Not wanting to go home, I drove around for the rest of the time.  I drove down to the 24 hour grocery store, and got a glass bottled Starbucks coffee.  The sun was starting to rise, and I began to feel like an idiot.  I had made 67 calls to Alex.  As my drunk wore away and my sanity came back I decided to go back to Alex's house to discuss my thoughts with him.  I called his mother because I knew she would be awake.  I asked her for the garage code so I could get inside.

"5824," Michelle said to me.  I hastily tapped those numbers into the garage keypad.  The door made a loud noise as it screeted it's way up the wall.  I scurried inside, closed the garage door, took a deep breath and went inside the house.