Falling By Chance

Chapter - 24

I slowly try to wake up when I felt someone shaking me. Ughh!!! My head hurts! What happened last night?

I squint my eyes trying to adjust my eyesight to the bright sun shining through the windows. I slowly come back to the land of the living, when I felt someone shake me again. I am about to snap at them, but seeing it is Elle, standing by my side on the couch, I completely mellow down my frustration. Great. Last night I slept on the couch with my limbs bend at weird angles. No wonder my back and head hurts! I glance at the two other half-dead beings laying opposite to me on the other couch, cuddling each other, still lost in Dreamland.

An exhausted sigh leaves my lips at our last night's foolishness. We somehow managed to chug down too much alcohol. Of course not in front of little Elle otherwise she would have forced to have some too. She just has to have what her elders are having. Kids.

The table is sprawled with wine and beer bottles, packets of chips and other junk that we ate last night. The girls' night is now proving to be such a headache right now. Literally. We went absolutely cuckoo with the drinking and laughing like maniacs at our own jokes thrown at the actors of the movie we were watching. Ughh!!! I groan again. My head is pounding like a drum.

"Good morning, Aunt Roxy." Elle murmurs still a little bit sleepy as she rubs her eyes with her tiny cute hands.

I pat my side of the couch telling her to come to me. She obliges and snuggles into me. I cuddle her back. I am about to fall asleep when Elle says, "Your phone was ringing a lot. The ringing woke me up so I came to check it for you. Uncle Jake was calling you." She lets out a tired yawn, snuggling even deeper into me. I kiss her head, murmuring a thank you to her. She doesn't hear me as she has already fallen asleep.

"What time is it?" I look for my phone. I remember putting it on the table but can't find it. Then I feel something poke my stomach and see Elle holding my phone in her hand. I grab it and check the time, it was already 11 a.m. I never sleep this late. Never. Only when I'm drunk off my ass. Then I see 10 missed calls from Jake, 20 from Derek and 8 from Matt. Cringing at how worried they must have been, I decide to call Jake first.

"Hey. Where were you? I have been calling you for the last one hour. Did you disappear from the face of the Earth? Are you okay? Do you need anything? I was worried sick, Roxy. What the hell is wrong with you!!??" I can feel him panicking on the other side. The pounding in my head worsens as he shouts the last sentence, almost losing his control.

"Fucking say something, will you!!" he continues to bellow on the phone.

"Jake if you don't shut up and keep going on like a news reporter firing questions at me, how am I supposed to reply? At least give me a chance to speak, you idiot!" I groan. I didn't want to be rude but my head is killing me right now and he is making it worse.

"Oh..." he replies, dumbfounded. "Sorry. But are you okay though? I was so worried." he sighs.

A smile instantly replaces the frown on my face. "Don't worry Jakie-boy, it's just a hangover. We all went crazy last night and I kind of passed out after that. I'm sorry for worrying you." I sigh, apologizing to him.

"Okay baby. You take some advil and eat something. You'll feel better. Then call me once you're done." He replies, his voice laced with concern.

"Okay." I yawn.

"Don't sleep now baby. I have to tell you something important. Now get that sexy ass of yours up. Call me when you're done. I miss you. And don't you dare scare me like that again. " he warns.

I just giggle at him and say goodbye to him.

I detangle myself from Elle who is sleeping quite peacefully. I want to wake her up but she is looking too cute while sleeping also I don't want to disturb her sleep so I let her be.