by
BLAAZE

I can't believe that they actually stuck me in the room with a freshman. It's my third year here at Howard University and once again my mother convinced me to stay on campus. She says that's the only way that I'm going to "concentrate on my studies". If only she knew. Hell, last year I probably stayed in my dorm room once a week. Anyway, who my roommate was going to be was all that was on my mind as I pulled up in front of the dorm in the red 2002 Ford Explorer that my father brought me last summer as a motivation present. Hell of a present if you ask me but hey, I'm dayum sure going to enjoy it. I didn't know that it was going to be this hot so I had on a sweat suit and a pair of timbs. Once I got into D.C. I threw my hair back in a ponytail because I can't stand it when I start sweating and my hair sticks to my face. Stepping out of my "Diva" (what I call my truck) I looked around and all I saw was parents, grandparents and new meat as I like to call them, unpacking TV's and all that unnecessary shit. You'd swear that half of these females were moving into apartments instead of a dorm room shared with someone else. I'm still pissed that my father couldn't come with me like he's done every year but he said that he really had to go and visit granny so I left it where it was and didn't worry about it. I looked around to see if I could get someone to help me carry the little bit of stuff I had upstairs but all I saw was a bunch of the older freshman happy guys scooping out which new girl had the biggest ass and titties so it looked like I was going to have to pull this one on my own. I went ahead and grabbed the laundry basket that I had already packed with things and headed inside for the first trip. Once I got inside to pick up my key I was happy to find out that my room was on the first floor. Normally I would have asked to be moved up to at least the third floor because I hated all the traffic on the first floor but I knew that I wasn't going to be there that much anyway. Room 229. I struggled all the way to my room with that laundry basket. Dayum, I didn't know that I had put that much stuff in there. Anyway, here it is. "What the hell.." I said out loud once I walked in my room. Whoever my roommate was, she had her side fully loaded with DVD player, playstation2, TV, microwave. "She must be one of those pretty stuck up types." I said as I locked up the room and headed back outside to get the rest of my stuff. By the time I finished moving all my shyt upstairs I was too tired to put things where they were supposed to go so I went and took a quick shower while all of the other students were attending one of the freshman orientation classes and came back in the room to lay down. I threw on a pair of shorts and a sports bra, threw my Erykah Badu CD in my stereo, hooked up my phone just in case my mother called, stretched across the bed and buried my head under the pillows to keep the light out of my face. I must have drifted off to sleep because the phone scared the hell out of my when it rung. "Hey mom." I said into the phone. "Now you can CALLMIDADDI but I don't do the ma thing." "Who this." I asked sitting up and wiping the drool off the side of my mouth. "Is this Erykah?" "I said who is this." I hate phone games. "This is Mickey. What's up ma." "Hey nigga. I haven't talked to you all summer. Dayum I missed you girl. I thought you said that you were going to write me." I was glad to hear from my homegirl. Mickey and I met my freshman year in school. We roomed all year together and became real good friends. We roomed last year too but she decided that she wasn't coming back this year so we didn't fill out the papers to room together. "Hold on now, you did have my number too but you never called a nigga." "I know. You know how it is once you go home and get the I couldn't wait to be home but now I wanna be back at school blues." "Yeah yeah yeah, but guess what ma." Mickey asked and I could feel her smile through the phone. "Sup." "You would never guess where I'm at.'" "Probably somewhere with some mother's unsuspecting daughter." Over the past two years I'd come to consider Mickey my best friend but lord knows that she could have just about any female that she wanted. The girl was capital F.Y.W.I.N.E. That's right ladies, fine. A sexy educated stud that could talk to you about genetics and keep you laughing while kicking poetry to you all at the same time. Especially when she pulled that you the finest girl that I ever seen line while looking at you with puppy eyes. "Now I wish I was there too but not just yet. Girl I'm back at Howard." "Stop Lying." I scream and jumped up out my bed holding the phone to my ear to as if I could really see if she was playing with me. "Nope, I got here yesterday. I wasn't going to come back until the last minute. I was going to go to Spellman U in Atlanta but they wanted to drop some of my credits and you