6
ASHLEIGH
“Ashleigh, so help me God if you don’t get your a*s out of that room I’m going to burn every single one of your books! I don’t want to be late!”
Gabriella and I were both studying Marine Biology at California State University and heading into our final year before graduation. Ever since I’d met her in our Marine Ecology class, we’d become good friends.
Eventually, we rented an apartment together so we could get out of the dorms. Burning my books wouldn’t be good because I needed them, unlike her who never had to open one to pass a test.
Gabriella’s thunderous footsteps didn’t mute the obscenities coming out of her mouth as she stormed down the hallway to my room. Little did she know that I had already put away my books, straightened my long, chocolate-brown hair, and slippe
