Getting to Nirvana {editing}

Chapter 14

Better than a thousand hollow words is one that brings peace - Buddha

Chapter 14

Nirvana

I wince as the door slams shut leaving the pictures on the wall rattling from the impact long after he's gone. One glass frame falls to the floor and shatters. His words still resounding in my head, I get up to go clean up the broken glass.

Daniel was homeless? I knew that maybe he had a falling out with his parents or something, judging from his hostile answer on the plane, but I never knew it was that bad. Now I feel guilty looking back on the countless times I saw a homeless man walking down the sidewalk and drifted far to the other side.

Too deep in thought I accidently cut myself on the glass. "Shoot." The bright red blood flows freely from the wound on my finger and drips to the floor. I grab a napkin and dab at the cut, but I can't even feel it, my mind is still on Daniel. He seemed pretty upset when he left, I just hope he doesn't do something stupid and something that he really regrets.

After I clean up the glass and bandage my finger I climb into bed. To get my mind off of Daniel I turn on the TV and switch the channel to MTV, where some stupid raunchy comedy is playing. I roll my eyes at the cheesy dialogue and the idiotic plot, but it does what its supposed to do. Distract me.

Soon I feel myself drift off to sleep and I give in to my tiredness and fatigue from the day...

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I jump up startled at a loud knock on the door. My heart beats erratically at the sudden noice. The loud knock sounds again this time accompanied by a slurred sounding voice. "Nirvana. Open up its Danny Boy!" Danny Boy? I chuckle a little at his self titled nickname. He bangs on the door again.

"I'm coming!" I yell. "Don't wake up the whole of France!" I push the covers off of me and quickly hop out of bed, slightly annoyed.

I check the time on my phone and realize that it's a little past 3:00 in the morning! I swing the door open. "Do you have any idea what time it is?" I whisper yell, so as not to disturb the people most likely sleeping peacefully in their beds. You know what Daniel and I should be doing.

He doesn't illicit a response and instead mumbles something unintelligibly and kinda stumbles into me. I suspicioned that he was slightly buzzed but now I know for sure he's completely wasted. I stumble from his weight.

He leans down and puts his face into my hair. He smells like cheap bear and cigarettes. I wrinkle my nose in disgust.

"You hair smells good." He slurs as he continues to press his weight against me.

"That's too bad because you don't."

A 5'4 110 pound girl cannot support a 6 foot 160 or something pound guy in any shape or form so naturally I fall. Luckily the floor is carpet but the knot on my head is still tender so it hurts like hell. "Oww!" I yell as Daniel falls on top of me. "Get off me fat ass!" I yell.

He smiles goofily and rest his head on my stomach and puts his arms around my waist. "But I like this position. I could lay like this forever. You're stomach's so warm, like a mother's womb."

A mother's womb? Okay I have to get this guy off of me before things start getting really weird. I push him off of me with all my might and he reluctantly rolls over so he's now laying on his back. I stand up and lean over him putting my hands on my knees. "Are you going to come to bed or are you going to stay on the floor?"

"Stay on the floor." He mutters and a look crosses his face. Uh oh I know that look. I quickly grab for the nearest thing, which happens to be my jacket, and hold it over his mouth, just as he vomits. I gag at the noise and the smell. Well looks like I'm not going to be needing that jacket anymore.