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Chapter Six
When I woke up a few hours later, my head felt like it was going to split open. Justin brought me home at around five o’clock this morning. It was still dark outside so I was able to climb back through my window without detection, but I swerved and wobbled and at first thought I wasn’t going to make it. Justin asked if he could just walk me home, but I said no. Just in case I did get caught, I didn’t want to be caught with a guy, a grown man at that! I fell instantly to sleep, but woke up a few hours later to banging on my door. My head felt like it was splitting in two.
“Leah! Why are you still sleeping? Why is this door locked?” my mother screamed from the other side of the door. I wanted to scream shut up because I was severely hung over, but that only would’ve made the situation worse.
“Mom please, I don’t feel well.” after a few attempts to speak, I was finally able to manage those words.
“What’s wrong with you? Open the door so I can see you.” My mom was being too pushy.
“Please mom, just let me sleep.” I said again groaning and for a moment I thought my mom walked away because it was so silent.
“Fine,” she said after a while. “I’ll put your plate in the refrigerator, so get some rest.” I was thankful when I heard her walking away. My head fell back onto the pillow and I went back to sleep.
* * * * *
I woke up again to my phone vibrating against my cheek. I poked my head from under the covers and saw that I received a text message. It was from Justin:
Leah, I really enjoyed last night. I had fun. Hope you are feeling okay.
I smiled in delight and with lazy fingers and a pounding head, I replied back, major hangover and thank you I had fun too. I was drunk, but not too drunk to not remember what had happened last night. Justin and I had sex and it felt incredible. I blushed, as I remembered every second of our love making.
My phone buzzed again:
Take an aspirin if you have it that normally helps me. The way that you were drinking out of the bottle, I’m not surprised.
I blushed again when I remembered that I drunk out of the whiskey bottle. I felt like my back was against the wall and that I would die from embarrassment. If I didn’t drink anymore I’m pretty sure that I would’ve chickened out of the whole thing and I would have asked him to bring me home. Wanting to hear his voice, I decided to call him.
“Hello beautiful,” he answered on the first ring. I smiled, because he made my heart pound against my chest.
“I hope I’m not disturbing you,” I said and sat up out of my bed. I was feeling a little better just by hearing his voice.
“No,” he said calmly. “I’m glad you called me. I feel bad about getting you drunk, but you were so sexy.” I laughed growing more and more comfortable with him. “Did you take some medicine?” he asked his voice growing more concerned.
“No, just talking to you is making me feel a lot better.” I wondered how he felt about me saying these things. Was I being too forward? It’s only been one day and I’ve already slept with him and he’s just consumed my mind. I didn’t know what to think of myself, but if he was okay with me then I will be as well.
“Well I’m glad I can be of assistance.” He chuckled and paused. “Look, I don’t want to come off as desperate or creepy,” Justin began but he stopped midway through his sentence.
“You’re not creepy or desperate at all, Justin.” I said reassuringly and I could imagine the smile that must’ve lit up his face at that moment.
“Well if you’re really feeling alright, I’d like to see you again today.” I jumped out of my bed quickly with a grin on my face. My curly hair danced through the air at my sudden movement. I was so happy that Justin felt the same way as I did. “Leah?” he asked. “Are you still there?”
“Of course I’d love to see you again.” My heart was racing again and I felt almost immediately refreshed.
“Well it doesn’t have to be tonight. I want to take you to lunch or something.” I was glad that he wanted to see me sooner because I don’t think that I could have waited all the way till tonight.
“That’s cool, I’ll get ready now.” Justin told me to give him an hour and he should be there and we got off of the phone. I raced out of my room and headed straight to the bathroom. I took a shower and washed and dried my hair and before long, I had emerged from the bathroom in a towel.
“Mom,” I shouted and walked into the kitchen. I was surprised to find that my mother wasn’t home, but then I remembered that it was Sunday and that she was more than likely at church. “Good she won’t be able to ask me too many questions.” My hangover was completely gone as I got dressed in some shorts and one of my signature tank-tops. I put on a light blue one to go with my denim shorts. My hair was in perfect curls and my amber skin was glowing. I wasn’t a fan of make-up because I thought I looked decent enough without it so I did not bother with it. I grabbed my purse and my phone and I was ready to go.
Before I left, I decided to write a little note for my mother because if I called her and left her a voicemail. She would just keep calling me to go over safety procedures and I didn’t feel like listening to all of that. I simply told her that a few friends wanted me to help them study and that I’d be back later. Once I was done with the note I walked out of the door. The street was bare of all people, with most of my neighbors’ cars being gone. This was good for me because I didn’t want to run into any of them. I walked quickly over to the next block and I was surprised to see Justin there already.
“Sorry,” I said and ran towards his motorcycle. “Did I keep you waiting long?” he shook his head and got off of his bike so that he could help me put my helmet on. As usual, I blushed when his cool fingers touched my face.
“I wasn’t waiting long,” he said once he snapped my helmet into place. He got back onto the bike and helped me on. “Do you mind if we eat at a sort of low-key park? I want to get to know you better without people being in our business.” So it’ll sort of be like a picnic? I don’t know why, but I found his suggestion to be romantic and I told him that I would love to.
We drove thirty minutes out of our town to a burger place called “Misty’s” and then drove another twenty minutes to a lonely park facing a pond.
“It’s beautiful,” I said once Justin helped me off of his bike and we made our way to a picnic table.
