Finally Free

Twenty-One

***Skipping like 3 hours of watching Friends, messaging Garrett on Tinder, and finishing random sketches from my sketchbook***

To: Garrett - Okay honestly I don't know why I didn't do this hours ago but do you wanna just text me?

To: Garrett - My number is *insert random number here* if you wanna just text me but it is completely up to you

After hitting send I exit mine and Garretts chat and go look at some of the other messages I have and answering a few of them until my phones buzzes with a message from an unknown number

From: Unknown - Hey cutie

From: Unknown - Back to our previous conversation will you please tell me what you are drawing?

To: Garrett🥰 - I mean that is not really what we were talking about but no I will not tell you because what I am working on is just finishing old pieces that don't look as good as they should

From: Garrett🥰 - Fine 🙄

To: Garrett🥰 - I'll show you something once I make something that actually looks decent.

From: Garrett🥰 - I bet everything you make looks perfect

To: Garrett🥰 - Where do you go to school? I meant to ask forever ago

I press send and set my phone down to go back to my sketch but suddenly my phone is actually ringing. I freak out for a second because Garrett is actually calling me right now but I quickly recompose myself and take a deep breath before answering

"Hello?" I ask

"Hey, beautiful, sorry to call you but I am starting to drive now and I didn't want to stop talking to you for and I didn't think texting and driving would be smart so I called. I hope that is okay cutie." He says and I just start smiling

"Of course it is okay handsome" I smile "Did you see my last message?"

"Yes, I did. So, I go to the University of Tennessee which is about 2 hours and 40 minutes or so from home"

"Oh, awesome. I toured there a while ago but decided against going." I tell him

"Why did you decide to go somewhere else?" Garrett asks

"That's a long story for another day. But what's your major?"

"I am currently General Education or Exploratory Studies, whatever you wanna call it, for now. I plan on declaring or deciding on an official major here soon it but I don't know what I am going to do for sure yet, I am torn between two majors. How about you?"

"I'm at Vanderbilt University. I feel like I should warn you before I tell you what I am studying at the moment and I should also tell you that I am changing my major at the end of the semester." I laugh

"Why should you warn me?" He asks cautiously

"Because I am a bit of an overachiever... I am a double major. My majors are Sports Administration and Marketing. And then I am minoring in Business, Event Planning, and pre-law." After I finish explaining I pause and wait for his response but all I hear is a deep sigh on the other end

"Holy overachiever. Why? Aren't you like a sophomore? Normally you add all that extra stuff like after getting your degree and in grad school." Garrett laughs after a minute

"So I did it because I was told I couldn't honestly. But up until now, I have only taken my core classes so it will be easy for me to switch majors and drop minors"

"Who told you that you couldn't do it? What are you switching too?"

"My ex. And I dunno whenever someone says that I can't do something I have to prove them wrong and go above and beyond with it," I tell him while not admitting I have a 4.0 GPA at the moment. "But I am switching to become a Nursing major but I want to keep my business minor as kind of like a backup plan."