Me and Myself

Chapter Three

My eardrums were about to burst when I heard a loud pistol fired. "No!" I screamed, if I could stop anything worse from happening. Everything went black. I gasped, my eyes opened wide and jumped out of bed. My breath was heavy from the nightmare I just had. I started to relax when I realize I'm in my dorm room. I sighed and start searching for my favourite crunchy to collect my hair. I was startled to find a feet on my pillow. The actual human feet is on my pillow? Which means the rest part is on my bed. I slowly reached for my comfort and slowly start pulling it.

Laura.

Phew, I am relieved that I saw her. How did she end up here anyway? My mind runs back to last night. We talked about different stuffs. Oh I remember, I liked her too. She's amazing.

I grab my phone from the nightstand beside me. I swipe and holy crap! I got 60 missed calls and 26 messages. 39 calls from mom the rest from dad. And 20 messages from mom, 4 from dad, the other two were from my friends. Mom's going to kill me. I quickly tab the dial button with mom's name on it.

"OLIVE!" She screams. I doubt I heard it ring, frowning on her high pitched voice.

"Hey mom." I answered.

"Thank God you're alive!" Woah she really was worried. Wait, why wouldn't she?

"I'm sorry I didn't answer your calls yesterday. My phone was on mute and I was very tired so I crushed early." I explained.

"It's okay baby. But how are you?" She still seems worried, I need to come up with something and make her believe that I am perfectly fine.

"I'm actually great mom. I made friends yesterday." Hope this grabs her attention.

"Oh really?" She squeals. Yup that just worked.

"Yeah, they're pretty nice." I tried to lower my voice, Laura's asleep remember?

"I'm so proud of you. But be careful okay? You don't know them well."

"Yet. I don't know them well yet. Mom."

"Yes. Sorry."

"So how is dad?" Trying to change the subject.

"He's good, but worried about you. Call him as soon as possible."

"Yeah I will. Bye mom gotta go."

"Okay baby, love you!"

"Love you too."

         ~~~call ended~~~

I turn to see if the sleeping crazy is awake, but she looks lost in her dreams. I wonder what she was dreaming about cause she looks so peaceful, I'm so jealous. I looked at my phone and it was 7 already so I grabbed my shower bag, shoved toothbrush with toothpaste, clean underwear, soap, shampoo, makeup kit and ofcourse my towel. I rushed to the bathroom and quickly brushed my teeth. I entered in one of the shower room I found. While I was taking a quick bath I heard the bathroom door open. Someone was humming to a song that I think I might heard it from somewhere. I saw her feet as she walks to the next shower room through the space between the door and the floor.

I finished taking bath so I grab my towel and start drying my wet body. The humming continued which was quite irritating. I quickened on putting my clothes on and rushed to the mirror to fix my hair and makeup. I blow dry my hair with the hair dryer I found in the bath room. For your information I took my mom's hair, it's not very long nor short. Its medium length summed up with the thickness and its natural black colour makes it true beauty. I tied it in a messy bun and start doing my makeup. I'm not 'I can't live without makeup' girl, I just use simple makeup like: mascara, eyeliner and a lipgloss. As I was about to finish doing my makeup I hear a doorknob turn behind me. I took a break to see who it was and found a girl with wet pink freez hair fixing her now wet towel on her body. I look back to the mirror infront of me and gave one last glance at myself before gathering my things. The bathroom consists of 4 restrooms and 4 shower rooms with a huge sink plus a huge mirror on top of it.

"Hmm, hmm, hmmm...." she's still humming. Ergh!

"Hmmm, hmmm, hmm..." somebody save me!

"Even though you've been with me,

I got a feeling that I can't comprehend..." SERIOUSLY! JUSTIN BIEBER?

"Sorry, did I bother you?" She asks, finally. YES! My inside voice screamed. But I answered with a smile.

"It's okay." I told her. I was about to leave until she started talking.

"I actually hate Justin, but I just hate taking cold shower too. That's why I couldn't stop." She smile.