know I'm not having that so I called and talked to the dean of admissions and you know how I do with women so it was all over from there." Mickey said and burst out laughing. "Yeah whatever. Man, I'm so glad that you came back. I didn't know what I was going to do without you this year. So what you getting into." "Well, I did all my unpacking last night and I ran into Neicy and Snoop in the cafeteria and they told me about a party that going on tonight. Hell, I didn't even know if you were going to be here yet but I checked the phone directory and got your number and called just to see." "Stop playing them niggas came back too." "You know we can't stay away from each other." "Oh hell yeah, it's on." I said while thinking about all the good times that me and my homegirls had last year. "So you think that you can make it to the party tonight. You know we gotta kick the year off in style." "Um..." Don't get me wrong I hang out all the time but since I've been here, my GPA hasn't dropped below a 3.8 and I planned on keeping it that way this year too. "Come on now, you know that papi going to take care of you. I know you going. Now do you need me to pick you up or what." Mickey said knowing that I was always down for having a good time with my homegirls. "Excuse me. First of all I didn't say I was going to go and second of all I'd just like to let you know that my father brought me a nice ride this summer." I said very nonchalantly. "What daddy finally gave in and brought you a hoopty." Mickey said cracking up. "Yeah it's a hoopty but how about I pick you up." I said knowing damn well that my "Diva" was the furthest thing from hoopty on this whole campus. "Aight, that's cool. They put me in Simpson Hall with one of the international students." "Oh God. They must didn't remember who you were. I'm going to pray for that child. But yeah, what time you want me to pick you up." "The party starts at 10 but I figured that we could all go and get some drinks and catch up on what's happened over the summer." "That's cool with me." Mickey and me chatted for about another hour before I got off the phone to try and straighten up my side of the room and find something to wear. After hanging up all my clothes in the closet and hooking up my computer I finished arranging my desk, I went ahead and packed the cabinets with the food that I brought back. It was about 6:00 when I looked over at my roommates side and noticed that she must have came in after I dozed off because there was a Gap Jacket on her bed that wasn't there before and her closet door was slightly opened. "Oh well." I thought to myself. In case you haven't noticed, I talk out loud to myself a lot. Something that my homegirls always getting on me about. I picked out a jean skirt that I had poked perfect mini holes in over the summer and a nice halter top with the Gucci sandals that I brought as my own little motivational present. Might as well go ahead and wear my little outfits while it's still warm outside. When I got through dressing it was 7:00 so I just went to pick Mickey up. Mickey just about had a fit when I pulled up in front of her dorm in Diva. We met Neicy and Snoop at The Black Elite Lounge. The whole name is The Black Lesbian Elite but after a whole lot of bitching from local residents, Bluebutta, the owner took Lesbian out of the middle of it. It's a nice lounge where all of us women of color come together to sit back, chill, read poetry, get our drink on, and just have mad fun. "What's up niggas." I said running into the Lounge and jumping on Snoops back. "Hey girl." Neicy said as she jumped on top of me while I was still on Snoops back. "Come on Mickey, get these monkeys off me man." Snoop said while struggling to hold Neicy and me at the same time. "You always said that you always wanted a threesome dawg so there it go." Mickey said leaning back against the side of the wall. "That's fugged up." Snoop said falling back onto one of the big couches in order to get us off her back. "Come on Snoop, you know you used to lifting all those females over your head." Neicy said standing up and going to hug Mickey. "Well, that is what I'm best at but I swear one of you must have been doing some extra plates of peach cobbler or something. Shyt." Snoop said laying back in the couch and fixing her shirt. Snoop was a basketball player. As a matter of fact, she was one of the few women that the WNBA actually thought about drafting straight out of high school. She was about 6'3, had a hellified shake, and could dribble the basketball through your legs and up your skirt before you even realized that her hand had moved from in front of your face. Last year she always kept her hair in braids but I noticed that she had cut all her hair off during the summer and the helfa actually had good hair. It was really silky looking and I couldn't help but run my hand through it as I stood here looking at it. "You running