Chapter 3 Leila's

Realization.

I must have slept off while waiting for my friends because when I finally woke up, I could hear voices from the living room and no one except them of course, would make so much noise.

Yawning lightly, I climbed down from the bed to go meet them. I remembered that I was still mad at them for their crazy idea of a prank.

"Look who's finally awake." Naomi teased.

They must have been around for a while because they all looked relaxed and comfortable in their pajamas.

"We said live a little, not scare the life out of us." Alexandria, who we called Alex said.

"Shawn was going to send a search party if we hadn't come home in time to see you asleep in your room." Regina added.

They kept going on and on about wherever I was and they failed to notice that color was draining from my face.

If it wasn't a prank, does that mean the ring was real and I was really married or that I most likely had sex with a stranger.

"Oh my god!"

I exclaimed as I used my hands to hold my head for support while making my way to the couch to sit beside Riley.

"What's wrong?" Riley asked.

"So, you guys didn't prank me?" I asked them.

Their eyes were fixed on me as if I just made the biggest joke of the century.

"Why would we do that? Besides, we were drunk except Riley since she spent most of her time on a call." Alex said.

"Can you tell me what you guys remembered from last night?"

They all tried to put pieces of what they could all remember but all I got was that I danced with a stranger who was generous to pay for our drinks and after that they went to dance leaving me alone with the stranger because I was drunk.....who does that to a friend? Leaving your drunk friend with a stranger.

"We thought Shawn came to pick you, so we didn't bother. You know he didn't want you to go in the first place." Regina concluded.

"I should have listened to him." I murmured, more to myself.

"But on the bright side, you get to experience the other side of life. You'll have something to tell your kids instead of your boring everyday life." Naomi said.

I didn't bother answering her because there was no use. It was left to me to figure out what the hell is going on.

"Why did you think we pranked you in the first place?" Riley asked, still rubbing her hand on my back.

"I woke up at Quantum hotels, so I thought you guys wanted me to freak out a bit." I explained.

I chose to ignore the shocked look on their faces as I lay my head on Riley's lap.

"You mean you weren't with Shawn?" Regina asked.

"Didn't you say Shawn was ready to send a search party to look for me? So no, I wasn't with him." I snapped.

"Calm down, we are just confused about how you got there." Riley said gently.

Since I was closer to Riley than the rest of my friends, I listened to her and murmured an apology to Regina when she asked me to.

"Can you tell us what you remembered?" Alex asked.

Leaving out the fact that I woke up naked and the fact that I was practically married to a stranger.... probably the one they left me alone with, I told them everything else which wasn't a lot.

"I can't believe you got to spend a night there." Alex said when I finished talking.

Of course, after removing the most important part the story didn't sound bad. Instead it sounded like I had the best time of my life and was just a little confused about how I got there.

"Do you know the person who got the drinks for us?" I asked.

"Not really, but it doesn't matter since you're back now." Naomi said, and the others agreed with her.

"You should probably tell Shawn that you're awake already." Alex advised.

I nodded slowly while they went back to watching TV and talking at the same time, leaving me in the pool of my own thoughts.

"You had me worried all night, where were you?" Shawn asked.

"I shouldn't have called him now. I'm not ready to deal with this just yet but the mistake has been made already." I thought.

"I'm not even sure babe, I was really drunk last night and I'm sorry if I made you worry unnecessarily."

My relationship with Shawn was good so far and it made my parents happy since they wanted us to get married in the future so that their company would become one with that of Shawn's parents.

There are times I doubt the real reason I was actually in a relationship with him..... sure he's attractive and I liked him but at the same time I didn't want to disappoint my parents.

"It's okay my love, I'll come check on you when I'm done with work." He said.

"Okay. Bye."

"Bye, I love you."

"I love you too." I whispered but he'd already ended the call.

One thing I hated was hiding things from my friends but right now, I couldn't bring myself to tell them the truth about what really went on last night. I didn't know how they'll take the news. Would they judge me or sympathize with me?

Thinking deep now, I realized I actually lost my virginity to him which explains why the bed was bare except for the blanket that was wrapped around me when I woke up.

My parents would be so disappointed if they found out about it. Though I'm sure they wouldn't mind if it was with Shawn but I've always told him I wasn't ready to go all the way with him.

"My life is over." I groaned.

"Now that we're alone, can you tell me what's really going on?" Riley asked.

Her hand was crossed across her chest as she stood quietly by the door. I didn't even realize she was there.

"Nothing."

"I'm not stupid, I know you're hiding something. I didn't want to ask you in front of the others."

I couldn't hide it from her no matter how much I tried, so after making sure the door was locked, I explained what really happened and I showed her the note I'd found in the room.

"This is serious, Lei. But first, hope you guys used protection?" She asked.

"I really don't know."

How would I know, when I barely even remember having sex in the first place.

"This is bad, you should take a plan b drug but I don't have any and the girls would get suspicious if you ask them."

"Are you saying I could get pregnant?"

"I'm not exactly sure, just to be safe let's go buy the morning after pill in the pharmacy."

I got dressed as fast as I could, I couldn't get pregnant now and worse for a stranger. But another surprise awaited me in the living room.

"Babe, I couldn't help it, I'll finish work later. Come, let's go out."

"Shit." I thought, as I quietly followed Shawn to his car.