I had woken up naked and in a strange bed. My head was pounding and I had no idea where I was.

Oh my God! What had I got up to after the pub? My brain raced ahead to try and work out how I had ended up here. This was the first time in my life that I had woken up with no idea where I even was.

Eventually, I saw the Tinkerbell posters on the wall and worked out that I had slept in Daisy’s room. It all started to slowly fall into place.

Mike had stayed the night so that he didn’t need to go home drunk at an ungodly hour. I didn’t want Daisy to come home and find him in her bed, so I had used her room and Mike had slept in mine.

It was still dark outside, though, so why had I woken up so early? I should have slept till at least midday after last night’s events.

The doorbell buzzed and I worked out that it had woken me up when it has rang before. I jumped up and opened the door before remembering that I had slept naked for the first time in my adult life too.

My wet clothes from the night before were still lying in a heap on the floor so I grabbed an old Def Leppard t-shirt and put it on. I knew that I looked awful but I guessed that it was either Daisy coming home early or else the Jehovah’s Witnesses looking to save my soul again. Either way, I would be back in bed in less than a minute.

I looked on in horror as Frank Sanchez stood at the other side of the door. He was as immaculately dressed as ever and I felt like a silly little girl with nothing but my baggy old t-shirt on. It was so awkward that I had no idea what to say or do.

I guided him to the dining room table with my head thumping. All that vodka and fresh orange juice had given me a nightmare hangover.

It was almost impossible to look decent with only the t-shirt on, so I opted to stand still and cross my arms in front of me. Even then, I knew that I was horribly exposed.

My throat felt like a piece of sandpaper. I could barely concentrate on what Frank said but I knew that it was important if he had come to my house to talk to me at this time of day. Was he asking for forgiveness or had he come over to sort out my contractual situation in the clinic?

If only I could find the words to excuse myself for a few minutes to get showered, put on some decent clothes and get something to drink. He kept talking and I had no option but to try and find a way of understanding it all.

He was telling me something about Heidi and him not taking advantage of other nurses. The words hung in the air in front of me but I was struggling to make sense of them. My bladder was full to bursting point and I hopped from one foot to another, desperate to go to the bathroom.

This was the worst morning of my life.

Frank was looking over my shoulder now. What was he looking at?

Oh no! Mike was coming down the stairs cheerily and only wearing his underwear. The two men looked at each other and I wanted to find a big rock to crawl under. Why didn’t the idiot put his pants on when he woke up?

This couldn’t have looked any more like a casual, one-night fling even if we had tried. Mike stopped dead at the bottom of the stairs. I could almost hear the gears whirring in his head as he tried to work out what was happening.

“Hi, you must be Janie’s father. I’m Mike.”

I felt even more awful now, and I could see the blood rain from Frank’s face. For a second I thought he was going to hit Mike but he just stared coldly at him before turning to me.

“I see that the mistake is mine this time. Goodbye Jane.” He turned and walked towards the door, a perfect image of hurt pride and cool dignity.

The words still wouldn’t form in my head. I hadn’t said a single word since he had arrived, had I?

“I hope your father isn’t too upset about seeing me here, Janie.”

The words were slowly coming to my mouth, too late to make a difference now.

“He’s not my father. My parents are dead, Mike.” This was the first time I had used those words and it just sounded so wrong.

“Wait, so who was that guy?” I waited patiently for the thoughts to come together in his head. “Jesus, that was your hot boss that you did the deed with out in the garden?”

“Yes. That was Frank.”

“I’m sorry. I genuinely thought…Do you want me to run after him and explain? There might still be time.”

“No, just leave him. I think this relationship was doomed from the start, anyway.”

“What did he say? Did he come here to try and seduce you again? And why are you half naked? Did I disturb something?”

I sighed and then rushed off to the bathroom.

When I got back, refreshed and now fully dressed, Mike had prepared coffee and laid out some cookies he had found. He had also put on his pants at last.

The cookies were Daisy’s favorites but I was so famished that I ate some anyway. I would deal with her fury about it when the time came.

The coffee felt good as is slid down my throat and brought me slowly back to life.

“What did your boss say?” Mike was clearly a lover of gossip and he was desperate to find out what had happened before he came downstairs.

“He told me that it was a mistake. That he didn’t take advantage of his nurses normally.”

“Well, that’s something. Did he say the three magic words?”

“Only if they are ‘you’re the first’?”

“You mean you took away his virginity? You naughty girl.”

“No. I think he meant that I was the first nurse he had taken advantage of. Or fallen in love with. Oh, I don’t know anything anymore. Just make me some more coffee.”

Mike silently obeyed and came back with two more cups of it along with more cookies. He was a good person to have around at a time of crisis that called for lots of caffeine and cookies.

“Why would he come here at whatever Godforsaken time of day this is if he just wanted to say that he had taken advantage of you but you were the first?”

“To say sorry? To take advantage of me again? Who knows how men’s minds work in these things? I wish you were gay so you could help me out here.”

“So do I sometimes.”

The two of us laughed. The coffee was starting to take effect and life didn’t seem quite so bad after all.

“What are you going to do, Janie?”

“I can feel a plan forming in my head.”

“Uh huh.”

“I need to get him alone in a situation in which I am comfortable and in control.”

“Ooh, I like the sound of that. Do you have a leather catsuit and a whip you could use?”

“Maybe it’s time for me to show that I’m the kind of woman that Frank needs in his life.”