your hand through my hair like you want something." Snoop said looking at me and licking her lips while letting her eyes drop a notch at the same time. "Whatever it was that you wishing I say is something that you can't handle." I said laughing and looking for Neicy and Mickey who had made their way over to the bar. "Dayum, they just left us like that." Snoop said noticing that they had left. We headed over to the bar so that we could get out drink on before we left for the party. "Neicy, girl you know they got me in the room with a freshman." I said still not over that fact. "You know you like "Freshmeat" Erykah so what's wrong." Mickey said. "Whatever, that's you that's rooming with sushi from China. "Wait a minute, Erylah rooming with a young buck and Mickey you rooming with Sushi. Neicy and Snoop both burst out laughing at that. "That's okay by the time I'm get through with Sushi, she's going to be Filet Mignon." Mickey said as a quick comeback. "More like sardines." Snoop said as Neicy and I burst out laughing. "So how did you get stuck with a freshman?" Neicy asked getting serious. "Hell if I know. I went to housing and spoke with Mrs. Jones before school at the end of last year and put my papers in to room with an upperclassman but they messed it up." "So is she fine?" Snoop asked slapping hands with Mickey. "Cause if she is, I'm going to be in your room eerrrrr day." Mickey said. "I don't know. She came in while I was taking a nap. I can tell that she one of those spoiled ass girls though by all the shyt she got up in the room." I still can't believe this mess. We were at the bar about 2 and a half hours getting our sip on and clowning around catching up on old times before I noticed this shorty in a fly pants suit looking me up and down. Now either she was looking at her reflection in the mirror that was behind the bar or she was scooping me out big time. Either way it went, I had already downed three Screwdrivers and I was going to see what was up because papi was looking good. I walked by her the first time to play it off like I was going to the bathroom and then on my way back I stopped dead in front of her. "Hello, How are you." I said while looking her dead in the eyes. Now that I was closer, I could see just how fine this papi was. Light skinned, red bone, almond shaped gray eyes. Baby smooth skin. About a buck fifty and cut sharp in the muscles department. Yes, I'm as femme as they come and I can read it all in a half glance. "Fine. Do I know you." She asked while she looked me up and down. "You don't know me but I know that you want to get to know me." "And how do you figure that." "Because I was watching you watch me." "Excuse me." She asked while looking at me as if I was crazy. "Okay, look I'm not good at the let's play a game lines okay. I was over there chilling with my homegirls and I noticed that you kept looking over at me." "Uh huh, so I see cause that was some of the weakest shit I've heard tonight." She said smiling. "Anyway, I wasn't looking at you, I was looking at my girlfriend who just so happens to be the bartender that was serving you and your "homegirls" some drinks." She threw her head up at the bartender who in return gave her a big smile and wave. Now I really felt like shit. "Oh, my bad. Let me pick my face back up." I said trying to smile it off. "Have a good night then." I calmly turned around and tried to walk away with what was left of my pride. No way was I going to tell Mickey laughing ass that I had just been dissed. "Hold up shorty where you going." Please let her just let me walk away without embarrassing me anymore. When I turned around she was smiling as big as the Koolaide man. "Yes." "You going to give up that easily." Still smiling she walked up to me. "Sorry papi but I don't do chicks that already have a girl. That's not my style. "Why not." "Because I'm selfish and if I can't have it all to myself then I don't want it at all." I said feeling a little bit of my pride come back. "Well, what if I said that that cutie over there is my sister and you can have me all to yourself if you think you can handle all I got to offer." She said while looking me dead in the eye. Now I really thought that I was going to faint. I cocked my head to the side and looked at her to see if she was pulling my leg. "What makes you think that I believe that mess?" I asked her nonchalantly. "Because if that was my girlfriend I don't think that I would be able to do this." She said and then walked so close to me that our noses were touching and wrapped her arms around me letting them linger on my behind. "So it's like that huh." Nothing I like better than an aggressive woman. "It's absolutely like that and yes I was looking you up and down because I like what I saw." "Good enough answer to me. So what's your name."