After Forever & Ever

Chapter 89

Hardin-2009

I guess this will be my fresh start here in the states. Go to college...explore all that America has to offer. I know Ken wants me to come stay at his house with his girlfriend and her son....but that's the last thing I will be doing.

I instead am moving into the dorms today. I requested a single room but they paired me with someone and so I'm hoping he's not a total fucking loser and that we can at least get along.

When I walk up to my room I'm hoping he hasn't moved in yet so I can choose my side or the bed or something but I notice as soon as I walk up to the floor that the door is already open to my room number....great.

I walk in and he is hanging a poster of The Ramones on the wall....

Okay. Okay I think to myself....we are off to a good start.

I drop my bag to the floor and he turns around and hops off his bed.

"Hey what's up man you must be Hardin, I'm Zed." He says to me putting his hand out.

"What's up, nice to meet you." I reply actually meaning it.

"Woah sick accent....where are you from?" He asks me.

"I'm from here what do you mean." I reply trying to give my best American accent back to him.

He laughs and brushes me off. "Do you care that I took this side of the room?" He asks me.

"All good...I'm hoping to join a frat and move out anyway so I won't be here long." I tell him.

"Yea same actually." He replies.

There aren't a lot of people I actually like when I first meet them but he seems pretty cool.

It's been 2 months into college now and I can say with certainty most Americans suck. The girls are slutty. But the parties aren't that bad.

Zed and I still haven't moved into the frat. I think we both know we have a nice set up in our room and no one bothers us so we haven't made the move yet.

Him and I both have the fact that our Dad's were drunks in common. And he didn't have the best life growing up either. I didn't tell him about what happened to my mum. But I just told him I had a fucked up childhood and it's a lot of why I am the way I am.

A few months later....I really fuck up and do something I really shouldn't have with one of our buddies sisters, Jamie. Zed is really the only one that holds me accountable and calls me out on how fucked up it is that I did what I did to her and so he decided to move out of our room.

I haven't had a lot of people that have held me accountable for the fucked up shit I have done so the fact that Zed has I was pissed at him at first but he made me realize what a fucking dick I am and that I need to own my fucking shit and stop treating everybody like crap...because Jamie didn't deserve that. And I see that now because it cost me my best friend.

I know the person I should apologize to is Jamie...but I'll start with Zed. There is a party at the frat tonight so I plan on trying to talk to him then. It's pretty much sucked since he moved out. We hung out every fucking day....

When I get to the frat it's pretty crowded already.... I am having to push my way through people. I don't see Zed so instead I grab a cup and get myself a drink from the keg.

There is this girl who keeps staring at me with dark black hair with pink ends and I can't help but notice her huge fucking tits.

She ends up walking up to me.

"What's up?" I say to her before she can say anything to me.

"Do you have a cigarette?" She asks me.