Sam & Penny Short-Stories *English*

HANGOVER - Hungover

I hope you enjoy reading and please note: This chapter contains the effects of alcohol consumption and a night of love is mentioned. Nothing detailed, but if you have a problem with that, you should stop reading here!

I groaned when I woke up. The headache hit me instantly and my entire body felt like I had been run over. I pulled up the arm that was hanging over the edge of the bed and grabbed my head. The next moment I realized something was wrong. The blanket felt different on me than usual. I lifted it only to find that I was naked. Confused, I felt around as if this would change anything about my current state or conjure up my clothes again. I never slept naked. What was wrong with me last night? Had I been sleepwalking?

"Good morning my beauty." I immediately jumped up with a soft scream and pulled the blanket up to my neck as if I wanted to strangle myself with it, before I looked at my unexpected visitor next to me, who was now clasping his hands behind his head and grinning at me. What horrified me even more was the fact that he also appeared to be naked, because at least his chest was definitely bare from under the blanket. "Why so surprised, honey?"

"For God's sake, Ben! What are you doing here in my bed?" I asked in shock as I struggled out of bed, always careful to be neatly covered by my blanket.

"What's wrong with you? Last night you couldn't wait to get me into bed and now you want to run away?" he asked me in surprise as he sat up and reached for something on the floor. I felt myself turning bright red as he stood up and pulled his shorts over his butt with his back to me.

"I have what?" I asked in a choked voice. Did I really? With him?

"Do you have a broken film?" he asked and laughed briefly. "I knew you had something to drink, but I didn't think you were that drunk," he said, embarrassed as he came towards me. I pressed my back against my closet, all too aware of my nakedness beneath the sheets wrapped around me, as he walked towards me."I'm sorry. Obviously I misjudged that. If I had known...I'm sorry, Penny." He seemed really embarrassed and a little shocked as he pulled me close and into his arms. I still couldn't believe what was happening. I was frozen. It was just a dream that I was about to wake up from. Wasn't it? He pulled away from me enough to look into my eyes and the next moment I felt his hand on my cheek.

"I really like you Penny. I've been wanting to ask you out for a long time. It was never the plan for us to put the cart before the horse. But..." He gave me a gentle kiss on the lips and even though I was still frozen in shock, but that didn't leave me completely unmoved."Let's just carry on here. I would like to be with you. You are a fascinating and beautiful woman. And if you had nothing left for me, than it would be surely didn't happen last night, right?"

"I was drunk, Ben. I don't even know what happened," I replied flatly, still not knowing what to think of all of that.

"I wanted to go home with Ellie, Arnold and Elvis when you asked me to stay. The others hadn't really left yet when you literally attacked me." I raised an eyebrow questioningly because I couldn't imagine that and he laughed awkwardly. "Okay, okay. It wasn't quite like that. We talked. You said you were tired of being surrounded by so many good-looking men to be and still have to go home alone every day because no one wants you. You were somehow so depressed. I told you that you were wrong because I'm interested in you and that I would like to take you out. Then you kissed me and it somehow...got out of control," he objected and actually seemed a little embarrassed as he scratched the back of his head and only managed a weak smile and suddenly the memory of it came back. What had I done? "Don't you like me at all, Penny?"

"What? Of course, I do like you, Ben. I noticed you on the first day. But that's a thing with colleagues. I...what will the others think? Are we even allowed to do that?"