The Aftermath
After exiting the complex, we were in a cab within 2 minutes. As we headed back to the hotel, the police were pulling cars over for random checks, including taxis. I still had a few bits on me, but we were waved through. Not sure if they were just breathalyzing or checking for anything else.
We arrived back at the hotel and it was a sombre mood. A bit of a ghosttown. The entire downstairs lobby was deserted. There wasn't even any staff visible on reception. We headed back to our room to put our phones on charge and freshen up. As soon as we got in, we decided to hit the hay.
We got about three hours worth of sleep in. Pretty broken and twitchy as you can imagine.
Woke around 1530 and to 2 very intrusive noises: one being a vacuum-cleaner like noise. We'd put a do not disturb sign on the doors, but it wasn't the cleaners anyway and appeared to be coming from outside. The other was somebody with a really goofy laugh.
There were signs of life on the group chat. Seems some of our group hadn't lasted much past 8am.
We were restless and knew trying to get back to sleep would be difficult.
One of my mates' gf was messaging my missus and was feeling a bit needy in her comedown, so my gf went across the hall to her with a cup of tea.
I headed downstairs and joined 4 or 5 of the lads. I'd had the nouce to leave a bag of coke and k in our room.
When I got down there, the boyfriend was one of the guys present. Of course, it had been him we'd heard laughing from 3 floors down.
We fashioned a make-shift speaker out of the bin and took turns in playing music off our phones. A tray was passed around with a various assortment of goodies, but it was evident our supplies wouldn't last long.
The girl who had sorted our bulk order yesterday was woken and asked if you could sort it again.
Reluctantly, she agreed. A few phone calls later, and it was a goer. We all threw in any notes we had left in our pockets.
Several hours later and I was more pissed than anything. My sister was awake and my gf and our other friend wanted food. I really didn't have any appetite owing to all the coke, but I was diplomatic and left the ensuing carnage in the room to join them for dinner. Th
Before long dusk was setting in and the temperature was dropping. We headed back to the hotel. The boyfriend stayed.
Just a few hundred yards from the hotel a square hosted several cafés and restaurants.
We sat-up shop in the evening sun and the 4 of us ended up ordering a couple of oval pizza-like meals to share. They were massive when they came out. I even suffered a few mouthfuls.
A few of the other couples happened to be walking past, back from their own forage for food. They joined us and we got back on the beers.
I still had a fair amount of coke left, so I had one last line.
My gf had put herself to bed already. I stuck my headphones in and lay pretty awake for the next few hours. At some-point I drifted off.
