chapter 7

Abbie's POV

There is a knock on the door and Prudy wakes to open it.

"You!" She says looking at Prudy and walks past her. "We need to leave. Now!" She is talking to me.

"What? Why?" I ask moving a step back.

"Don't fucking ask questions and, how did you not tell me she's your roommate?" She cups my face with her hands. "What has she done to you."

I'm confused and I look at Prudy.

"Kiara get out of my room." Prudy states.

"You should realise by now that you have no right to give me orders." She turns to her. "What other thingie have you had going with Abbie? She your new pet?" She does the quotation marks with her hands while mentioning 'thingie' and I suddenly feel bad for her for calling her out on the same thing.

"Don't you even go there Kiara, you seduced him on purpose!"

I follow them with my eyes as they take turns to speak.

"You don't get to tell me what I did. Let's go." Kiara says turning to me.

"She is not going with you." Prudy retorts. I see what's going on here.

"Let's see about that." Kiara grabs my hand and wants to drag me but Prudy holds my other hand.

"She stays."

"I didn't ask your fucking opinion on this. I say and it goes. You know why? I'm the fucking school president now and you cannot do a damn thing about it. If I have to transfer her to another room, I will!" My eyes widen in surprise but they close as fast as Prudy let's go and Kiara jerks me to the door.

I free my hand from her.

"Stop!" She turns to face me.

"This is not a discussion." She says between her teeth but I ignore her.

"I have no idea why there's so much bad blood between you two but you don't own me Kiara! Prudy is my friend, not a psycho! I am an adult and I get to make my choices and... You are the school president??! Why didn't you tell me that?"

"It didn't come up. Now let's go."

"No no no no. I don't think you herd me.I am not going anywhere." I say it as slowly as I can to make sure she gets it word for word and I walk back to Prudy, slipping her key into my sweatpants' pocket and turn to her.

" I am not staying either."

They all stare at me probably wondering where this freshman who has quite a reputation is going to go and, I take that golden opportunity to dash out and before they know it, I've locked them inside.

"Open up! Fucking open this door."

"Work out your issues madam president. My bed is empty. Bye. Oh, tell Prudy I got her keys. And please don't burn down my room there's expensive stuff in there." I shout by the door and I can hear Prudy curse.

Yeah, where do I go?

I call Brandon and another guy picks up.

"Hey," I answer back after the thousand hellos that definitely didn't sound like Brandon. "Do you know where he is?"

"He's just upstairs taking a bath, I can bring it to him if it's important."

"No, no..." He has a hookup for the night. Great. "No it's okay just tell him goodnight for me." I hang up before he could reply.

The coffee shop. No hell that place is cold. I should call Berlin. Wait I don't have his number. What the hell is wrong with me. I walk all the way and stop at the big house. I didn't know it was this far, probably because I used to go by car.

"Abbie?" Allan says as I enter the house.

"Why are you here and where is Kiara?"

"I... I thought everyone will be here. Kiara is back at my place." I say in a low tone not hiding my surprise at how Clean the place was. Is it Allan that lives here? Are his parents home? Should I go back?

"I will leave. I don't want to cause any trouble for you."

"What? No, I can just call Berlin and everyone else is here if you need anything."

"Everyone else?"

"Yea you know Peter, Christian..." I cut him short before he could finnish.

"So this is not your parents' house then?" Shock is evident on my face as he starts to walk around.

"What? No, my parents are in New York. This is a frat house."

"Oh, yea of course." I had read that term before in the book after but I had not pictured it to look like this house.

He gets engaged in his phone calling Berlin I guess and Less, his girlfriend I guessed joins him giving me a head nod that I nodded back to.

Gladly Berlin doesn't take long to get there and as soon as he gets there, Allan leaves.

"Movie?"

"Great idea." This place felt wrong with just me and Berlin. No noise, not crowded, doesn't smell of liqour and the undersized cups nowhere to be found.

He hands me the remote and switches on the huge flat screen TV on the wall then walks over to the kitchen and comes back with a bowl full of popcorn. Movies it is.

"I love comedies. Little. Let's watch little." He says and I merry at the mention of little.. I have watched it a hundred if not a thousand times and I know the script by heart.

"Sometimes, sometimes we need to visit our past in order to fix our future." He says and I nod at the lesson that came from little. I try my best to stay quiet but I really can't help it. I whisper words alongside characters and I get louder and louder until I'm literally talking and Berlin is watching the pictures.

"You didn't pay me to babysit..." He doesn't seem offended by me, he chuckles at my imitation of the characters' voices.

"I've heard people sing along to songs but this is new." He laughs and I blush at his words I had not been soo engrossed to what he will think if I...

"Sorry." I say feeling embarrassed.

"No, no it's... Go on a date with me."

"What?"I squeak and clear my voice.

"What?"

He rubs the back of his neck probably realizing what he had said.

"I mean, go out with me, not a date just as friends." He smiles probably to ease the tension he had just caused.

"Oh, yea sure. What other movie do we have here?" I change the uncomfortable topic.

"Jexi?"

"Yes, yes, yes.." I loved that movie. I had thrown myself into movies in the past few weeks after the small fight with mom. At least I managed to avoid that arrogant guy and well, here I was re watching a movie with this soft boy who is asking me out.

"Did something happen with you and Prudy?" He pulls me out of my thoughts.

"You mean apart from Kiara..." He looks worried and I remember their small encounter at the boutique.

"You told Kiara Prudy is my roommate?" It was more of a statement than a question. He blinks and looks away from me. "God, why did you do that."

"I'm sorry, it just slipped and..."

"Its okay, I'm glad she came anyway. I hope they can settle things because I honestly can't choose sides." I sigh and focus on the movie.

Time moves fast and my head gets heavy, my eyes close.

In the morning, Berlin is nowhere near the sofa that I slept on. There's a piece of paper on the fancy coffee table which I pick up and it's Berlin's phone number. I fold the blankets that had been thrown over me and creep out wearing my shoes outside the house and locking it behind me. I want to get back to my room and find out how the night transpired.

I don't know if I should tell them that I'm coming in or to just unlock the door and walk in on them.

"I'm coming in." I shout and unlock the door only to be met by a strange look on both girls with messed up hair some entering their mouth carelessly.

"Oh boy." I close myself outside and open the door again. I don't know why I did that. Maybe I was treating it like an android that has shitty hanging behavior where you restart it and it's back to normal but. Woe, it's still the same sight but this time they throw glares at me. I stand rooted and swallow hard a lot of times. What had happened here? I take glances around the room and woah, my bedside lamp is shattered.

"I thought I told you I had expensive stuff in here." I almost whispered. It's not like I owned the lamp but still, it was expensive! They don't move an inch, they just stare.