Dick Ep.6

Richard's face went blank; all the cool, calm demeanor he usually exuded was sucked out of him in that moment. The man in the blues suit's eyes felt like they were peering into Richard's soul, his facial expression had an intensity to it and Richard knew that he meant business. In that moment of pause Richard really didn't know what to feel, he was confused, pissed off, and intrigued about this whole ordeal but what he wasn't was scared. For some odd reason that feeling of doom was still not present, he wondered why out of all times his instincts had warned him of some nearby threat that this time they would go silent, how could that be? As Richard cleared his throat to offer an explanation to the man in the blue suit he heard someone’s voice in the distance, it was a females voice that sounded very familiar. Richard turned in his chair and then back to the man in the blue "did you hear that?" he asked, the man in the blue suits face was stoic and offered no response. The woman's voice continued to get louder and louder, Richard could not quite make out what she was saying but it had gotten to the point where he knew the man in the blue suit had to be hearing the same thing he was. "You don't hear that woman, you don't hear her hollering,” he asked, "You don't hear her?" Richard sprung out of his seat in a panic, was he having a nervous breakdown he thought, Richard began to pace the room; it felt as if the voice he heard was now coming out of the walls. Feeling as though the whole room was caving in Richard hollered out "You have to hear her, you don't hear her, you don't..." Suddenly Richard sat up with a gasp. His eyes opened quickly and as he looked around he saw the faces of his female friends that he invited out for the celebratory happy hour. Their eyes looked panicked. Lisa put her hand on his shoulder and asked if he was ok? Bewildered as to what had just happened and what was now going on Richard replied, "ummm, I think so" laughter filled the car as all the girls fell out at his response. Candace who was in the front seat said "Richard do you need us to take you home, we thought you were supposed to be a party animal?'' everyone, including the Lyft driver was laughing at this point. Lisa, who still had her hand on Richard's shoulder managed to speak in spite of the tears rolling down her face "you passed out silly, we're on our way to Red Lounge". Richard could do nothing but smile; the whole encounter with man in the blue suit was all a drunken dream. He had met up with his friends as planned and went a little too hard with the sake bombs at Sushi Rock. As he joined in the laughter all he could think of was how real that dream felt, shaking his head he said "hey, first round is on me when we get to Red Lounge" the girls let out a big cheer as the Lyft driver cranked up the music and the celebration continued.