After about four hours of talking and getting to know one another, I didnt realize how drunk I was till I put down my glass of wine and tried to speak, however ended up slurring each time.

"Daddyyyy its ffourr in morninggggg its sooo laatee, I have workeyy in mornigg"

"How bad of a drunk is she?" Jasper giggled.

"Exqueeze me?" I glared at him giving him the death stare.

"Oh no not again. Roxy, we gotta get you to bed, remind me to never let you drink ever again." daddy groaned as he lifted me up

" Yayyy I is flyinggg." I guffawed.

" Oh honey, lets go." daddy groaned once more.

Daddy took me to my room and laid me on my bed. My head was still spinning from  the alcohol. I just shut my eyes and fell asleep.

Note to self:I'M NEVER FUCKING DRINKING EVER AGAIN.

*4 HOURS LATER*

I woke up with a huge migraine the size of a brain tumor. My room was still spinning and the very dim rays of light seemed to burn my eyes. My stomach was on fire and I needed to puke so bad. After several retches, I turned to the bare wooden floor of my room and puked to my heart's desire, closing my eyes, letting it all out, and it felt good, or at least it did,till I heard a very loud shriek that almost made me deaf.

" Roxy what the actual fuck! Ewwwww why would you do this to me?This is beyond gross!" Jasper squeaked.

"Jaspy?" I rubbed my eyes. "Is that you?"

"Yes it's me! You fucking puked all over me, and now my favorite shirt is stained with your vomit! Jasper is mad!"

I could do nothing but chortle. To be honest I found the situation quite hilarious.

"Jacob! Wake the fuck up man! Look what she just did! My Delilah is now forever ruined!" Jasper squealed.

"What's  wrong with you man?It's so fucking early in the morning, let me sleep!" Jacob groaned and after a few twists and turns went back to sleep.

" No one cares about your stupid "Delilah", okay?. But um.... you can borrow one of my shirts for the time being." I rubbed my eyes.

"Also, did you just call your shirt Delilah?" I questioned.

"My Delilah, my beautiful Delilah!" he sniffled.

Jacob immediately sprung up.

"Roxy, did you seriously throw up all over Delilah?" Jacob worrily asked me.

"Y-y-es. M-m-maybe?" i hesitated.

"Okay okay, um......uh this can be fixed. I can fix this. Uh hurry Jacob think! Quick, before its too late." Jacob started pacing.

"Okay Jasper, I'm gonna need you to show me how bad the situation is." Jacob asked in a serious voice.

Jasper turned around to show Jacob the vomit stained t-shirt. Jacob was horrified. The quilts, the floor and even the mattress was covered in barf.

"God R, how much did you drink?" Jacob questioned.

" I dunno." I cupped my face in my hands and took a deep breath.

"Jasper, run to the bathroom and clean yourself." I'll see how much of Delilah is salvageable." Jacob ordered.

Jasper sprung to the bathroom immediately and rinsed himself off.  I just laid back and shut my eyes while Jacob tried to wash the shirt and a bracelet with a gigantic amount of surf, along with the quilts and mattress while i just laid there and sulked. The poor chap even mopped up the floor within five minutes.

After twisting and turning around in my bed for a half hour I sprung out of bed, alarmed while Jacob put a wet towel on my burning forehead.

"What's the fucking time?W-w-where is the clock?" at this point I was hyperventilating.

"Relax Rox, just lay down, you have a fever." Jacob slightly caressed my shoulder hoping my hyperness would subside, but instead,

"You really wanna test me right now? huh? Do you?" i roared clutching onto the collar of his polo paper white shirt.

"N-no ma'am." he whimpered gently.

I got out of bed and ran to the shower.

After a two minute quick rinse, I hopped out and ran to my closet.

"Sir Xavier's gonna fucking kill me, I'm a dead woman! The client is supposed to come in today and talk about the investment. I am so gonna lose my job."  I started pacing as i got dressed.

"Don't worry, you won't" Jacob reassured me.

Jasper was nowhere to be found, and at this point, I really didn't care.

"Listen Jacob, I gotta run, say goodbye to daddy for me in the morning, I'm running super late." I spoke really quick.

"Ye-yeah... uh dont worry about it." Jacob responded.

"And Jacob,"

"Yeah?"

"Thank you."

A smile spread across his face as I zoomed out of the house. I was gonna be murdered by my boss. I can already see the headline on the newspaper. " 19 year old girl gets stabbed to death for late arrival to work, suspects are currently being questioned."

As I reached the gate, I noticed Jasper sitting in the garden and crying. I wanted to approach him, but just couldn't, I was running so freaking late for work.

