Ashley

Ashley entered the basement of her home; feeling her way across the room.  She feels the cold rough walls of the pitch black basement. She can hear the water running through the old rusty pipes.  She can smell the open beer cans left from her college friends five hours ago, to make things worse she had no slippers on, and she could also feel the sticky residue of the beer. She also hears the traffic outside, but can’t see any street lights on. As she is walking in the pitch dark basement grazing her fingers on the cold wall she slips on one of the beer cans and falls head first, breaks her nose. She tastes the blood running down from her nose into her mouth.   

This woke up the sleeping guy on the ground.  It was Jimmy.  Jimmy woke up with bloodshot eyes and smelled of beer and puke.  What happened, Jimmy asks? Ashley just stares at him with eyes wide open and her jaw dropped with clenched fists.  What happened? She yells, Look around you and try to remember what you did. She said.

She was throwing a Labor Day BBQ. The BBQ went really well, for her and her Harvard friends. Going to Harvard is like joining the Marine Corps; reading, writing, tests, never ending school work. No time to breathe so, during the summer they like to party hard.

They were having a lot to drink and not enough to eat.  They were playing hacky sack, Frisbee, and Soccer. 

There is always that one guy that pukes in the bushes, Jimmy.

Jimmy was not invited to the party; he crashed it by overhearing people talking about it at the local college bar, where he was getting wasted.  He figured free beer, why the heck not. 

He arrived about 4pm wearing black boots, black jeans and a black shirt with a barcode image printed on the chest of his shirt.  He immediately started drinking and hitting on the girls, who showed no interest in him at all. 

It started to down poor.  Ashley decided against her better judgment and led everyone to the basement.  Where there were just black walls and a gray floor, all cold and damp.  They continued to have fun, but they decided to follow Jimmy lead and play beer pong, but not with just any old beer but with Original Sin, a kind of cider, which made the game more fun and tastier.   

Jimmy looked stunned as he remembered the night before and was saying sorry over and over he immediately helped Ashley by running upstairs to get her some ice for her nose. 

But he asked her, Why all the cans on the floor and no shoes?  Ashley racked her own brain for the answers, why am I barefoot?  She can’t come up with anything.  Her mind is a blank. However she does know why there are all the beer cans on the floor. They decided to play bowling with the beer cans and the last thing she does remember is Jimmy making a strike. Ashley looks down at her well done pedicure feet and came to the conclusion that Jimmy stole her shoes from her feet and he doesn’t not recall any of this. 

After her and Jimmy picked up all the beer cans and Ashley’s nose was ok, they went upstairs and Ashley brewed some coffee for them both to have.