All It Takes - A Hangover

Ch. 3

Billy sat in the common area of the hotel suite typing an email to his sister. Benji came up behind him and placed his hand on Billy’s shoulder. Billy startled and turned, “Oh Benji. You scared me.”

Benji smiled and sat down on the couch next to Billy. He rubbed his eyes and Billy sent the email then closed the laptop. Benji yawned, “Oh my head.” Billy picked up a bottle of aspirin and handed it to Benji and pointed to a bottle of water on the coffee table. He took two pills then shrugged, “Already feel like shit,” and took two more. He sat back on the couch as Billy lazily picked at a string coming out of the hem at the bottom of his shirt. It was quiet for a second and Benji looked around, “Where’s everyone?”

“They went to go get strings- Paul needed some.”

Benji nodded then clutched his head and chuckled, “You think by now I’d know what to do with a hangover.” Billy smiled and grabbed a magazine off the table. He flipped through the pages. Benji spoke up, “Hey man, sorry if I puked on you last night or anything. Did I?”

Billy shook his head, “Nah, you were actually tame for being that drunk.”

Benji smiled and hung his head, “That bad huh?” Billy just smirked and nodded remembering Benji go on about girls. Benji stretched his arms and tried to run a hand through his hair. “Ugh. My hair.” Billy looked over at Benji’s tangled half spiked hair and laughed lightly. Benji laughed back and took another drink of water. He tried to balance the bottle on his stomach but he was too round. He laughed as the bottle fell to the floor and left it there.

He sighed then spoke again, “You were the only one that brought me home last night.” He said more as a statement than a question. Billy nodded still reading the magazine. “Thanx.” It was quiet another second. “You always take care of me.” Billy looked over at Benji and Benji was looking down at the coffee table. He spoke softly, “Why? I’m always getting into trouble and you always help me.” Benji waited a second before he looked over at Billy.

Billy looked at Benji with his red puffy bloodshot eyes and hap hazardous hair. Billy shrugged and answered simply, “I guess I care.” Benji nodded then looked back down to the coffee table. He was quiet probably a whole minute then stood up slowly, “I’m gonna take a shower.” Billy nodded and went back to reading the uninteresting magazine.

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