14 A Case of Mistaken Identity

' 'mm too high can't come down,

it's in the air and it's all around,

ooh do you feel it now

but with a taste of your lips I'm on the run

with your toxic tongue slipping under

oh with a taste of your poison paradise

ooh I'm addicted to you

but don't you know that you're toxic.

mm intoxicate me now, with your lovin now

ooh I think I'm ready now..'

She continued to ramble on, slurring and changing the words as she pleased, then went on to another song.

Justin had been super worried about how traumatized she would be by the molester. He had been stroking the side of her shoulder, telling her it would be alright, trying to ask what happened?, where did he touch you?, but he could barely get a coherent answer out of her. So he stuck to being the silent support and keeping a lookout in case that creep tried to follow them home. After a while though he heard her softly singing what sounded like a Britney Spears song. He turned to see her lost happily in her own little world. Justin smiled at the sight of the silly, happy girl singing to herself beside him, she seemed to be no worse for wear and gradually he could feel his still ruffled feathers starting to lay flat.

She continued to sing to herself in the back until they pulled up in front of their apartment complex building.

As Justin pulled his friend that was quickly turning into a noodle out of the backseat, he didn't notice the black Mercedes parked a block away, or the two men inside that watched. Thankfully there was an elevator inside the lobby that could be used as Justin had to half- drag Chang in as he wasn't strong enough to carry her almost dead weight. They were about the same height and weight, and so it took all that he had just to get them up to the door on the third floor. By the time they reached there, Justin was panting and red-faced. He vowed then and there to never take her out to get so plastered again.

He himself was fairly drunk so it took him a minute of fumbling keys to get the door open. As soon as he did, Chang; who had been slumped against the wall next to the door starting to pass out, sprang up and ran to the bathroom. She reached there in light speed and soon he heard the sound of her violently vomiting in there.

Justin shuffled into the bathroom after closing the front door, he grabbed a glass from the kitchen and filled it with water. He started bringing it into the bathroom as he heard the sounds of vomiting all of a sudden stopped. In there when he arrived inside he saw Chang slumped on top of the toilet passed out after vomiting, holding onto the sides as if for dear life. Justin sighed and help straighten her up, to clean her up for the second time that day. He grabbed a washcloth from their linen cabinet and cleaned her face after flushing the toilet.

"What am I going to do with you girl, you're such a mess! well after everything you've been through I guess I'm not so surprised."

He brushed a hair from her face and started to lay her down, he couldn't carry her dead weight out of the bathroom, but he could at least make her comfy. Besides he figured after all she drank she's probably gonna be sick a few more times.

"Married huh, I wouldn't have guessed you got married so young, you're so innocent to boot. There must be more to your story.... I'll wait till you're up little lightweight xiao Chang, night night."