Tatiyanna's Truth

4

I followed Chris back into the party. The music flowed into my high ears and elevated me more. I haven't been high like this in a minute. Like I said, we can't get away with smoking at our dorm and I haven't really been smoking when I go back home either.

"Yea, you was quick to try to duck off on us.. we tryna meet her too!" A light skin girl with long box braids and glasses teased Chris as we walked in.

Chris chuckled shaking her head. "Aye you want something to drink?" She looked back at me.

"Yea, what you got?"

"Some Henny, Tequila... I think we got some Taylor Port in there"

I laughed "damn... I just meant a regular drink"

She laughed too. "My bad, yea we got water, Fanta, sprite."

"See, this is how you host a kickback. Actually buy shit for your guest." Alesha chimed in. She so petty. She's still salty about our roommates drinking her juice. "I'll take some Tequila and a water though!"

I laughed, this girl is too much. "Get me a Fanta please"

When Chris left her friends Immediately started talking to me

"So Tat, what's your major?" The girl with the box braids and glasses asked me.

"Oh, I'm majoring in Child education, minoring in business."

"Oooh okay, so you like kids". Couldn't be me"

"Nah" I laughed. "I just have so many brothers and sisters I know the basics of running a daycare"

"Damn that's tough girl, I'm Charity. I'm on the team with Chris.. she's my best friend. I'm majoring in Sport medicine."

"Oh maybe you can look at my knee... I think I blew it out during our majorette boot camp. Coach is making me wear a knee brace for every single practice. I'm hoping she lets me take it off for our first performance"

"I don't know girl, it depends on how bad it is.. you might need it on for real"

I saw Chris enter the room in the corner of my eye. She gave Alesha the drinks she asked for then came to me handing me mines before string next to me.

"Well I'm TK, this my girl Sisi." A chubby light skin stud spoke up. She squeezed a short brown skin girl with short locs waist as she introduced her.

"It's nice to meet y'all"

I noticed Alesha pushing up on some Puerto Rican looking dude off to the side.

Chris's friends were mad cool. We sat there talking about the school and how shits going for us. I kept catching Chris looking at me. We were flirting back and forth most of the night.

Eventually she found a way to sneak us away. We came back out to the balcony and she lit the blunt that she put out earlier.

"Man I asked you to come over so I can get to know you and my friends over here stealing you away.."

"They're cool people. It's nice, I haven't meet a lot of people I vibe with here."

"Yea, I definitely got lucky. I came here with Rico, and Charity.. but we was cool with everybody else like immediately... you know, if you having trouble finding friends.. you can come chill over here."

"I bet you'd like that" I flirted.

"Shit, I'd love that..."

We got wrapped up into this long talk about the unfair way the United States works, and how it's crazy you have to  somehow survive 4 years of college... and some people have damn near kill themselves to pay for the 4 years, struggling through school and work just because jobs that pay well require a degree. And you do all that for the possibility of not being hired for said job and having to work below living wages, and have student loans to pay back, and still can't pay your bills....