After an excruciating twenty minutes of driving,  I reached my office and ran into my cubicle hoping no one would notice me.

I put my head down and groaned for about fifteen seconds straight. I was never drinking EVER again.

"Uh here.. this stuff is super good for hangovers." Natasha put her hand on my shoulder as she handed me a cup of ginger ale.

"Tha-Thank y-you, you're a lifesaver." I quickly grabbed onto the mug and slurped up the hot liquid in one go. I laid my head down on the cold marble desk and just let it be there for five minutes.

"Well I see you have formed an unlikely bond with this desk, that's good to know." 

"Sir Xavier! Shit! I'm so sorry! Um...my.......uh presentation is ready for display, so um i can show it to you if you like... Sir."

"Jesus Roxy, you look like shit! What the hell happened?" he gasped while looking at the knee deep eye bags circling my eyes.

"N-nothing." I looked down at the floor.

"Yeah I'm sure....." he raised his left eyebrow." Feel free to take the day off. The super big hot shot client decided to be an asshole and bailed on us today. I sure as hell swear to god if he invests in "Alkarine and Maurice's insurance.Co" I am going to kill myself." he was fuming with rage. 

I was more pissed them him. More angry that i had busted my ass off to get up so freaking early in the morning, even when I was feeling like absolute shit, threw up tankfuls of vomit and the jerk doesn't even show up for the presentation I had spent three days working on!? What an entitled,selfish little prick! 

"I think I'm going to be sick."  and just like that I ran to the bathroom cupping my face in my hand trying to suppress the puke from pouring out.

I puked once more into the basin and twice in the squeeky clean toilets.  My shirt was covered in vomit and so were my hands, but puking my guts out made me feel so much better, like a weight had been lifted. Don't get me wrong, I still felt like shit, just less worse.

I  called a cab and plopped myself in the back seat and just closed my eyes and placed my hand on my forehead. I felt so bad, like I couldn't even breathe. i was hyperventilating.

"You okay miss?" the driver asked but I didn't have the energy to respond to him. After reaching my house, he gently placed my hand over his shoulder and carried me inside.

I felt dizzy and so freaking nauseous. I felt as though i the air in my lungs had vanished and was replaced with emptiness. And just like that, i fucking fainted.

*An hour later*

I blinked my eyes several times, and moved my hand gently, with the remaining ounce of strength that I had left in my body. I heard an EKG blinking and after my vision cleared up, I saw daddy, Jasper, Jacob, and even Jo, but no sign of Jason, guess he was really done with me.

"She's awake." daddy whispered.

I took the oxygen mask off and sighed.

"How are you feeling darling? You tired? You were having trouble breathing for the past hour." Jo said worriedly.

I nodded gently and laid my head back on the pillow.

Then I heard the door open, and all of a sudden, my eyes brightened up.

"Hey they uh.. they didn't have any gatorade but will coffee work? Or do you....."

It was Jason. And just like that our eyes met once again.  I noticed a sigh of relief escaping his mouth when he saw me awake. And I smiled at him and he gave me one of his signature sexy smirks. I felt like melting butter in that moment.

"Do you want something to eat?" Jasper asked.

"No thank you. But um, do you mind telling me what happened?" I meekly spoke.

"Lamb, the doctors seem to think that you got alcohol poisoning, that's why you completely blacked out." daddy told me.

"Oh, how uh bad is it really.. On like a scale of one to ten?"

"I'd say about a four, but from now on, you're on drinking probation." daddy chuckled.

"Alex, you should get Roxy something to drink, she threw up all of her fluids." Jo signalled daddy towards the door.

"I'll come with you, I'm famished." said Jasper and hurriedly went after daddy.

Daddy giggled.

"Actually, same here." said Jo. and just like that everyone except Jason and Jacob left.

For a minute or two we three just awkwardly stared at each other. To break the tension, Jacob got up.

"I...uh forgot to sanitize my hands, I'll be right back!" and he rushed out.

Leaving just me and Jason in the room.

"How are you now?" he whispered.

"Much better.... Just a bit tired and a little cold." I yawned.

"Do you want me to go bring the nurse to adjust the temperature? Or maybe even get some quilts? he gushed.

"No its fine, just uh.... Would you sit with me?"

"S-sure." he blushed and took a seat next to me. I just looked into his gorgeous eyes.

"Why are you here? Thought you wanted to keep you distance."

I inched my hand closer to him but he removed it instantaneously, as though he were guarding it.

"Cause we're family."

