Taylor Swift / Kaylor - Begin Again

Chapter Twenty-Four

Ellie's POV

The sun pierced brightly through a slight gap in the curtain and with my head feeling the way it did, it felt as if I was being blinded. I squinted my eyes shut in pain. I felt an instant mix of nausea and guilt throughout me. Taylor would go spare if she found out I had drunk alcohol last night. I put my head in my hands and roll over into another body. Shit. I'm not alone. I lift my head to see another person next to me. Cara. I then see that our clothes are thrown over the floor and we're both fully unclothed.

"Shit." I say, loud enough to wake Cara up.

She opens her eyes and immediately squints at the bright sunlight beaming in.

"Shit." She says herself as she looks around the room then back at us.

"Well I guess none of us need to ask what happened last night." I say quietly.

"I guess not.." Cara says back. Awkwardness filled the air. None of us quite knowing what to say.

"What now?" I ask.

"I don't know. I'd understand if you didn't want to stay here anymore while Taylor is at the hospital with Karlie."

"I'll still stay, I won't let it get in the way of our friendship. We'll just put it behind us yeah? No one has to know. I don't even know what Taylor's reaction would be to this." I sighed.

"Me neither," she giggles slightly "but okay, we'll put it behind us. Cara said back, not sounding so sure.

I cover myself up as I lean down to at least grab my bra and underwear and quickly put them on.

"Could I borrow your shower please?" I ask Cara.

"Yeah sure, no need to ask."

I grab some clean clothes and take them into the bathroom with me along with a towel. I step into the shower and let the warm water trickle down my body. I stand there for a few moments. Just thinking. Daydreaming. Not really doing anything. I didn't know if I wanted go put this behind us. Or even if I could. But Taylor would so mad at Cara if she found out. What with the age gap. And the fact that Cara is one of Taylor's best friends. I'd well and truely got myself into a massive mess. This is why she must never find out. But I had no clue how I was gonna put this behind us. We both knew what we were doing. I still remember how it happened so we couldn't have been that drunk. Meaning it couldn't have been that much of a mistake. God I'm so confused. Confused about everything. I had no clue how Cara felt about last night either. I don't know if I even wanted to know.

Cara's POV

I go downstairs to make the perfect fry up to cure a hangover. Not really knowing if I was even in the mood to eat. I was too busy thinking. Thinking about last night. What if it ruins our friendship? What if Taylor found it? Or what if Ellie regretted it? It was all such a mess. I know I didn't regret it but I was certainly scared. Mainly scared of the consequences that could follow. Taylor is one of my best friend's now I have to keep such a massive secret from her. I know it's for the best though because I didn't want to ruin our friendship either. Both me and Ellie could get into so much trouble for last night. The fact that I allowed Ellie to drink alcohol. Especially when I was supposed to be looking after her. Then the fact we had sex. Imagine the headlines. My mind was completely going into over think mode. So much so that I didn't even realise that Ellie was now downstairs and sat at the kitchen bar with a glass of water. She looked so tense, which slowly began to confirm a big fear of mine; that our friendship was ruined.

"I um, made a fry up for us both, it's a great hangover cure." I said shyly.

"Thank you." Ellie smiled back. I dished up her food then handed her the plate where she then dove straight in. My kind of girl. I thought to myself. No Cara. Don't think that. It has to be behind us.

"Ellie could we speak?"

"Yeah sure."

"Last night. I know we're going to put it behind us. But I just want to say, I really don't want this to ruin or effect our friendship anyway. You're someone I really want to keep in my life and it'd kill me to have that ruined by a drunken night. So could we just go back to how it was before hand?" I said.. Semi confidently.

"It won't effect our friendship don't worry. And of course we can go back to that." She smiled back, she then walked over and hugged me tight.

Taylor's POV

I opened my eyes and looked around the room, slightly forgetting where I was until I remembered I was at the hospital. 9am. Great, only about 2 hours of sleep. I spent most of the night watching Karlie, waiting for any sign of movement or her waking up. But so far none. It was just a waiting game.

The doctor came in again to do the hourly obs on Karlie, like they had through the night.

"Hello again. Did you sleep well?" He asked.

"Not really, I'm too worried at the moment. I just wrote a song instead." I chuckled a little bit.

"By the looks of things, there's no need to be worried, Karlie seems to be responding well to the surgery and medication. Her oxygen levels are almost back up to what they should be and there are no signs of anymore internal bleeding. Hopefully in about 24 to 48 hours she will come out of her coma. When she does come around we will be able to tell if there are any neurological problems, which we will have to see through speech as she can't walk yet due to her leg being in a cast of course."

"That's brilliant news, thank you so much doctor!"

I released a big sigh of relief, this must've meant Karlie was out of the danger zone now which was a massive weight of my chest. I texted Karlie's sister Kimberly what the doctor told me so she could pass it on to her family. They were currently unable to fly out to New York so they needed all the reassurance they could get. I also text Cara and Ellie the news as well. Cara was also really close to Karlie so I knew she would also want to be updated as much as possible. Hopefully not it wouldn't be too long until Karlie would be able to leave hospital.

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I'm so so so so sorry for not updating when I said I would. Things got a little crazy. I'm super busy at the moment but after Wednesday I'll be on Christmas holiday so I'll hopefully be able to write more! Hope you enjoyed this chapter even if it is mega short. Love you all x