"What are you doing?" Schlatt asks.
Wilbur was pacing, back and forth, across their small dorm room. Typing something, then deleting it.
He'd been doing this for the past hour.
"I'm trying to tell Hannah that her boyfriend's a prick!" Wilbur mutters, deleting something again.
"Why does she need to know, you said they're gonna break up in a week, right?" Schlatt asks.
"Yeah, but this time it's different, Jared is...he's...a...wrongen!" Wilbur sputters.
"A wrongen? Now you sound like your brother," Schlatt asks.
"Tommy would fuckin have the girl already!" Wilbur yells.
"No offense, but your brother isn't as smooth with the ladies as he claims," Schlatt laughs.
"But he wouldn't be in this situation, he would've fucked it up as soon as he met the girl's boyfriend, boom, over, done!" Wilbur types something up and decides it isn't good enough and deletes it again.
Schlatt sighs, "and you're sure this is still about her?"
"Who else would it be about!?" Wilbur yells and whips his head over to Schlatt, pausing for the first time in over an hour.
Schlatt raises an eyebrow.
"No! There is no way I'm in love with Jared! He's a prick, a wrongen-whatever! He looks so much better than me, he's funnier than me...and he smells like Hannah's perfume! I couldn't tell you that if I was in love with him, would I?"
"You said you always loved how she smelled, and he smells like that now, are you saying-"
"I am not fucking in love with Jared!"
Suddenly Wilbur's phone dinged.
Unknown: hey, it's Jared, Hannah gave me your number when I told her we were in class together, still can't find the syllabus, hope you'll help!
Wilbur chucked his phone on the rug, it didn't break.
"Was that him?" Schlatt teased.
"I'm going to Niki's dorm! Maybe she can be more helpful than you!"
***
"Sorry Wil, but I think Schlatt's right, I mean, why else would you care so much?" Niki sighs, pouring them each a cup of tea.
"I'm assuming she's at Asshole's right now?" Wilbur asked.
"Don't call him names," Niki rolls her eyes, "besides, you can't avoid the truth, and the truth is-"
"What!? That I like..." Wilbur hesitates, "him?"
"It's obvious, Wil. You usually just wait it out, call the guys a few names and move on with your life, and you're so against it, your crush isn't even subtle," Niki giggles.
"I hate you," Wilbur sighs.
"You seem to hate people who tell you the truth," Niki giggles.
Then, there was a knock on the door.
"They're ba-ack," Niki teased, getting up to unlock the door.
Wilbur prayed it wasn't them, but of corse it was, and he was the first thing they noticed.
"Hey, it's Wilbur, god, we can never get rid of this kid!" Jared laughs.
"Nice to meet you too," Wilbur smirks, "now if you excuse me, I was just head ding o-"
"Shut up," Niki commands, "I just made tea, we can all play cards or something!"
"Nah, I'm good, besides, Wilbur and I have Geography homework, we're in the same class," Jared shrugs.
"Maybe you two can work on it together," Niki suggests.
Wilbur elbows her.
"Maybe in the library, I'm sure it'll make-out fine," she continues. She didn't emphasize the words, but Wilbur could tell what she meant. She wanted them alone. And Hannah far, far out of the picture.
"Sure," Wilbur sighed.
"Yeah, besides, I need to get on the good side of my girlfriend's guy best friend, am I right?" Jared laughed, wrapping an arm around Wilbur and pulling him to his side.
"Great! You two go ahead!" Niki smiles; "Hannah and I can stay here! Maybe we could go to a party later!"
"Another one?" Wilbur asks.
"It's the first day of school, we need to celebrate making it through! Besides, Schlatt's idea, not mine," Niki holds up her phone for a minute and whips it back down.
Something told Wilbur that that wasn't the reason Niki wanted to go to that party.
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Of Corse I've Met Jared
Fanfiction!REUPLOAD BY AUTHOR FROM AO3! "Oh," Hannah giggled, "this is Jared, Jared this is Wilbur, he's my friend, don't worry though, he's never had a girlfriend in his life," • • • Or a Simpbur/E-Girl trilogy college AU where Wilbur may-or-may-not be in lo...
