James reached out and lightly tapped Esther's head with his hand. "You caught on pretty quickly."

"Alright, I want to go home now," Esther said, glancing at her clean clothes as she sat up.

A memory of throwing up flashed in her mind. Why were her clothes clean? If she remembered it, it couldn't have been a dream. Suddenly, a strange smell caught Esther's attention. Sniffing around, she realized her clothes didn't smell like her detergent.

"Did you take off my clothes?" Esther blurted out, feeling awkward even saying it.

James, feeling stressed but wanting to reassure her, explained patiently, "No, the cleaner did it."

but he didn't do anything to

so she wouldn't wake up naked. Esther was in such a deep sleep that she didn't even wake up when she was

Pearl," she answered, dreading what her friend might say if she found out

"Where are you?"

sounded calm, but Esther sensed trouble. She stuttered nervously, "I... I'm at home, just woke up. What's going on?" Sᴇaʀch Thᴇ ꜰindNʘvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ

be asleep at this hour. How could she be back from James's

her best poker face. "Yes, I'm at home. You know I'm not a morning person." She was getting

to lie to me?

apologized. "I'm sorry, Pearl. I

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