a lot of this is based off my actual college experience
OTM
No college did parties like an HBCU.
The second I touched down on campus to move into my university apartment, I was already being invited to back to back parties. It was my second year so I already knew what was worth going to and what wasn't.
Midway through my moving process I heard the door open and already knew it was my roommate and close friend, Robyn. "Nika! You here?"
"Here I come!" I stepped down from my desk chair that I was using as a step stool and left my room. Robyn was already making her way in my direction so I rushed to her and gave her a hug, almost knocking her over. "Hey! I've missed you way too much. How was your trip down here?"
"Good." She looked around the apartment after we separated. "This shit is a lot nicer than the dorms, huh?"
"I could've been glad with anything as long as I got my own room, but this is actually so cute. It's going to take like two full days to decorate it."
It was kind of like a dorm because we signed a lease with the school and they provided certain stuff for us, but it was still an apartment.
"It's going to take forever just for me to get all my shit up here from my dorm. But Kelly and Bey moved into their dorm earlier today and they invited us over to later to pregame for... I don't even know what. There's going to be some shit to do tonight, you know these niggas."
I immediately got excited. Kelly and Bey were my closest friends at school besides Robyn, we were a little group. We intentionally all planned to live in the same building so I was ready to see what type of things we were going to get into the upcoming semester.
"Bet, I can't wait. Like nine?"
"Eight. I know your ass." I was notoriously late.
"Whatever." I laughed because she really did know me and wasn't wrong. "Let me finish unpacking so I can find my going out clothes, we can all catch up on summer together at theirs."
"Okay." She gave me another hug and tightly squeezed me. "I'm so glad we're back."
I laughed. "Those three months at home had you losing it. Go get your stuff."
I went back to my own room after escaping her grip and went back to setting my room up.
I spent the next couple hours doing that before taking a nap so I could get ready to go out.
A black mini skirt and matching black crop trop with a gold waist chain with colorful gems and other jewelry to match it. I got my belly button pierced over the summer so I refused to wear anything that wasn't cropped.
I was the last to be ready, as expected, so Robyn had to practically drag me to the elevator to up to their apartment.
Being back at school and being about to go out with my college friends was a feeling I missed more than anything.
Bey was the one that answered the door wearing a black open Duckies shirt with a black tank top under and black jeans. She was the group stud, even though she hated being called one. "Hey y'all."
She gave Robyn a quick hug and then gave me a hug while picking me up off the ground for a split second. She always smelled so good.
"Hey. I missed you, how have you been?" We all kept in contact over summer but it wasn't the same.
"Good, good. Pretty much the same old shit. We got here yesterday so we've just been setting shit up, pretty much. Come in."
She let us into her apartment and I was honestly impressed by how good it looked.
