The Stranger I Met

The Morning After

* Picture of Molly*

I wake up to the noise of a vacuum cleaner. The fussy feeling in my head blurs my vision for a minute. I look at my surroundings when my vision gets clear." Where the hell am I?" Everything is alien to me, the bouncy mattress, the soft light green comforter, the huge window on the left wall. There are a few music related posters on the walls.

The walls are painted with a mix of purple and blue. I try to sit up." Ugh! My head." I hear a knock on my door." Yes," I answer. My throat is all dry and prickly. A lean and pretty strawberry blonde hair woman enters my room with the vacuum cleaner that had woken me up. She gives me a warm smile." You are up honey." I smile back at her, still a little dizzy." Where am I?" I say hoarsely. " I think you should drink some water. It is right next to you."

She puts the cleaner down. I see a glass of water on the nightstand on my right. I pick it up and drink it. The woman comes and sits next to me on the bed and smiles at me again." Jason brought you home last night. You were really drunk." I look at her in shock. Jason!

I freak out and look down at my clothes. I am wearing a blue nightwear t-shirt and pink pajamas. " Don't worry." She says and takes the empty glass from my hand." I changed your clothes. Last night, you kept saying that you didn't wanna crease your dress. So I gave you my clothes to sleep in." She chuckles at my reaction. I notice that she has the same eye colour as Jason's.

" Thank you for taking care of me." My voice comes out a little better. She places her palm on my cheek. Her hand is so soft." Anytime sweety." I feel warm from the inside." Where's Jason?" I ask." Downstairs. You should come too, for breakfast." She gets up from the bed." Take a shower and join us." She smiles and goes towards the door." I didn't catch your name." I ask hurriedly." She turns around, " I'm Jason's aunt, Janelle. But please, call me Jenna." She grins and leaves the room.

I come out of the shower and see a purple sundress with pink and yellow flowers on it lying on the bed with a note beside it. I pick up the note:

Wear this, it will look good on you.
- Love,
Jenna

I couldn't help but smile. She is such a sweetheart.

I come downstairs wearing the dress." Jenna?" I call out but no-one answers. I hear some noise coming probably from their living room. I head towards the sound. As I enter the room, I stop dead in my tracks.

Sweet mercy! Jason is standing in front of the dinning table with his back towards me, shirtless. He has his headphones on, the reason why he didn't hear me enter, or gasp loudly. He was definitely working out as his dark hair is wet and small beads of sweat are rolling down his bare back. I must say, he has a sizzling body. I can easily point out the v-shape of his torso that starts at his shoulders and ends at his waist. His perfectly chiselled triceps were contracting due to the movement of his arms.

I shamelessly drool over the scene in front of me. I follow one bead of sweat with my eyes, sliding down towards his waist until it gets absorbed into his grey sweatpants, which I hadn't noticed till now.

He turns around with a juice glass in his hand. He looks at me and smirks. " Good morning Aurora. " He reads the shock on my face as he puts down the glass and grabs a t-shirt lying on the chair and wears it quickly." I didn't know you'd be up so soon." I stand there, speechless for a moment." Umm, sorry about that." I look away, feeling completely embarrassed. He had seen me gawking at him." I was looking for-"" Me." Jenna's chirpy voice lifts up the environment.

She places some cupcakes and cinnamon rolls on the table with the bread and butter which was already there. " I am here now. So let's start the breakfast, shall we." She looks at me and claps her hands once." I knew you'd look lovely in that dress. Now c'mon on." She waves a hand at me to take a seat.