This boy next to my room

23

June

As soon as I walk through the gate, Kat jumps on me. Happy to find myself again after two hours at the hairdresser. I return her hug with pleasure. Behind me, there is the one I have decided not to talk to anymore. I know it may seem like our friendship is very moody, but he has to think before he says hurtful things out of his mouth.

Coming from him, it shouldn't matter to me but my body has been a terrible complex for the majority of my teenage years and to hear someone other than me insinuate that I am out of shape hurts so bad.

When my friend lets go of me, I notice that the other asshole still hasn't moved. He's standing still next to me, I frown but soon I understand why he wasn't moving.

I see Cynthia's bright face arrive in front of him. I raise my eyes to the sky, she is really everywhere this one.

"Oh, did you get your hair cut? You look radiant like that. Come on, I have something to offer you." She says to him, holding both his arms. I roll my eyes again and then motion for Kat to follow me to the playroom.

I sit on the couch in front of the ping pong table where Tyler and several other people are playing. As I pass by, I wave to him and he waves back with his usual broad smile.

"I think Cynthia wanted to talk about the party she's having in her dorm tonight." Explains my friend. Another dorm night? It's downright rotten and the first time didn't go well at all.

"And let me guess, you want me to go with you ?" I sigh. As soon as I finish my sentence, Kathy nods energetically. I sigh, already the party is organized by the girl I like the least and on top of that I'm on the outs with Connor. In short, the disaster. I just hope he won't do the same thing he did last time.

Also, I can't really count on Kat one hundred percent because she's in a relationship with a guy named Brody from what I remember, and I know she's going to spend the whole night with him kissing and do all the other couple stuff..

"I don't know. Last time it didn't go so well." I say. She later places her hand on mine that is resting on my thigh and straightens up slightly.

"You can't miss it, we're going to do the closet game! It's the coolest thing to do so please come.... Maybe you'll even find yourself a flirt ?" She replies, winking at me.

My only flirt here that I don't necessarily consider a flirt actually is Tyler. We exchange glances sometimes and he still compliments me but I've been here for three months already and he still hasn't tried anything that would take us to the next level. If he did, I obviously wouldn't turn him down because this guy is a real hunk.

I have to admit that I'm excited about the closet game though. It will be an opportunity for me to maybe, hopefully if we go in together, get closer.

Before this, I had only one relationship in my life before I came here. It was with a boy named Harry, he was really nice and handsome he was the perfect guy before I found out he was banging another girl behind my back.

After that I left him and luckily I didn't give him my virginity. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life.

"And at worst, you don't care what Conn' does or says he's just a jerk and you're friends now right ?" Adds Kat.

"Uh... Yeah, about that... We got confused earlier on the way to the hairdresser. But yes, don't worry, I'll come." I answered.

"Thank you! I love you June!" She writes to herself as she takes me back into her arms.