"Yes, Ethan was definitely right. You are very distracted," the man declared as he took a breath.
Ethan?
Who was Ethan?
"Benjamin, it's Ben-ja-min. I hope you don't forget me this time, Treit."
Why does he spell his name as if she were a little girl?
"I still can't remember you," Sheila declared somewhat annoyed.
"Oh, wait. Don't you remember anything from yesterday?"
What happened yesterday?
Sheila only remembered her flight, the meeting with Blortus, her arrival at the hotel, the help she gave to a lady, and...
'Shit. Did I have dinner with him?', Sheila thought worriedly, since if his version was true...
"Don't make that face. I'll help you refresh your memory. Last night you had dinner with Et... Blortus, Lily, and me," Benjamin explained as he counted on his fingers.
"I'd say around the fifth or sixth bottle... yes, it was about then when you fell asleep."
'I fell asleep?', Sheila asked herself in surprise, as if so...
Who had taken her to her room?
"Nothing happened, really. Or at least not for you, since you sneezed on Ethan's chest," Benjamin commented with a small laugh.
Ethan?
So there weren't just three people?
Shit.
Sheila externally pretended to be calm, but inside she was starting to curse herself.
She should have listened a bit more to Emily, as according to her, she was a mess when she drank. But she never believed her without seeing a consequence as obvious as this.
Sheila was mortified right now.
"Not to mention all the animal sounds you imitated, or all the times you lost at 21, but what surprised me the most yesterday was that you got along so well with the grandmother of..."
"Enough," Sheila said intending to interrupt Benjamin.
While she was aware of his good intentions, right now she just wanted to leave this country and go back home.
"You can be calm, girl. I also do crazy things when I drink too much. But... what were those golden needles you used yesterday to help Lily?"
And she used the golden needles in public again!
Trying to hide her nerves, Sheila asked:
"Please, could you explain yourself better?"
The waiter approached the table and with incredible speed left the dishes, so they both started eating.
"It all happened because Lily fell while going to the bathroom," Benjamin commented in a mocking tone.
Who was Lily?
'Damn, there are so many new names and I don't remember any...,' Sheila thought as she took another bite of her food.
"Seriously, a shame that just the security camera didn't record her fall well because I would have uploaded it to my status today and for the rest of the week."
'What an asshole,' Sheila thought as she chewed her food.
"The point is that... she twisted her ankle, but you took out some golden needles from that bag and in no time she got better."
Sheila almost spit out her food upon hearing that statement.
"How many people saw that...?"
"Not many."
Sheila felt relieved to hear that answer.
"There were only a few people present who were playing there. Among them was the staff who approached when they saw Lily fall, Ethan, Ethan's grandmother, Leo, me... and Blortus," Benjamin added this name at the end, as he still wasn't used to Ethan's strange request.
'Damn, Ethan. Now I have to get used to calling you by that strange name, but...'
Benjamin, seeing Sheila's tense face that seemed as if she had witnessed the end of the world, couldn't help but smile.
'So everyone saw me!', Sheila screamed in her head.
It was at that moment that Sheila made a promise to herself.
Last time she drank outside home and without Emily.
"And is she okay...?"
"Yes. No one believed, not even me, that a sprain could be cured with some golden needles. Are they golden because you like that color? Or are they made of a special material?" Benjamin asked curiously.
"Is my phone charged yet?" Sheila asked, trying to change the subject.
"It's a universal charger, not a rocket. If you want your phone to charge quickly, I recommend buying a phone that works with a fast charger."
Fast charging...?
So the universal charger charged slowly and did it as fast as fast charging?
"Hey, be careful. You're going to choke," Benjamin said, seeing that Sheila had started eating very quickly.
To Benjamin's surprise, a girl had finished eating before him!
"Okay, I get it," Benjamin said as he turned around to unplug the charger from the socket.
Separating the battery from the charger, Benjamin quickly placed the battery in Sheila's phone.
Then he turned it on.
"Here," Benjamin said as he handed the phone to Sheila.
"Thank you."
It was no longer worth crying over spilled milk.
While Sheila prayed and hoped that whatever she had done last night wouldn't have major consequences... for now, she had to focus on attending to her family's matter.