Vivian

Chapter 4

Darren's POV

WHETHER YOU'RE A BROTHER OR WHETHER YOU'RE A MOTHER YOU'RE STAYIN' ALIVE, STAYIN' ALIVE~~

"FEEL THE CITY BREAKIN' AND EVRYBODY'S SHAKIN' AND WE'RE STAYIN' ALIVE, STAYIN' ALIIIIIIIIVVEEEEEE~~~~" I sing passionately. Hey, the 70s were beautiful, don't hate.

RING

I turn down the music so that it was background noise and hit the speaker button on my new phone to answer whoever's calling. "Yello?"

"HOW COULD YOU?! OH MAI GAWD! I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME!!!! ESPECIALLY AFTER LAST NI--"

"MIKE, could you please, for once, not be a nuisance?" I interrupt the familiar schreechings of my dormmate. Ugh, how did I survive almost a year of living with this idiot?

"HONEY! I'M JUST WORRIED YOU'VE LEFT ME TO TEND TO OUR UNBORN CHILD THAT'LL COME IN APPROXIMATELY 9 MONTHS!" What the hell? I swear I'll slap him the next time I see him. "I DIDN'T THINK YOU WERE THAT KIND OF MAN! HOW COULD YOU?! I THOUGHT WHAT WE HAD WAS SPECIAL!!!!!"

"OH MY DEAR SWEET BABY MONKEYS!" I roar at the phone, "If you don't shut the hell up, I will send your severed head to your sister in the mail!" Why did he always have to be so dang weird?!

"Okay okay," Mike chuckles, "but seriously, DUDE?! Why didn't you tell me you were heading home? I could've come with you, saved some freakin' gas bro!"

"Because, oh dormmate," I sigh, "you were sleeping so very peacefully, and being the honorable man that I am, I decided to leave you that way." I pause for a minute. "That and the quiet was so beautiful I think the Olympic Gods would have banished me to Tartarus if I'd awoken the beast." I said that dead seriously; Zeus liked throwing bolts and I wasn't about to deal with that ish.

"OKAY, I get it, dang. Way to spare my feelings."

"Wasn't trying to freak. So, you coming home too?" Break had finally started. It was about time too, if I had to take anymore notes I thought I'd chop my hands off just to have an excuse. Not that it would help, college professors don't care if you take notes or not. Then again, I wouldn't have to take tests. Actually, that idea is looking better and better every second.

"Nah," Mike cuts my thoughts short, "I have more work to do, sigh. I'll be back in a couple days, and I guess we'll have to stay till after the holidays are over. God, I bet you my mom is making me another pair of knitted socks right now." He groans on the other side of the line, "I swear, one more pair and I can open up a knitted sock museum." He pauses before asking, "How far have you gotten?"

"Ha! My mom makes me scarves, loser." I stick my tongue out even though he can't see it. "Passing by the Mayor's Mansion," I say to answer his question. Dang that's a sweet house. I'm not poor, no one in town actually is, but dang, what I wouldn't give to see the inside of that.

"YO," Mike yells through the phone, "EYES ON THE ROAD!"

"I wasn't even--"

"I know you were. You are not making me take care of our baby alone!" He squealed in his fake high-pitched girl voice. Oh dear goodness.

"I'm going to hang up now. BYE FREAK!" I tell him.

"BYE BABE!" With that the call clicks off and I'm back to wondering how we ever made it as friends. Mike had always been the more popular out of the two of us. Girls tripped over themselves to get to know the freak, but what they didn't know is that he's a geek like I am. He likes animé and manga, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and I knew for a fact that he could quote Star Trek. How? Well, it gets boring in the dorm, acting out Star Trek with him tends to cut the boredom. Not saying I'm not as good-looking as him, lesibihonest I'm probably better looking, but I guess I'm just more willing to show my geekiness in public than he was. Seriously, though, the guy is so freakin' weird all the time, at least there is never a plain moment wi--