No sleep

What a f*****g surreal night I had.

I went to bed sometime between 22:30 and 23:00 and got to sleep pretty much straight away. I woke up again at around 00:30, I don't know what woke me. But what kept me awake was the commotion in the flat. It wasn't that loud, but in the middle of the night you can hear more than you normally would, and when you are trying to sleep you hear everything.
I could hear people going up and down the stairs to the pub, which is just outside my bedroom door. I heard one male and one female voice that I didn't recognise, which was strange but not unheard of. Kevin sometimes lets the barstaff sleep in the living room, or it could have been friends of the new flatmates Alex or Peter.
The movement went on intermittantly for about 3 hours, which was starting to really p**s me off! Mostly because I was beginning to become wide awake, which would have meant not getting back to sleep at all. At about 02:30 someone tried to get in my door, which I always keep locked after my workmate Andy came in one night after being on the p**s for hours wanting me to go down to the bar with him. He actually dragged me out of bed by my ankle that night, and I wasn't feeling well, so I didn't want that to happen again.
At around 03:30 there was a quiet knock at the door. I gnored it, hoping that whoever it was would go away. But they knocked again. I anwered the door and it was Kevin, with his girlfriend Penny. Kevin asked if Penny could hide in my room for an hour! I was gob-smacked! But, after he had told me yesterday that I could hold back on next months rent if I hadn't got a job, I really felt obliged to help (that and the fact that I didn't have work this morning to worry about helped too!).
Apparently, Kev and Penny had brought a couple up from the pub for a foursome, but the other woman had gone mad when she saw Penny getting it on with her boyfriend! And now she was threatening to call the police. As she was obviously on something, Kev didn't want the police to come sniffing around the pub so he wanted to calm her down! Penny was hiding because apparently the woman had hit her a couple of times, not too hard I guess as she barely remembered being hit, Kevin had to tell her.
I went back to bed and let Penny sleep on the other side of the bed, she was sleeping, fully-clothed on top of the quilt while I was under it and partially clothed (due to the cold). But, it didn't end there. Penny was drunk, and maybe something else too, and kept talking and talking. She kept asking me the same questions over and over, which was really annoying because one of them was,
"Are you working in the morning?" So, each time I had to explain that I'd been sacked and go through the whole story. Then, when she finally shut up, she was texting Kev on her mobile and then talking to him on the mobile. Kevin kept popping his head in every half-hour or so and, a couple of times Penny left to go down into the pub for a smoke!
I just tried to get back to sleep and eventually managed it, sometime after 05:00!!! Most annoyingly, I was awake again by 09:30 and up pretty soon after that! Penny was nowhere to be seen, so I guess the couple must have gone too.

Oh, and I probably shouldn't be sharing all of this, so keep it to yourselves, eh?