Hold Me In Your Everlasting Arms

Chapter 2: Summer's Over

  I called Emily and talked to her about our first day back tomorrow.

  "Fuck this" she whispered when she answered the phone, i laughed remembering her siblings were probably listening in.

  I sat on my bed and twirled my fingers through my already curly hair.

"I think im gonna wear a dress, maybe just to impress Rory." I tried to imagine the look on her face as her exhausted grunt added to the rolled eyes i had pictured.

"Id make fun of you but that senior you hooked up with was hot." She said recalling the dark haired boy i was entangled with at our first college party last weekend.

I smiled remembering his sweet words and the way he gripped my waist.

  We had a friend who went to columbia and after months of begging he finally invited us to a party. We strode in as confidently as we could, and I found this mysterious senior, while Emily found one of the student teachers at our school.

"Do you think it might be awkward?" I asked her, he was only 2 years older than us and we barely saw him.

"No, we didn't sleep together, and besides my mom said he isn't comming back this year". Emilys mom had been the most active parent in the PTA since we were little kids, sometimes it was as though she had an actual role in the school.

We talked for a little more, then after a few abrupt shouts from her yelling at her siblings she apologized bitterly and hung up.

I grabbed my clothes from the closet and reorganzied them over and over like scrabble letters until finally I found the perfect outfit.