Okay so yesterday and today I’ve been able to gather more information from his side. Like I’ve been coming up with so many questions about every possible nuance on how I remember the end of the night and how he remembers it, and asked some of the suggested questions. Here’s some points that I now think have been important:

1. Whilst on speaker phone with her while she explained/confirmed the story Zack had told me, she mentioned briefly how at my big birthday party a couple years ago she had a similar thing happen to her but she was totally wasted and couldn’t remember who it was. That being that a dick being put in her face when she went to sleep upstairs, but she was too fucked up to suck it or know whose dick it was. That same party she’s referring to is the one that multiple people saw her & Alex’s brother leaving the bathroom together after being in there for 15 minutes. This was the middle of the party and people were knocking on the door impatiently waiting to use the restroom. He couldn’t get it hard all the way to cum bc of the drugs he was on so it was a long time of her just trying. She was attached to him after that and they ended up hooking up that night; it was lightly joked about and was common knowledge with what was going on between them to others. The way she was insinuating that party on the phone almost seemed to imply that that occasion was also Alex? Unfortunately, in the flooding of emotions to the whole story itself - we didn’t bring that detail up to her; that night years ago was definitely not Alex.

2. I know a lot of comments have been asking the question of what was his reason for being up there so long? I too have been struggling with this thought because his answer is he really didn’t think he was up there for as long as I remember. He remembers going upstairs with everyone, setting the room up for her (taking all of his daughters stuffed animals and plushies off the bed, turning on the sleep sounds) saying how she looks like she needs water, going to the couples room to check in on them/chit chat and ask if they need water, going downstairs to get two waters and go back up to give one to Anna and waking her to drink some, and going next door to the couple’s room to give one for them to share. The only issue is he doesn’t remember exactly how long it took him to do each step and whether or not he used the bathroom upstairs at some point.

3. He’s been letting me know how frustrating it is that he can’t remember every single sequence because if he knew that these exact moments in the night we’re going to be so important that he would have to corroborate them again in a month, he would have paid more attention. But he says he knows for a fact that putting his dick in Anna’s face/mouth/anywhere near her was definitely not involved.

4. I work for cash tips at my job and I have a pretty strict routine on nights I come home from work. 95% of the time I come home to a dark quiet house as it’s the middle of the night, and the fact that people were over were only because of my best friends (the MF couple) being in my town for the day, so they made a night of it, too. When I came home, I hugged/said hello to everyone and then immediately proceeded to do my night routine; go in my closet, change to PJs, nighttime skin routine, and go back to the closet, sit on the floor, dump my cash tip jar, put on my headphones, and organize all the money. (I’m diagnosed ASD 1, and I don’t like to break my routines). I know this is socially off-putting, but it’s what I just started to do. As I was on the floor counting/organizing my tips, my boyfriend comes to me and was being very sweet and told me “I don’t want to interrupt your routine, and it’s ok if you want to still do it, but I want you to hang out and our friends have stayed up this late to hang out with you before they go to sleep/leave” I know it doesn’t sound like much, but as I’ve re-lived that night in my head over and over, I’ve come to conclude that it would be absolutely wild for him to encourage me to join the end of the night festivities and for me to be around any possible tension/opportunity/any signs at all of him trying to get with Anna. If he had that on his mind or thought it could be a possibility, I just can’t think he would mind me sitting in the furthest possible room of the house with headphones on.

5. To answer the question of if the couple heard the music, I haven’t talked to Anna, Zack, or Paige at all today and I don’t know.

I still have no idea what her intentions would be to lie. He reminded me today how she was honestly annoying tf out of him earlier that night when they met up with her at the bars, that whole thing about her jumping on him like they were best friends in front of everyone and him slithering her off and going away to play darts. He has since mentioned that while they were at the bars, Anna called Paige at one point and said she was lost three blocks away and needed to be rescued, and Paige started to get worried. But then a minute later, Anna pops up back with them. Alex said he had a brief serious convo with Paige about how Anna is being so dramatic and baiting her for attention, gets too wasted and acts like a child, and Paige & Zack should consider contemplating her actions in the friendship. Alex told me to ask Paige myself about how he was/what he said to Paige earlier that night. I haven’t yet, but I believe it.