'Best Friends' Code

*Chapter 15*

4:35, my eyes viciously store at the clock, trying to make the time magically go faster.

"Alex, you've got like 30 minutes," Chris said doing her homework, "he's not gonna go on a date without you."

I rolled my eyes. "No, I didn't know that." I said.

Chris looked dumbly. "You really didn't?" she said.

I sighed unable to laugh from anxiety. For one of the very few times that I finished my work before Chris, helped Ari with her's, and still had enough time to shower and get dressed time was going so damn slow. Impatient didn't describe how I felt. Not just because I was waiting for Finnick either, I hadn't ate anything since breakfast. I was going to kill someone to get some food.

It was to the point that Chris's refrigerator was facing "Oblivion".

Trying to distract myself i edged onto a conversation with Chris.

"Why aren't you guys going with us?" I asked.

"Jerry's out of town early for Christmas break." Chris said.

"You could come alone."

"I don't think so, I takes two to four wheels to drive, third wheels aren't accepted."

"I guess."

"Don't worry, I have PLENTY to do here with this work."

I stood up and walked over to Chris, who was laying diagonally on her bed. I rolled over her back onto the opposite side of her on the bed as well.

"Let's see this so called Calculus." I said.

"Pre-Calc to be specific." Chris added.

We both laughed.

We wrapped our feet together at the end of the bed. Playfully kicking each other. Still lying side by side.

"You aren't going to forget about me at Yale are you?" I said.

Chris turned her head to me.

"Of course not." she said

"That's good." I said.

"What about you? Are you gonna forget about me at college?" Chris asked.

"I might not even go to college."

"Why you're average."

I looked sarcastically.

"Anyway, I don't really know."

"What do you want to do?"

"There's the problem, I don't know."

"What do you mean?"

"I just don't know who or what I wanna be. I wanna go to college, just I don't know for what."

"You could just get one of those liberal degrees or something like that, you just take academic classes."

"I know, but then if i do that, and then realize what I wanna do, I'm not going to feel like going back, and starting all over with school."

Chris rolled over from lying on her stomach to now fully turned towards me.

"How do you know what you're gonna do? We still have senior year, and two whole summers before you have to know. And say you don't know yet and you just take academic classes, you never know if you're going to get tired and not go back, you only think you do," Chris seriously spoke, "My grandma always said, You can plan the future, but you can never build it."

Her inspirational words sunk deep into my skin. I thought for a split second about becoming a motivational speaker, then I thought about the crazy people I'd have to deal with. So that dream quickly faded.