Funny Kind of Friendship

Chapter 27: Trust: most important value

I begin to open my eyes, but I immediately shut them from the bright light that's shining in from the window. I turn over and peek at the clock. It's 8:17, Friday November 30th. Tomorrow was December which means 25 days until Christmas, but only 24 days until Louis' birthday... Do I get him a birthday gift, or a Christmas gift? I'll just get him one big gift. I stretch my legs so they reach the bottom of the bed. It felt good to have that boot off finally. After a few minutes of adjusting to the light I hear a knock at the door. At this point I didn't really care who it was. I figured it was Harry, or Liam, but when I go to open the door it wasn't either of them. He was a man I've never seen before. He was tall, wore a blazer and had a clipboard in his hand.

"Hello Justine, I'm Andrew the dorm adviser." We have a dorm adviser, why is this the first time meeting him?

"Oh, hi." I say back. "What... Brings you here so early?"

"Yes, sorry to wake you, but I'm required to check up on everyone in the dorm on the last day of the month. Especially you..." Well that made sense. I guess they didn't want people to have illegal drugs or something in the dorms, or something like that. Plus me being the only girl In a boys dorm they would have to keep a close eye on me, I guess.

"Oh...umm...okay. Yeah we're fine, Louis and I, we couldn't be better." I stand there hoping he will go away, but he stands there.

"Ok bye!" I say, I start to shut the door when he stops it with his hand.

"You're funny. May I come in?"

"Actually Louis' still sleeping..." He doesn't seem to care too much because he walks in anyways. He goes and checks the bathroom and I go wake up Louis.

"Louis!" I whisper shaking him awake.

"What?" He says jolting awake.

"Andrew, our dorm adviser is here. He's checking the bathroom..."

"The monthly inspection, I forgot about that!"

"What do we do?"

"Nothing, he just checks our dorm and there's nothing we can do."

"But... He's in the bathroom... What if he finds my..." Just then Andrew burst out of the bathroom.

"What is this a bag of?!" He shouts, "Some sort of weird...uhh...I'm not even sure what this is...." I hide my face in embarrassment. Louis stands there with his mouth open, then he runs over and snatches the bag out of his hands.

"Dude, it's like you've never seen tampons before!" He says with his teeth clenched. Andrew blushes.

"Well it seems like you guys are clean, see ya Louis, and nice meeting you Justine." Then he turns around and almost sprints out the door.

"Well that was a bit awkward..." I say.

"It's fine, he's not really a good dorm adviser anyway." He says throwing the bag on the bed.

"How did he not know what those were?"

"He's an odd person." We laugh, I flop down face first on my bed.

"I don't have any classes today, It's Friday!" Louis announces.

"Me either, you know we haven't done anything just you and me yet."

"Yeah! We could go catch a film or something."

"Sounds great! There is that one with Adam Sandler out right now that got good reviews."

"I could use a good comedy right now."

~~~

We walk out of the theatre and we're dying of laughter.

"That was the best movie I've seen in a long time." I say in between breathing and laughing.

"Yeah that part at the restaurant gets me every time!" People started to give us strange looks for laughing so hard, but we eventually calm down. We head over to the food court for some lunch, we decided on Chinese food. Those Asians sure know how to cook up some good chicken, not to mention the egg rolls and pot stickers.

"So, you and Liam doing all right?" Louis asks out of the blue.

"Yeah we're great! Why would you even ask?"

"Oh... No reason... Just wondering." Now that I think about it, Liam and I haven't done much since the day we played laser tag and went to Nandos. I had only seen him in class on Monday and Wednesday then I only see him after classes in one of the boys dorms. Is it just me or does it seem a bit OCD to study that much....

"Does Liam really study that much? I mean how can one person have the patience for that." He stares down at his food and stops chewing.

"Louis?" I say to make sure he's okay.

"Justine there's been something I've been meaning to tell you."

~~~

"NO!" I yell.

"I'm sorry Justine."

"I don't believe you!"

"Why would I make something up like that?" We were back at the dorm. Louis just told me Liam is cheating on me?! I had to figure this out by myself.

"Where is he?" I demand.

"Check the library." I storm out of the dorm and go as quickly as possible to the library. When I get there the first person I recognize was Maria.

"Maria! Have you seen Liam?" Her expression seems really shocked to see me and a bit worried.

"He's...um...over there." She stutters and points me over to the study tables. I walk over and see Liam, not alone. He's with another girl, making out. I stand there with my mouth open. Tears started to form in my eyes. Just then Liam looks up and he gasps when he sees me. I begin to turn away but he jumps up grabs my arm and spins me around. I pull out of his grab and take a step away from him.

"No don't ever talk to me."

"Justine let me explain." I was already out the door I didn't let him even speak. I didn't want to hear what he had to say. I trusted him. Now all of that is gone. Everything. I want nothing to do with him. Absolutely nothing.