Another Alternative

Morning Sunshine

I awoke the next day in my bed with no recollection of the previous night. I expected to go downstairs to have my coffee and that nothing would be wrong. Then I saw her. Right next to me, Grace Helbig lay asleep and half naked. I immediately covered myself, seeing that I too was near naked. I tried to remember the events of the previous night but failed miserably.

"C'mon. Think. Think!" I muttered hastily. "Okay, I was at work, I saw Grace, we talked for a few hours, but then what? Goddammit, Hannah. Think!"

Grace woke up next to me and jerked herself up in a panic, covering herself up as I had.

"Wha- Um." She rubbed her eyes and looked at me expectantly. "What happened last night? And where the hell am I?"

"All I know is that we're in my house, in my bed, naked. Why and how? No clue." I got up and started pulling on my clothes. "What do you remember? Tell me everything."

"I can't even remember leaving the bar. What makes you think I remember coming here and-" She stopped herself talking and it was almost like she was going to guess what we had done.

"And?"

"And did whatever we did." She put her head in her hands and made a sound that was unmistakably crying. "Hannah, what did we do?"

"I wish I knew." I brought her clothes over to her and looked in her tear-stricken eyes. "Grace," I wiped her tears away and took her hands in mine. "Everything's going to be fine. Okay? I promise."

"How can you know that?" She let out a sob.

"I never know how." I say, still unsure if this was actually happening. "I just know who." I pulled her into a hug and whispered assuring words that I knew were bullshit. I knew what we had done, I think we both did. But I wasn't going to say it and neither was she.

"Why are you being so nice to me?" Grace pulled away and looked at me funny.

"Because we both know what happened last night. And I don't know about you, but I'm not regretting it. That'd be silly. Not that there's a problem with silly, but regretting last night is preposterous." I laughed slightly, pushing a strand of hair from Grace's face. "But, if you want to forget. To pretend it never happened, then okay. We can forget. We can part ways and never tell a soul what happened. Is that what you want?"

"I-I think so." She spoke carefully, as if her words could topple buildings and crush cities. I would have never have admitted this then, but that broke me. I was smitten with her, only I didn't know about it.