There was a loud roar as we finished our final year exam, and the examiner had collected all our papers. It was tough, a lot tougher than I’d expected, but the feeling of relief had reared its head and all I could think about was doing all the things that I’d put off doing for the last few weeks, which had mainly consisted of sleeping and talking to the guys. I’d gone on radio silence because I needed to study and concentrate. Besides, after the argument with Lucy a few weeks back, it hit me hard, and I didn’t feel like socializing, even with them. She had been avoiding me like the plague, going to the room when I was in class, and vice versa. If she was my friend, she would be outside right now telling me about all the ways we would go out and celebrate, but we weren’t besties let alone friends anymore, and I felt exactly the same way that I did in high school. Alone.I picked up my bag, but then my cell chimed, and I thought that by some chance it was Lucy calling, and it put a sp
I woke with a hangover so strong, but also with memories of my final exam ending, it made me smile, knowing that I didn’t have to study again, even if it meant that I had to go out into the actual world and find a job. I struggled to open one eye, only to discover that we weren’t in our dorm. Somehow, we ended up in someone else’s room. The question was, whose?“Kiara, you awake?” a familiar voice asked. I rubbed my eyes and blinked several times to see if my ears were deceiving me. I looked at her blue eyes which were facing mine, revealing that I was where I suspected I was.“Amanda, yeah, I’m awake.”She smiled. “Good. I’ll make you guys coffee. Lucy’s in the bathroom.”I tried to get up from the floor, and she stretched out a hand to help me up. I stood up with my skirt back-to-front and my bra sticking out of my top. “Damn!” I said as I stood up and tried to straighten myself out.“Yeah, you were trying to undress, then you just passed out on the floor. We were worried, but we w
I was heading home and thinking about writing to Adonis. It seemed to be so natural with him, I just said exactly what was on my mind, and I hoped he was everything that he said that he was and more. Going home. KI sent the message to him and repeated it to Chaz. It felt like cheating, copying and sending the same message to both of them, but I didn’t know what else to say. I had to pack, and part of me hated myself for being so late at enjoying the college experience. Until four weeks ago, I only had one friend, now I had two. They let us stay in the dorm a little longer, because the government was trying to stop people moving across country, because the cases were rising and they didn’t want to do another lockdown. Well, not an official one, where we couldn’t leave our houses let alone our dorms unless for food and basic necessities.Four years and two friends. One thing was for sure, Nan had been more than generous with my monthly allowance. Sure, I’d never rushed out and bought
Chaz had such a dirty mouth that it should have turned me off, but I couldn’t help but be turned on every time he sent me a text.I wish I was there to see you graduate. CI knew what he really meant, so I didn’t hesitate texting back. He knew that graduating wasn’t an option. We had to go back home and quarantine for the next fifteen days.You mean you would like me to get on stage with no panties. He wrote back within seconds, and I felt as if the moment I hit the send button, he had a reply already waiting for me. Was I really that predictable?No, if I knew I could look up your gown on the stage, then that would be a different matter. Today, I just would love to see you, watch you feeling proud of all you achieved. I didn’t have the heart to tell him, that as much as I would love to do that. It wasn’t possible. The rumors started, and then the next day we had the email telling us we were back in lockdown again. No more enormous crowds, and certainly no more ceremonies. Already,
It was a long ass drive, but I sucked in a breath as I arrived at the bed-and-breakfast. My legs felt like jelly, and I couldn’t be bothered to take my bags out of the rental car. I told Nan the cost of it all, and all she was worried about was me making such a long journey alone. Also, I spent most of the journey drinking Red Bull and Coke so that I wouldn’t have to stop over the night. If I did, then I would be stuck. I’d left right at the last minute. Even Lucy and Amanda both left in the early hours of the morning, whereas I was too lazy to get up and do the same.“You going to stand out there all day like a stranger?” Nan asked as she rushed up to me once I got out of the car. I didn’t realize till I stood up how long I’d been sitting down in the seat. It felt like a second skin. “Nan?”She shook her head. “Judy. How many times?”Yes, how many times had she told us never to call her Nan, Grandma or anything else that could suggest that we were anything more than sisters or maybe
“They’re where?” Lucy asked, like for the fourth time since I sat at the lake talking to her. I ran here as if they were chasing me. I didn’t know that I could run so fast. Then again, I used to run when dad was chasing me. He said that I needed to do some sport. He was the active one in the family, for sure. “And you’re on the phone talking to me. Your Nan will eat them up alive.”“You mean Judy.”She laughed. “Oh my, they say age makes some people grow up.”We both laughed in unison at the idea that my Nan just wasn’t one of them. “Seriously, why are you talking to me? You need to get your ass back home and find out what they want. No, forget that. They want to be quarantined with you.”I choked. “I need to keep running in the opposite direction!”“Kiara, they came to see you. Damn, what I would do to be quarantined with one, let alone two of my ex-men, and you still have the whole getting to know each other and all that kind of thing. I mean, this is just what you need. Yeah, th
There was a knock on my door, and I was exhausted, because ever since I came back home it had been all systems go, and we didn’t have enough rooms. So, mom moved in with Nan, something that she did sometimes when there was an overflow, so I learned yesterday when we finally sat down to catch-up.“Hold on!” I shouted as I struggled to get off my bed. It was nearing ten, but it felt like the middle of the night. I was that tired. As I opened the door, I was shocked to find Chaz on the other side, his dark eyes and dirty blond hair made him feel just as cheeky as he was in his emails. “You keeping the bed warm, I see?” he said as he raised an eyebrow. He’d been jogging. He was wearing shorts, and his shirt gripped to his frame the same way that I wanted to right now. I couldn’t get over his chest. Everything about him was perfect, from his dark eyes to his athletic body. I wondered if down there was a good size too, and if the dick picture he sent me back then was really his.“You thin
I couldn’t believe that working the morning rush meant that no one else was helping out, and I had to serve breakfast, tidy up and clean up, then possibly help with the afternoon rush. Nan spent most of her time just entertaining the guests, talking about the show. Everyone seemed to have watched it and wanted to know what most of the other actors were like, and she didn’t hesitate to sit down, talking to them all. As I arrived at the reception desk, just to tell mom I was going to sit down and rest before the next wave at lunch, she smiled at me, as if she knew what was about to leave my mouth.“You’re tired. Sorry. I didn’t think that you would come home having to face this. Greg and Claire, and the other staff only told me the day before they planned to leave that they were leaving. I never knew before. I know it was a tremendous disappointment not graduating and getting the whole ceremony. I was so looking forward to that.”I shook my head. “I’ve graduated; that’s the most import