chapter 2

A few hours later, Silver woke up again. this time he was not feeling quite so drained... Although, His stomach was now churning in very strange ways.

Part of him wanted to lie in bed more, but he remembers Ruth in the room next door and must check on her, since She also seemed to be in a bad place earlier.

He got up and heard shuffling in the living Room.

"Are you awake?" he asked

"Oh. Yes... Been up half an hour." she answered.

Silver went through the door and Ruth had bagged up all the rubbish and was rummaging around under the sofa. She stood up when Silver came in and was only half dressed. She was wearing a black bra, which slightly strained around her large tits and shiny, black leather trousers pulled up as high as it would stretch over her round, slightly rolly belly.

Covering herself as much as possible with her hands. "I can't find everything." She said.

"I can find you a t shirt."

"Oh thank you. But my phone too and my jacket. I have my handbag". She held it up. "But I have no phone ". She looked defeated.

Silver said nothing and went to find her a t shirt. There was some baggy ones around which he didn't really mind losing.

He picked out a slightly faded black one and brought it to her. "Will this be okay? you don't need to give it back or anything."

Ruth put it on quickly. "Thanks I was freezing. but still my phone. I need it, can you remember anything at all?"

Silver shook his head. He never normally had memory lapses like this, but could not piece together anything let alone where her phone might be. "Sorry. Could you have left it somewhere in town?"

Ruth shook her head. "I don't think so. I'm usually pretty careful."

"Sorry. I can bring it in if I find it and leave it on your desk."

She looked around the room again. "Oh. Thanks. Hope it shows up."

"Did you want me to call you a taxi? I'm guessing you want to be going home now."

"Thanks. Look, I don't know what happened and I'm sorry I came over. Think we could leave this here?" She looked almost embarrassed as she said the words.

"Probably should." Silver forced a smile and called for a taxi.

It was starting to get dark outside, He could barely believe they had slept most of the day. It was a bit of a waste, but he knew before drinking he'd probably be a bit delicate

Silver and Ruth tried to chat for a while whilst waiting for the taxi to arrive, but the reality was ty barely had much in common, they didn't speak much at the office so that was probably to be expected.

After She left, he went through the house sweeping up the floor and took the bin bags Ruth filled earlier to the outside bins at his apartment complex and put on some cheap ramen for dinner despite feeling bloated and barely hungry.

He tried to watch something on television, but nothing seemed appealing on Netflix, he wanted something dumb in case he fell asleep during it, he looked around to his DVD case to find something to play in his Xbox.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw what looked like a phone, sticking out slightly from the curtain where it looked to be resting on its side, on the windowsill. He went over thinking it must be Ruths.

Silver picked up the phone and pressed the unlock button. The phone was showing an "error storage full" message. He pressed OK and the phone opened on the camera. He saw the thumbnail at the bottom showing a picture of his room with a little play button over it... She was recording something?

He pressed the icon.