JeffMads Modern AU | Year 1 {Complete}

The Rings

I was finally home.

Home being my dorm room.

Thank god.

The week with Dolley seemed to stretch on forever, not that I didn't like hanging out with her... it was a lot of work to keep up the act.

But the act went well. Very well. Her parents never doubted it and said she could start to fill out the application for my school.

Dolley was elated.

I was tired.

That's why I plopped down on my bed the minute I got back. It's also why I forgot about The Plan.

The Plan was Maria and Thomas' plan to get Thomas and I's love life back on track. It was a stupid plan. A very, very stupid plan.

Right as I had almost drifted in a luxurious sleep, there was a rapping at the door. 

"James!!!! It's time for The Plan!" 

"5 more minutes!" 

"Nope!" Maria shouted. 

Then, the door swung open.

I opened my eyes. "How the fuck did you get keys?" 

"A magician never reveals her secrets. Get up sleepy head! It! Is! Time! To! Go!" 

I groaned. 

"Love doesn't happen if you don't get out of bed." 

"You guys just couldn't wait one more day?" 

"Nope! It had to be today!" 

"Fine," I grumbled, rolling out of bed. 

"Great! Now, I brought this for you to wear. See, I thought you'd have a suit, but, alas, Thomas knows you better than me!" She held up an elegant three-piece suit. 

"I can't wear that." 

"It's formal attire, you have to!" 

I snatched it from her and grudgingly walked to the bathroom to change. 

"I'm going to the communal bathrooms to change!" 

"You're coming?!" 

"Of course I am! I'm Thomas' wing-woman!" 

I heard the door open and then close. 

"I should get a wing woman," I mumbled to myself. 

Probably the exhaustion talking. 

The suit felt as if it was made for me... and knowing Thomas, it probably was. I brushed off the question of how he got my measurements and emerged from the bathroom.

Maria was most likely going to take eras to change. She'd chat up a storm and then do her makeup and then pee and then finally change, but smudge her makeup, pee again, do her makeup, talk, and... I could do this all day. 

She came back fifteen minutes later. 

"Will you do my hair?" 

"I can't do hair."

She rolled her eyes. "All you have to do is secure it up with this hair tie, then put on this clip." She sat in front of me, on the ground, spreading out the skirt of her red, sparkly ballgown. "Here." She handed me a hair tie. 

I attempted to scoop up all of her curly hair and put it together on the top of her head. 

"Don't you have a brush?"