Chapter 10: The Morning After

I woke to the sound of loud, angry voices, when I opened my mouth to tell whoever was talking to shut up, a waterfall of vomit spewed out of me. I groaned and fell back against my pillow. I felt terrible, like some crazed miners were putting in work inside my skull, my stomach was doing flip flops and I'm pretty sure I peed at some point.

"Wow, you are fucked!" Roman chuckled and pulled my dress over my head. He wiped my body down with a warm towel and pulled my sheets from under me. "First rule of partying in New York hun, if you leave your drink unattended for more than five minutes order a new one, if someone who isn't the bartender hands you an open drink, turn it down. If you are drunk off your ass, unless you're planning on sex do not get into a car with a tipsy celebrity and his entourage, gang-bangs happen."

"The girls were there."

Roman sighed, "Lemme tell you something, and this stays between the two of us okay?"

I nodded, he handed me a cup of water and three pain killers, I swallowed the pills with the water and hoped that I wouldn't throw up again, I hated puking. "The girls weren't anywhere around, Flow's guy spoke to Dom and that bitch has it in for you."

"Wha?" I groaned, Dom was the girl I spent the most time with and I just got here, she didn't have any reason to hate me, or at least I didn't think she did. "Wha' ah do?" My stomach rolled again and I swallowed.

"You didn't do a thing but be Brooklyn. Dom didn't tell the other girls about Flow's party, I happened to call Coco and she said that the last time she saw you you were with Flow. Lucky for you Starla was staying in that same hotel. JQ's pissed at me."

"Why Dom got it in for me?"

"Because of JQ, my boy is feeling you, but he respect you too much to go there with you."

I laughed at that. I'm not the kind of girl that guys have crushes on, I'm the skinny, awkward girl with the ugly hair. I'm not stupid, usually when a guy came on to me it was because London was using my virginity as a marketing statement. Now Roman is trying to tell me that I have an A-list celebrity and a sexy as sin male stripper after me. That was the funniest thing I heard in a while.

"Dom has been the queen bee of this house since the day she walked in and Scarlet and Kitty who came after her, they never challenged her and Coco doesn't give enough of a damn to. And then along comes you, you're adorable and we all love you, she knew she had a problem when Stone flagged you a cab, he doesn't like anybody but he seems to like you. There's also JQ. They hook up all the time and she caught feelings, so at the back of her mind she thinks that she'll be more than just a booty call."

I gagged and nearly rolled out of the bed, Roman grabbed me and held my hair back while I added some more vomit to the ruined sheets on the floor. Roman said, "Just stay on your toes around her, not everyone who smiles at you is your friend."

"You smile at me all the time."

He chuckled, "I like you Brooklyn, you remind me of me before the world kicked me in the ass. So naive and innocent, hang on to that for as long as you could, don't let anybody pressure you into doing anything you don't want to, now try to get some sleep okay?"

"Yeah." I said, if I didn't have such a terrible hangover I wouldn't be able to get any sleep.