Chapter 4: The Morning After
I remember waking up in a very similar position to the one I am in now, head throbbing and a vampire like sensitivity to light. I couldn't move and felt like I had wrestled a bear... I guess I kind of had. Laying on my back, trying to get my bearings and figure out exactly whose room I ended up in, I heard it, and the entire booze filled sexcapades of the previous evening came flooding back. A gigantic snore shook the whole bed. I "Eeped" and woke that sleeping bear who was beside me. Well, he was more like half on me, half off. Our heads shifted and our eyes locked again. "What the actual fuck Blondie?" Laxus muttered. I wasn't sure if it was disappointment, disgust, or hangover laced in his timber with that statement, but I sure as hell didn't want to find out. Steeling my nerves and channeling my inner sass I replied to his gruff statement. "Well Sparky, if you would remove those gorilla limbs of yours from my person, I will be on my way. We can pretend this never happened and go about our business." He winced at my tone, but complied. "Sooner or later we are going to have a conversation about this, but I need coffee first. Wanna go grab some grub Blondie?" I looked at him, shocked, but regained my sassy composure quickly. "No thank Sir Sparks-a-lot. I gotta go pack and head out. I don't even know the time. And to put your little and big brains at ease I am on 'the potion' No worries about little star or lightning babies running around nine months from now!" He looked a bit hurt from that statement, but I didn't stick around to get deeper into a conversation neither of us really wanted to have. I know he felt the connection too. That frozen instant last night. The mistake of making it personal by calling each other our proper names. I found clean underwear and a folded T-shirt dress on the bedside table next to the two empty magnums of champagne. I'll have to remember to thank Virgo and Aires later. I quickly put them on, grabbed my, as I could tell now, shredded ball gown, slipped on my shoes from the previous evening, and hightailed it out of Laxus' hotel room. "What the hell just happened? Fuck me!"