"Wow" I chuckled "he's days are over, huh?" I questioned.

"Very" Rolling her eyes. "I'm Stella" she smiles.

"Olive" returning the same smile.

"I'm pretty good at singing by the way." She looks at the mirror fixing her hair. Oh really? Cause last time I checked I heard a cat dying.

Tell her, Tell her she suck, her voice suck, her pink her suck!

Actually, her hair looks good.

Yes you're right, sorry. Wait, are you trying to change the subject? Cause I'm not letting ...

"I can see that." I smiled blocking my inside beast plus trying not to sound hateful.

"You don't believe me, do you?" She pushes. Oh I do believe you can sing, but first I need to move my ears somewhere safe. You see they're really useful.

"Oh I do." Lie. Zipping up my bag.

"Okay well then hear me out." Facing me this time. WHAT! RUN!

"You know it's running late. I better leave. See ya!" s**t. If looks could kill she would've stabbed me with in a second by now. Okay. I've changed my mind.

"Sure, show me what you got." I gave her the best smile I could offer right now. She smiled and started singing 'cold' by maroon 5 ft. Future. I don't regret staying though. She sounds dope. Why is she here? She should be on tour banging a stage. And eating up all the praising her fans throw her. When she finish singing I was lost of words.

"Wow. I mean really wow." I stutter.

"Girl I know." She smiles finishing her makeup.

"I'm in room 14 if you wanna hangout sometimes." I offered.

"I would love that. You're nice. I like you." I chuckle.

"Thanks." We started talking about different things and she told me she's from south Africa. Her father is half American. She got a brother who studies here too. She finished her hair and also makeup. We start heading to my dorm room she refused at first, but I told her my roommate was pretty nice and finally agrees.

"So why are you here if you're not interested in learning?" I ask.

"I never said I wasn't interested. It's just I wanna be one of the top singers that represent south Africa to the world." She sighs.

"You know you can do that." I say earning a scoffs.

"I've heard they got music clubs." Trying to comfort her.

"Oh yeah I saw that, it's lame." She blurt.

"How did you know?"

"There are 2 clubs, one Rock and the other is a capella." I frown. They don't seem lame to me.

"How are they lame?"

"You see sweetie I don't do rock. And a capella," she scoffs "it's obvious."

"A capella is not lame." I argue and she roll her eyes. It's not lame!

"Have you seen pitch perfect?" I ask

"Duh"

"Is it lame?" I smirk

"No."

"So?"

"I think I need to remind you that it's a movie. And sometimes movies are way different than reality."

"Okay or maybe you should create your own."

"My own what?" Raising her brow

"You're own club." Making it look obvious.

"You know that's not easy."

"You see sweetie life isn't always easy. Some things need hardwork and hardwork pays off."

"I'll try." She chuckle.

"Girl there is no try! Do or do not." Reaching our destination I turn the doorknob letting her in.

"Mercy." Making that French accent. I laugh.

When we enter the room we found Laura fully dressed standing in front of the medium sized mirror trying to fix her eyeliner, I guess.

"You're up!" I yell knowingly so she would be startled. I haven't forgotten her pillow deed last night. She literally jumped smudging her liner on her way.

"Errr..!" She growl. "Girl do you know that this was my fifth time fixing my liner? And look what you did." Holding her waist.

"Sorryyyy." Trying not to burst with laughter.

"Oh are you?" Slowly approaching me. I'm not liking the way she's looking at me, no I swear I'm not. What is she going to do? KILL ME? Should I call for help? Speaking of help.

"Stella, this is Laura and Laura this is stella. She lives second door to the right. Ha ha" looking right and left like an umpire trying to change the subject. Laura snapped her head where stella was standing the whole time.

"Who is she?" She snapped her head back to me.

"Uhh Stella?" Trying to sound obvious.

"I heard that. What is she doing here?" Her eyes widened poking my fear.

"Uh since we're new around here we might face certain problems and I figured the more the merrier." I force a smile.

"So you just drag some hood brat in to my dorm without me knowing?" This time she earned a gasp from both of us.

