Haunted by the Immortals

Chapter 13

Nat

The morning came up faster than I wanted it to. I looked around me: a girl sprawled near my legs, another girl's arms were spread out as far as they could go across my chest and the last, well... she was up, fine and dandy. She had dyed her hair a dark purple and she had one diamond stud through her nose. She was actually quite pretty. She looked across at me when I cleared my throat.

"Oh. Yes, good morning," she smiled. "I'll help you get these girls off of you. Here, let me." For a petite girl she was impressively strong. She dragged the girl who was near my legs off me, and left her falling towards the edge of the bed. We both pushed the other girl off my chest. She fell back on her back and groaned a little, scrunching up her nose.

The girl who had helped me rolled her eyes. "God, J, you are such a disappointment."

Instantly she woke up her eyes wide open, a little red. She turned her head to me. "Hello."

The girl with purple hair smirked, her arms crossed over her chest. It looked like she was pushing her breasts up to make them look bigger. I shivered and immediately turned away. "J, get up. We have class."

'J' cursed so loud that their other friend woke with a start and looked around wondering what the hell was happening. "Crap. What time is it?"

(I really had to give the girl with purple-dyed hair a nickname... Nose Ringed Purple Girl? No, that was too long. PG. Yeah, that was good. Purple Girl – catchy.) PG seemed like she really didn't give a shit about what time it was. "It's seven. You have English Lit, at seven-forty, M's free this morning and I have a practical for Chem."

"Melissa, can you have my schedule?"

Melissa – the one who'd just woken up – frowned and shook her head. "Jasmine, you are probably the smartest girl I have seen who is gorgeous. You don't get a lot of that around that often. Caltech girls, we're lucky."

Jasmine. It went through my head. She could be Dev's girlfriend. The one who I'd seen in his future: that Jasmine.

Melissa gave me a wide grin. "Hey, you look familiar."

My first reaction was, 'great. I've only been here for a night and I've blown it. I'm great at disguising myself.' But as soon as Melissa's next words escaped from her mouth, I was more than relieved. "You're friends with Dev Shanti, right?"

"Um...yeah...I suppose...I was just really hanging out with him yesterday, because he's in my..." Now, where was I going to go with this? I couldn't say I had a class with him, because what if they did too? Then they'd ask why they hadn't ever seen me before. And maybe, if they were clever enough, they'd think of it before I would have to tell it. They might scream from shock, maybe jump up and down in joy because, well, they would probably think it's a miracle that some random boy who didn't go to Caltech ended up here staying the night with three girls even though his girlfriend went to this University. "Yeah–"

"We're in the same Biochemistry class."

"Oh. Well," I cleared my throat to stop it from clogging up and producing this thick, suffocating substance down it. It was heavy; my voice sounded a little different.

She waved it off. "Okay. Have a good day..."

I didn't want to give them my real name. What if they'd met Cami and they'd asked her if she had a boyfriend and she replied, 'yes, I do, his name's Nat,' what if? I smiled with an edge of meanness to it. "Cory."

Her eyebrows rose ever so slightly. "Really," After a second, she snorted, "Awe. Cami and Cory: gals – match or no match?"

They all laughed, teased at Cami. Sounded like they did know her, "Did you hear? Zed took her to The Office." Her eyes widened as she said that and she wiggled her hands in front of our faces. "He doesn't do that to anyone. What do you think he told her? Do you think he told her about his fight with his older bro?" Jasmine said.