? "Shawn and yours." "Erykah." "Well nice to meet you Eryakh. So let me guess that the girls staring dead at us is your homegirls." I looked around and sure enough, Neicy, Mickey, and Snoop was staring dead at me. I turned back around to face Shawn as I felt my face blush at what my friends were probably over there saying. "Yeah, you know how that is." Dayum them girls sure knew how to blow up my spot. "That's cool. I like the fact that someone watching you is causing you to blush." "So you noticed huh." "How could I not? Your face is the color of that red chair over there." I could have died on the spot but I kept my composure. "It's all good. I blush easily." "I bet you do." "So what you mean by that." "Nothing much. So do you want to go somewhere a little quieter and talk?" "Umm… Yeah, let me go and tell my homies that I'll be back." "Aight, I'll be right here." I could feel her eyes all over my behind and I made sure to throw an extra sway in my hips as I walked over to the table that Mickey and Snoop were sitting. "Damn, you couldn't even wait one night before you started getting your groove on." Mickey said as I walked up to the table. "First of all I ain't Stella so I never lost my groove in the first place." "Well we can see that by the way that skirt fitting your azz." Snoop said looking at me. Now under any other circumstances I would have followed her up on that comment but Shawn was looking to good to be standing over there by herself. "Where is Neicy?" I asked looking around for her. "Out there on the dance floor with some wanna be MC Lyte looking chick." Mickey said without cracking a smile. "Do I hear a hint of jealousy?" I asked knowing full well that Mickey never really got over her and Neicy's break-up last year. They started dating our freshman year and broke up right before we left at the end of last school year because Neicy didn't think that Mickey could be faithful to her all summer with them being away from each other. "Never that. Not from Daddi." Mickey said while still looking out at the dance floor to see where Neicy had disappeared. "Well, I'm about to go downstairs where it's a little quieter so me and Shawn can talk." "Dang, you moving that fast already. I told you ‘No sex in the Champaign Room'." Snoop yelled across the table to me. "You should have told yourself that last semester when you were busted having sex with the dean's daughter in the Student Union Ballroom." "Ohhhh, she got you on that one dawg." Mickey said coming out of the trance that she had went into. "Oh, that was a mere casualty but the pleasure was all mine dawg. You see I passed with all A's. You know I wasn't in class that much." "Whatever." I said and left the table while Mickey and Snoop went into one of those show a stud some love on all the booty I done busted moments. "I was wondering if you were going to come back. I was about to leave." Shawn said as I walked up to where she was standing by the door. "Yeah well I see you still here." "I couldn't leave a fine shorty like yourself alone in here. Too many ladies would try to kick it to you and I'm not having that." "Yeah whatever." I said as we headed down the stairs. I knew this Lounge like the back of my hand since this is the place that my girls and me kicked it most last year. I led her to one of the rooms that Blue had especially set aside for "quiet" moments. I found out that she was single, from Chicago and she was a junior like myself. She was supposed to be living off campus but she couldn't find an apartment by the time that school started so she was going to be staying on campus for the year. She's a Criminal Justice major that has plans on opening up her own law firm after graduating from grad school. I told her that I was also single, from Cali and that I had been here since my freshman year. I also stayed on Campus and was a Criminal Justice Major. It ran in my family being that my father was the owner of C&J law firm based in Los Angeles. We had been down there talking for about an hour when all of a sudden, she reached over and kissed me. I had been looking at her lips all night and wondering what they would feel like but I didn't plan on her kissing me so she caught me off guard and I jumped causing her to fall into me and I bumped her head with mine. "Damn ma. You got a hard head. "Oh my gosh, I'm sorry." I said completely embarrassed. No matter how hard I tried. Tonight I just could not get it together. "But anyway, what made you think I wanted you to kiss me?" "Actually, I didn't think at all. My eyes been lingering on every word that's came out of your mouth and I had to know if your lips tasted as good as they looked. Now I said that I was going to give up on this one night stand shyt but if she was as bold as she was coming off to be then you bets to believe that I was going to play the game too. "Well why don't you try and get a better taste this time." I said leaning into her. She reached over and tongued me so good that I was just about ready to take my clothes off for