Who They Were: 1 Semester

Prologue

With all she had left in her, she pushes the heavy door open as she steps outside, the rain drenches her half naked body immediately. She sprints across the street into a field filled with dead weeds and cigarette buds. She dares not look back. They scrape and pierce her feet though she tries but fails to dodge them all. As she approaches her unsightly college campus, she jogs to her dorm building and pushes open the glass doors. She sees an RA sitting at the front desk sleeping on her shift. She spots the digitalized clock hanging on the wall behind her and realizes it reads 3:00am in red bold numbers. It's Monday and she has class in 5 hours. Tip toeing past her to the door that's leads to dorms on the east wing, she looks down and notices that she's leaving a track of water and blood behind. She's tries her best to stay quiet as she opens and closes the door behind her. She gazes blankly down the hallway as her now curly hair drips droplets of water down her cheeks as if her face wasn't wet from the rain and her tears. After coming to, she walks heel-toe, evening out the pain on the bottom of her feet til finally comes to her dorm room door. She looks down at her chest and notices that her dorm key isn't  hanging around her neck anymore. Her crayon green shirt has become a nature green and was now ripped and hung just below her A cup chest exposing her white bra. Whimpering and distraught, she bangs on her door with her palm attempting to wake her roommate who she knows is sleeping hard and more than likely won't wake. She flips her hair to the back that was hanging over her face like an enormous, annoying sun hat, then bangs on the door with both of her fists simultaneously,  loud enough to wake up the whole hall. Her eyebrows lower and she bites her bottom lip, then she screams her roommates name. Knowing that she may never get in her room, her lips start to quiver and she falls on the floor crying. Her red panties, lace, are pinching into her skin and her butt and legs are exposed; she isn't wearing any pants. She lifts herself up and plants her back on the wall. Looking at her underwear and shirt in shame, she bursts into more tears wondering what happened and what went wrong that night. It was all planned out so perfectly. In her head this would be the night she finally impressed the boy she so desperately wanted back. As a last attempt to wake up her roommate, she screams her name again and brings her legs up to her chest and hugs her knees and continues to cry with her eyes clinched tightly. All of a sudden, she hears what sounds like her roommate moving in her bed and she opens her eyes and stares at the door in disbelief. Then she hears footsteps coming closer to the door. The door opens and her roommate steps one foot out and peaks into the lit hallway. When she looks down, she notices Shade on the floor looking at her with red eyes and a wet face and her eyes widen as she covers her mouth in shock. She steps another foot out and leaves one behind to keep the door open. Anisar extends her hand to Shade as she scopes the hallway making sure no one was watching.  Shade angry but grateful accepts her hand and pushes herself off the floor and slithers into the room. Shade bends down in the middle of the floor and sits on her feet. She hangs her head and out of nowhere starts to beat her thighs like a mad women, hair swinging everywhere until Anisar yells stop. Still standing and looking over her, Anisar bends down right in front of her and asks what happened. Shade looks up and then notices her roommates boyfriend is laying on his side pinching his lips with a look of worry in his face. Anisar sees Shade see her boyfriend and tells her not to worry. Shade shakes the crazy off and slothly climbs into her bed and lays in a fetal position. Anisar climbs into her bed and sits Indian style beside her boyfriend legs and they both stare at the wet mess of a girl in front of them still dripping water from her shirt. Whimpering and trying to hold back her tears, Shade leans to the edge of her bed and wrings her hair out on the floor and then rest her head back on her bed. Now more upset then worried Anisar asks in a more demanding voice what happened to her. She takes a deep breath but all that comes out are more cries. She looks at Anisar and nods her head assuring her that she would tell her. So she takes another breath and...