"I am familiar with this feeling," Stas replied with a bit of a grin. He didn't think this had anything to do with drinking too much, but his experience was just about the same. "I am betting Vinnie would get her some water. If he is still hovering just outside the door," he said to Sunny with a knowing look. He hadn't meant to be so harsh earlier; he found that in situations where split decisions had to be made it was easier to take charge and kick everyone else out of the way.
"Good call," she stood up and peeked out the door. "Vinnie! Can you get a glass of water? There's a bathroom right down the hall, there should be a medicine cabinet. Can you try to scrounge up some Ibuprofen?"
He had been standing there lost in thought as he listened to what there was to listen to. So having Sunny poke her head out the door and call to him made him start.
"WHA- Yeah! Sure, ok. I can totally do dat. You got it." He pushed off the wall to go toward the bathroom and look for what he needed.
There was a questioning look on her face at Stas when he mentioned Vinnie, and couldn't help but to lean to the side in a vain attempt to see out the door, wondering if Vinnie was still hovering around out there. Why would he have been out there? Did he see what happened?
Sibyl fought not to slap her palm into her face when she remembered that the whole room probably saw.
She slowly pushed herself up further onto the pillows, wincing a little bit as she moved her legs. Her knees both felt like someone had taken a mallet to them. Still, she pushed that aside and looked between Stas and Sunny again. "Uhm. Thanks for bringing me up here and out of... there. And for sticking around. Oh god, I hope I wasn't out long..."
He noticed her looking around for Vinnie, but he didn't bother to explain that he'd followed them upstairs. He didn't really know why and he assumed (wrongly so) that it was because of Stasi's reputation with the ladies.
"It was only a few minutes. It was not a problem." He offered her a reassuring smile, though he wasn't very good at them. "It was rather nice to get out of the crowd actually."
Once out of sight of Sunny, Vinnie sprinted to the bathroom, rinsed out his own water and filled it back with cold water from the tap, and opened the medicine cabinet.
He managed to find a bottle of generic ibuprofen, and after a moment's deliberation, taking the bottle and the water, headed back to the room that the three other students occupied. He walked in, and went to hand the medicine and the water right to Sibyl. "Didn't know how many you needed, so I just brought it all." He gave Sibyl a small smile or reassurance.
Sibyl managed a small smile back at Stas. The relief that she had only been out for a few minutes showed. "Crowds or not, I'm sorry you both ended up watching over me instead of celebrating." What a way to bring in the new year. "I'll probably head out after the Ibuprofen kicks in. You guys don't have to waste more of your night up here with me."
Her gaze moved to Vinnie when he came in with what could very well have been her means of survival. The headache wasn't lessening in any way, and her knees throbbed. "Thanks, Vinnie." Sibyl offered him a smile of thanks as she moved to take the bottle of Ibuprofen first, to get out the multiple pills she needed two hands to get.
"We like to help," Stas said giving Sunny a bit of side-eye. "Is there no greater way to celebrate than to help others?" He shrugged then and pulled Sunny to his side. "We wasted no time at all in your lovely company. However if you would like to be alone we will bid you goodnight."
"It was no problem at all," Sunny said with a smile. "I hope you feel better soon." Sunny snuggled in to Stasi's side and lead him back down the stairs where they could join the rest of the party.
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