The Midnight Beast in NYC: The Sequel

Chapter 5

Stefan

            I walk back into Jaina’s dorm room chuckling to myself.  She’s cute when she’s scared, I think as I head back over to help Ashley. He’s managed to get one of the beds inflated but can’t seem to detach the air pump.

            “Dude, it’s stuck I’m telling you,” he says when I’m next to him.  I hear the shower turn on in the bathroom and glance over my shoulder toward the door.  Dammit Jaina, I think as my heart rate skyrockets.  I reach up and rearrange my snapback. Total nervous habit but it helps me refocus.

            “Nah, man.  It can’t be,” I say reaching over to try and pull the pump off the bed.  Kimbra starts to say something but doesn’t get very far before--------

            CRACK.  BANG. YOOOOOooowwwwww.

            In all of 5 seconds everything went haywire.  I managed to pull the pump loose as the air mattress decided it was full to capacity and exploded, while at the same time I nailed Ashley in the chest with the newly freed pump.

           

Jaina

CRACK. BANG. YOOOOOooowwwwww.

“C’MON!?” I yell as I’m scared shitless for like the zillionth time today.  This time I manage to grab the shower rod before falling over though.  What the hell was that, I think as I hurriedly turn the water off and grab my towel from the rack. 

Vera’s banging on the connecting door yelling to see what’s going on so I deal with that first.

“What the hell?  Are you ok?” she says once I’ve yanked the door open. 

“Yeah I’m good but who the hell let off a bomb in here?” I answer.  I notice Dru standing behind her and pull my towel a little tighter around myself before marching over to the door to my room.

I pull it open to see my room in absolute chaos.  There’s bits of plastic everywhere and in the middle of it all is Ashley on the floor moaning and clutching his chest.  Kimbra is on her knees next to him making these shushing noises. Stefan is standing slightly off to the side looking completely shell shocked. 

Vera stomps in followed by Dru just as someone starts knocking on the door to the hallway.

“Oh fuck,” Vera says, “Whatever you did, you’ve brought Sarah down on us!”

I look at Kimbra and her expression mirrors my “oh shit” face.  Sarah’s our RA and she CANNOT come in here and see the boys. 

“We have to hide the boys,” I shriek as Vera walks over to my main door yelling at Sarah to hold on a sec.

 “Where the hell are they gonna go?” Kimbra says starting to panic, “We both have shelves under our beds and you know she’ll check Vera’s room too!”  Struggling to keep my own panic on lockdown I try to think as I readjust my towel for like the fifth time.  MY TOWEL!  That’s it!

“The shower!” I screech!  Kimbra jumps to her feet and starts pulling on Ashley to make him get up.  I still don’t know what happened to him but I hope he’s not too badly hurt.  Stefan is still standing still and just staring.  I go over and start yanking on his arm trying to get him to go into the bathroom.

“Stefan. Stefan. Stef.  Stefannnnn, c’monnnn,” I whine at him.  Still no reaction.  And Sarah’s banging on the door now threatening to get security while Vera yells back at her something about me not being clothed so she should calm her tits.