"Okay that's enough. You can just ask me to leave. You don't need to be..." Stella was cut off by Laura's ear piercing loud laughter.

"Girl I'm messing with you. You're welcome anytime." Engulfing her with a hug. It took us by surprise. No one expected this. Well I'm glad.

"Okay know hurry up we're late for breakfast. Enough with the hugging." I scold them.

"Somebody's jealous." They laugh and I roll my eyes. We grab our backpacks and head to the cafeteria. When we arrive the door closed behind us. Yes we were that late, but we still made it. The cafeteria was full of students. We take our plates and sit on the less crowded table we found near. We talked certain issues while eating our meal. Plus a little gossip won't hurt.We laughed on some stupid stuffs and finally leave the cafeteria to check when, where and what type of clubs we want to participate. After reaching the board where different papers were posted on, we started checking out the activities we could work on.

"Ooh, here I found what I want." Stella jumps.

"Lucky you." I groan.

"I can't find one. They're so boring. I think they have a VIP activity for a very important person. I should go and check at the deans office. I don't wanna keep them waiting. " Loo's smirk visible on her face.

"Girl purr-lease, there ain't no such thing like VIP. If there was any, I would've been receiving invitations everywhere. 'Please join our club, please join you'll love it, please please please'" She boast. Giving the last sentence a weird act as if they're begging her.

"You wish." Loo scoffs.

"Ehm" someone clear their throat from behind. I wonder who. MR. ARROGANT! Is this guy a stalker? Dude what the hell?

"I can write you on my VIP." Suggesting like pfft I would accept his offer. No thank you.

"A hot piece of meat, yumm" laura half moan half whisper. Gross.

"You definitely are a stalker." I cross my arms giving him the 'disgusted' look. He smirks. Dude seriously?

"Actually pumpkin, you're the one stalking me." Excuse you?

"I came here first so you're the one following me like a lost puppy." I spit.

"Who said coming first won't make you a stalker?" Arching a brow.

"Ha ha!" Forced laugh. He cuts in.

"What if you knew that I'll be here?" He pushes walking slowly towards me. Nope I ain't gonna back out. Cause you know those scenes in movies when the boy slowly walks to the girl and she start walking backwards slowly following the same rhythm and there's this I can be your patron wall and when she lean trusting the wall the boy closes the gap between them and slowly (don't forget the eye contact) leans in, their breath gets heavier.... I shooed my thoughts. Back to reality!

"Why would I?" I challenge. He's getting closer. Almost closing the space between us. Our eyes were glued on each other as we're playing the no blinking game.

"WHY don't we allow him to find what he wants, shall we? Yes we shall." Stella snatches my arm pulling me out of the way and by that our...our....our I don't really know what that was but the no breaking eye contact thing didn't last long.

Sage walked past me and took a glance at the board. With in seconds he found what was in his mind. What? How? We've been standing there for almost what? An hour now? And we couldn't find interesting much. He slowly walks towards me chickenbumps running on my skin as he reachs me. His irritating height making me look like a 10 year old kid asking him to carry me. Maybe not 10 but his tall around 6 feet and some inches, I don't know. Holy damn he smells like mint. The familiar mint I love. Not on him though.

"Like what you see? Let's make it specific, like what you smell?" Woooooow, how did he know that? Was I saying it out loud? I don't think so. But still how? Does he read minds? Or is...

"Don't stress yourself, you didn't say it out loud." This time his hot breath hitting my cheek around my earlobe. Who do he think he is? Mr. Arrogant.

"Keep dreaming that." I returned his whisper with the same one but this time I was in charge. Slowly placing my hand on his chest. His eyes widened in true surprise. Bingo!

"If I were you I wouldn't resist me too." I smile and boom push him away with the hand I placed. I stormed out not even looking back and joined my team. Laura was smiling almost blushing looking behind me. Uhg she's ruining my 'I'm dope' moment. I turn to the direction where she was eye flirting and saw mr. arrogant's back. Did he just? Told you these guys were no fun.

