When Amora Banks lands in Atlanta she expects to have the normal college experience. She has her girls, a love interest, and a set plan of how everything will go for the next four years. But, when she meets Derek Streeter, a mysterious college senio...
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It took a few days after the whole Nova and Elias incident for her to finally come back to the dorms and grab some of her stuff. She knew to request a room change without Devyn having to explain it to her which was good because if Devyn had to say anything to her it would've turned into a fight. I blocked Elias and Nova's number but Elias had been calling from other people's phones. At a certain point I just stopped answering unknown numbers because there was honestly nothing I wanted to say to him. The last voicemail went something like, "Please call me, I need to hear your voice. I'm sorry I'm putting you through this. I read the note you wrote me and I want you to feel that way about me again,". All I knew was he needed stop leaving those messages before I made him an intro to a song.
"Let's go do something today!" Jaiya said bouncing on my bed trying to get me up. I smiled lightly at her but shook my head. I wasn't in the mood to go anywhere. "Girl, you can't be in this funk forever. He was one foul nigga. You realized it early on so now it's time to start playing the field again!" Jai gave me her famous speech. I'd heard it at least twice a day from her since the incident.
"She don't want to play the field cuz she want Derek's fine self," Mia said laying down on Jai's bed. I rolled my eyes at her.
"She's actually been ignoring him, too," Jaiya confessed and I shot her a look. I wasn't necessarily ignoring him, I just didn't feel like talking to anyone outside of them. Including Derek.
"Why you ignoring yo future baby dad?" Mia asked, causing all of us to laugh.
"I'm not, I'm just not tryna talk to a lot of people right now," I admitted, getting out of bed and stretching.
"Can you at least talk to a shower cuz girl," Jaiya said, plugging her nose. I pushed her over off the bed and laughed with her. They were kind of right, I needed to get out of my dorm and do something.
"Wanna get food?" I asked, causing both of them to look up surprised. I walked towards the bathroom ignoring their yelling and cheering and took a shower getting ready for my first outing in a week.
An hour later we arrived at Waffle House. I sat down with the two of them and Devyn who thankfully decided to join us.
"Why her punk ass come back today to grab some more stuff," she said as we dug into our food.
"How long until she leaves for real?" Mia asked, taking a sip of her lemonade.
"Girl, I don't know but it couldn't come sooner. Every time I see her I have this image of me beating her ass in my head," Devyn said and got a far away look in her eyes like she was imaging it right then. "I wish I could. I really do," she said, finally snapping out of it. She was crazy, I truly believed so.
We sat around talking for a while until Mia looked at the door and her eyes got wide.
"Elias is at the door, Mora, don't look up," she said, warning me. I prayed he wouldn't see us but of course he did. "He's coming over," she said again and a few seconds later I heard his voice behind me.
"Hey, Mora. Can we talk?" he asked in a quiet voice. I took a few deep breaths trying to calm myself down and got up and walked to a corner in the restaurant to talk to him. "You haven't been answering none of my calls," he said, sadly.
"I don't want to talk to you, thats why," I said looking anywhere but at him.
"I know I fucked up but I truly am sorry and I want us to try again," he said trying to grab my hand but I pulled it back, not wanting him to touch me.
"Did you sleep with her?" I asked ignoring what he just said.
"What?" he asked confused, not expecting that to be my response.
"You heard the question," I said, finally looking up at him.
"It was only once. She tried to do it again but I told her no. She's never who I wanted I was just mad about the Derek stuff,"
"You were mad I was helping out a friend so you slept with mine. Interesting,"
"I know it was the dumbest thing I've ever done. You mean way more to me than that and I know that now, for real," he said, his eyes pleading.
"Well, you should've known that then. I'm sorry but I'm done and I don't want to have this conversation again," I said and walked away. "Can we go?" I asked the girls when I got back to the table. They didn't bother to ask what he said they just quickly grabbed their things and we left. When we got in the car I broke down again. He would show up the one night I leave my room. I laid my head back on the seat ready to get back in my bed and never leave when my phone started ringing. I snatched it out of my pocket and immediately hit decline when I saw Derek's name. He'd only called once or twice but I couldn't bring myself to talk to him yet. I put my phone on DND and we rode silently back to the dorms. When I reached my room I changed and got in the bed, not saying anything to anyone. I just wanted this day to be over. I checked my phone before laying down and saw Derek had texted which he didn't do a lot, either. The message said his surgery was tomorrow and I felt bad as soon as I read it. I called him hoping he would talk to me.
"Hey," he said quietly when he answered after a few rings.
"Hey, how are you?" I asked, feeling stupid after the words came out. Obviously, not good.
"I'm not trippin. What's been going on with you?" he asked and I knew he was really asking why I haven't spoken to him since I left his house.
"I've had a lot going on. I wasn't trying to abandon you or anything," I said as the guilt rose up in me. I should've been there for him. He had just got out the hospital and had been preparing for a surgery he admitted he was scared about.
"Baby girl, I'm just fine," he chuckled but it wasn't an honest chuckle, I knew he was lying.
"What time is the surgery tomorrow?" I asked.
"Eight in the morning,"
"I'll be there," I said with no hesitation. I had class but I could get the notes from someone, I wasn't going to leave him alone.
"You don't have to, I'm straight,"
"Derek, shut up. I'm coming,"
"Well, Ima try to get some sleep for tomorrow. See you then I guess," he said, preparing to hang up but I stopped him.
"Wait! Do you want me to come over? We can have a slumber party," I smiled knowing he wouldn't like me calling it that.
"Ion know about no slumber party, but you can come spend the night over here," he laughed and I quickly got out of bed and slid my Crocs on.
"I'm on my way now," I said and he hung up. "Jaiya, Derek's surgery is tomorrow so I'm going to stay over there tonight to be with him. I'll be back tomorrow whenever he's ok," I informed her and gave her a quick hug.
"Don't have too much fun. Having sex might trigger something in his heart," she joked and I smacked her, laughing on my way out the door.
***********************************************************************************************Amora's Waffle House outfit above. Should Amora give Elias another chance? And what do you think will happen at this 'slumber party' with Derek?
