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The splitting headache wakes me up. I feel like someone plunged an axe deep into my skull and left it there. I groan and clutch my head, as if squeezing it will reduce the pain.
My brain finally starts to focus on my surroundings. I am on a toilet cell floor, wearing a shirt and a pair of boxers shorts.
What the hell?
I try to stand up but every move I make sends a lightning bolt of pain up my skull.
Where am I? What time is it? I have no watch, no phone. The shirt I am wearing isn’t even mine.
I manage to get on my fours. I crawl to the door, wincing at every move I make. I grip the handle and pull hard. The door swings open. The sinks line the wall in front of me. I notice how filthy the place is. Literally all the mirrors above the sink are cracked or broken and beer bottles and cigarette butts litter the floor.
I try so hard to remember how I ended up here but the hangover screams louder than my thoughts. I lean against the toilet cell and breathe hard.
Think, Jason Think!
Nothing comes to me. All that feels my head is the pain. I slowly move to the sink on my knees. I grip the supposed-to-be-white sink bowl and pull myself up. I open the tap. I drench my head with some of the cold water and the pain reduces a bar.
I stare at the half-broken mirror up on the wall. My green-tipped black hair is ruffled and specked with particles of God-knows-what in it. I’m wearing a faded blue t-shirt with a mysterious large stain on it. My eyes are bagged and bloodshot, dried black tears run down my cheek and the name ‘Piper Cross’ is scrawled on my cheek with a girly elegant design.
All of it floods back to me so fast; I stagger and clutch my head.
A makeover. A ride. A Party.
The Cross twins.

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