ON OUR WAY TO HEAVEN

7

Kelly

8:00am lectures were not exactly my favorite activities especially when the night before had been chopped in half by insomnia. I had woken up by 7:46 with a mild headache and still sleepy as hell. I literally stood in the dorm shower and let the water just pour on me like it would somehow magically wake me up which it often did but it seemed to be against that morning. By the time I was done preparing for class, it was already a few minutes past eight. It didn't stop me from stopping at the cafe to get coffee and having Mariam delay me.

When I finally got to class, professor Finley was already saying something about statistics. I stood at the doorway, looking around the crowded hall, trying to find the only people that I preferred to call close acquaintances. Christie saw me first and waved me over. I maneuvered through the rolls of occupied seats till I got to the vacant one beside them and slumped into it.

"You look like absolute shit" Christie commented. She was a hot blonde with the cutest smiles and of course the biggest brain. We had dated for a week, freshers week but we called it off after she decided we didn't really fit as couples. I didn't understand it at first. She was hot and smart and I was super into her. I am objectively the content of every gay girls wet dreams in this institution. So yes, I didn't understand it. We however decided to remain friends which I only agreed to because I knew it was still an opportunity for me to always be around her. I was willing to do away with the title of "girlfriend" just to still hang around her. We also kept each other as booty call but that eventually died too but we still remained friends. I finally saw what she meant by saying we weren't a couple match. While she was sweet and beautiful, she was weirdly into Goth. She wasn't Goth nor addicted to black clothing or stuff like that, infact I could swear she didn't have anything black in her closet. She was just into people who were Goths, hence the loafer that was sitting right next to her whose birth name is Auria but she preferred to be called Raven.

Raven wasn't exactly my favorite person and not because she was addicted to everything black like Christie believed but because she used the whole Goth thing to avoid any real work. And as the icing on the diabolical cake, she was super into astrology, zodiac signs and witchcraft. So often times she would say stuff like "I'm sorry I can't come to class today, I read the astromap and today is flooded with ill omen and dark ire. I need to meditate" or "My crystals hummed when I passed a pastry shop this morning facing west. I knew it was a sign to go inside but when I did, a dark shadow passed over me". Often times she would call herself a witch and to my greatest dismay, Christie believed her. The only thing I believed was that 'Raven' was full of bullshit. The first time I met her she tried to read my palm and that was super cringe.

Christie did literally all her school work for her, from projects to assignments and each time I tried to point out that 'Raven' was only using her for her brains, she was always quick to imply that I was only seeing that because I didn't like Raven. Sometimes I absolutely wondered how someone so smart could be so stupid at the same time.

"Did you even sleep at all?" Christie said touching my chin. Raven was sitting at her right. She turned to look at me, her empty beady eyes hidden in between layers of black eyeliner. She raised her hand slightly in greeting, the various rings and bracelets she wore jingling with each movement. I nodded in acknowledgment still wearing a straight face and she turned again to stare blankly at the projector in front of the class.

"It's not me you should be worried about, your girlfriend looks like she slept in a coffin" I whispered into her ears earning a playful glare and a gentle punch in the ribs while I laughed quietly.

The lecture dragged on slowly till finally it was done.

"What's next on your schedule" Christie asked directing the question to me.

"How long have you known me and you still ask me this question every single time" I replied while I threw my books into my backpack.

"I know what's next on your schedule, I'm just making sure you know it" she defended and I nodded even though I knew she didn't know shit. "My day is packed. I have Spanish class now and then we have marketing together. I still have to go to the library to study for a research I'm working on"

"You just know how to prove that you are a nerd, don't you?" I joked finally done with packing my books and waiting for her to be done so we could leave the lecture hall together. I didn't care about the dark cloud that was standing beside her also waiting.

"I'm not a nerd, you just prefer to lie around and do nothing" she retorted smiling. I rolled my eyes equally smiling. She was done packing and we were finally on our way.

"Babe you're still going with me to the library, right?" She asked when we got outside, directing her question to Raven who in turn, turned to look at her with dead eyes. Her eyes always looked vacant like she wasn't in the present with us and many times I wondered if she had any kind of mental issue or she just put in extra effort to look creepier. And honestly if it made her look anything, it made her look stupid.

"I don't think so babe. The constellations are not properly aligned for studying" She said slightly frowning as if in regret. "maybe next time"

"Oh, it's fine" Christie replied smiling in a effort to throw off the fact that she was disappointed but I could see it plainly on her face.

"The constellations never seem to align, huh?" I threw at the meathead trying in no way to hide the irritation on my face. She snorted a laughter.

"You know, if you invest your time more in meditation and soul cleansing, you wouldn't be such a terrible person"

"By terrible, you mean actually doing school work?" I taunted with a laugh of my own.

"You have flunked almost all the courses we have studied this semester, and you call that actually doing school work?" She bit back and she succeeded in pissing me off the more.

"You are only a student because Christie is too good of a person to actually see that you are using her" I growled.

"Enough!!!" Christie screamed coming between us because heaven knew that I was about to punch the dodo's throat. "I'm tired of you both always bickering. Can't you try to get along because of me?"

"Not when she keeps letting you do her work__"

"Not when she's always carrying this negative aura__"

"Fine then. Until then, bye" Christie said and stomped off.

You would think the figure from the black and white movies would run after her atleast because she bore the title of "girlfriend", she just walked away in the opposite direction and disappeared into the art building.

I grunted in frustration, too upset to even think. I turned and cursing to myself, began to walk in the direction of my next class.

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Shitty chapter but please bear with me.

The next one will be better 🙏🥺

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