her. I leaned my head back allowing her to zone in on my neck. I felt like I was about to burst but I had to get control of myself. "Umm." I moaned. "You smell so good ma." "Thank you." Erykah get a hold of yourself girl. You don't know who this girl really is. "My bad. I'm sorry ma." She said. "Huh." I said coming back to earth. "Sorry, you were just looking so good that I couldn't help myself. I don't want you to think that I normally act this way." "No need to apologize. I was a bit gone myself." "I'd just like to really get to know and I don't want this to be one of those let me tell you what happened the other night type things. Hell, I almost fell off the couch when she said that. I had never met a stud willing to not hit the booty when they had a chance and I dayum sure was caught out there for a min. Hell, I was speechless. "Do you mind if I kiss you again." She asked and began kissing me before I even had the chance to answer. Just then Snoop, Neicy, and Mickey burst up in the room where we were. I could have died right there. "Excuse me Erykah." Neicy said. "Oh shit." I said out loud. Mickey and Snoop burst out laughing while Shawn and I both stood there turning red. "Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt you two." Mickey barely got out inbetween laughs. "Shut up nigga." I said clearly embarrassed. "Look, I have to go. Erykah, I really hope that I get to see you again." Shawn said taking out a pen and writing her number on one of the napkins that was on the table next to the couch. "Yes, Shawn I really do hope that we get to meet again." "Alright, take care." She said after kissing me on my neck and walking out the door. "Your ass was just busted." Mickey yelled once she was sure that Shawn was out of sight. "Whatever." That was all I could say because I still couldn't believe that they just walked up In the room like that. "I thought I told you…" Snoop started but Neicy cut her off "I know your ass not talking after you.." "got caught with the dean's daughter." We all said in unison and cracked up laughing. "Anyway, it's 12:30 do you all still feel like going out." I asked trying to take the attention off me. "Actually, I'm buzzing a whole lot and I don't know if I can make it the rest of the night." Neicy said. "Yeah whatever, she done danced so much with Mc Lyte that her ass probably tired." Mickey said sarcastically. "Oh no you didn't go there." Neicy said cocking her head to the side getting ready to blast Mickey. "Aight you two lovebirds." Snoop jumped in knowing that once Neicy got a few drinks in her all she needed was somebody to start her mouth to going. Plus we all knew that Neicy and Mickey still wanted each other but they both were too damn stubborn to come real with each other. "Whatever man." Mickey said. "But I do feel a little tired anyway." "So what we gonna do." I asked "I've had all the action I can have for this night." Snoop said "Aight, I'm about to go back to the dorm then." I said. No way I was going to roll solo with Neicy and Mickey going at it all night. "Cool. How about you drop me off then Erykah since my dorm is right next to yours. I left my car at the dorm and rode with Neicy." Snoop said. "That's cool with me." I said. "Yeah, plus I'm going to drop Neicy off because I don't want her to drive and she been drinking." Mickey said trying to act like there was nothing to it. "Who said I needed you to drop me off." Neicy said even though we all knew that she was fronting. "Girl please." I said as we all headed towards the parking lot. "Aight Erykah, I'll call you tomorrow." Mickey said as she opened the passenger door on Neicy's Honda Accord to let her in. "Make sure you two get back to campus safe." Snoop said as she got into Diva. I made it back to the campus in like 15 minutes and told Snoop that I would hit her up tomorrow. As I pulled up to park Diva in front of the dorm my mind went back to me and this rooming with a freshman thing. Tomorrow morning I was going straight to housing to see if they change my room. Once I got back in the room. I stretched across the bed and contemplated calling Shawn. I didn't want her to think that I was after her or nothing like that so I decided not to. I had been laying there for like 30 minutes when I heard a key opening up the door. "Here she comes." I thought to myself. Might as well meet the chick and get it over with. "Yeah, this my room right here. I'll see you tomorrow dawg." I heard her saying as she came into the room. When she walked in the door I damn near fell off the bed and she stopped dead in her tracks. We stood in silence before a big smile came to her face causing me to blush all over. There she was again. Shawn. My roommate who wasn't a freshman after all. "So it's like that huh." Nothing I like better than an aggressive woman. "It's absolutely like that and yes I was looking you up and down because I like what I saw." "Good enough answer