Once Upon A Bet

/14/ Last night

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I was hot... too hot. It was almost suffocating.

I shifted to push the heavy blanket off, but it wouldn't budge. My head was throbbing painfully, the extreme warmth only adding to my discomfort. I tried to move it off me again, but instead it wrapped tighter around me. What the hell?

My lids fluttered open, blinking at the light through the half closed blinds. My eyes felt sore, and I realized baffled I'd slept with my contacts on. But my surprise was cut short with shock when I finally managed to open my eyes and see the warm, heavy blanked was an arm laying across my torso. My lungs frozen.

No no, please...

Very gingerly I let my eyes follow up the arm to the body attached to it... And my heart dropped when I found Jake's sleepy face barely inches from mine.

NO.

I pushed his arm from me like it burns, getting into a sitting position and he groaned, rolling to lay on his back; completely unbothered I was freaking the hell out.

I was in a bed. With Jake!

My heart was pounding madly in my ears as the vaguely familiar room spun. It was big, neat, luxury drifting from every elegant item, but that only added to my daze. Where am I?

Yet I got distracted from analyzing it further as the sheet pooled around my hips and a sudden coldness attracted attention down... only to have horror wash over me as I see I was only wearing my lingerie. I squealed at my nudity and tugged the sheet up to my chin, feeling extremely vulnerable.

Shit.

Shit!

What have I done? Jake stirred from his sleepy daze at my sharp move and my blood froze, making the throbbing of my mind even more unbearable.

"What?" he grumbled, lazily scratching his bare chest -bare chest!- and rubbed his eyes tiredly. It would have been cute if he was anyone else or this situation wasn't this situation. All I could feel was anxiety and regret.

I hugged the sheet tighter to my chest, protectively, and struggled to make sense of it all. What happened last night?

I went to the barbecue, right? Yeah, I remembered that. I got really vulnerable after meeting Tyler and my mother's lecture, then go to that bar, the River's Side. Ignoring the killer headache I squeezed my brain, I remember meeting Jake there too, confronting him, kissing him-

"No." my eyes widened. I kissed him! Oh my God WHY?! And then? I couldn't remember! And it was freaking me out all the more not remembering how I ended like this.

"Good morning to you too." he huffed in that husky morning voice, brushing his bed hair so it stood in all directions as I looked back at his chill, sleepy face. Still too shocked to let the embarrassment fully sink in me, I turned stiffly to glance at him.

"D-did... did we... y-you know..."

Please say no, please say we didn't! But instead he smiled up at me, that boyish lazy smile of his I hadn't seen in so long that made my heart ache. "So what if we did?"

No.

Everything in me went numb, overpowered by a striking wave of a powerful feeling. Regret? Disgust? I certainly felt like throwing up.