Chapter 3
Their first week of classes were finally over. Tobin finally had grabbed her long board and was zipping around campus. The wind felt good on her face and it felt good whipping through her hair. She made a couple laps around the main area of the university before sitting down underneath a tree on the green.
“Yo, Tobin! Whats going on?”
Tobin looked up and saw Meghan from her Algebra class walking towards her.
“What up Meghan. How’s the weekend treating you?”
“Not to bad. Not to bad. Just enjoying the warm weather.”
“Same here.”
Meghan noticed that Tobin was holding onto her longboard. “No way Tobin. You longboard too?”
“Yep. Been doing it forever.”
“Nice, we’ll have to longboard around town sometime.”
“For sure dude that would be sweet.”
Meghan waved goodbye and said something about finding her bestie Moe.
Tobin had no idea who Moe was, but she knew that it probably wasn’t Moe from the Three Stooges. She laughed to herself at her own joke and long boarded back to her dorm room, where Kelley was sitting doing homework.
“Are you really doing homework on a Saturday?” Tobin asked as she entered the room.
“Yeah I mean we have our jam session tomorrow.”
“I don’t think that will take all day Kelley.”
“Whatever Tobs, you’ll just be mad when I’m done tomorrow and you have to scramble at ten at night.”
Suddenly there was a knock on their door. Tobin got up and shuffled over and opened their door. She grinned when she saw Ashlyn standing there.
“Yo dudes. Ali says there’s a party going down at one of the houses just off campus. You guys in?”
“Yep!” Kelley practically screamed.
Tobin wasn’t so sure. She wasn’t really a party goer and she didn’t really drink all that much.
“Come on Tobin. It’ll be fun. Don’t walk the straight and narrow line so much.” Ashlyn joked.
“All right. I’m down.” Tobin finally replied.
“Cool! Ali and I are heading over there at like 11ish. Come to my room and we’ll walk there together.” Ashlyn said as she walked out of their dorm room.
Tobin went back into her room and was actually kind of excited to go to her first college party. She grabbed her guitar and worked on some of the guitar lessons she had gotten as homework in one of her guitar method class. She ran through the scales and chord progressions that she knew by heart. It was amazing how playing the guitar could calm her down so much, no matter what she was feeling.
Suddenly she hit on a chord progression that she thought sounded pretty cool. It was F#m minor chord to an A chord, but she played the 7th with the A instead of playing just a straight A. The A7 chord went to a B chord that finally ended with a D chord. She had been absentmindedly playing it for the last five minutes when Kelley knocked on her bedroom door, before stepping in.
“Are your hands stuck on repeat or something?” Kelley asked.
Tobin was jerked out of her own mind. “What?”
“You’ve been playing those same four chords over and over again for the last five minutes.”
“Oh sorry. I guess I liked the way they went together and then just started thinking.” Tobin responded.
“No worries I guess. I was just curious. Are you trying to write a song?” Kelley asked.
The thought of trying to write her own song had never really entered Tobin’s mind. “No I doubt I could write anything that was really that good.” But the more she thought about it, maybe she should give it a try.
“Oh well. So what are you going to wear to the party?” Kelley asked.
Tobin sighed. “I guess I haven’t really thought about it that much. Probably what I normally wear.”
“I guess that wouldn’t be too bad. Just don’t wear that ugly green shirt.” Kelley said.
“What Iove that green shirt…”
“Just don’t wear it.”
“Ok fashion police.”
Kelley laughed and walked back to her bedroom.
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It was still a few hours before they were going to meet Ashlyn to go to the party. Tobin however needed to go to Ashlyn’s room because she had borrowed her Lit textbook. Of course, Ashlyn hadn’t bought any of her books yet even though the semester had started a week ago. She realized that she should probably try and do some of her homework in the afternoon if she was going to party tonight. There was no telling how late she would be up and if she was really going to feel like doing it tomorrow after partying tonight.
She walked up to Ashlyns dorm room and knocked. After a couple seconds the door opened.
“Hey Ashlyn, do you have my Lit book?” Tobin asked before she looked up.
“What?” a raspy voice answered.
Tobin looked up into the face of a girl that was beautiful. Her eyes were the bluest that she had ever seen. Tobin felt herself start to blush. “Oh sorry I thought you were Ashlyn. You must be Alex.”
“Uh yeah this is my dorm room.”
“Is Ashlyn here?”
“No I think she went to the RA’s room for something.”
“Sorry to bother you,” and before she could stop and think about what she was doing Tobin stuck out her hand. “I’m Tobin it’s nice to finally meet you.”
