Kai anxiously shakes his leg, awaiting the professor's permission to leave the classroom. As a freshman in college, this is the thing he hates most of all, and there's a lot of things to hate. He figured since he's in college now, he'd finally be set free from all the 'the bell doesn't dismiss you, I dismiss you' teachers, but apparently, that is not the case.
"Come on Mrs. Brown, just let us go please. It's two o'clock now." One of his friends in the class, Roman, interrupts.
Kai looks around the classroom as a few of his classmates murmur in agreement. Everyone has already put all of their belongings into their book bags and it pains him to not be walking out of the classroom on the dot of when class is supposed to be dismissed. Since his last class is cancelled for the day, it means he's finally free until next semester starts in January.
"Please, I have somewhere to be." Another student calls out.
"Yessir." That statement alone makes Kai be the one to agree this time.
"I dismiss class when I'm done with my lesson. I can sit here until 2:30 if I had to." Mrs. Brown challenges.
Letting out a small sigh, Kai takes his phone from his pants pocket and checks the time that appears on the front screen. He shakes his head when he realizes it's now five minutes past two.
"Alright I let y'all sit in agony long enough, y'all can go." Mrs. Brown finally lets up. "Just make sure you finish your assignments in the math lab before tomorrow night or you are going to receive a zero, and no I will not let it slide and just hand out A's."
"Yes ma'am!" The class yells in unison as everyone shuffles through the doors of the classroom to get out.
Good thing I already finished everything for this class a few days ago. Kai succumbs to his thoughts.
"Happy holidays to you all." Mrs. Brown speaks up, only to realize that no one else is in the room.
"You too, Mrs. Brown. Thank you." Kai peaks his head back into the classroom, gaining a smile from Ms. Brown.
Ever since he was a kid, Kai has shown an enormous amount of respect to everyone around him because that's what his parents asked of him. It's only right that he acknowledges what Mrs. Brown said, especially since no one else took the time to say it back. That, along with his charm, is what makes every girl fall head over heels for him.
"Why thank you, Mr. Barlowe. Now get on out of here and go enjoy your winter break."
"Trust me, I am." He laughs before exiting the classroom once more.
Leaving out of Allen Hall, Kai meets up with his childhood best friend, Avery. While Avery just came to school for the parties and fun that college promises you, Kai has made it known since the beginning that he's going to finish school and become an Engineer.
"Wassup man?"
They greet one another by bringing their arms up with their index and middle finger pointed up straight, and then taping their wrists against each others twice. It was how everyone on the band team greeted each other back in high school, so they do it every time they come in contact with a fellow band mate.
"Aye, bro... you going to the end of the year party they throwing at Davenport?" Avery asks, turning to his best friend.
"I gotta see."
"Gotta see what? Who all coming?" Avery jokes, taking a jab at how systematized Kai is. "You only came to one party this whole semester, live a little."
"Man watch out. Some of us want a career."
"Low blow, man." They both pause for a second before Avery chuckles, letting Kai know there were no hard feelings. "I still don't care though. At least one of us knows what we wanna do in life."
"You should just do what you wanted to do before and go get your CDL." Kai advises Avery as they begin to walk in the direction of Panda Express.
It's Kai's favorite place to eat on campus whenever the cafeteria doesn't have any good food. Plus it's cheap and way closer to his dorm than the cafe is. Mississippi State campus is huge.
"Yeah I might do that because honestly, I don't see college as something I wanna do for more than a year. This semester was way more than enough." Avery shakes his head.
"Aye you gon be making money, man. I don't see what's stopping you from going right now." Kai shrugs his shoulders. "Then once you make enough to get your own truck, you can make your own schedule and make even more money."
"Fuck it, I'll do it after next semester."
"Why you wasting your people money like that?" Kai chuckles, shaking his head at his friend's stupidity.
"Cause they don't care about me, so I won't care about their money."
"You gotta be bigger than that, bro."
Avery was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. His dad being a software developer and his mother being a brain surgeon, they were sometimes never home and always put him in the care of a nanny. Baseball games, band battles, academic awards, and other occasions that would cause you to need your parents there with you, weren't an option for them. If it wasn't his birthday or if he was in the hospital for an emergency and an emergency only, they weren't there. It messed Avery up mentally, so he made a promise to himself that he would mess his parents' life up just as they did his since the day he was born.
"You really should fuck with the party, though." Avery changes the subject. "Get drunk and let loose. You passed three of your finals, and I'm pretty sure you passed the other one that's not graded yet, so that can be our celebration."
"I said ion know. I'll see how things lookin tomorrow."
"Mila's gonna be there." Avery cheeses, knowing that's the kick he needs to get Kai to go.
"I do need to let loose a lil bit." Kai says after a while, stepping into the Panda Express line.
"Yeah, pussy. I knew that would make you change your mind."
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