Now, stay still and let me do your seatbelt,” he instructs and moves closer to her. He holds his breath as Kayla reeks of alcohol.
“I taught him how to draw a giant ant just so he could be my friend. But the idiotic brat stopped being my friend when he saw the new girl claiming she’s more beautiful than I am.” she sniff back in her tears and let her head drops to the window. Her soft snore fills the car afterwards.
Ben sighed and chuckle at how lame her story is. “Who the hell is Nicholas?” he laughs and moves back to his seat. “I don’t know why you wanted to be his friend so badly then but I am here for you now.” he chuckles at himself for talking to a girl who is sleeping soundly beside him.
“By the way, you are the most beautiful lady I have ever seen so stop worrying about Nicholas and the new girl.” He grins loudly before starting the car.