to me. So what's your name." "Shawn and yours." "Erica." "Well nice to meet you Erica. So let me guess that the girls staring dead at us is your homegirls." I looked around and sure enough, Neicy, Mickey, and Snoop was staring dead at me. I turned back around to face Shawn as I felt my face blush at what my friends were probably over there saying. "Yeah, you know how that is." Dayum them girls sure knew how to blow up my spot. "That's cool. I like the fact that someone watching you is causing you to blush." "So you noticed huh." "How could I not. Your face is the color of that red chair over there." I could have died on the spot but I kept my composure. "It's all good. I blush easily." "I bet you do." "So what you mean by that." "Nothing much. So do you want to go somewhere a little quieter and talk?" "Umm… Yeah, let me go and tell my homies that I'll be back." "Aight, I'll be right here." I could feel her eyes all over my behind and I made sure to throw an extra sway in my hips as I walked over to the table that Mickey and Snoop were sitting. "Damn Erica, you couldn't even wait one night before you started getting your groove on." Mickey said as I walked up to the table. "First of all I ain't Stella so I never lost my groove in the first place." "Well we can see that by the way those pants fitting your azz." Snoop said looking at me. Now under any other circumstances I would have followed her up on that comment but Shawn was looking to good to be standing over there by herself. "Where is Neicy?" I asked looking around for her. "Out there on the dance floor with some wanna be MC Lyte looking chick." Mickey said without cracking a smile. "Do I hear a hint of jealousy?" I asked knowing full well that Mickey never really got over her and Neicy's break-up last year. They started dating our freshman year and broke up right before we left at the end of last school year because Neicy didn't think that Mickey could be faithful to her all summer with them being away from each other. "Never that. Not from Daddi." Mickey said while still looking out at the dance floor to see where Neicy had disappeared. "Well, I'm about to go downstairs where it's a little quieter so me and Shawn can talk." "Dang Erica, you moving that fast already. I told you ‘No sex in the Champaign Room'." Snoop yelled across the table to me. "You should have told yourself that last semester when you were busted having sex with the dean's daughter in the Student Union Ballroom." "Ohhhh, she got you on that one dawg." Mickey said coming out of the trance that she had went into. "Oh, that was a mere casualty but the pleasure was all mine dawg. You see I passed with all A's. You know I wasn't in class that much." "Whatever." I said and left the table while Mickey and Snoop went into one of those show a stud some love on all the booty I done busted moments. "I was wondering if you were going to come back. I was about to leave." Shawn said as I walked up to where she was standing by the door. "Yeah well I see you still here." "I couldn't leave a fine shorty like yourself alone in here. Too many ladies would try to kick it to you and I'm not having that." "Yeah whatever." I said as we headed down the stairs. I knew this Lounge like the back of my hand since this is the place that my girls and me kicked it most last year. I led her to one of the rooms that Blue had especially set aside for "quiet" moments. I found out that she was single, from Chicago and she was a junior like myself. She was supposed to be living off campus but she couldn't find an apartment by the time that school started so she was going to be staying on campus for the year. She's a Criminal Justice major that has plans on opening up her own law firm after graduating from grad school. I told her that I was also single, from Cali and that I had been here since my freshman year. I also stayed on Campus and was a Criminal Justice Major. It ran in my family being that my father was the owner of C&J law firm based in Los Angeles. We had been down there talking for about an hour when all of a sudden, she reached over and kissed me. I had been looking at her lips all night and wondering what they would feel like but I didn't plan on her kissing me so she caught me off guard and I jumped causing her to fall into me and I bumped her head with mine. "Damn ma. You got a hard head. "Oh my gosh, I'm sorry." I said completely embarrassed. No matter how hard I tried. Tonight I just could not get it together. "But anyway, what made you think I wanted you to kiss me?" "Actually, I didn't think at all. My eyes been lingering on every word that's came out of your mouth and I had to know if your lips tasted as good as they looked. Now I said that I was going to give up on this one night stand shyt but if she was as bold as she was coming off to be then you bets to believe that I was going to play the game too. "Well why don't you try and get a