Rude Awakening

Korlee's POV

I awoke with a pounding in my head and a light glaring behind my closed eyelids. I squinted my eyes open and sat up. I took in my unaware surroundings and noticed Embry lurking in the corner.

"Good you're awake," he said.

"Where the hell am I? Wait…" I paused noticing what I was wearing. "I'm in your clothes. You and I? No! It wasn't supposed to happen like this. I wanted to remember my first time. No, no, no." I began crying. It wasn't supposed to have happen like this. Immediately from the crying, my head began hurting more. "Why does my head hurt?" I said through the tears as Embry came toward me wrapping his arms around me. Normally I wouldn't be all touchy with someone I had just met, but it felt different with Embry.

"Shh." He soothed, rubbing a hand on my back. "Please don't cry. We didn't do anything."

"Then why am I in your clothes?" I asked, my words muffled in his chest, but some how he heard my question.

"Well you kind of puked on your dress and you didn't look that comfortable in it." He answered, still rubbing my back in soothing circles. My cheeks flushed at the thought of him seeing me change, I probably did it right in front of him. "Oh don't worry I left the room, and then you passed back out on my bed."

"So we didn't do anything?" I asked once again in a small voice, sniffling. I pulled away from him looking into his eyes, we stayed like that for a moment, the seconds seeming to lengthen.

He slowly ran his hand across my face, tucking a piece of my disheveled hair behind my ear. "I swear nothing happened," he calmly stated.

Suddenly I came to the realization of how I looked and that I probably smelled horrible. "Uh… can I take a shower?"

"Yeah it's that way." He said pointing towards a door to my left. "I'll run over to Seth's and grab you some clothes from Jami and I'll get you something to help that hangover of yours."

I ran to the bathroom and immediately stripped from his clothes hopping in to the scorching hot shower. A half hour later, I stepped out and wrapped a towel around my body and walked out of the bathroom towel drying my hair.

I heard a gasp of surprise and I dropped the towel in my hands, finding Embry standing by the closed door with a pair of clothes in his hands. "I'm sorry." he said, closing his eyes and looked down at his feet. "I brought you some clothes." he said, raising his arms up to me, just incase I hadn't already noticed them.

I rushed forward and grabbed the clothes out of his hands and held them to my chest. "Thank you." I said bashfully. I quickly backed up to the bathroom and closed the door, embarrassed that he had seen me like that.

I quickly pulled on the clothes and fixed my hair to make it look at least a little presentable. I took a step back and looked in the mirror one last time to see if I looked nice, then I opened the door to see that Embry had left the room.

I quietly stepped out of the bedroom into the living room. I looked around and didn't spot him. I walked through the living room and stuck my head into the kitchen. I watched as Embry pulled two mugs out of the cabinet and set them on the counter, then poured some coffee into the mugs.

"You can come in Korlee." he said quietly, turning around to hold one of the mugs out to me.

I looked at him for a moment, wondering how he knew I was there before he even turned around and when I hadn't even made a sound. He took a step closer toward me and held the mug out further, waiting for me to take it.

I stepped around the doorframe and walked toward him, taking the mug from his hand and went to stand against the counter, never once leaving eye contact with him. "Is there anything you want with your coffee?"

"Sugar." I replied.

He reached up in the cabinet and pulled out a small jar with sugar. He took the lid off and started to pour some sugar into my mug. "Is that enough?" he asked, tilting the jar back so no more sugar fell out.

I nodded my head, and when I did my head started to throb even more. I put my hand to my head to try and dull the throbbing, but it didn't help. Embry reached behind him and handed me a bottle. "Here's some Tylenol to help with the headache."

I set my mug down and opened the bottle, taking two Tylenol out and closed the bottle, setting it back on the counter. I stuck both pills in my mouth and grabbed my mug, taking a giant chug to help the pills down. I sighed, waiting for the Tylenol to start its magic.

"How are you feeling?" Embry asked me after he had finished his coffee.

"The coffee is clearing my head, but the Tylenol hasn't kicked in yet." I looked down into my empty cup then back up at Embry. "Is there anymore coffee?" Embry took my cup from my hands and refilled it and added more sugar as well. I smiled my thanks to him and took the cup back and took a small sip so I wouldn't burn myself.

"Jami texted me early and said to meet at the Cullen's house." He looked at me as if I wouldn't want to go. "We don't have to go if you don't want to."

"Why wouldn't I want to go?" I asked him, raising my eyebrows in confusion while taking a bigger sip of my coffee. He looked down at his feet, trying to avoid the question. "What exactly happened last night?" I asked instead since he wasn't going to answer my previous question.

He looked back up into my eyes. "Emmett spiked the punch." he said, as if that would explain everything.

"And?" I probed, trying to make him explain further.

"You had a lot of punch." Embry said, waiting for it to click, and click it did.

I sat my once again empty mug down on the counter and put my hands over my eyes, shaking my head. "What did I do exactly?" I asked behind my hands.

Embry took a deep breath, getting ready to explain. I guess I had done a lot of things that I hadn't remembered. "Well at first you were just hyper, running around and dancing a lot. After a few more drinks, you started to tell Seth some embarrassing stories about Jami, and Jami got mad at you for that, but she didn't stay mad at you long." He added on seeing the look on my face about finding out that my best friend had gotten mad at me. "She found out you were drunk and attacked Emmett." My eyes widened at that. I never thought that Jami would attack anyone, but I guess it made sense since it was her wedding and he was trying to ruin it. Embry paused, looking as if he wasn't sure he wanted to continue.

"Then I threw up on myself, didn't I?" I asked, or was it something even more embarrassing then that.

"Well, in the process of throwing up on yourself… you also threw up on Emmett." He watched me closely, waiting for my reaction.

My eyes widened even more then they had just a moment ago and I could feel my face burn from embarrassment. I closed my eyes and hung my head in same.

"Don't worry." Embry said. I felt one of his hands on my shoulder and his other hand touched my chin, lifting my face up so that he could look at me. I felt his thumb rub across my cheek. I opened my eyes and saw that his thumb was wet. I hadn't even notice that I was crying. "Emmett has had a lot worst things done to him. You throwing up on him doesn't even make the list." he said, trying to make me smile. I didn't disappoint him either.

"You ready to go to the Cullens?" he asked me, grabbing his mug and setting it in the dishwasher.

"Once I find my shoes." I said, turning around and rushing back to his room to hunt for my shoes.