When I opened my eyes, I found the setting had changed drastically. I was no longer surrounded by bodies in a club, but in Ashley’s bed with a major headache. My brain was pounding into my skull. Waves of pain would crash into my brain causing me to flinch involuntarily. It felt like I was being pressed under cement. That might actually feel better than this.

“What’s going on?” I asked completely bewildered and confused beyond belief. I was losing it. I could tell I was starting to freak out from the drastic change of scenery. I could feel myself losing it, but I couldn’t hold it together. Ashley looked over seeing I was awake, and sat down on the bed next to me.

“How do you feel?” Ashley asked with a worried expression written all over her face.

“My head feels like it’s going to explode,” I moaned. Ashley already seemed to be ready. On the night stand, there sat a glass of water and three ibuprofen. She handed them to me, and I swallowed them knowing it was going to take a while for it to even kick in. I could feel her pressing her hand against my heated forehead. “Thank you,” was all I said before zoning out and trying to put the pieces of my memory together. I wasn’t working. “What happened?”

“That’s what I was going to ask you,” Ashley replied.

“We came to the club to find you passed out left in the bathroom with a note on you.” She handed me the note cautiously. Her facial expressions only added to my anxiety attack coming on. Sitting there for a second, I waited for my eyes to focus the words. When the words finally stopped all blurring together, I was finally able to decipher the message. “Pay backs a bitch,” was all it said. But those words were enough to stun me. They felt so familiar in so many ways. Where have a heard that before? I searched my mind looking for the last place I remembered hearing that same phrase, shit. It hit me. Everything came flooding back, and I figured out what probably happened.

Ashley seemed to have gotten the vibe I understood, because she looked at me patiently waiting for me to explain.