I had gone nearly fourth months on assignment with only a week break. When I arrived back at my apartment, I was drained. My goal over the next week was to rest as much as possible.
With the exception of getting food, I didn't leave my apartment. The Agency had given me three weeks off to recuperate, and I was planning on relaxing my way through the entire thing. My DVR was full of shows that I had missed over the last few months and it was time to binge to catch up.
Surprisingly, being lazy actually makes you more tired. I felt like an old man going to bed at 9:00, but it felt like what my body needed.
One night, about a week into my break, I awoke at 2:30 AM to a violent pounding at my front door. My drowsiness immediately wore off as I busted out of my bed and ran across the apartment to my front door. Was the building on fire? Did something terrible happen? I was struggling to process why there was a loud pounding on my door so late at night.
I unlatched the front door and swung it open. Standing in the hallway was not a fireman or a panicked neighbor, it was Eliza.
"What the hell?!? Why are you pounding on my door at two in the morning?" I snapped, rubbing my eyes trying to adjust to the bright light in the hallway.
"Can I come in?" Eliza asked.
I was frustrated at being woken up in the middle of the night, but I extended my arm gesturing her to come inside. I flipped on a light and Eliza walked inside perusing the living room of my apartment.
"Care to explain why you are here?" I grumbled.
Eliza was walking around the living room, looking at some pictures that hung on the wall. She was wearing a pretty green dress and appeared as if she had been out for the night.
"Sex," she responded.
"Excuse me?" I snapped back.
"I'm horny and I need to fuck!" Eliza replied, raising her volume, "I just spent the entire night at a bar and chatted with a hot guy all night, only to find out he was gay."
In my slumbered state, I had no interest in being someone's sex toy. I was still a little frustrated at how she had handled the Taylor Swift ordeal and I had no interest in helping her out.