My hand immediately retreated after  hearing that word. Was that all he ever thought of me now? Just his sister?

I turned red and hot tears welled up in my eyes. This was literally the stupidest thing to cry about. I turned away from him and with my lip quivering, I said,

"Leave."

"What did I do? I'm sorry if I said anything wrong.... Roxy please don't cry."

"Leave now before I scream." I snivelled.

"Okay.... but before I do, I wanna tell you I'm so sorry for leaving yesterday. It was my mother's death anniversary too and I.... just wasn't in the right state of mind. I'm so sorry for hurting your feelings. I shouldn't have left you the way I did, I'm so sorry for letting my emotions get the best of me. And just so you know, I never have wanted to stay away from you." I felt his voice breaking as he spoke.

And just like that, guilt and sorrow overwhelmed me as I saw him walk out the door.Once more, I felt a rush of guiltiness fill my body, guilt for being selfish and making this about me, and guilt for being self centered enough not to remember that his mother, too, was gone.

I allowed myself to and cry, for the most trivial matter in the world, I wanted to hug him and tell him that it was my fault and I was sorry for my childhood antics.But a pesky little thing called my so called "Self pride" got in the way.

After about seven minutes of wallowing in my misery, Jacob walked in.

"How you feeling now?............Hey, are you crying? Whats wrong?" he ran close to me.

I eradicated the falling drops of water from my tear stained face at lightening speed.

"Did Jason say something to you? I swear to God I'm gonna beat his ass if he said anything to hurt you." he started pacing in anger.

I laughed. Then smiled briefly after noticing just how protective he was of me. He was like the protective little brother I never had. Carver never really was the one there for me.

"No no, its not that, I'm just in a bit of pain, that's all." I reassured him by flashing him a bright smile.

"Should I call the nurse?Is there something I can do? he gushed.

"No please, don't bother, just uhh..... talk to me......please?"

"Yeah sure, of course, anything." he pulled a chair towards my bed.

"What you want to talk about?" he asked.

"Why were you in my room in the morning? What happened last night?"

"Oh yeah..... uh last night, it was really late , like four in the morning or something, Alex and mother asked if we wanted to sleep in their room or yours..... We uh chose your room cause we didn't want to be in there when they would bang... I hope that was okay? he looked at me hoping to hear a "yes" and I nodded gently.

"TMI Jacob, TMI." I laughed

He giggled.

"That's a relief, though, I was worried. But you throwing up on Jasper was totally iconic."

"Oh yeah......uh I totally forgot to mention, I saw him crying in the garden on the way to work....I was late so I couldn't ask him why. do you have any idea what that was about? i questioned.

"Uh yeah... Umm do you remember Delilah from this morning?"

"What? Is the shirt I threw up on the reason for him crying." I couldn't help but giggle.

"No, uh, Delilah was the bracelet that he was wearing that you threw up on. That bracelet was given to him by our birth mother, Delilah It had a very round piece of marble fixed in it. Jason and I also, have jewellery given to us by Delilah, our real mother. Jason has a marble stone studded watch and and I have a have a ring studded with a marble stone. I know you may think it's not much, and it doesn't have much value, but it's the last memory of our mother that we have, Jasper and I were way too young to remember her, but it was specially difficult for Jason, he loved her with all his heart."

"Oh, oh wow, I don't know what to say, but um whats this have to do with Jasper? The puke could have easily come off."

"Yeah, but um that's the thing, when I was washing it in the basin the stone came off and fell into the hole. I tried to get it out but it had already gone through the pipe and into the gutter. You were asleep, so Jasper didn't want to wake you up and neither did I. So he just cried it out. I felt so bad."

"Oh God, you have nothing to feel bad about. I feel so terrible! I'm so sorry, uh do you mind telling me what the bracelet looked like?"

Jacob lifted up his phone to reveal a picture of Jasper wearing the bracelet.

"Do you mind bringing me my phone from the counter over there?" i pleaded.

"Yeah sure." he handed me the phone.

"Found it. Aha. It's going to be the best thanksgiving present ever!"

"What is?" Jacob tried to peak into the phone screen. I let him.

"You gotta swear into secrecy you wont tell Jasper, but I'm getting him the exact replica of this bracelet. It was my fault you lost the stone."

"But Roxy, this costs a fortune! The bracelet he owned was barely worth ten dollars. This is a thousand! That's way too much." he said.

"No it's not. I have been saving up for the longest time, I have more then enough money for this, just promise me you'll keep this a secret from Jasper. It's going to be a surprise."

Just then Jasper walked in.

"What is?"