Game of Chance [josh dun]

Twelve | edited

Half an hour in, and halfway done with the drive, Piper becomes the driver. They stop to get gas, and Charlotte goes into the station to get snacks while Piper fills the tank.

She grabs a few bags of chips and candies, along with some bottles of Sparkling ICE to drink.

While the cashier rings up the food, Charlotte looks at her phone and smiles at a text from Josh, sent five minutes after they left.

Josh: I miss you already ://

Charlie: awh I miss you too xx

Charlie goes back to the car and gets in the passenger seat, passing Piper an ICE and opening a bag of sour gummies to split.

As they continue their drive, Charlie plugs her phone in to turn on some music.

"Hey Pipes, have you ever heard Josh's band?"

"Charlotte, no, we aren't listening to you boyfriend's band right now, it'll just make you upset. Give me some Queen B."

Charlotte sighs in defeat and turns on Beyoncé. She turns up the volume to Partition and the pair sing along at the tops of their voices.

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"I can't believe we won the housing lottery," Charlotte smiled as they pulled into the parking lot. "Not only did we get the New Apartments, but block A is right by the parking lot and the road to the Art Barn!"

"Yeah, the only way this could have been better is if we got an apartment with single rooms."

"Oh hush, you love sharing a room with me."

"I do," Piper nodded.

She looked at Charlotte.

"Listen..," Piper began. "I talked with Nathan."

Charlotte frowned, wondering why Piper was talking to her ex's best friend.

"They aren't in our apartment, are they?" Charlie frowns.

"No, no," Piper hurries. "But they're in the apartment next door."

"Oh, well... That's okay. I'm over him anyway," Charlotte shrugged.

"I know you are," Piper pokes her cheek before opening her car door to get out. "You've got Josh."

The girls pull their bikes off the the rack and open the trunk to get their suitcases. The other four roommates were already in the house and had selected their rooms, both downstairs. Piper and Charlotte were in the same apartment as two other girls and two boys.

"And the remaining housemates arrive," One of the boys announces. "I'm Jack, anthropology major."

"I'm Andrea," one of the girls says. "I'm majoring in philosophy with a minor in religious studies."

"Avery. Political science major," the other girl smiles warmly.

Charlotte recognized Mason from a few of her classes, who introduced himself last as an art and art history major.

After introductions, Piper and Charlotte brought their things up the stairs to the remaining room that they would share. Most of their things were already there from move-in week.

"Our senior year," Piper mumbles. "After this year, we're supposed functioning members of society."

"Functioning? You'll never get there," Charlotte laughs.

Piper throws a pillow at her and they both laugh.