Everything He Told Me

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"AM I EVEN allowed to be here?" Xavier whispered anxiously, coming up very close behind me as I waited for Mom to pop the trunk of the car.

"Yes. Why?" I said, leaning over to grab my suitcases.

"Honey, your brother will get those. You help me with the holdalls" Mom told me, picking up one of them and shoving it into my arms.

Xavier took a hold of my suitcases and dragged them out, shooting nervous glances around at the girls surging past us. "Isla, I ..."

"What's wrong, Xavier?" I turned around impatiently.

"I'm the only guy here!" he threw his hands up in exasperation.

"No, you're not. There are dads over there helping their daughters unpack" I pointed out.

"Dads, not boys!" he exclaimed.

"Hush up Xavier; you're acting like a big baby" Mom scolded.

Xavier began muttering under his breath as Mom thrust more luggage into his arms. Words such as 'unfair' and 'stupid' floated to me on the breeze but I chose to ignore them as I watched a father and daughter hugging goodbye. It all looked so heart-wrenching.

"This is insane!" a girl with pink hair cried to her friend as they approached the red dorm building together. "I can't believe we're finally here!"

"I've already been invited to two parties" her friend chirped back, tossing his luscious hair over her shoulders, her (possibly diamond) nose stud glinting in the sunlight.

"Holly! We've not even been here for ten minutes!" Pink Hair said, shock and disbelief merging together in her voice.

"So?" Holly - because she was so eager to tell her friend all about her newfound popularity - wasn't looking where she was going. Due to this, she accidentally hit me in the back with her heavy holdall and I swear I might have potentially heard my spine crack as I fell forwards with a yelp.

"Hey!" Xavier snapped irritably at the girl as he helped me back to my feet.

"Sorry" she rolled her eyes, making it clear she really couldn't care less about my now broken back. But when her eyes had grazed down my brother's body, she took more interest. A flirtatious smirk toyed on the corner of her lips as she wondered "do you go to school here?"

Ugh, I hated whenever someone flirted with Xavier. One) because ew, gross and two) I bet they wouldn't flirt with him if they knew he already had a daughter who he would always put first. Oh and he also still had a girlfriend.

This suddenly made me miss my best friend. If she were in my position - if she was even here at all - she would make a sassy comeback, maybe swear a little and boom, we'd be out of there. It would probably have been even worse though, when Jenna realized someone was trying to nab her boyfriend of nearly two years.

But Jenna was at public college back in Chicago and she'd be there waiting for when Xavier returned. She'd wanted to stay close to home but honestly, I think she just didn't want to lose Xavier over something as silly as distance. Not that I blamed them, of course. They were totally loved up.

"No. I don't" Xavier answered curtly, shutting Holly down before she could even start up. "Now, can you move please? You're kinda blocking our way" he smiled a 'run along bitch' smile.

She let out a scoff before turning to her friend. "Come on, Mary-Ann" she said, dragging her away.

Her pink-haired friend, Mary-Ann, shot me an apologetic look over her shoulder which made me smile. Hopefully, my roommate would be more of a Mary-Ann than a Holly.