Ch. 04
Beth suffers - as well she should!
*****
Well...???!!
WTF was that??
I couldn't put any remarks at the end of Ch. 03. I was toasted.
I was sipping my Glenlivet while I read the last chapter - and had to open another bottle and my sips turned into gulps.
I'm not sure if I could've handled all that was happening without some kind of comforting blanket like the haze of alcohol.
I drunk-dialed my shrink, doesn't everyone?
After my shrink wrung my mind out, I grabbed a shower, some Ambien and went to sleep for a couple of days. With the light on. After all, I couldn't be too careful!
Maybe the nightmare is over. Maybe? Umm... probably not.
Now, we have to wonder:
Is Beth a victim of her own sick mind?
Did she have a heart attack or stroke?
Is she in the hospital and maybe handcuffed to the bed?
Is our boy alive?
What the fuck is up with Beth? How did she seem so sane for the first 18 months of the relationship?
How could our hero not see that she was crazy? He seemed so lucid and competent, given that he has so much money and his own company. Can't sane people immediately sense insane people?
We left Beth with her being blown to bits and drowned.
I don't know in what condition our hero was at the end of the last chapter.
Let's rejoin the 'happy' couple as Beth has a conversation with herself, shall we?
*****
Did I hear something - birds? Wait... I? Me?
How's that possible? What happened? My eyes were sealed shut as I saw myself rocketing up, surrounded by fantastic creatures and my orgasm going vertical. I remember my heart shuddering and threatening to stop. Holy fucking shit! How did I survive that?
I thought about my man panicking, my orgasm, his orgasm, the crash, the explosion in my brain, drowning and now - waking?
He must have managed to shoot me up with the Valium, which added to the Fentanyl, knocked me the fuck out. The black wave was the Valium/Fentanyl overcoming me. I loved that black wave! I love that he saved me!
Wait! Is he still here?
I opened my eyes to a sunlit room. How glorious it was!
I looked to my right and saw - my Savior - looking at me!
Was that a halo around his head??
He asked how I was - and did I remember what happened? Did I remember my name?"
"Not sure."
"No, really! I mean it. I don't need a quote from 'Idiocracy'.
Well, that stopped my brain for a second, before I remembered the movie. I laughed out loud. "I guess that I'm fine, Mr. Wonderful! How about you?"
He said that he was fine, but that he wasn't a character from 'Serenity' and could we agree not to reference movies?
What? Oh, yeah. "No, babe, I meant that you truly are Mr. Wonderful."
"Beth, if you're ready, I have some things to tell you. If you want to wait, we can just lay here for a while or get up and get something to eat. You must be starving!"
"Surprisingly, I am pretty famished. But first, let's hear what you have to say, Mr. Most Wonderful Man Ever."
"Beth, I hope that you'll understand, but this morning is not the morning that was going to dawn with us tripping. It's
Monday
morning."
"What????"
"Beth, baby, you went crazy. You were hitting me and screaming! You squirted all over me and soaked the bed. I hadn't ever seen anyone do that, so I thought that you'd busted something inside. Only later did I figure out what must've happened.
I was reaching for your Valium rig when you gushed all over me and I panicked even more. I shoved you off, grabbed both Valium rescue rigs and shot them into you and opened the I.V. flow all the way.
I was freaking out because I thought that you were dying, but the Ketamine and LSD were kicking my ass so hard that I wasn't sure what was real and what wasn't. I was really hoping that I wasn't killing you instead of saving you.
Then, after you were unconscious, I used a Narcan rig on me because the Ketamine was still ripping me a new one. The LSD wasn't exactly helping me tell what was real; luckily, you had some 1 GM Vitamin C tablets in your bathroom cabinet, so the LSD was shut down within 30 minutes after I downed 5 of them.
I watched you for hours to make sure that you didn't die or need an ambulance.
After 8 hours or so, you started to wake, so I got more Valium and knocked you out again. Every time you started to come around, I did that again until about 3 AM this morning. I wanted you to be able to rest after what you'd been through - and I needed a break. Holy fuck, woman; you are way more than a handful.
Then, just a few minutes ago, I got some Narcan and shot you up so that you'd wake up now and you'd wake up with a clear head. I'm sorry for drugging you with so much Valium, but I did what I thought was best.
By the way, Beth, after I was lucid enough, I got all of the drugs and stuff and stuck them in the attic in your garage. You know, just in case the neighbors had called the cops or if something happened to you that would've caused the cops to come here. I was going to look in the other bedroom for any more drugs or supplies, but it's locked and I couldn't find a key.
Beth, why do you have a deadbolt on that door? There wasn't one there two weeks ago."
"Babe, not now; that's a long story."
"Um... ok. Later then."
Yeah, that conversation was never going to happen, bud.
I now realized that I'd calculated my dosages wrong - duh! That's what I get for not having the foresight to sit down and calculate mine as carefully as I had for him for these particular drugs. Then again, I hadn't planned on taking any, so there's that.
We lounged in bed, just snuggling and not saying much. We'd been to the brink and survived. I just wanted to let his body and the sheets comfort me as I listened to the birds outside as they serenaded us with happy songs. It was great to be alive!
Thirty minutes later, he started another conversation that I never wanted to have.
"Beth, would you care to explain what just happened to us? What's happening to me? I've never done drugs except for weed and acid in college. Now, I seem to want to do serious drugs and want you to do them with me. I feel like I'm losing my mind. Please explain what's happening and why! Baby, please don't tell me that you don't know."
I could've tranced him and put in a revised narrative that ended with us waking up this morning, but I didn't want him to forget my orgasm or his - and him saving me. I thought that the terror of those moments would, for him, bond us closer as only trauma can. I knew that I had bonded much closer to my baby! My Forever Man!
I looked into those blue eyes and said, "Spaceballs."
New narrative.
I explained to him that I'd gotten the drugs and equipment from a friend's house when her sister called to say that she'd OD'd. The sister asked me to rush over and grab everything before the cops showed up to search the place.
I said that the deadbolt had been put on the second bedroom to protect these things.
I told him that he had asked to see everything. He was excited to see the needles and vials of drugs and asked if it would be safe to use them. I told him that they were and that I'd been reading up on them.
I told him that he then wanted to experiment a little, but only if we kept it very safe.
I could tell that he was assured by my words.
I told him that we talked a bit more and then decided to go on an adventure.
I didn't change much of what happened on our little trip, but I changed how he felt about what happened and changed all of the panic, from either one of us, into expressions of sheer happiness.