Jen woke up the next day with her body aching and she was still slightly confused. Lucas had not spared her the previous night and on top of everything, she was inebriated so she had pushed her own boundaries. She tried sitting up but she was. .h.i.t by a slight dizzy spell and she ended up laying back down on the bed helplessly with a groan.

"Jen?" Lucas called from beside her before she felt him touch her head as if he was checking for fever.

"Mmh" Jen groaned again as she tried opening her eyes.

"Are you alright?" Lucas asked worriedly. He was happy that she did not have any fever since he knew how guilty he would be feeling if she had gotten sick because of him.

"Water" Jen said as she closed her eyes once more.

Lucas went to take bottled water from the fridge and went back to the bed. He maneuvered Jen until she was laying between his legs and her head was resting on his chest before opening the bottle of water and bringing it to her lips.

Jen took the bottle from his hands and downed the water as quickly as she could and finally felt some relief from the h.e.l.l she had imposed on herself.

"Are you better?" Lucas asked as he pushed her hair to one side and pulled her closer to him.

"I'm hungry" Jen complained with a groan and leaned against him once more.

She felt like she had a vacuum in her stomach, she was hungry enough that she thought her stomach had started digesting itself.

"Let's freshen up first then go eat okay?" Lucas said as he urged her to get up.

Jen had blacked out at some point in the night so she didn't know how she was wearing a s.h.i.+rt, but she was glad that Lucas didn't let her sleep in the nude.

With a heavy sigh, she got off the bed slowly and made her way to the bathroom.

"Is there anything specific you want to eat?" Lucas asked Jen who had her back turned on him.

"Actually, I would love some soup, or a stew. As long as it's spicy and not sea food i'll be fine" Jen said from the bathroom door.

"Okay, get ready, I'll ask the kitchen to prepare it for you" Lucas said as he picked up the phone from the bedside table to call the kitchens.

Not too long after, the couple went downstairs for breakfast. Jen's face was completely bare as she didn't have the patience to put anything on except for lotion. As expected Lucas was also being dragged along with her.

When they arrived at the dining area, Jen saw that all her friends had come down for breakfast with the exception of Leanna and Nancy. The only other person there besides Laura and Rachel was Brian who was sitting on the other side of the table drinking a cup of coffee.

"Good morning guys" Jen as brightly as she could and it ended up sounding quite forced.

"Mmh" Rachel and Laura said in unison acknowledging her greeting but they were both feeling miserable.

Especially Rachel who had not planned on drinking the previous night.

Jen poured herself a gla.s.s of juice from the other table where all the food was piled up and went to sit opposite the other two girls.

"How was your night? I left before the party even ended" Jen said as she took small sips of her juice.

"She got even more wasted and had to be carried back to her room" Laura said as she pointed at Rachel whose face became red.

She didn't know who had handed her a gla.s.s of vodka but she ended up drinking it because she was thirsty and she couldn't properly remember some of the things she did. She remembered that she had embarra.s.sed herself in front of Brian the previous night and she could not even look at his face.

Jen raised her eyebrows in surprise and looked at Rachel whose gaze was fixated on the cup of tea she was drinking. Before Jen could ask anything she could smell the fragrance of the soup that the kitchen had been preparing. The server placed the large pot of soup on the table with the other foods and left.

As for Jen who was feeling hungry, she immediately stood up and went to the table and picked up a bowl and ladle and started serving herself the soup.

"Do you want some?" Jen asked Lucas who was having coffee.

"I'll also have some" Lucas said because his appet.i.te was stirred when the food came out. Jen took a bigger bowl and ladled the soup in it and brought it to the table, she then went back and took smaller bowls and the basket that was packed with bread and brought it to the table.

She felt like the others would want some too. After bringing everything and putting it at the centre of the table, she took a bowl and served herself some soup and sat down next to Lucas.

Since the soup was in front of them they figured that they might as well have a taste, by the time they had al served themselves some Jen who was directly drinking from the bowl put it back on the table and leaned on the back of her chair. She gave a long sigh of satisfaction and resisted the urge to burp.

"I thought you did not plan on drinking last night" Jen said to Rachel who had just started having some soup.

"I wasn't" Rachel said and directed an accusatory glance at Brian who was still drinking his coffee.

"You could have told me you weren't drinking" Brian said when he realised that he was being blamed for her drinking.

"She never has a hard time expressing her opinions, I wonder why you didn't say anything when you were offered a drink" Laura commented slyly.

Rachel refused to answer her. In fact, she decided that she will not say another word about the previous night. When she looked at Brian, his black eyes met hers and he raised one corner of his lips into a smirk.

"Should we go out for a walk after breakfast?" Brian asked his eyes still focussed on hers. Rachel gave a small nod of agreement as she knew she could not avoid talking about the previous night much longer.