==> Meenah: get help from your girlfriend
arachnidace
“Fuck.” You run your hands through your hair backing away slightly as you realise that you just punched the fucking bouncer in the nose. Maybe you should just make a run for it now, but by the look in his eyes he isn’t going to let this go, and you’ll be easily spotted from a line up. You’re a fucking troll after all. “Fuck, sorry, I didn’t mean...” You can’t claim you didn’t mean to punch him, because his nose is busted, blood still leaking out through his fingers as he holds his hand to his face.
“Back against the fucking wall,” he tells you, and you do as he says, moving to lean against the bricks without much argument, until he tells you he’s going to call the cops. Fuck. You panic, suddenly no longer okay with staying still. You say you’re really sorry, that you weren’t thinking, that you can just go home and the pair of you can just forget about this. He stands there and listens to you as you ramble on, not looking any more convinced.
“I know someone you work with!” you say, deciding to go for a different tactic. “She’s inside there now! I was goin’ to see her..” He responds to you with a cold, “why the fuck should I care?” and you realise you’re fighting a losing battle. You chew at your lip, looking around desperately for inspiration. You can’t get arrested again, you had enough trouble last time because they couldn’t find any record of you and everything just went down hill from there.
“She’s my girlfriend.” Your conscience is screaming at you to stop, why the fuck did you just say that? She’s barely even your fucking friend. And as if she’s going to vouch for you anyway. FUCK. “She works at the bar,” you add on anyway, your slurred voice sounding pleading. You’re pleading with him, but also with yourself to shut the fuck up. He raises an eyebrow at you, asks who, and you beg yourself not to say - “Vriska.”
He laughs in your face, and you can feel yourself pale. You know why he’s laughing, but it doesn’t stop the next sentence from sucker punching you in the gut. “What a girlfriend you’ve got there, I’ve seen her trying to hook up with almost every girl in there tonight.”
You swallow, your face contorting as you try not to cry. Fucking pathetic, you think to yourself, fucking pathetic that you’re crying over the hypothetical situation of her cheating on you. God, what is wrong with you? You’re not even dating, but fuck it - you’re nearly crying now, you might as well keep up the act.
“Yeah,” you say quietly, and it almost comes out as a squeak. You see a realisation dawn on the bouncers face, and he suddenly looks a lot less pissed off at the amount of blood pouring from his nostrils. “Why d’you think I’m this drunk?”
You’d give yourself credit for your acting skills if you weren’t actually feeling all the things you were ‘pretending’ to feel. Maybe for different reasons, but that didn’t make the gulps or the frantic blinking any less real. You stand for a couple of seconds, staring at the ground, until the bouncer sighs and tells you he’s going to get her. He’ll let you off if you’re telling truth, if she can vouch for you.
He walks into the bar and you collapse against the wall. Now you’re double fucked.