Check noise

You look around, trying to find the source of the noise.

Charlie finds it first, pulling her phone from her pocket. "Ah... It's my sister..."

Ethan feels the color drain from his face.

Thumbing a button, Charlie puts the phone to her ear. "Hey... Yeah, I'm, uhhh..." she glances at Ethan. "Not home yet.. Uh-huh..." she puckers her lips, listening. "Hm. Hm. Kay... I mean, I work in the morning... Well... I was about to come home," she looks up at Ethan and shrugs. "What? Why are you so quiet?"

Ethan listens very, very closely, trying to hear Ashley talking one floor above him. He thinks he can hear her, but it might just be his panic-fueled imagination.

"Seriously?" Charlie scrunches up her nose, whatever Ashley saying making her look ready to wince. "Gross... Okay well, I'll leave soon..." she gives you a look and a shrug, "I don't know, soon... Like..." she frowns. "Okay. Fine. Yeah. Bye." Charlie hangs up, sighing deeply. "I gotta go."

Ethan glances up at the ceiling, slightly amazed at the balls on Ashley. Literally as well, he thinks, his head somehow back in the gutter. Shaking to attention, he shifts his gaze to Charlie. "Oh, so soon?" he feigns disappointment, or at least thinks he's feigning.

"Yeah," Charlie shifts, pulling herself to her feet. "Ash needs me to pick up... eh... you know what?" She flops down on the couch. "Fuck her."

Ethan feels the panic return, and he's pretty sure he hears a sharp breath upstairs. "Uh... Didn't you say you have wor-"

"She wants me to pick up cat food for her, cause she's too busy hooking up with..." Charlie blinks a few times.

Ethan feels a bead of sweat on his forehead. "Hooking up with who...?"

Charlie waves her hand in the air, dismissing the question. "I didn't ask and she didn't tell me. I don't want to know who my sister drains her balls into."

Ethan feels a tiny bit of relief.

Charlie reaches for her phone. "She can pick up her own damn cat food."

Panic returns, as Charlie's thumb starts to move and time slows...