by HARLEM SALLE

Created on: December 30, 2009

I just arrived home, it was standing on the counter staring at me with its big Californian made red label, it looked so good. Within 5 minutes I had popped open the bottle and started to drink the Nappa valley red. Around 2 hours later I was out mingling with some lady’s in a bar down the street with my good friend Johnny, who also had a bad day at work. And sooner than later, I had met a girl and we where having the drunken sex and sooner than I wanted we where waking up to the "Oh no we didn't use a condom did we” realization. It was a nerve wracking feeling knowing my little things where probably doing there business in a lady I just met around 8 hours ago, as we both sat there on the end of the bed in a kind of shocked, worried almost pissed off daze. 

3 months had passed after this night out and I seemed to remember it in fazes. It was one of them nights that I kept suddenly entering every 40 minutes or so, due to the alcohol I had consumed and the rapid pace I consumed it. I think I would say something or do something stupid and then I'd zone out once more. That Nappa valley red, oh how I wished I had not drunk that Nappa valley red. This particular brand of wine tends to make me ridiculously drunk, I'm still not sure why, but I knew this before I opened it, and so inevitability in life caught up with me and I got that call.

Something somewhat daunting came over me when I heard this particular ring that 8pm evening. I picked up and knew her voice in an instant. And sadly I knew for sure it wasn't a call to ask me out again. My heart sank, stomach clenched up and I almost fell to my knees. My favorite TV show just so happened to start at this very moment as I heard the words “I'm pregnant" down the line. All I kept thinking while I very inappropriately wanted to laugh at my show was how I wanted to desperately sue the makers of the Nappa Valley red and kill my boss. If it weren't standing on the counter that evening when I arrived home, I would have never popped that bottle.

I just didn't know what to say, I went silent. Suddenly a thousand thoughts a second just rushed past my mind, drink, alcohol, girls, party's, complete stupidness, irresponsible idiot, we could go on here believe me, seconds turned to minutes and minutes turned to what seemed like a life time, but it was just two. I heard a scream down the line, shouting my name, all I said back was Nappa Valley and boss in a kind of mumbled blur and then she hung up. 

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