𝑩𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔

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When I face the door, I know for a fact that I'm in a dream. It's a confirmation because what in the world is Kelly Michals MY BFF doing here? She's supposed to be at NYU.

I black out for a second and when I regain consciousness, Shes walking over to me. Once she's in front of me, she lightly strokes my shoulder with her hand to bring me back to reality. " Is this how you greet your new roomies?" She shrugs her shoulders pretending to be offended but I'm way too awestricken.

She's in grey sweats, a black hoodie and black off the wall vans. Her hair is neatly placed into a ban on top of her head.

I'm perplexed. I don't know what to say, "You guys_ you guys must be shitting me." I say sounding both thrilled and dumbfounded. I don't want to believe that it's real because it can't be. I spent the whole lot of last week with them and everything seemed normal, they didn't mention a thing about this.

Torah passes by us with Kelly's satchel, "explain to her before she passes out on us." Torah tells, I assume both Tess and Kelly because she doesn't direct the statement at anyone in particular after seeing my facial expression.

Tess claps her hands together and yells "Story time_" before she goes on with what she's saying, "so we applied to BU in the fall after the psatt exams and we didn't want to let you know immediately because we weren't sure if we'd get in or not. we did not want to be giving you unnecessary hope." She let's the words out at a go as if she's been keeping them in for too long and if she keeps them in for another second she might explode. "The last few weeks have been tense for you, we thought of surprising you instead of telling you once we found out." She completes.

Torah walks back into the room, "Surprise!!" both kelly and Torah say at the same time.

They all start looking at me to get a reaction off of me. My mind is processing the data slowly, once it's done processing I start cackling.

It's a 1 out of 100 quandary of which you find a group of friends all going to the same university or college. It's always 2 friends or none but for me? It's all three.

The square is complete.

I'd say I'm lucky but I count them all as blessings so as Nicki would say, "No I'm not lucky, I'm blessed."

Only God knows how grateful I am for my friends. It's like I'm in a movie or one of those fanfic stories that I've read where you become roomies with your besfriend's and it's legit happening to me. I don't even know how to react because it feels so surreal.

We spend the next hour or two chatting, I tell them about Bryann and they're all dying to meet him. Before we notice it, it's Night time. We call it a night and leave for our respective rooms.

Once I'm in my room, I dial mums line just to check in on her and she picks up on the third ring.

"Hey baby is everything okay?" she questions me and I can hear her moving some things she's probably in the kitchen.

"Yes mum everything is proper and adequate, I just thought of checking up on you." Smiling at the call as if she's able to see me.

"It's supposed to be the other way round you know? Me checking up on you." She chuckles lightly and takes a short pause. "Yo_you miss home already?" she's asks me sounding worried.

"No_ I mean I do of course I do, but BU is just fine." I pause for a second. "Uhmm..." I giggle "Kelly, Tess and Torah are here too." I say nervously biting on my nails.

"That's a good thing isn't it?"

"Uhm yeah, I guess?" I crease my brows trying to convince myself than her.

I mean don't get me wrong but mum has never been for the idea of us going to the same university, she thinks it would be disruptive.

"Just know what you're doing there, we're paying a lot of money for your programme so don't loose focus_ oh and Your brother phoned, he was calling to say hi, you should give him a call." She lets me know sounding buoyant and I feel sad for whatever reason.

"Alright mum I will, now I have to get going. Love you."

"Love you, takecare."

"I will, "  I hang up the call once I'm sure that she is done talking .

***

I hear two voices whispering in my sleep, going back and forth on who's going to wake me up. I pretend to still be sleeping just to see where the drama will lead to.

"Do you think she's dead? She hasn't woken up since last night and this is 11 AM."

"Do you think she stayed up late?"

"That's possible"

" wake her up"

"I just tried, you wake her up."

"No you wake her up."

"Okay lets both wake her up, after this we're going to Kelly's room."

"Should we wake her up the natural way or we add some scenes to it?"

"Of course not the natural way, I'm thinking maybe sprinkling water on her."

"Let's add dirt to the water that will be more eccentric." They both giggle.

The thought of them doing it gives me chills. I contemplate on letting them know that I'm awake.

I'm battling with inner me, I want to see if they're capable of executing there plan, with them that's not questionable because they're capable. The reasonable question to ask is, are they going to do it right now?

In the midst of my thinking I hear one of the twins footsteps lightly tapping on the floor as if they're scared of awakening "sleeping me."

"At one." Torah whispers.

"Three, two,"

"What's at one?" I mentally question myself before realisation downs on me.

"One."

I feel cold COLD water on me and I bolt off my bed like the flash, probably springing my neck from the force.

"What the fuck guys?" I yell while standing besides my bed. I'm honestly pissed because now I have to change my beddings. There standing in front of me smiling before they notice the state my face is in and they stop smiling.

Kelly walks into the room rubbing her eyes.
"What's with all the screaming." She questions before looking up at me, eyes wide, and then at the bucket in Torahs hand. She drops down to the floor contained with laughter. The latter joins her too. I can't contain my laughter too because her laugh is contagious and I join in on them and now all three of us are laying on the floor laughing.