I Mean It

Ch (5) Dorm Sweet Dorm

Aaron and I start college the same day. So, we had to shopping for stationery together. We had agreed that I would be staying at the campus and he would be staying at home. We had agreed on the rules too:
1- no relationships
2- no getting drunk
3- studying well
4- not failing
I will try and stick to them. Although the first rule would be hard not to break.
I have always been an attractive young lady. The proof is that no one ever denies my friendship. no one.

When the big day came, we were ready. I packed my bags the day before. Aaron led me to front door of my dorm apartment. He said that he wanted to make sure that I wouldn't get lost coming here. I said goodbye and all. It was a sad moment for the both of us. He hugged me tightly and said "study well and remember: NO boys."
I chuckled and replied saying "that would be hard not to do!"
"Well you have to or I will send you back to Sweden!" I tensed although I knew he said it jokingly. I could NOT go back to Sweden. I am here for a reason.
"What happened? I was just joking. Jeez! You don't accept kidding."
"I know, I know." I said as I brushed my a hand through my hair.
"OKAY then loosen up, Raquel." Aaron said as he was brushing his hand up and down my arm in a soothing way.

My dorm apartment was number 26 and it looked amazing from the outside😆😆.
Aaron hugged me again and said "I love you Raquel."
"I love you too Aaron." I said and hugged him back.

When I entered the apartment, I quickly noticed the guys and girls standing in the living room. I guess these were my apartment mates.

"Hey everyone!" I yelled to get some attention and make them look at me.
"Hey" "hi" "hello" were heard. Two girls came my way.
"So, what's your name?" A stunning girl asked me. She had hazelnut hair and eyes. She was tall, I think she's a model. Damn. She will be tough competition for the boys.
"I'm Raquel. And you?" I said trying to be cheerful.
"I'm Sophie and she's Katrina." She mentioned motioning to the girl next to her. She had blonde hair and brown eyes, slightly tanned, tall, and I think that she's a model too. Wait, don't i have a model body too?

The boys walked up to us. They were three.
"Guys, I'd like you to meet Raquel. Raquel, these are Jonathan, Benjamin, and Christof." She said motioning to each one. Jonathan had black hair and eyes, a mini-beard and a thick British accent. I heard that because he said "you can call me John, Jonathan is kind of too long." His smile is to kill for.
Benjamin had brown hair and green eyes with a tanned muscular body.
"And you can call be Ben." He said while winking.
Christof had blonde hair and intelligent-looking piercing blue eyes.
"And call me Chris." Smiling, he reached for my hand to shake it. I took it gladly.
"Hi Chris, John, Ben, Sophie and Katrina, we will be having fun together." Smiling because I remembered their names correctly, I shook each's hands.
I am sure that we are going to be good friends. Katrina showed me to my room, which I'm going to be sharing with her. Our room was white, literally, white chairs and desks, white beds, white sheets, white curtains. But, I loved it.
"I love it" I stated to Katrina.
"I know right, I chose it to be white so we can change it anytime easily." She beamed, proud of her thinking.
"Ben is going to share with Sophie since they are boyfriend and girlfriend." I smiled in the inside knowing that if she's taken, I'll have a better chance to win the boys.
"And the other two boys will be sharing a room."
"Nice, I got a feeling that this is going to be the best year of my life!" I said as I stomped my feet in giddiness, which was contagious and made her clap her hands and hug me. Later, we were screaming like mad girls. We were so excited. Just as I took the hairbrush and used it as a mic and Katrina started dancing, John and Chris entered the room. We didn't notice them at first and continued singing crazily. Then Chris cleared his throat and we froze then blushed.
"Girls are crazy." Nudging John, Chris said that.
"I know" John replied.
Then, they burst into laughter. Later, we joined them.
"We are going grocery shopping for the kitchen and we were wondering if you wanted to come and help." Chris said. Of course we wanted to come. Who would waste a chance to go out with hot boys? Even if it is to the supermarket.
"Um, yeah sure." I said.
"Why are your cheeks red Raquel? It's not like we were asking you out." John teased. My blush deepened and I replied
"Pfft, like I'd like to date you."
We laughed some more as Katrina and I got ready.
I put on some white jeans and a yellow crop top showing my abs and piercing that was on my belly button. Katrina put on blue jeans and see through black top with a bright pink bra. It was obvious that we wanted to attract the boys.
"Are we going to walk there or we're driving?" Katrina asked John.
"We are going by bikes."
"BY BIKES?!" Katrina and I said at the same time.
"What the hell? I am not ready to pedal my way through the streets. Are you Raquel?"
"No, of course not. Plus, aren't Ben and Sophie coming?"
"First of all, we are going by MOTORBIKES and second of all, Ben and Sophie are waiting for us on a bike already." Chris confirmed.
"Ahh, ok. Do we have enough bikes?" I asked, wanting to ride with one of them.
"Umm, no. so we have to share. Does anyone here know how to ride it?" Katrina and I shook our heads.
"Well then, Katrina you ride with me and Raquel can ride with Chris." John said, it was obvious that he liked her. Katrina walked over to one of the motorcycles that was next to Ben's and Sophie's. John rode on the bike and Katrina took a seat behind him, twirling her hands all over his body.
Chris whistled and said "what are you staring at? You want to put your hands around me right? Come here."
"Yeah right, Chris. I want that. How'd you know?" I said sarcastically as I walked over to sit behind him.

The whole ride we were laughing. We even did a race, me shrieking all the time and Chris jokingly telling me to shut up. Sophie and Ben won the race. I got off dizzily, it was weird standing on solid ground again. We entered the supermarket and split up. We have agreed that everyone brings what they want and in the end we will decide what to buy.

As I, pushing the cart, was trying to find pancake mix, something fell into the cart.
I looked down and found out that it was a paper. I looked closer at it and saw a phone number. I looked up and saw blue orbs.
"God, Chris, you scared me!"
"Sorry, but I thought you'd need my phone number if you got lost."
"Nice way of saying that I'm attractive."
"Yeah Raquel, I'm sooo into you." He said with sarcastic wide eyes.
We laughed a bit and continued walking together.
"So, what's your favorite color?" I asked him as we were passing the cereal section.
"Mine is white. And yours?"
"Grey."
"Nice."
"I know"
"Do you have any plans for today after we go back?"
"Umm... no why?"
"I think this is a good time to ask you out this evening, I know a very good restaurant that sells sushi, would like to go out with me?"
Since he asked me FINALLY, I wanted to tease him a bit, so I said "I don't know. I don't like sushi."
"Then, we'll go to another restaurant."
Damn. "You really want to go out with me, don't you?"
He smiled sheepishly and said
"To be honest, Raquel, I like you."
"Then , ok, I'll say yes for now. Be careful with me or I'll reject it later."
He stuck his tongue out like a child.

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(A/N) WE WILL BE BACK TO RAQUEL'S POV ON CHAPTER ELEVEN.
So, how's the long chapter? Did you like it?
Do you like the growing relationship between Chris and Raquel?

QUESTIONS:
1) who do you think Reese is?

2) would you like a bit of competition between Sophie and Raquel and Katrina?

3) would you like a bit of drama in Raquel's family?