Broken Bonds

What Have I Done?

The next morning, Vicky's eyes flittered open slowly. Her head was pounding, and she was a little disorientated as she tried to recall the previous night's events. She wondered whether last night had been one big dream when she suddenly took in her surroundings. She was not in her own bed. In fact, she wasn't in her room at all. As she turned over, she was met with a sleeping Q. His hair was a mess and he was still naked from the night before and she had now noticed that she was still naked too. This was bad. This was very very bad. She cursed at herself under her breath as she crept out of bed as quietly as she could, carefully putting back on all of her clothes and finding her purse before silently making her way out of his bedroom. The fact that she didn't even know what the apartment looked like angered her even more; she had been so hung up in her moment with Q that he could've taken her down a dirty alley way and she never would have known. It was a huge apartment, not like the one she would be moving into later that day. The walls were a cameo green colour and all his furniture was matching mahogany. As she made her way towards the front door, Vicky was met with a small black and white cat who looked up at her expectantly. Not far away from the cat was an empty bowl. She sighed as she noticed a bag of cat kibble on a nearby kitchen counter. She couldn't help herself, his big green eyes pierced her soul and so, she stopped for just a moment, so she could feed him. As soon as she had filled the cats bowl and he seemed content, Vicky made her way out of the apartment. She had absolutely no idea where she was as she stepped out on to a quiet, homely-looking street. She hoped that if she walked far enough, she would soon come across a cab. After walking for five minutes, she was happy to come across a lonely cab parked next to the sidewalk. She jumped in and gave the cabbie her address and gave a sigh of relief as the car took off. But what would she tell Bessy? What would she tell Joe!? After everything they had done for her, this was how she had repaid them. Joe had become so protective of her, she could only imagine how hurt he would be by this, and how much damage this would do to his friendship with Q. Not to mention how this would affect her new job. Surely the co-worker relationship rule applied, even on a TV set. She arrived back at Joe and Bessy's house in just 15 minutes, stepping out of the cab carefully before quietly letting herself in the house.

"Vicky!?", she heard Bessy call out. Her heart sank as she followed the sound of her cousin's worried voice into the kitchen. Upon seeing her, Bessy swung her arms around Vicky's shoulders, hugging her tight. "Where the hell have you been!?", Bessy asked as she examined her appearance, taking her face in her hands as she examined her further.

"I uh – I was pretty drunk, and I didn't wanna wake you guys so – so Q let me crash on his couch", she lied.

"Oh thank god!", Bessy gave an almighty sigh of relief. "Why didn't you call?", she questioned further, taking a seat at the table as she cradled her growing bump.

"I couldn't even see my hand in front of my face let alone my cell phone!", Vicky tried to joke. Bessy furrowed her brow before giving another sigh of relief as she poured her a cup of coffee.

"Well, I'm just glad you were with Q and not in trouble!", she told her.

"You didn't stay up waiting for me, did you?", Vicky asked as she took a seat with her coffee.

"No! I went to bed about a half hour after you guys left!", she laughed. "I knew Q would look after you", she suddenly said.

"What?", Vicky blushed, her cheeks hot with nerves.

"You'd never believe it but he's definitely the more sensible one out of the three of them", she smiled warmly. "Did he give you a ride home? You should've invited him in!", she continued.

"Uh – no. He was sleeping so I just caught a cab", she said truthfully.

"Oh, well – Joe should be getting up soon, so we'll have some breakfast and get you all moved into the new place okay?", she smiled warmly.