Life Decisions- Christmas with Karen and Trisha
This roughly follows on from
Life Decisions - Life with Karen - Fetish - Literotica.com
Friday before Christmas
"Oh, white wine please, but are you sure we are in the office?" Asked Laura as she put her hand over her empty coffee cup. Steve raised his eyebrows at Laura's action, he was standing next to her desk holding a red and white bottle of wine in each hand, they were all off for their Christmas lunch at the pub around the corner.
"It's Christmas Laura, relax! We can bend the rules sometimes. It's not as if you are driving this afternoon." Steve grinned as Laura reluctantly removed her hand and he tilted the bottle proceeded to fill Laura's coffee mug with white wine. "Consider it your bonus!" Steve said as moved on to the next desk.
"Thanks boss!" Laura smiled at Steve's back and took a large gulp of wine, as she then rubbing her lips together instantly looked down at her handbag by her feet thinking a cigarette would go nicely with the wine, and then took another gulp.
***
"Hey Laura, shall I get us our first drink in? We've got, like, 20 minutes before we need to be inside, and the food comes." Karen asked as the got out of the taxi with Laura and a couple of other colleagues.
"Hell yeah!" Laura replied as she tucked the tinsel, she had pinned in her hair which was coming loose behind her ear again as they both walked towards the pub "I will grab a table out here, see you in a bit." Laura said opening her handbag get her cigarettes and lighter out.
***
"Karen, I have been so good the last few months, this is like the first time I have two glasses of wine before midday in like weeks!" Laura announced before tilting her head and taking a deep inhale on her cigarette.
"It's Christmas honey, you are allowed to let your hair down, we don't have work again till January. " Karen smiled and then leisurely dragged on her cigarette.
"I know, but I have been trying to be good." Laura said before her inhale. "And I have missed you being in the house, it's kinda lonely." She said flicking the ash into the ashtray on the wooden bench table.
"I will be back, I promise, I just needed some me time." Karen said before drawing on her cigarette too.
Laura nodded and drew on her cigarette again "I know what you mean." She said with her exhale.
"Shall we finish these and go and join the others?" Karen asked before necking her wine.
"Go on," Laura said exhaling whilst stubbing her cigarette out and then finishing her drink.
***
With the food eaten, with a cigarette break between each course, shots were being done at the bar by the guys from production, Laura with a nose for drinks somehow had joined them. Then with much egging on from the guys she had drunk five jaeger's and two tequilas', with her nose and eyes hurting from snorting the salt and putting the lemon juice in her eyes Laura had out drunk the men. Her head was feeling it, but she noted she now needed a piss and cigarette or three desperately. She looked around for Karen, but she had wondered off. Clearly, she hadn't wanted the shots.
However, in the corner of the bar she could see Zoe and Sean being extremely close and touchy freely. With the world swirling she felt a large pang of jealousy go through her body, Sean was her man, how had Zoe got him and when?
Laura turned and held on to the bar "Another double vodka, no coke please!" She slurred to bar man, as he filled up the glass, she got her card out her purse and unsteadily hovered the card over the machine to pay by contactless as he gave her the drink and the card machine.
Laura took a quick sip, licked her lips, then quickly downed the rest of the drink, she winced briefly as the alcohol burned her throat, burped, giggled, then wiped her mouth with the back of her hand, turned and asked for another. As the bar man poured her drink Laura dug in her handbag again, got her pack of ciggies out, paid for the drink and headed across the pub towards Zoe to see if she wanted a cigarette.
At that moment in time, Laura had thought she was soberer than she was. She had not moved in half an hour from the bar. With every step forward she swayed, staggered, and stumbled sideways across pub with her unlit cigarette dangled from the corner of her mouth and her splashing double vodka in her hand. The tinsel in her hair was busily unravelling as she pushed it out of her eyes as she headed vaguely in the direction of Zoe and Sean.
She was so busy concentrating almost growling at Zoe from across the room she didn't notice Brian and Gerry standing in her way with their full pints.
As Laura staggered and ever so unsubtly collided with one of the empty tables and as its chairs tumbled over, she corrected herself and staggered sideways and bounced backwards into Brian and Gerry, their pints spilt all over her top.
Across the room Zoe watched what happened, rolled her eyes at Sean, and nodded towards the door and picked up her cigarette pack and lighter off the table and headed for the door whilst briefly looking back at the commotion around Brian, Gerry, and Laura.
***
Steve helped her open the door, checked she was ok, and closed the door and as the Yale lock on her front door clicked shut, he headed down her driveway and back to the taxi and the party. Laura slowly slid down against the green wallpaper of the hall wall until she was sitting cross legged on the floor.
"How fucking dare Zoe get with Sean!" She grizzled to herself furiously peeling her beer and gin-soaked jacket off and then fighting the blouse buttons until she gave up before just pulling it over her head throwing both on the floor beside the bin bag containing her wet skirt.
Laura fumbled into her handbag and picked up her cigarette pack and hunted for the lighter. Sitting on her prickly hallway door mat digging into her buttocks with her back against the wall and her red painted toenails showing through her stretched black tights against the cold white radiator on other. Laura had tried this morning getting ready for the Christmas party. She had put on her matching red, almost Christmassy bra, and her mother Christmas thong, and as she hadn't been hungover and could concentrate, she had added the silvery glittery tinsel to her hair and had put on her sparkly black below the knee length skirt. She thought she looked foxy.
For now, she sat there on the floor, smoked, cried, and smoked and cried some more.
As Laura realised, she needed to stub her cigarette out, the ash had fallen on the door mat. With tears in her eyes Laura coughed and wheezed as she slowly crawled into the living room and to the sofa, where she reached up to the ashtray and stubbed the cigarette out.
With more sobs Laura hauled like a walrus on to a pontoon, herself on to the sofa and with extra grunting, a couple of deep coughs and with the extra effort she was upright and managed to stumble towards the kitchen. As she bounced off the door frame Laura could hear her mobile, it was calling out from her bag back in the hallway.
"It better not be fucking Zoe!" She said to the bag as she unsteadily bent over whilst holding the wall for support and rummaged.
"Hey Karen," she said after a couple attempts to swipe, and leaned against the wall for support.
"Yes, I am fine, just got a taxi home, think Steve helped me."
"Yeah, I thought I was going to miss Brian and Gerry, it was that last tequila and the table in the way! I am feeling fine now though."
"Just a little covered in beer! A little embarrassing, I know, I am not even sure where my skirt is." Laura giggled as she picked up her pack and shook out the last cigarette.