As Easy As Murder

29. Oops

I've gathered every blanket in the dorm and surrounded myself, still in a trance from last night's events. 

Staring at the screen, I watch a kids animated film, my brain so diluted that it can't take anything more mature. 

It's embarrassing how much of a sludge Kori's lips melted me into. My thoughts are seperated, floating around in a purple empty void, all surrounded by little love hearts. It's humiliating. I should be in class, but I never got out of bed, still laying there, holding a stuffed elephant and seeing little hearts dance around like sugarplum fairies. 

Someone put me in a home. 

Just when I was about to get out of bed, I'm shocked back into the comfiness by the slam of the dorm door. Loretta runs in, slamming it behind her, a look of fear and pure 'uh-oh' on her freckled face. 

"Is anthony chasing you again? Do you need to take cover? Here, hide under-" 

"No, no, not that." 

She nervous shuffles over to where I am, twiddling her thumbs. I groan, knowing exactly what this look means. It means the next time I see her it may be through glass at the local prison, or before a judge. It means she's done something unforgivable, or at least it's gonna take a long time for whoever she just wronged to come around. 

Unless she whips out the puppy dog eyes. 

"I have a proposal." 

I facepalm, knowing that there in no way in how that this means something good. She's not going to propose the cure for cancer, or a way to help the needy, or a way to end mental illness, no. She's going to propose something like 'what if we broke into the Whitehouse?' (Something she's actually said.)

"So, if I were to hypothetically, theoretically, sorta kind of possibly lie to the campus security about something someone did and plant evidence, would they sort of hypothetically symbollically imaginatively throw me off campus and expell me?" She faked an innocent grin, tapping her fingers together, shuffling her weight from side to side. 

I groan. "You did, didn't you?" 

She made a 'yikes' face and nodded. 

Oh for the love of God. 

"Who what when where why how?" 

She takes a deep breath, and I know it's gonna be a long in-depth story. She sits down on the edge of the bed, the mattress giving under her weight. I cross my arms, giving her the best dissaproving glare I can muster up when my brain is still in a state of love-stricken delirium. 

"So, I show up in a baldcap, right?"

I facepalm. "You what?"

"Shut up and listen." She silences me. 

She goes through a vivid rollercoaster of a story, the details something you'd only watch or read. By the end of it my jaw has dropped a whopping 9 times. The story was nothing short of outlandish. 

"So there I am, standing outside of the campus office in a baldcap, multiple living creatures on my person." 

I rub my temples. "All of this just to take down Felicity?"

She nodded, collapsing onto the bed. "Uh-uh, and it didn't even work."

I tap my fingers on the bedside table, slumped into my fist. 

We sat in bored silence until I got a text from guess who.

His name starts with K and ends with ori. 

I tapped on the notification, and was almost shocked into another galactic demention by the words that presented themselves before me in the light grey bubble. An ask, a question was all it took to leave me aghast and astonished. 

'Hey brat, I was just wondering you'd wanna go out to that pizza place/arcade down the road? To discuss the case of course. Anthony is doing some 'renovations' on our dorm god help me, so we can't work there. Just let me know.'


"AHHHH!" I audibly scream and jump up 2x my height, frog jumping over to Loretta and shoving the screen at her face.

"He asked you out?!" She pulls the device even closer to her face, then starts giggling maniacally. I sit down on the bed, staring down the blondie poster, digging my nails into my scalp, my emotions conflicting and reverse mirroring each other, sending me into a spiral of not knowing how to feel. 

I start choking on my own spit and Loretta has to give me three hard slaps in the back to get me breathing again. 

She smirked. "Say yes."

"I can't just say yes." I groan. 

"Then say no."

"I can't just say no."

An idea pops into my head with the sound of a pin to balloon and jab my finger at Loretta, underestimating how close she was to me, pushing my acrylic right into her stomach, causing her to push me and grimace. 

"Come with me! We could do a double date!" I throw my arms up like I just came up with an albert einstein worthy idea.

"What? No! Who would I even come with?"

I think. I go through the options, none of them seeming suitable to deal with Lorretas chaoes. Liam is questionable and a bit out of touch but hot, Jesse is good a posing as straight but all it takes is him accidently whipping out glittery pink lipgloss which is an addiction of his.