Chapter 10

Cassidy woke up with pounding headache. He tried to remember why his mouth was so dry and what had caused his head to hurt so much. Cassidy began to roll over to the other side of his bed to check the time on his cell phone, only to bump into another body. The body groaned in its sleep and slapped him away. Cassidy sat up in bed to try and get a better look at the person in bed with him. Mac. How had she ended up in bed with him and what had happened between them? He lifted the covers of the bed to see if he was wearing anything. He had boxers on and he noticed that Mac was still fully clothed.

The memories of what had happened earlier in the night started to come back to him. He remembered setting up a few business meetings with some people he knew from high school and then he remembered getting really drunk playing quarters with a couple of frat brothers of Dick's. He had ended up getting them to agree to a meeting, but not before he had gotten completely wasted. He had a hard time remembering anything after that, but things couldn't have been too bad if he'd managed to convince Mac to sleep with him (even if they had actually just slept together). What if he'd been unable to perform like that night in the Neptune Grand? Since his stay in the hospital, he hadn't much trouble with that sort of thing. But some part of him wondered if maybe he was cursed when it came to Mac and the pressure of trying to make things happen tonight had caused some issues.

Unable to help himself, Cassidy shook Mac awake. "Mac," he tried whispering in her ear. Mac tried swatting him away and ended up slapping him in the face. "Ow!" Cassidy spoke louder than he should have. After a few seconds of waiting to see if Mac would wake up, Dick walked into the room.

He was using his cell phone as a flashlight and shined it into Cassidy's eyes as he spoke. "What is going on in here, man? I'm trying to entertain a lady friend and I hear you in here yelling. Is Mac getting rough with you?" Dick had at least managed to whisper this into the darkness of the room.

Cassidy gave Dick a dark look. "Can you get that out of my eyes?" Dick tuned off the flashlight app on his phone. "How could you hear me all the way in your bedroom? You're at the other end of the house."

Dick noticed that Mac was sleeping and gestured for Cassidy to follow him into the hallway. Cassidy followed and waited for Dick to explain himself. "I was on my way here to check on you. Last time I saw you, Mac was carting you off to bed because you were pretty drunk."

Cassidy felt panic set in. "How bad was I?"

"Veronica said you started putting your hands all over Mac. You were petting her legs," Dick laughed.

Cassidy put his head in his hands. "Oh god. Why did I do that? Was she completely disgusted with me?" Cassidy punched Dick in the arm. "Stop laughing, it's not funny."

Dick shrugged. "Dunno. I wouldn't think so. She's sleeping in bed with you tonight. If she was put off by your behavior, she'd be in her own bed."

The door to Cassidy's bedroom creaked open and Mac's face peered out at them. Dick had turned on his phone again and shined the light in Mac's direction. "Can you guys keep it down? I'm really tired." Mac shielded her eyes from Dick's cell phone. "Can you stop shining that in my face? I feel like I'm in 'The Blair Witch Project'.

"Your hair's all deflated," Dick commented.

Mac gave Dick an annoyed look. "What does that have to do with anything? I've been sleeping. I'm sorry if I don't look perfect for you." Mac looked at Cassidy. "Are you ready to come back to bed?"

Cassidy nodded. "I have to talk to Dick. I'll be in in a minute."

They watched as Mac shut the door. "Couldn't even seal the deal? How is that possible?" Dick whispered to Cassidy.

"I'm not going to try anything while she's over here trying to sleep," Cassidy walked a few steps closer to his bedroom door. "Admit it; you weren't coming to check on me. You were trying to see if something happened between Mac and me."

"Maybe," Dick said. "Veronica said she took you up to your room. She never came back down. I had a bet with Logan about whether or not you were able to make anything happen."

Cassidy put his hand on the doorknob to his bedroom. "And what did you bet?"

"I bet that you'd be a gentleman," Dick said as he started back to his bedroom.