Chapter 13 The hangover

Veronica groaned when she opens her eyes and found herself naked lying on the floor in Hannah's room with all the mess around her. Her head was throbbing in pain, she was so drunk last night that she passed out and had a vague memory of what had happened. She looked around and saw Lucy adjacent to her lying with her puke all naked.

"Ewww..... so gross! What the hell did we do last night? ", her stomach reflexes involuntarily and she can feel the acid runs up to her esophagus feeling nauseated triggered by the smell of Lucy's puke.

She tried to stand up and run staggering towards the toilet to vomit and there she found Hannah hugging the toilet with her hair floating on her own puke. She pulled her away and forced herself to throw-up everything she can hoping that it will make her feel better. Gosh she was still feeling so dizzy and lightheaded. She grabs some towel to cover herself and went to shower.

She felt slightly better after taking a warm shower and wore Hannah's clothes that fits herself because her dress was nowhere to be found. Stephanie and Zoey were gone already and when she looked at the clock, she was flabbergasted to find that it was already passed noon.

She missed three classes already. She worried that the teacher might tell her parents about her being unable to attend class today. She maybe sneaky sometimes but she never missed classes, this is her way to maintain her status.

She tried waking up the two girls, but they only groaned. She still had two classes left, if she will go now, she can still catch up, but she still have a hangover. She checked her phone and there's a bunch of missed calls and messages from Joshua and a few text messages from her mom. She replied her mom to avoid suspicion and then her phone rang. It was Joshua.

'Where are you?" he asked in a plain baritone voice.

Hearing him not using her name or nickname to address her and his tone, she knew he was being serious.

"At Hannah's house, why?", she said.

"Why are you not answering my calls?", he said.

"I was asleep", she said.

"You are asleep? At this hour? Do you even know what time it is right now?", he said.

By his tone she can hear that he is upset. "Why'd you call?", she said ignoring his question.

Joshua was silent for a moment. "Yeah why did he call her a hundred times? So, what if she's absent? So, what if she's with another guy? Its not like she couldn't take care of herself anymore. They're ending their contract anyway", he was arguing his own mind.

"Are you sure you are at Hannah's house? Who is with you? I'm coming", he said and ended the call without even letting her to answer.

Veronica cleaned Hannah's room and waited Joshua outside the house beside her car.

He arrived a minute later and urge her to get in his car.

"No, I'll drive in my car', Vee said.

Joshua got out of his car and pulled her to get into the other side of his car beside the driver's seat. He drove away from Hannah's house without saying any words.

They were about a couple of miles away and Joshua was driving way passed the speed limit.

"Hey! Slow down. Do you want us to get pulled over by a police?", Vee said but Joshua did not even look at her and continue speeding. Vee looked outside and she realized they were driving out of town.

"Joshua, where are we going?", she asked but he never bothered answering her. She knew him very well and at this point she knew he's not going to talk if she keeps on pestering him. She decided to keep quiet and make her eyes busy with the view outside until a dog crossed the street, Joshua pressed on the break so quickly and steer away the direction of the dog and almost hit the tree five meters away from the road.

Vee was speechless. They almost got into accident because of his stubbornness. Thanks God they were in the area where there is not much of a car passing.

"Look at him so calm, he doesn't even ask if I'm okay. Does he even care?", Vee said to herself.

"What is wrong with you today?", she can't help with it anymore and ask him. She's upset already and she's feeling hungry.

"What is your problem?", she continues to pester him when he did not respond. She started to worry on what did she do that made him so angry and not talk to her. Is it because she never went to the barracks when he asked her? She was puzzled by his behavior.

"I'm going to ask you again, and if you're not going to answer me honestly, you're going to regret it", he finally says something but a threat.

"I told you already that I was with the girls at Hannah's house. What is the matter....", she did not even finished what she's about to say when Joshua pulled her from her neck and kissed her.

She can feel his anger the way he kissed her as if he was punishing her from doing something so horrible. His lips pressed her two sweet and soft lips and suck it like he was going to absorb her soul through it. His tongue wrestle to enter her mouth and beat her tongue.

She tried to push him away, but he was way much stronger. He partially let go of her lips, his hand was still holding her neck and they were both gasping for breath.

"Are you really not going tell me the truth?", he said while his face was still so close to her and his lips partially touches hers. She can smell the cool mint from his breathe.

"Let go of me, will you? Somebody's going to see us in here", she said.