My Little Bird

Part Seven

A/N: Again the song at the side is what Daniel is playing. 

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A terrified scream woke me up.

It was the morning after the party, and I had spent the night in Alex’s room because she craved the comfort. At some point in our sleep, we had started cuddling, but we sprang apart at the sound of the scream, our eyes flying open at the same time right as I recognized the voice.

“Josie!?” I shouted, flinging aside the bed sheets and preparing myself to jump out of the double bed, when the door burst open.

Josie herself ran in, screamed again, and threw herself onto Alex’s bed, successfully crushing the girl beside me. Alex looked pained and bewildered at the same time so I attempted to pull Josie off of her, but my best friend was kicking and screaming still, only in her underwear and a loose white shirt.

Finally she yelled, “I had sex with someone and brought him back to the apartment! I lost my virginity drunk! What do I do!?”

Her words had my mind automatically recalling the events of the previous night. Josie had been drunk, but she hadn’t brought anybody home because she had come with us after the visit to the nurse. Charlie had come back with us as well and agreed to put Josie to bed and keep an eye on her if I stayed with Alex... wait.

It suddenly connected in my brain, and right on cue, a shirtless Charlie walked through the open door with a bewildered expression.

Josie immediately started to scream again which caused me to break into hysterical laughter. My best friend was looking at me in horror, looking like she was torn between looking confused and strangling me, but I couldn’t stop. This moment was priceless and I had to remember it, forever.

“Is she crazy?” Charlie asked Alex hesitantly, which made me crack up even further. Alex was laughing as well by this point, which only had Josie fuming.

“This is not a funny moment, guys! I don’t even know who he is!”

Charlie’s eyebrows shot up to the top of his face when he put two and two together. “Woah! I didn’t sleep with – there was a couch in the room so I took that – I’m not–”

“Jo, he’s gay,” I finally managed to get out, before bursting into hysterics all over again.

It took a while, but Josie was eventually laughing with us. Charlie came and sat on the bed and we all shared a good five minutes laughing. I held onto the moment, realizing I never wanted it to end.

But then it did, and Josie was smiling sheepishly at Charlie. “I’m really sorry that I remember absolutely nothing about your existence.”

“It’s cool,” the sandy haired boy replied, flashing a toothy grin at her. “Just as long as you appreciate the lengths I went through to look after you last night.”

“Lengths, huh? You mean stripping me and putting me into bed?”

Charlie flushed and Alex and I laughed. “No, not that. The fact that your snoring kept me up for half the night.”

Josie gaped, but it quickly turned into a malicious grin. “Oh, I’m definitely going to like you.”

I made Alex take her morning pill with a glass of water after that, and then we all made for the common room. It was empty – no surprise. The rest of the girls had stumbled back into the flat at three in the morning, successfully waking me up with their drunken slurs. I had stood at my door, telling them politely to shut the hell up because we’re sleeping, to which they eventually obliged after expressing their undying love for me. (No kidding.) Even Jenny had been woken up, and we had stood at our doors while the girls separated, exchanging a look of amusement.