can't be friends

intro - 3

JJ's pov
The same night

"JJ" emily starts crying as she hears the sirens. Shit. She's going to get written up.

"No it's okay. They're probably just raiding the place it's okay they won't come into the bathroom." I say. Not even knowing if what I was saying was true. "JJ I don't feel good I hate this why." She slurs as more tears spill out of her eyes.

I hear the cops bust through the front door and start to kick everybody out. I know I cannot move emily without them knowing she's drunk or drugged. So I just stayed put.

"Shhh it's okay. I got you emily. I just need you to be quiet. I promise you, I got you." "I'm sorry," she cried. "We're not even that close and you're stuck taking care of me." "Emily shush. You would do it for me too. I swear I got you relax." I pull her head to my chest and embrace her in a hug, mostly so I could cover her ears so she wouldn't know what's going on outside.

I feel her breathing even out and I can tell she's out again. I do the routine at this point, checking to make sure she's alive. Yup there's a pulse. Okay we're good.

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After a few minutes quiets down and I'm stuck in this bathroom holding a knocked out Emily. I'm not going to lie I may have panicked a little because I've never been in a situation like this and I don't know if I should've gotten her to a hospital or not.

Derek bursts through the bathroom door and I look at him with such anger. "I'm sorry. For leaving you in here by yourself... I was trying to get to the bottom of the situation and figure out who did this to her... Dave's here. We should go."

Derek and I both pick emily up and walk her outside towards Dave's car. We get her on the backseat and he drives off towards our hall. "What the hell happened." He asks. "Couldn't tell you." I mumbled.

Getting emily into the room without the RA noticing was well... a process definitely. I got her into her bed and she hasn't woken up since she passed out again in the bathroom of the frat.

Pen and derek are sleeping over tonight to make sure emily's okay and we have her sleeping on her side just incase she has to throw up again.

After scrubbing my body in the shower and getting new clothes on, I finally was able to rest my head and relax.

Fuck. We have class tomorrow.

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Emily's POV
10:00 am

An alarm is blaring. Oh my gosh my head is killing me. I slowly open my eyes and look around the room. JJ is still fast asleep. Who is this? There's derek and some colorful blonde girl I don't know.

What happened last night? Whose clothes am I in?

JJ wakes up to the alarm and throws a pillow at Derek and the other girl.

They wake up groaning, I'm so confused.

"Whose clothes am I in?" I ask. "Matt Cruz. He's in the frat." Derek says. "Why am I in a frat boys clothes?" "Cause your drink got spiked and you blacked out multiple times." "Oh my goodness." I sigh and lay back on my pillow.

"I'm sorry I haven't met you before?" I say to the girl. "Oh we met last night. You don't remember but I'm Penelope Garcia. I tied your hair up before you puked everywhere." She smiles as she grabs her stuff and so does derek.

"Oh wow." I say and they say their goodbyes as they had earlier classes than us.

"Was it bad?" I ask JJ. "I saw you hunched over and I got you to the bathroom where you started throwing up everywhere. Then you said that something's not right so I asked you if you put your drink down or if you took anything from anyone, you didn't remember. You blacked out a few times, I changed your clothes and got you cleaned up. The police came and I held you while you had a mental breakdown about that. Then you blacked out again for the night and Aaron's friend drove us home."

"JJ.... I'm so sorry." I say. "No don't apologize... you would do the same for me right?" "Yes of course. But I am really so sorry words cannot express enough." "Emily it's not your fault. You do not need to apologize for something that isn't your fault okay?" "I still feel bad." "Don't. I promise you it's okay." She smiles.

She's so sweet. And so caring. I take back all the times I said she was a slob because even tho she is she took care of me at such a vulnerable point.

"Wait... where was derek and elle? Why weren't they helping you." I ask. "Derek was trying to figure out who did that to you. Elle was hooking up with someone." She says.

"What a friend she is." I say. "Yeah... if I were you I would reevaluate that friendship."

"JJ thank you so much for taking care of me. Actually. You're a really nice roomie." "I got you." She smiles.

"I got you" JJ repeats over and over again as she held me in the bathroom

A memory from last night jogged back. Really the only one I remember. She really is so sweet for that. I'll do everything in my power to repay her.