SOUL TIES

Trouble Is Knocking.

Jared in MM.

The four of us pulled up to Mariah's boo crib. We were all looking good as fuck. There was a group of boys in the crib all glued to the screen as a duo played Playstation. "yuuummm," one of them said making all the guys look at us. "Y'all staring, we know we bad" Tifa said.

       We all introduced ourselves and sat down to chill. It wasn't that bad. I actually had fun although the boys were thirsty as hell. Maria's boo Jared had three other roommates. Roy, Mohammed and Derrick. Roy came sitting next to me handing me a drink. "Are you trying to drug me?" I asked jokingly. For a mini second, I had a flashback on the night I lost my virginity. "Actually, let me pour myself some." I said as I put my drink in his cup and went to the kitchen to get me some. Jared was on the island smoking some.

       "Hey, you bad as fuck," he said eye fucking me. "Aren't you with my friend or something?" I asked. He looked at me for a while before saying something. "She's stubborn Af. And not my girl nor my type. I don't do relationships"
I shook my head walking out, back to where I was sitting. "So, Avery, you got a boyfriend? I'm single." Roy said looking at me with low eyes. He was clearly high. After conversing for a Lil bit with everyone, we found out that Mariah, Roy and I were in the same class. Tifa, Monique, Mohammed, Derrick and Jared were all in computer science.

     I looked at Roy really wanting to piss him off. Finally answering his question. "You actually aren't my type." I leaned towards him, whispering in his ear.
"Have you been a stripper before?" he asked. Was this man trying to annoy me? Cause I was starting to get heated up for sure.
"No offense, but you give a lot of sexual, sensual energy." How was I supposed to react to that? Was this a compliment or was this guy actually trying to insult me?

       I stood up, took a bottle from the table and some shot glasses and poured everyone some shots. "you are trying to get us drunk Avery." Tifa said. Derrick was sitting next to her trying to get her attention. Monique and Mohammed were sharing each other's playlists. Did I mention that Monique had mad raps? Mariah and Jared had disappeared to somewhere. I started slow whining while standing and looking at the screen. Woman by Doja cat was playing. Roy looked at me and shook his head. "What?" I said looking at him.

        "Come sit with me, everyone else is boo'd up" he said opening up his arms to me. I rolled my eyes not changing my stance any bit. I took some pictures, edited and posted them on my IG. I got some dms and replied to some after checking out the fine ones. I only replied to the fine niggas.

         "So, there's a party on Friday. Hosted by Bryan. Is anyone trying to pull up?" Derrick asked. I looked at him trying to figure out who Bryan was. "He's a junior and hosts some wild ass parties."
"Sure, Tifa, Monique, what do you think?" One thing I loved about these girls? They were down for a good time. "I'm in, let's have some fun before classes start on Monday."

        We left the boys' crib and headed back to our hostels. It was actually cool living off campus. I had to move soon. I made a mental note to ask the girls what they thought about it later.

       Friday morning was here, all the girls were in our hostel just chilling and catching up. "What do you guys think about,.." I started saying as Jenny walked into the room. I had met Jenny the previous day as I was going out for lunch. She was sitting on the pavement crying. I had to stop and make sure she was good. It turns out, her boyfriend of six years had asked for a break up since they were miles away. It was difficult calming her down. I never knew what to do when a person cried. She eventually calmed down, we headed out for lunch, back to my hostel and that's how we became friends.

Jenny, 18.

      "Girls, this is Jenny. Jenny this is Mariah, Tifa and Monique." I said introducing the girls as they complemented one another. All my girls were bad as fuck. I received a call from a delivery guy. I had forgotten some of my things at home, my parents were kind enough to send them to me. I made it to the gate meeting up the delivery man.

        They had sent quite a huge parcel and there was no way I'd carry all that by myself. The delivery guy drove off leaving me contemplating whether I should call the girls and lend me a hand. As I was getting my phone from my pocket, three guys approached me. I held a mean mug so they wouldn't try to get friendly. "Hey," one of them said. "that shit is bigger than you. Do you want help carrying it to wherever? I am Leo, btw". Well, at least they got some sense.

       "I am Bryan and this is Dushane." one of them said pointing to the ridiculously tall guy next to me. I walked in front showing them the direction to my hostel. Someone's phone rang. It's was Bryan's. "Hey man, I need all the booze delivered by 6.00pm. No excuses" he said then hang up. I turned around asking, "are you the Bryan who's hosting the party tonight?" He looked at me and said "yeah that's me, how did you hear about it?" I explained to them what happened.

      We got to my hostel, the guys came in and introduced themselves. I actually talked to Bryan quite a bit. He was a funny guy and so much a people's person. They left saying their goodbyes and we promised to pull up to their party. Leo insisted that I had to show up. I think he was kinda feeling me.

      "Bryan is so hot." Jenny came whispering to me. "You have to hook me up" I was quite surprised. I thought this girl was still stuck on her boyfriend. "I really don't know him that well. We just met" I said putting away some of my stuff. "Avery, you guys looked like besties already." she said still whispering. "Why are you whispering? You can talk out loud you know."

Bryan. 21.

        Tifa had a bottle of liquor in her hostel, she got it and we pregamed, chilling and talking about everything and anything under the sun. I was loving the vibe. I loved people and hanging out. I never understood when people said they had social anxiety, I was always down for a good time.
 
       "Sooo, I let Jared hit it." Mariah confessed. I didn't know what to say. Should I tell her that he tried flirting with me and talked shit about her?
"So are you guys dating now?" I asked. "Well, it's complicated." Mariah said, drinking whatever was in her cup. "Let's take a shot for the hoe." Monique said and everyone cheered. These girls were a mess.