"Damn girl what was that about?" Stella nudges me by the arm. Ouch! I think I should say it out loud.

"Ouch!" I whine. Rubbing the spot.

"I know it doesn't hurt." She spits. Oops busted.

"How did you guys get to know each other anyway?" Laura jumps in the conversations we were having. Finished with the flirting? I told them the whole story and all I got was oh, ah, hmm's. When I finish telling my story you won't believe what just happened.

"I like him." Laura smiles. Stella and I groan and continue with the searching. After a little moment of searching I finally found what I wanted.

"Finally!" I yell "some charity and books will do." I smile.

"Thank God! My legs are burning with all the standing." Stella groan jogging on her spot to relax her muscles.

"I'll just go with fashion." Laura adds.

"By the way do we share any classes?" Stella asks.

"Yeah. Language, literature, and maths. These three classes you're stuck with me." I reply. "And biology with loo." I add glancing at laura herself.

"Ugh I got four classes with you? I hate my life already." Loo growls.

"Girl what was that? You're lucky to even share one with me. You should celebrate." Ella flicks her imaginary long hair and I scoff.

"I rather celebrate your funeral." Loo challenges.

"Oh hush." Ella waves off loo's answer. We all burst with laughter.

"Girl come here let me give you a hug." Pulling loo into a suffocating hug. Okay this is there second time leaving me out. Whoops. I gulp when I find myself with in the same suffocating hug. How thoughtful of them.

"Why do you keep hugging us? I mean I know I'm irresistible but this is too much." I said with a stiffened voice trying not to choke my lungs out. She finally releases when a loud pop of a gum bursts. We turn and found a white blonde with crossed hands.

"Wanna join?" Stella jokes.

"Pink hair got some jokes huh?" The girl reply with a bit**y tone. Thank God I'm not her gum if I was, I would be screaming my a*s off. That's if she gives me a chance to, she's not chewing but grinding it. Oh lord have mercy on him.

"Girl hold the attitude for yourself. We ain't interested." Stella spits. Two girls joined the blondie. Let the fun begin.

"Oh look what we got here, puppets!" Laura fires. Girl fight?

"The only puppet I see is you darling. Nobody's is talking to you." She fires back.

"Oh you're talking to me now." Laura stepping closer initiating a fight. Okay this is not good. I really don't like it.

"Hey, we don't want no fight okay. Girls let's go." I cut in dragging both by the hands and giving one last glance at the blondie and her chickens. A few steps later stella speaks.

"Her a*s's skinny. I've dealt with lot better chickas than that narrow ass." She scoffs, "one slap on the face and that's all she need to crush down like titanic." She spat.

"I see it's not your first time." I smirk.

"Girl this was one of the reasons I'm here."

"Because of a fight?" Loo asks.

"Not a fight, but fights. Girl I remember this one time, the school's football captain s*****d one of my girl friend booties and the next thing he knew was he's got a blood running nose."

"You mean you punched him on the nose?" Loo asks frowning.

"I broke his f*****g nose!" She answer laughing at her own deed.

"Wow that was something." I said.

"I know" trying to boast.

"You know your social circle and its network got a bug. You need to have some patience and know how to slide simple things." Sucking out the blow that was making her a*s boast.

"I don't need improvement. It was their problem. They came to me I never went for them." She defends.

"You know the last time I had a fight was in first grade. There was this girl she always slaps me and I always went home crying. One day my dad told me to slap her back on the eye and he told me to make it loud and hard. Well I did as I was told. And you know what she did?" Looking right and left waiting for them to say something.

"What?" Loo asks curiosity eating her patience.

"She told our teacher." I blurt.

"Snitch!" Ella spits.

"You know what I did?"

"What?" This time stella's patience running low.

"I was told to bring a parent which I took my dad cause he was the one giving such an advice. He went and asked where the teacher was this whole time while his daughter was in that particular place but every day. And told her to back off. She did as told. Then adios problemo." I pretended the Italian accent.

