Together or Apart

Chapter 6 - Deal or No Deal

C H A P T E R S I X : DEAL OR NO DEAL

Scarlett's POV

Fresh eggs and bacon were not the things that were awaiting me this morning. I was left with food in the pantry, to cook for myself. Anne hadn't come back yet, and it had been two days since she left crying out my door.

It was Thursday, I was starting to get worried about what Anne had said. If she wasn't back tomorrow, I'd try asking around. I called Jack yesterday, he hadn't answered again. I hadn't talked to him since he dropped me back off here after we got our supplies.

I was kind of getting worried about him too. But it's not like I don't have enough male attention. Holden and Greg have been hanging out with me now. They convinced me that they're "good boys" and "didn't mean any harm". So I gave them a chance.

Greg was nice, probably a bit nicer than Holden who was trying to get his hand up everyone's top.

"So you're not going to come?" Greg asked on our way to our second 2 hour class of the day.

"No way. I don't do parties." I told him. Greg and Holen were walking beside me. One on each side. Apparently there was going to be a party on Friday. I had already told them parties just weren't my thing, but they didn't catch my drift.

"Let's make a deal." Holden said.

"If you can drink a full glass of red bull today at lunch, you don't have to go to the party on Friday. But if you can't, then you have to go. Deal or no deal."

Dealing with someone wasn't something I would do, but I have to live a little. So I agreed to there deal, knowing I would probably have to go to the party.

I walked into 2nd class and saw Daniel sitting in the back. We had become closer too. He knew that Greg was an asshole, but he told me he was nothing like him. I told him about the deal and he tried to warn me about the things Holden would put in there.

But I was too focused in class to listen to his nonsense. But it came back to bite me in the ass later. It had seemed that I had only made guy friends, and I guess that is true. I just get on a little better hanging out with them.

Lucy and Jenn had contacted me last night and talked to me all about Suzanne and how she keeps meeting with this guy named Collin. They hadn't mentioned a thing about Brent, but I didn't really care to talk about him anyway.

Lucy told me that Nathan was so proud of me for going to college, and trying to get a degree. Lucy was going to college, she just needed a break from going to school for a year. And that's totally understandable.

So around 12:30, lunch came and so did the BULL. Greg and Holden motioned me to the back of the cafeteria, where we sat for the last 2 days. Holden had in his hand a glass of Red Bull filled high. I know that cans of red bull didn't take up that much space in a glass jar, so he must have needed at least 3 cans.

"Chug it." He said, handing the glass me. I looked at it with an uncertain smirk while they both grinned. I took my first sip, and the tingling of the drink swallowed me whole. I gagged and almost spit out what I had tried to sip down.

I grabbed the trash can that Greg knew I would need and spit the remains of the drink from my mouth into the can. I scraped my teeth against my tongue to try to get rid of the god awful taste. Holden grabbed the glass from the table and started to drink it little by little. I gagged and started to laugh as Greg did as well.

"Well, that was interesting." He said, still laughing. Once Holden drank the full glass he sat down and smiled with a champion smirk.

"How did you do that?" I asked him astonished that he wasn't gagging or making funny faces.

"You have to get used to it." He said. And then added. "Plus, I'm guessing you've never had beer or bull together." He said smiling and high-fiving Greg.

"That wasn't part of the deal." I said, although in my heart, I did kind of want to go to the party. Once lunch was over I went to my last and final class of the day.

It was a lecture class, which was something I was keen of. Having to answer questions on the spot wasn't my forte. After the class, I walked back to my dorm to not see Anne standing in the doorway.

Things have been quiet and weird since she left and I couldn't help but wonder what had happened to her, but I was soon interrupted by a large banging of my door and a ringing of my cellphone. I grab my phone first.

"Jack!" I say excitedly as I hear his voice for the first time in what feels like ages. He sounds tired and worn out. I question him on his disappearance, but he just decides to ignore it. The banging till continues on my door, so I head over to open it.

"We were going out, wanna go grab something sweet?"

Jack's POV

"Hey babe." I say, as I run my hand through my hair. I had been sleeping on my couch earlier. I had just gotten done with all my classes, and the last thing I needed to do was call back Scarlett. So I laid down and returned her calls from earlier once I woke up.

"Jack!" She practically yelled to the phone. I could imagine her running to me in a field full of daisies, because those were her favorite, and running to me. I would spin her around and look at her in the eyes and just stare at her beauty.

"So why haven't you returned my calls for the last 3 days?" She asks. She sounds concerned and worried.

"Sleeping. These courses are harder than they seem."

You haven't been sleeping for 3 days straight Jack." She says, but then she gets interrupted by what seems to be a lot of banging.

"Go ahead, get the door." I say to her.

While I'm waiting I think of smelling her coconut hair and kissing her minty fresh teeth. On the other end. I hear the door open and a male voice. I shouldn't worry, because I knew that Harvard was a unisex school. But what am I to think.

"We were going out, wanna go grab something sweet?"

"One minute Holden." She says to the door.

"Hey, Jack. I have to go. I'll call you later. It just depends on wether you pick up or not." She says. She sounds pissed. Right when I'm about to tell her what was going on she hangs up.

Frustrated and confused, I slam the phone to the ground chipping a few little spots. A creaking of the door is heard as Rosie and Sam come stomping in.

"Ready?" They both ask me. And I nod my head, as I walk out the door.

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Author's Note - sorry if the format is weird. for some reason when I update, evewhen I type double spaced paragraphs, it's only doing one spaced. so I think wattpad is messing up. so excuse that. I'll try to fix it whenever I can.