better taste this time." I said leaning into her. She reached over and tongued me so good that I was just about ready to take my off for her. I leaned my head back allowing her to zone in on my neck. I felt like I was about to burst but I had to get control of myself. "Umm." I moaned. "You smell so good ma." "Thank you." Erica get a hold of yourself girl. You don't know who this girl really is. "My bad. I'm sorry ma." She said. "Huh." I said coming back to earth. "Sorry, you were just looking so good that I couldn't help myself. I don't want you to think that I normally act this way." "No need to apologize. I was a bit gone myself." "I'd just like to really get to know and I don't want this to be one of those let me tell you what happened the other night type things. Hell, I almost fell off the couch when she said that. I had never met a stud willing to not hit the booty when they had a chance and I dayum sure was caught out there for a min. Hell, I was speechless. "Do you mind if I kiss you again." She asked and began kissing me before I even had the chance to answer. Just then Snoop, Neicy, and Mickey burst up in the room where we were. I could have died right there. "Excuse me Erica." Neicy said. "Oh shit." I said out loud. Mickey and Snoop burst out laughing while Shawn and I both stood there turning red. "Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt you two." Mickey barely got out inbetween laughs. "Shut up nigga." I said clearly embarrassed. "Look, I have to go. Erica, I really hope that I get to see you again." Shawn said taking out a pen and writing her number on one of the napkins that was on the table next to the couch. "Yes, Shawn I really do hope that we get to meet again." "Alright, take care." She said after kissing me on my neck and walking out the door. "Your ass was just busted." Mickey yelled once she was sure that Shawn was out of sight. "Whatever." That was all I could say because I still couldn't believe that they just walked up In the room like that. "I thought I told you…" Snoop started but Neicy cut her off "I know your ass not talking after you.." "got caught with the dean's daughter." We all said in unison and cracked up laughing. "Anyway, it's 12:30 do you all still feel like going out." I asked trying to take the attention off me. "Actually, I'm buzzing a whole lot and I don't know if I can make it the rest of the night." Neicy said. "Yeah whatever, she done danced so much with Mc Lyte that her ass probably tired." Mickey said sarcastically. "Oh no you didn't go there." Neicy said cocking her head to the side getting ready to blast Mickey. "Aight you two lovebirds." Snoop jumped in knowing that once Neicy got a few drinks in her all she needed was somebody to start her mouth to going. Plus we all knew that Neicy and Mickey still wanted each other but they both were too damn stubborn to come real with each other. "Whatever man." Mickey said. "But I do feel a little tired anyway." "So what we gonna do." I asked "I've had all the action I can have for this night." Snoop said "Aight, I'm about to go back to the dorm then." I said. No way I was going to roll solo with Neicy and Mickey going at it all night. "Cool. How about you drop me off then Erica since my dorm is right next to yours. I left my car at the dorm and rode with Neicy." Snoop said. "That's cool with me." I said. "Yeah, plus I'm going to drop Neicy off because I don't want her to drive and she been drinking." Mickey said trying to act like there was nothing to it. "Who said I needed you to drop me off." Neicy said even though we all knew that she was fronting. "Girl please." I said as we all headed towards the parking lot. "Aight Erica, I'll call you tomorrow." Mickey said as she opened the passenger door on Neicy's Honda Accord to let her in. "Make sure you two get back to campus safe." Snoop said as she got into Diva. I made it back to the campus in like 15 minutes and told Snoop that I would hit her up tomorrow. As I pulled up to park Diva in front of the dorm my mind went back to me and this rooming with a freshman thing. Tomorrow morning I was going straight to housing to see if they change my room. Once I got back in the room. I stretched across the bed and contemplated calling Shawn. I didn't want her to think that I was after her or nothing like that so I decided not to. I had been laying there for like 30 minutes when I heard a key opening up the door. "Here she comes." I thought to myself. Might as well meet the chick and get it over with. "Yeah, this my room right here. I'll see you tomorrow dawg." I heard her saying as she came into the room. When she walked in the door I damn near fell off the bed and she stopped dead in her tracks. We stood in silence before a big smile came to her face causing me to blush all over. There she was again. Shawn. My roommate who wasn't a freshman after all.

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