"I love your dad." They both say in unison.

"I'll make sure to tell him." I laugh.

"Oh please do." Stella drops her arm over my shoulder laughing at my stupidity of getting hit and not responding anything well yes except the crying.

"Girl I was a real handful when I was that age. I was the boss and nobody dared to even look at me in the eye." Stella brags.

"Yo stop bragging already my ears hurt." Loo whines. And I laugh earning a shove from Ella.

"But dude seriously you can't get into a fight this easily. You know the rules are tough around here, you might get expelled. So try and take things less chaotic." Laura explains hoping Stella would accept.

"What if I can't?" Stella shrugs.

"Ditch their asses and move on. They ain't worth your life." Loo answers. I nod in agreement. And Stella sighs in defeat.

"I'll try."

"You better." Loo adds.

We walked to the cafeteria while talking. Reaching our destination we joined the line. In the time of waiting, our stomach grumbled we tried not to focus on food rather we started talking about movies and actors. It didn't work. The line is not moving. It looks like they're paused and we're the only one on play. This didn't stay for long though. I heard Loo calling me turning back my attention to them.

"Huh?" I asked

"Let's eat somewhere else." Laura repeats.

"Where?"

"Lounge maybe." Stella joins.

"Yeah." Loo nods in agreement.

"Okay. I'm tired of waiting too." We left the not moving line and start walking to the lounge. I took a turn to the right but Stella stopped me.

"What's wrong?"I question.

"We're going to the 90's." She answer throwing her arm over my shoulder.

"90's?" Confusion obvious on my face.

"You haven't been in 90's yet?" No. I shook my head.

"Wow." She scoffs. I'm I missing something? "Well don't worry we," looking at Loo "will be honoured to take you there." Her left side lip turning upwards. Smirk?

"Is it something I need to know?" Trying to investigate where they were taking me.

"YES!" They both scream sending me to the land of deaf.

"Okay okay. Update me about it." Curious eating me.

"Girl you haven't installed it yet. There ain't no update." Stella scoffs.

"Fine, when are we gonna arrive to this mysterious place?" Trying to be dramatic.

"Girl count to 10." Loo laughs and I frown. "Hold your breath cause you're about to drool all over the place." She adds.

Seconds later l found myself with hormonal teenaged boys eyes undressing me. I cringed at the thought of me being with these hormonal creeps. We took a seat on the far corner quite table. Loo and I started talking the clinical term is admiring the place, but to keep it cool let's just say we're having a chat. Stella squeals taking a seat tapping the table with excitement. She went to give our orders, what just happened with in 2 minutes?

"Guys you don't believe what I just got."

"Tell us and we'll decide that." Loo sits back stretching her arms and blowing out a long air.

"There's a party tonight!" She squeals harder. Loo sits straight collecting her attention to the juicy stuff she's hearing. While me on the other hand my eyes widened at the thought of partying with these weird strangers.

"And?" Loo fidgeting from excitement while I again losing interest at the topic.

"I just got free tickets!" This time they're stomping their feet up and down laughing and giggling with excitement. Should I join them too. No I don't like these things. Why? Simple but long answer, here you go. You know these parties supply very delicious food and they're free, I love that part, they also have beverages both alcohol and non alcohol. The alcohol will make you a little tipsy and there is this song the DJ keeps playing that will play the role on turning you on and lead you to the middle and you start dancing. After midnight if you're virgin and not ready to lose it yet or you don't wanna get laid, you probably should run cause when he drop Trey songz and the lights get dimmer and harder to see. Boom you feel Somebody's body on you. You know what I mean? There gonna be peoples grinding on you, touching you the places you don't wanna be touched, trying to get in to your pants. Well, I don't wanna catch STDS so again, No thank you! That's the truth. There's....

Earth!

I said truth not earth

Earth to V!

What? Why to me?

Snapping fingers bursting my thought bubbles. Wait I'm not done yet.

"What?" I speak finding both eyes staring at me. "What?" I repeat.

