Lily slowly opened her eyes and awoke the next morning. Her head was pounding like there was a jack hammer trying to break through her skull. Her stomach was in knots and she could taste the tequila on her breath that she had been drinking the night before.

She was hung over.

She turned her head to the side and looked at the black clock on the bedside table. It read seven thirty. She sighed and flopped back onto her pillow attempting to fall asleep.

However, something bothered her that wouldn't allow her to sleep. She pondered for a moment to think of what was wrong. She then shot open her blood shot eyes and finally realized what it was

She turned her body towards the bedside table and looked at the clock.

I don't have a black clock, she thought.

She shot upright and looked around the unfamiliar room.

My walls aren't dark blue either, and where's the dirty cracked window by my bed? She thought.

She looked down at the bed, these aren't my sheets. This isn't my bed.

"Where the fuck am I?" she asked herself.

Just then she heard a shower turn on in the bathroom across from her. Puzzled, she cautiously got out of bed but stopped when she realized she only had her bra and underwear on underneath the sheets.

Why am I half naked in someone else's bed? She thought while wrapping the sheets around her body.

She slowly walked towards the bathroom door and opened it just a crack.

Her eyes widened as she saw a familiar looking guy with strawberry blonde hair and a familiar looking tattoo with a snake that read Cobra on his arm.

It was Ace.

Lily covered her mouth in attempting not to scream. She stepped backwards and fell onto the bed.

Oh my God! she thought. This is Ace's room...

"I slept with Ace!" she whispered loudly.

I have to get out of here. I have to get as far away from here as possible. She thought while putting on her clothes and sneakily running out of the house, onto the street.

Not a single person in the town was out so that gave her some relief. She didn't need anyone, especially Chris, to see her like this. Her hair was dishevelled and her makeup was smeared. She needed to get to her grandmother's as fast as she possibly could.

Soon, she made it onto the main road and that's when she began to rack her brain for a single memory of the night before.

Suddenly it all became clearer to her. Although she didn't remember everything, she did remember being in Ace's car after they had left the bar.

She had remembered being drunk and telling him everything that had happened with Chris that evening.

"You know, I tell him that I love him and then he says he wants to break up with me! How stupid is that?" She said slurring her words.

"It is pretty stupid. But then again, Chambers is a fucking idiot!" he said laughing

"Ha! That he is!" She said in agreement.

She paused and slapped her hand on his leg.

"You know Ace, she slurred, you are a great guy! You're not like Chris at all! You're not afraid to say what you feel and that's what I like about you!"

He starred at her, "you like me?"

She inched closer towards him and giggled. "Maybe..."

Just then he kissed her. It wasn't soft and cautious kiss like Chris had done on their first date. It was a rough and bold kiss with Ace sticking his slobbery tongue down her throat. Lily felt as though she was suffocating and it made her uncomfortable.

However as much as she wanted to, she couldn't pull away. She thought about Chris and what he had said which only made her hunger for revenge. Not giving a second thought about it, she kissed Ace back as best as she could. She could taste the alcohol and nicotine on his breath.

He stopped and pulled her out of his car, carrying her in his arms.

"I think we'll be much more comfortable inside…"

The thought of this made Lily sick. She could feel her stomach acid rising up her throat. Covering her mouth she ran to the side of the road and threw up.

She wiped her mouth and rubbed the temples of her pounding head.

After a few moments of composing herself, she began to walk along the road towards the edge of town.

As she was walking, she heard someone, a male voice, from behind her call her name.

"Lily? Hey Lily! Turn around!" said the voice.

She turned around and saw the person coming towards her. He had light brown hair and thick rimmed glasses. She could hear his dog tags jingling as he ran toward her.

It was Teddy.

"Great, this is just what I need right now…" she mumbled to herself.

As he neared her, she noticed that he was carrying a fishing pole and tackle box.

"Hey Lil!" he said cheerfully.

"Hey Teddy." she said while fake smiling.

He looked at her appearance with curious eyes, "what are you doing up at seven thirty in the morning?"

"I should ask you the same thing", she said pointing to his fishing gear.

"Oh this? Yeah, sometimes I like to go fishing early in the mornings on the town bridge. Me and my old man used to go together all the time. Now I just go by myself."

He looked away for moment as if he was reminiscing. He then looked back to her.

"What about you?" he asked.

Lily hesitated trying to make up an excuse. She didn't want to exactly lie to him, but she didn't want to tell him the truth either.

But before she could say anything Teddy chimed in.

"Oh! I get it! You were with Chris last night weren't you? So how was he? How many times did you actually fuck? Did he show you any special moves? How abo-."

A pang of guilt twisted her heart when Chris' name was mentioned.

She then became frustrated with Teddy's game of 20 questions.

"Teddy!" She shouted.

Teddy became quiet and furrowed his eyebrows together.

"Are you okay? You seem really jumpy."

"Yeah I'm fine. Look, can we just not talk about Chris or last night please?" She said irritated.

"Yeah sure." he said looking down.

She looked at him apologetically.

"I'm sorry Teddy. It's just me and Chris got into a fight yesterday and we didn't spend the night together."

"Oh I see. But you're still gonna hang out with us though right? You're fight with Chris isn't gonna make things awkward is it?" he asked.

"I'll still hang out with you guys just not today. I'm really tired and I feel sick so I'm gonna go to my grandma's and rest."

"Okay! Feel better Lil." he said turning around and running in the opposite direction of her.

As soon as he was out of her sight, Lily sighed and turned around, heading for her grandmothers.

That was a close one, she thought as she neared the house. I'm just glad it was Teddy and not Chris.

She breathed in as she faced the red door. She was hoping her grandma was still asleep and wasn't mad like last time.

She opened the door and snuck in, tiptoeing lightly across the hard wood floor and up the stairs to her room. She slowly opened the door, went in and shut it as quietly and tightly as she possibly could.

She walked over to the bed and flopped onto it. The room was spinning and she could feel tears form in her eyes as she looked at the ceiling, thinking about what she had done and how everyone was going to react.

She thought about Gordie, Teddy and Vern finding out. If they did, they would probably think the lowest of her. She thought about how Ace would tell all of his friends about how he "conquered" her, which would dub her the town slut.

However, what really put Lily over the edge was the fact that if Chris found out he would probably never want to see, hear or speak to her again.

The tears in her eyes began to spill out onto her face.

She went over to her dresser and took the picture of her and Chris at the age of five, ripping it in half and throwing it in the trash.

She sat on her bed and curled up into a ball, wiping her tears on her leg.

It was over, her friendship with the gang, her relationship with Chris and ultimately, her life.