Prologue Harley awoke to find herself in a strange hotel room.  "What the hell happened?", she asked herself grabbing her aching head as she sat up in the bed.  Not knowing exactly where she was, she began to recall the previous night’s events.  She remembered going to a party with her best friend Mika.  It was at Jana’s boyfriend’s house, another friend of theirs.  She remembered flirting with this really hot guy.  She remembered dancing with him. Smiling, she remembered getting really drunk and kissing that guy.  But her smile quickly faded as she struggled to remember what happened afterwards.  Still nothing.  Harley searched around the room and found her clothes scattered everywhere.  Getting dressed, she heard her cell phone ringing.  It was muffled and she didn’t know where it was coming from at first.  Finally finding it under a pile of bedding on the floor she pushed the talk button and said ‘hello."  "Girl, where are you?", Mika asked cheerfully from the other end of the line. Harley nervously giggled, "Well, that’s a good question." "Damn you were really drunk last night.", Mika stated as she laughed. "Don’t remind me.", Harley said looking around for some sort of clue as to her whereabouts.  Finding a room service menu on the dresser she picked it up, "Seems that I’m at the Raddison just down the street from our hotel." "At least you didn’t wander far.", Mika teased. "Shut up and come pick me up.  I’ll be out front.", Harley demanded as the pounding in her head grew stronger. "I’ll be there in five minutes.", Mika said still laughing as she hung up the phone.  Harley took a deep breath and sighed as she looked at herself in the mirror.  Her hair was a wreck and her make up gone.  She reached into her purse and pulled out a brush and a scrunchy.  As best as she could, she pulled her hair into a ponytail before going to the bathroom and washing her face.  As Harley rode the elevator downstairs, a horrible thought crossed her mind.  Did she need to pay for the room? She wasn’t sure but she knew that she couldn’t leave the hotel without paying.  Contrary to the present situation, Harley was a "good girl".  Mika teased her all the time about being a "goody two shoes".  Not in the usual since where someone flaunts the fact that they do no wrong, but honestly, she just did no wrong.  Harley tried her best to always do the right thing and do what she thought was right.  At this moment, this was paying for the room - no matter how embarrassed she was to go up to the front desk and ask such a thing.  "Excuse me.", Harley shyly said to the front desk clerk. "Yes ma’am.", the young lady returned. "This may sound stupid, but do I need to pay for the room?", Harley asked, her cheeks growing warm as she blushed with embarrassment. The clerk asked what room she was in and Harley told the lady. "No ma’am.  It’s already been paid for.", the lady stated with a warm smile.  Harley let out a big sigh of relief, "Thank you."  As she turned to walk away, she wanted so badly to ask the clerk who had paid for the room - what was his name.  But as much as she wanted to know, she didn’t want anyone to know that she had spent the night with someone she didn’t even know.  As she walked out the front door of the hotel, she was glad to see her friend sitting in her car by the curb.  "I don’t want to hear it.", Harley told Mika as she slid down into the passenger seat.  "I wasn’t going to say anything.", Mika said as she busted out laughing.  Harley shot her a ‘go to hell’ look as the two friends drove back towards their hotel.  Once in the room, Harley took a handful of aspirin and hopped into the shower.  When she got out and got dressed she found Mika sitting on the bed giggling.  "What?  It’s not that amusing.", Harley stated. "Drink this.", Mika told her friend as she handed her best friend a bottle of Gatorade.  She then began to tell Harley what was so funny, "I talked to Jana." "What’s so funny about that?" "It seems that guy you shacked up with last night, Jeff….well, he’s a little young.", Mika said giggling. Jeff.  That was right.  Harley remembered his name and his sweet, sexy smile, "I know.  His brother told me he was 20 I think."  She smiled that things were slowly coming back to her. Mika busted out laughing again, "Not quite that old." Harley got a sickening feeling in the pit of her stomach, "What do you mean ‘not quite’?" "He’s more like 17.", Mika chuckled. "WHAT!?!?!", Harley spouted. "I’m afraid so dear.", Mika returned, a little more serious as she noticed the horror on her friend’s face. "What did I do?  What did I do?", Harley cried as she held her head in her hands. "Aww.  It’s not that bad.", Mika comforted as she put her arm around Harley.  "It IS that bad.  Mika I’m 22 years old.  He’s…..He’s not even legal!", Harley blasted as she began to sob, "And I don’t even know him.  All I know is his name is Jeff." "Jana said that he’s one of Shane’s good friends.  We can find out more about him if you want.", Mika said trying to comfort her.  "Thanks.  But all I want to do is forget this ever happened.  Promise we won’t mention this again.", Harley pleaded, "Promise!" "I promise.", Mika returned.                            Next Chapter ..*.. Chapter Index ..*.. Home