Alex took her hand with a skeptical look on her face. “Alex.” With that she walked back into the room and shut the door in Tobin’s face.
“Cool thanks for your help.” Tobin muttered. She left and started to walk towards Ali’s room. Then she thought better of it. She didn’t know what they could possibly be doing. So she texted Ashlyn real quick instead. She got a reply telling her to come to Ali’s room. So she resumed walking over there and knocked on the door. Ali opened the door and invited Tobin inside.
“Hey Tobin. How was your first week of class.”
“It was pretty good. I have a ton of homework already.”
Ali laughed. “Wait till mid-terms.”
Ashlyn walked into the main area of Ali’s room. The RA’s were lucky because they had a two bedroom suite to themselves.
“Here’s the book Tobs. Sorry I had it so long”
“No worries dude. I actually just met your roommate. She’s not really that nice.”
“Oh so you finally met Alex. I’m sorry Tobs.”
“It’s ok. So I’m going to do that Lit assignment and I’ll see you guys in a few hours.”
Ali and Ashlyn said goodbye and Tobin walked back to her room. On the way back she couldn’t help but think about how gorgeous Alex was. Even though she practically slammed a door in her face Tobin wanted to see her again. If only to look at her eyes.
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Kelley pulled out her phone and went her contact for Christen.
Hey Ashlyn said that there’s a party going on tonight. Are you down to go? -KO
She only had to wait about a minute before she got a response.
Yup. She told me about it already. Wanna be my beer pong partner?- Christen
Kelley smiled when she saw the text appear on her phone.
“How do you know there will be beer pong? Are you in the know?- KO
It’s a college party. There has to be beer pong.-Christen
Kelley immediately felt a little dumb when Christen texted her back. Of course there would be beer pong. It wouldn’t be much of a party if there wasn’t.
True dat homie. What do you think I should wear?-KO
I don’t know Kel. Probably something that makes you look frumpy.-Christen
:( Why would you say that?-KO
Because it was funny. So just dress normal. It’ s not like its a theme party or anything.-Christen.
You’re right. You are always right.-KO
Finally someone starts to realize that ;) -Christen.
See you in a couple of hours. -KO
See ya! -Christen.
Kelley smiled and finished with her assignment was had been working on. She jumped into the shower and let the water refresh her. When she was done showering she dried off and went into her bedroom and put on something that she thought looked good on her. She did her make-up and straightened her hair. After an hour and half she was finally done. She went into the living area just as Tobin was walking into their dorm room.
“Tobin we only have like an hour before we need to get to Ashlyn’s room!”
“Yeah so it’ll only take me like half an hour to get ready.”
Typical Tobin, Kelley thought. Tobin quickly showered and dressed. She didn’t really put any make up on and left her hair in a messy bun. But she did have on a striped v-neck and some skinny jeans that Kelley thought looked really good on her.
“Woah Tobs dressed to impress.”
“Ha thanks Kelley. You too.”
They grabbed their keys and walked down to Christen’s room. Kelley couldn’t help but notice how good Christen looked. She had the sudden urge to try and hold her hand but she restrained herself. They then walked up to Ashlyn’s room. Tobin knocked on the door, somewhat hoping that Alex would answer again. To her disappointment Ashlyn answered it and shut the door behind her.
“Hey guys we just gotta grab Ali real quick. And then we can PARTY!!!” Ashlyn yelled as she flailed her arms around.
“Woah Ashlyn. Are you drunk already?” Kelley asked.
“No just super excited. I mean this is our first college party!”
Tobin and Kelley laughed as they walked down to Ali’s room. They knocked on her door and when she came out they walked outside and headed for the house.
“So first things first. I’m technically not supposed to go to this party because there will be drinking and I’m an RA and all that jazz. So keep it on the down low. Besides most of the RA’s will be there unless they are on duty. Also this is at one of the baseball houses. So it will probably get pretty wild. Just don’t let those guys take advantage of you, because they will try.” Ali said.
They all told Ali they wouldn’t let guys take advantage of them. They were just excited to get to the party and meet some new people, and to let loose after their first week of classes.
“Hey Tobin! Wait up.”
They all looked around and Tobin saw that Meghan was walking behind them with another girl.
“Hey Meghan what’s up?” Tobin asked
“Not much just heading to the party? Are you?” “Yep.”
“Oh by the way this is Morgan. Or as I like to call her, Moe.”
In turn, Tobin introduced Meghan and Morgan to Ali, Ashlyn, Kelley and Christen. After the introductions they walked the rest of the way to the house. When they stepped inside the music was loud and there were people everywhere.
“Well, I think this is going to be really fun.” Kelley said.
Tobin agreed.