Caught In The Middle

Chapter 16

Lexi POV

"Oh God," I groaned rubbing my temples as I headed downstairs.

I was still waiting for those two Advil that I took a few minutes ago to finally kick in. Last night's drinking sure did a number on me, I had woken up with my head pounding and then had to fly to the bathroom to puke out the vile drinks out of my stomach.

"Morning Lexi, rough night?" Our housekeeper Ella asked as I entered the kitchen.

"You could say, Ella, hangover," I said to her.

"You go sit down, I'll help you with that" Ella said to me.

"Thanks, Ella," I said as I sat down at the kitchen table closing my eyes and laying my head down on my hands.

"Morning Ms.Ella" I heard Kathleen say groggily.

"Morning Kathleen, you're hangover too?" I heard Ella ask.

"You have no idea" I heard Kathleen groan.

"You go sit down as well I'll get you both something to help" Ella replied.

I cringed slightly as Kathleen pulled out the chair opposite of mine. Even though my headache was slowly subsiding every little sound seemed a bit too loud for me.

"I hate you for this" I heard Kathleen groaned from across me. "You made us drink last night".

"I know but it wasn't as painful last night" I chuckled slightly.

"I'm never drinking ever again" Kathleen mumbled.

"Don't make promises you can keep Kathleen, it's going to happen again" I said to her.

"Here you go ladies, a cup of coffee to help with starting to cure those hangovers," Ella said placing two mugs of coffee in front of us. "Two plates of greasy breakfast coming up next".

"Thanks, Ella" Kathleen and I both answered at the same time.

After breakfast, I went right back to bed trying to hopefully sleep off the hangover. I was awakened a couple of hours later by the sound of my phone ringing from beside me.

"Hello," I said groggily as I pressed the phone to my ears.

"Hey, Cara" I heard Gio greet. "Why does it sound like you were sleeping?"

"Hi babe, yeah I just woke up" I replied. "What's up?"

"I was hoping I could pick you up for lunch today and spend the day together, but you sound tired. Are you alright?" I heard Gio ask.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine. I was just still feeling a bit tired after breakfast this morning and so I went back to sleep but I'm fine now" I said to him.

"Are you sure?" Gio asked.

"Yeah, I'm sure" I replied.

"Okay, so up for lunch?"

"Yeah definitely" I replied.

"Alright I'll pick you up in about half an hour then okay"