p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"Lark: Well lookie here a new chapte* Throws party balloons*/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"I want to thank all those who favorited this story Grazie!/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"Warning: Mention of alcohol, blood/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"I woke with a blinding headache. "Ahh..." I groaned quietly, putting a hand on the blinding mass of pain that was my head. It felt like an elephant had sat on my head just with less squishing./span/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"My vision cleared slowly and the beginnings of a horrid hangover made themselves known to my very sleepy self. "How..." I said under my breath as I strained to stand./span/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"The room I was in was strangely not trashed and I had no memories of even picking up a glass of wine and soon realized the blinding pain in my head was due to a scratch on my head that was bleeding slightly. "Uhh.." I said and it became obvious I was not quite ready to stand./span/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"I sat quietly mumbling in pain as the small dots in my vision cleared. The gash on my head was slowly closing, but it was surrounded by dried blood and that showed it had probably been bleeding a lot before I had woken up./span/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"As I contemplated this my dizziness went away and I attempted to stand again. /span/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;""Nope." I said quietly and fell to the bed again and I instead settled for slowly stretching out./span/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"The muscles in my hands slowly strained to meet my brains demands and they shook a little from the small exercises I put my hands through./span/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"I was becoming increasingly clear that I didn't have a hangover because all the signs weren't there, I wasn't even nauseous. I stretched my leg and gathered my strength./span/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"My legs shook as I made my way to the mirror. The mirror was a dull silver and a single ray of sunlight came through the closed windows and streaked across it. I looked over my reflection./span/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"My hands had the blood from head on them and my green night gown was stained lightly. I shook my head and grimaced. My eyes wandered over my form in the mirror again and moved to my curtains which I glared at. Then my eyes whipped back in shock./span/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;""How did that get there ?" I shrieked and looked at my elbow. A tattoo of a star that seemed to be made up of an elegant forest of swirls and spikes./span/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"I turned on the news and my eyes widen as they reported on the forest that had sprung up in the middle of star city./span/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"Sighing, I picked up the phone. I dialed a number in silence and when the the phone was picked up I said quietly " Umm... I need some help...Yes, this is star city...SHUT UP, that doesn't even make sense...No my pride isn't wounded by calling for help...shut up central...Bye."./span/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"Sighing she picked up her hair brush, and proceeded to quickly brush her hair. Her hair was full of knots and it took her ten minutes to get it settled./span/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"As she moved to the dresser, she heard her front door unlock, assuming it was central city she called out "I'm in here." and pulled on the jeans she had retrieved./span/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"Loud footsteps were heard as a person who she realized was not central city bounded into her room. "THE HERO IS H-" was heard before none other than her father America spotted her tattoo. His eyes narrowed and before he could say anything she said quickly "I can explain!". Then she sighed as she realized she had no idea how to explain this. " Oh no..." she thought quietly and sighed, it was going to be a long day./span/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"I want to thank all those who favorited this story Grazie!/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"Warning: Mention of alcohol, blood/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"Disclaimer: I own nada/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"I woke with a blinding headache. "Ahh..." I groaned quietly, putting a hand on the blinding mass of pain that was my head. It felt like an elephant had sat on my head just with less squishing./span/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"My vision cleared slowly and the beginnings of a horrid hangover made themselves known to my very sleepy self. "How..." I said under my breath as I strained to stand./span/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"The room I was in was strangely not trashed and I had no memories of even picking up a glass of wine and soon realized the blinding pain in my head was due to a scratch on my head that was bleeding slightly. "Uhh.." I said and it became obvious I was not quite ready to stand./span/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"I sat quietly mumbling in pain as the small dots in my vision cleared. The gash on my head was slowly closing, but it was surrounded by dried blood and that showed it had probably been bleeding a lot before I had woken up./span/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"As I contemplated this my dizziness went away and I attempted to stand again. /span/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;""Nope." I said quietly and fell to the bed again and I instead settled for slowly stretching out./span/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"The muscles in my hands slowly strained to meet my brains demands and they shook a little from the small exercises I put my hands through./span/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"I was becoming increasingly clear that I didn't have a hangover because all the signs weren't there, I wasn't even nauseous. I stretched my leg and gathered my strength./span/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"My legs shook as I made my way to the mirror. The mirror was a dull silver and a single ray of sunlight came through the closed windows and streaked across it. I looked over my reflection./span/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"My hands had the blood from head on them and my green night gown was stained lightly. I shook my head and grimaced. My eyes wandered over my form in the mirror again and moved to my curtains which I glared at. Then my eyes whipped back in shock./span/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;""How did that get there ?" I shrieked and looked at my elbow. A tattoo of a star that seemed to be made up of an elegant forest of swirls and spikes./span/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"I turned on the news and my eyes widen as they reported on the forest that had sprung up in the middle of star city./span/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"Sighing, I picked up the phone. I dialed a number in silence and when the the phone was picked up I said quietly " Umm... I need some help...Yes, this is star city...SHUT UP, that doesn't even make sense...No my pride isn't wounded by calling for help...shut up central...Bye."./span/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"Sighing she picked up her hair brush, and proceeded to quickly brush her hair. Her hair was full of knots and it took her ten minutes to get it settled./span/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"As she moved to the dresser, she heard her front door unlock, assuming it was central city she called out "I'm in here." and pulled on the jeans she had retrieved./span/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"Loud footsteps were heard as a person who she realized was not central city bounded into her room. "THE HERO IS H-" was heard before none other than her father America spotted her tattoo. His eyes narrowed and before he could say anything she said quickly "I can explain!". Then she sighed as she realized she had no idea how to explain this. " Oh no..." she thought quietly and sighed, it was going to be a long day./span/p
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