Once I was back in my dorm, I grabbed my laptop and notebook from my room and headed upstairs to Janelle's suite. I let myself in.
"Janelle," I called out, setting my keys on the counter and my bag on the floor.
"In here," she yelled from the bathroom. I walked in the direction of her voice and when I got closer, opened the door further.
"Hey," I said peeking my head into the bathroom.
"What's up," she responded as she slowly swiped mascara on her eyelashes. I walked into the bathroom and sat down on the lid of the toilet seat. "How you feeling," I asked.
"I'm feeling alright. That Tylenol definitely helped, because my head was banging this morning! Listen. I am never drinking that purple haze shooter again. I think it had absinthe in it. Had to, because that stuff is a certain death yo! MmMm never again."
She lined her lips and then carefully put her lipstick on. She looked her face over in the mirror before heading back into her room to put her makeup away. She put her shoes on and grabbed her belongings before heading towards the door. "You ready," she asked. "Yeah," I said as I leaned down and grabbed my things.
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When we arrived to the library we checked into our reserved study room. I plopped my bag onto the table, unzipping it to pull out its contents. I picked up a dry erase marker and headed over to the board. Janelle huffed. "Girl! I know you not about to write on that board without telling me about last night." I turned around and smirked at her. "Yeah. I was." She grinned at me and laughed. "Listen. I'm not doing this with you okay," she said pulling up a chair. I laughed and leaned back into the board. "Last night was good," I grinned, "really good." "Okay, but did y'all have sex?" I scrunched up my face jokingly. "Yes. We did," I said quietly. "Girl ain't nobody in here," Janelle said cutting me off. "I know, but I don't want to brag on it either, ya know?" Janelle cocked her head to the side. "No. I don't know. What it wasn't good or something? What---" she paused, "Wayment. Lys," she said leaning in closer to me, "are you falling for him already? It's only been two months."
"Weeell," I started.
"Lys this doesn't feel too soon to you? I mean what if he doesn't feel the same way you do?"
I grinned. "He does. He told me he loved me last night." Janelle's mouth hung open. "Is that why you had sex with him?" Janelle sat back in her chair for a second and then slid back up to the edge. "Lys. You can't be out here falling for the okie doke. You too grown for that." I raised my eyebrow. "Janelle? I said it first actually."
"Oh," she said slouching back into her chair.
"Oh? What's the problem J?"
"Nothing. I'm just surprised." She gave a small chuckle.
"I'm sorry. I fail to see the humor in this. What's the issue?"
Janelle looked up at me. "Gosh Alyssa. Why you looking at me like you wanna square up or suntin'? Chill out. I'm just surprised is all," she said chuckling at me. I sighed a sigh of relief and grinned. "Sorry J. I don't want to fight your goofy behind. My defences were up cuz I didn't want to hear you mouthing off about this. I know how you can be," I said sitting down in front of Janelle. "How I can be? How I can be," she smirked. "Girl please." We laughed.
"So how'd you know," Janelle asked. I sighed. "There wasn't one particular thing that made it clear. It snuck up on me; when I was visiting auntie Jo no doubt. You know she crazy." We laughed. "I was sitting in the car with her and we were just talking and laughing, you know how my aunt is, but as we were getting out of the car and--- this is not a joke," I laughed, "I looked up at the sky and it hit me. I was like, 'darn it. I love him' and I sat back down in the car in shock. The wild thing is, aunt Jo knew the moment it happened. Janelle," I said hitting her on her leg, "she looked over at me and was like, 'You love him don't you?' Girl, I was like 'AJ how could you possibly know that? I just figured that out like two seconds ago.'"
