Camryn Quinn is finally getting what she wants...sort of. Moving into a dorm and away from her not so supportive father is a good first step, but like everything with him-it comes with strings. She must attend the college of his choosing for at leas...
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I'm laying in bed, computer perched on my lap clicking through pictures I've taken this week. Cal's apartment building one day before it stormed, the sky dark and angry in the background. A skyscape of the sunset over the stadium, a few other buildings on campus and then Cal and his roommate Dylan hanging in a tree after they both asked who I thought could climb it faster. I didn't even argue either way, but their male testosterone wouldn't let them rest until they showed me.
My phone begins ringing next to me. I press the green button to accept, but before I can even speak a noise at my door fills the room. The moving of the handle tells me someone is obviously trying to get in, but my roommate isn't scheduled to move in until tomorrow so I freeze.
I hear Gabi ask what is going on. I look back to the screen and see her face two inches from the screen as if getting closer to the screen will help her hear what is going on more clearly from my side of the conversation.
Just as I begin to answer, the door swings open and a girl walks in.
"Wow, that's a lot of neutral," The girl says inspecting my open closet. Obviously she doesn't see me because she continues to make her way further into the (our?) room inspecting all of my things.
"Wow and a lot of pictures of..... things? Literally like no people in any of them. Who doesn't hang pictures of themselves? Their family?" She says to no one in particular.
I contemplate staying up here until she has to eventually exit the room. If I lay still enough, I bet she would never even notice me. "Fill a girl in! Come on C, I'm dying over here!" Gabi screeches through the phone, her face somehow even closer to the screen now.
I begin to shush Gabi, but it only breaks the cover I was so desperately trying to have.
"Oh hi there!" She says a little too bubbly for someone who was just talking shit about my stuff.
"Uh, hi?" I can't help the inflation in my voice as it comes out. I may be trying to play it cool in college, but I've had to many years of trepidation towards new people to allow myself to remain calm.
I exhale deeply and try my best to calculate my next response to sound a little less annoyed by her unexpected presence.
"I mean...you must be Alyssa." I don't bother to climb down from my bed. Instead I lean over the railing and offer her a hand. "Nice to meet you."
She quickly uses the futon as a step stool to allow her petite frame to reach me and grabs my hand. With a firm grip she shakes vigorously.
"You must be Camryn!" She squeals.
"Yeah... Uhm I didn't think you would be here so soon," I say removing my hand and leaning back in my bed.
"I paid the extra money to move in early so I could avoid the cluster that tomorrow's move in day will be." She says as she gracefully jumps off the futon and onto the floor. "I assume this is my side?" Alyssa moves to the second lofted bed and climbs the ladder and adjusts herself onto the mattress until her body is a reflection of mine.
