Chapter 17: Morning After

— Leia Steele —

I hug the life sized body pillow closer and tighter, inhaling deeply as my body sinks into the comfort of it all.

It couldn’t get any better than this, could it? This was the best dream I have ever had in a long, long time.

Soft and silky sheets. One hundred percent pure cotton filled in the pillows. I could stay here forever.

It was like being on the best vacation of your life, but the problem is that though you never want it to end, you know it has to at some point. You know that you have to go home and face reality.

I let out a deep exhale, followed by a loud grumble before rubbing my eyes open.

While I was expecting to be greeted by a musky smell or three other girls huddled around me from lack of space, imagine my shock when I blinked open my eyes and was instead looking at a perfectly neat room.

No dirty walls. No putrid smells. No other girls whining about the awful sleep they had. I’m also wearing the softest black robe.

“What... the… hell…” I mumbled in d