"C'mon give him a chance look at him he's hot sweet and available you have no excuse Tonya" My friend Christine waves her unicorn pink colored phone in my face.
This is third time this week I've went on her pointless blind dates its stupid and a waste of time. "UGH Christine it is 8:45 in the morning on a Saturday let me die in peace please" i said waddling around putting a striped sliver and blue pillow over my face groaning.
"so you wearing that tacky blouse the other day wasn't dying?" she says putting in her eye contacts, "you said you liked them!" i say whining like a five year old. "i also say Ne-yo's gonna fly across the world track me down and get on one knee to pop the big question but we both know its never gonna happen not yet at least".i mean she's right, not about the Ne-yo fantasy but the blouse, i thought i looked presentable i wore a navy green blouse jeans platform sneaker and a french hat, but that's not the point!
"I am not going on another blind date, don't you remember what happened on the last blind date you made me go to?!"
His name was frank she found him on tinder, he looked nice and everything was going good until he said "Hey you got a crowbar lets ride in style".
Never again.
"Look i'm sorry about that but girl you need to get up and out of this stupid dorm room and have fun! you've been in college how long now? and still and i quote haven't 'found yourself'. She wasn't wrong it'd been a year and two months since i left my hometown New York to go to college in Florida, my original plan was to save money from summer jobs to make it to me and my best friends dream college in Florida and we would've been able to find ourselves and who we truly are. No surprise Christine is funny, outgoing, bold, fierce and smart. And then you have me i mean i'm 20 and i still don't even know my favorite movie let along what i want.
And leave it to my good friend Christine to keep my relationship status 'fresh' whatever that means.
"Look i'm just saying..." she grabs a hair brush and brushes her new curls she got done to impress her boyfriend Jacob,"i think that you need to get out more, you know actually explore Florida ! isn't that why we made this our dream school? because of its beautiful places?" Another good point made, put me out there why don't you Christine." I mean look at you and look at me this ain't 20 year old college girl swag we intended on being" she says waving her purple sparkly brush up and down proving a point.
"What are you talking about?! did you not see how i switched it up yesterday? i-" she cuts me off before i can finish.
"do not finish that sentence Tonya Montgomery especially if your are talking about those purple glasses child". she said fluffing out her black and white 90's dress with her bow on her head. "WHAT? i switched it up usually i wear black glasses but i wore purple that day so cool of me to do" i say. she grabs me by hand and drags me to the bathroom, it's been such a long time since I've even cared to look at myself that i realize what a mess i am , Cheetos puffs stains on the corner of my lip, dried chocolate ice cream on my pj's from watching 'the wiz' and crying, WHAT? the ending gets me every time. She's right i need to get out there and find who i Tonya Montgomery am, time to get back in control of my life and what i want.
"you win" i muffle under my pale hands.
"WHATS THAT YOU SAID?" she yells knowing good in well she heard me.
"you win ok? do what you need to do" i say prideful but hey what do i have to lose? "Thank god! I've been wanting to get my hands on that hair for the longest!" she says examining it like some sort of animal. "what's wrong with my hair?" i say innocently, "oh baby shhh and let god- mother do her work, in fact your coming with me to the party you might meet someone interesting". she says getting her make-up equipment out. "what am i gonna wear? all my cloths are lame".
she tells me to close my eyes while she does her magic and puts on doja cat. All i know is her playing doja is a good sign which means today may be the day to a new beginning for Tonya Montgomery.
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RomanceTonya has been in college for a year now and still cant find herself, her friends insist she needs to get loose but its hard for her, she meets a guy he treats her like nothing she's never experienced before and hes opened her to new ideas and possi...
