Efflorescence

chapter three

Waking up in a hotel room alone is one thing, but waking up in a hotel room naked and alone is another. Especially if boys were present the night before. 

This was Sapphire's current situation. She covered herself with the sheet immediately, when she heard the door open and close. Luckily, it was just Maribell tip-toeing to her bed. 

The question was, where was she last night and why was she tip-toeing?

Sapphire pretended to be asleep until Mar was closer to the bed. She almost ratted herself out by giggling but she managed to keep it in. When she couldn't breathe anymore from having her face shoved into the pillow, she got up and yelled, "BOO!" 

She started laughing hysterically when Maribell tripped and fell from being so surprised. "Oh my freaking gosh, Mar. You good?" she attempted to say in-between laughs. 

Once Maribell got up off the tan carpet, she glared at her best friend and said, "You're an ass."

Sapphire shrugged her comment away and asked, "So wanna tell me what happened last night and why I woke up alone in this hotel room and naked?" raising her perfectly arched brow.

Mar giggled and went to sit on the edge of the bed, "You really don't remember what happened last night? And I have no idea how you ended up without clothes. That must've happened after Aiden walked you up to the room." 

"Aiden did what?" Sapphire gasped, trying with all her might to remember the previous night. She hoped that she hadn't hooked up with him; he was attractive and all but she saw him as a good friend and nothing more. 

She frowned and asked, "Why can't I remember what happened last night?" She knew she wasn't hungover; she had her fair share of them so she could tell the difference. 

Maribell laughed nervously, and said, "You just sort of fell and hit your head last night. But it wasn't serious, I looked up symptoms on my phone for a concussion and you should be fine. A few websites just said that you might not remember what had happened the next day."

Sapphire decided to let it go and shrugged saying, "Okay but if we get in a car accident today, don't blame me." She would just go to the doctors' office the next day and make sure she was really fine. 

"Alright so tell me what happened? How did I even fall?" she continued.

"We were playing two truths and a lie, and you were participating like a normal person. You even talked about your crazy sex life." she winked. 

"And then we wanted to go back up to the rooms and order pizza together and while we were getting out the hot tub, you slipped and hit your head on the floor." she began with the story. 

Sapphire winced at the thought of the incident, not liking the sound of the situation.

Maribell continued, "Wyatt invited me to his room but I wanted to make sure you were alright, and you kept saying how you were fine and then Aiden offered to walk you up here and make sure you got in safely. So, I went with Wyatt."

"Wait you hooked up with Wyatt?" Sapphire asked with a shocked look on her face. She didn't think Maribell was the type for one night stands, but you never know.

"No," Maribell chuckled, "We just made out for a good ten minutes, and we both agreed that we didn't want to have sex so he just offered for me to sleep there since we were both tired and I just thought why not?"

"Sounds like a decent night, except for the part where I fell." she giggled. "So what happened to Aiden? Did he go back to the boys' room?"

"No, when I woke up it was just Wyatt and I." she frowned, "You really don't remember?"