"What were you thinking, I was feeding Loo about the party. Look...." she continued while I zoned out. Speaking of feeding where's our food, it's taking forever. I'm starving.

"Hey are you flirting with the dude while I am explaining?" Stella nudges me waking me up again. What did she just say?

"What?" I ask

"The guy on the left, you've been staring and he's been checking you out." Loo winked at me. I snap my head oh and guess who I just found. Yes Mr. Arrogant! I roll my eyes and turn to my position.

"He's the guy from the board right?" Loo asks. I nod. "Will he attend the party?" Well that's up to him.

"I don't know." I shrugg.

"Girl he'll be there." Stella assured.

Our food arrived and the aroma damn, God is good! We ate like we haven't ate for couple of days. I get it now. The reason they wanna come here was the food is amazingly good and they get to check out hot boys for free and they might get free tickets to parties too. Finishing our lunch we start heading back to our dorm.

"Olive, Olive" someone called me from the back.

"Hey Greck" I smile when he reachs us. He was slightly panting.

"Were you running?" I ask.

"I was trying to catch up on you." He answers smiling.

"Oh sorry I made you run. This are my friends..."

"Stella." Stella cuts in extending a hand to shake. Okay come down. Loo follows. Girls. I rolled my eyes.

"Laura, but you can call me loo." She smile. This girls are hell boy crazed.

"I'm Greck." I can read Greck's confused face.

"So Grecky what brings you here?" Stella smile sending him a wink. He giggles.

"I saw you pass by and thought I could say hi." He says facing me.

"That's it?" Loo frown. How rude.

"Oh that's so nice of you. Have you seen your classes yet?" I ask trying to cover what loo just sprayed.

"Yeah I did. I think we share classes." He said.

"Let me guess, language and literature?" I reply.

"Exactly." We laughed and talked about some other stuffs and I waved him goodbye as he left.

"Bye Grecky!" Stella yells holding the talk she was having with loo. He waved at her.

"He's cute" she said and I roll my eyes.

"He is yesterday's date, right?" Loo asks smirking.

"How many times do I have to tell you. It wasn't a date!" She laughs.

"Don't tell me he's taken." Stella cries.

"He's not!" Sending daggers to Loo and she shrugs.

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After having dinner early we went back to our dorm. They started to dress up leaving a mess for me to clean behind. They've tried convincing me into going but I didn't budge. They were mad at first but it didn't last long. They flew me kisses and went. I was left alone with a messed up room. I started cleaning and I was done when the clock hits 10. I jumped in bed to get some sleep since they're not here yet. It didn't work so I grab my laptop and start watching movie. After the movie I glanced at the watch on the nightstand, it's almost 1 am and they haven't showed up. Should I be worried? I tried to reach them through cellphone but the computer keeps telling me I couldn't reach them. I gave up and went to sleep.

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Beep

Beep

Beep beep

My alarm wakes me up. I groan trying to reach my phone and switch it off. It fall on the floor while I was sleepy searching for it. I woke up to pick my phone. I was expecting a sleeping crazy lying on the bed infront of me but she wasn't there. I quickly sit up analysing everything. Her bed is the same as last time I cleaned the room. I picked my phone and dialed her number. That shitty computer answered telling me I couldn't reach her. I heard the door open and turn to see who it was, Stella. She's changed the outfit from last night and she looks good with the makeup and a straightened hair.

"Hey sleepy head. You won't believe what happened last night." She smirks.

"Where's Loo?" I was starting to get worried.

"She left early last night." She closes the door behind her. "Where is she?" She asks me the same question.

"She's not here. I thought she was with you." I quickly grab my jeans putting it on.

"I thought she was with you." She frown trying to call her.

"I've tried that. Her phone is switched." I started panicking in the inside. Is she okay? Where is she? Is she safe? Or hurt? I don't trust parties since they do some nasty stuffs like get high on drugs and lose their minds with alcohol, numbing their bodies. I wore a red tank top I found near, grabbed my phone and when we were about to open the door. It slammed open. I couldn't believe my eyes. We froze.