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Chapter 34

Chantel snuck in early the next morning, like five a.m.

I know because she texted me to open the door for her. She only giggled and said she needed to take a shower.

I groaned thinking to myself how bad this was. She slept with Donell, the campus gigolo, and what if Twyla found out? Maybe Twyla didn't care since she was just another girl of his many. She knew how he was, right?

When Chantel came back to the room, she tried to go to sleep without giving me the deets.

"Chantel!" I said, loud enough so that she could hear but loud enough I woke JuJu.

"I need sleep," she moaned.

"That's not what you were doing with Donnell?"

She turned to her and smiled. "No."

Okay, maybe I did not need to know the details. I tossed around in my bed to catch a few more hours of sleep. Angel was coming to take us all out to brunch before taking my friends back to St. Louis. I wanted more time with them, maybe then I could tell them what was going on with my mother. But no, I did not want to talk about that either.

Angel came knocking at my door at around ten and I was not ready to get up and face her, but I did my best with a quick shower and change. A long denim skirt and a tee with a rainbow on it. My hair was a mess, I needed to do something better to it, but alas, another messy ponytail.

Chantel and JuJu had their things all packed and ready to go. Chantel still said nothing about her overnight stay with Donnell, and I guess she would tell me on her own. She would call me and tell me all the deets when she was far away and I couldn't smack her for sleeping with a stranger. Well, a stranger to her.

I missed my friends already and they were not gone yet. It's like, there were not enough days with them.

"You good?" Angel asked me as we were about to leave. Why did Angel still look like a supermodel on the runway? She always looked like she was professionally made up even for something mundane like going to Walmart.

"Mm-hmm," I said with a head nod.

"You don't want to invite your roommates?"

Ha! My roommates who could sleep through anything probably did not hear Chantel come in so early in the morning and take a shower. They did not miss a beat when she was in the bathroom taking hers or the noise my friends and I made as we got them ready to leave. I was sure Allura had her boyfriend sleep over, I heard them last night. And with Twyla, who knew.

"No! They're busy...want to sleep in...long night last night."

"Yeah, I bet," Angel grinned at her. "I remember those college nights."

"Weren't you married, or something? Super young, to your ex-husband."

"First of all, we are not going to get into my business today. Secondly, I partied in college, okay! And that's all you need to know."

We had brunch at Addison's and my friends talked about how much fun they had and when they could come back and Angel couldn't say. She was pregnant after all and getting bigger and bigger. I was sure she wouldn't want to keep making the trek to bring my friends.

"Maybe your dad can bring us?" Chantel asked.

I was not, in any way shape, or form inviting my father down to my school. No way! He would want to be nosy and meet all my friends and even...my boyfriend. No, no way. Though I wanted to see my friends again, they would need to find another way to come down.

"Oh, Jared's coming down for Homecoming, I can ask him."

Homecoming was two weeks away. That could work. See, that is why Angel is awesome.