chapter ten

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     I woke up with a pounding headache, but I didn't feel nauseated.  "Jesus christ," I mumbled, rubbing my head.

     "Oh, you're up!" Karl's muffled voice spoke up from my bed.  I lifted the covers and found my phone, seeing that we had been on a call for 13 hours.

     "Karl?" I asked, insanely confused.

     "Olivia!  You don't sound too good."  He laughed through the phone.

     "Fuck you.  Did I call you last night?"  My cheeks flushed a deep crimson as I tried to remember the events from last night.

     "Yup!"  He said, popping the 'p'.  I heard shuffling going on from his phone, along with pots clanging.

     "Oh my god I'm so sorry.  What are you doing?"  I slowly got up, grabbing a change of clothes for the day.

     "Trying to cook.  It's not going to well.  I think I'm going to have to order food."  Karl spoke from far away.

     "Lovely."  I smiled.  He was too charming for his own good.  "I didn't do anything embarrassing did I?  Actually, don't tell me."  I squeezed my eyes shut, praying that my drunk self hadn't embarrassed myself.

     "No, you're all good.  Oh-" he was cut off by a loud crashing sound.  "Goddamn it!"  Karl yelled, making me wince.

     "Ouch.  I'm going to let you go so you can focus on whatever mess you just made."  I giggled, heading to the bathroom to take a shower.

     "Oh," he paused.  "Alright, well text me then!"

     I smiled even wider, happy that we established a solid friendship.  "Sure!"  I hung up, hopping into the shower.  My head was still pounding, but the butterflies in my stomach held my attention.

     After I washed away my makeup from the previous day and scrubbed my scalp clean of the smell of sweat and alchohol, I threw on some pajamas.  "I'm not going anywhere today!" I groaned, trudging to the kitchen to get some food.

     "There's the woman of the hour!"  Sapnap called out to me, patting me on the back.

     "I hate you."  I shoved him off, pouring myself a bowl of granola and oatmilk.

     "I love you too."  He pinched my cheeks, sitting next to me on the bar.

     "What do you want to do today?" He asked me, particularly cheerful for the morning.  I knew he was doing it to get on my nerves, but it was working.

     "Sleep!"  Dream yelled out from the couch.

     "Agreed."  I nodded, closing my eyes in the middle of eating.

     "Wow, so lazy."  Sapnap shook his head at us, shoving down a smirk.

     "I'm streaming later today.  Wanna join me?"  Sapnap asked the two of us.

     "Maybe, I'm planning some videos out today, but I think I'll have time."  Dream responded.

     "Olivia?"  Sapnap turned to me.

     "Yeah, that sounds good.  As long as it's nothing too hard.  I don't think I have the energy."  I groaned, getting back up to wash out my bowl.  My thighs were aching so bad.  "Dude, my legs are killing me!"

     "Yeah, probably from all that dancing," Sapnap rolled his eyes.

     "Pardon?"  I asked, scrunching my eyebrows together.

     "Yeah, you and Dream were dancing together for like hours."  He giggled, remembering the previous night.

     "Jesus christ, I bet that was a wreck."  Dream groaned.

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