EMILY'S POV
"Where's she?" I asked already getting anxious
"Relax we'll find her, let's just look around" Nessa replied
"Right, before I forget, I'm meeting up with Logan for dinner" i told her as we kept looking around for Kim and her boyfriend
"hmm are you guys like a thing now or something?" She asked teasingly but earned a look from me
"What!!! You guys hangout more often this days than usual, so I'm free to think whatever i want"
"We're just friends I keep telling you that, and besides yesterday yiuyou had your little time out with your guy friend David" I said making air quotes on the guy friend
"Seriously? We... I mean i brought you takeouts on my way back, it's not like i forgot about you or something"
"Tell me about it?" I replied sarcastically
"What i should be telling you about is that you guys should use protection before entering yourselves" She said and gave a mouthful of laughter
"How dare..."
"Here there are" She said cutting me off my statement as she located where Kim sat
"An nyeong ha se yo"
"An nyeong ha se yo" Both of them said simultaneously
"Huh?" I and Nessa said confused which made them laugh
"We just said 'good afternoon' in Korean" Kim clarified
"Oh..."Nessa and i both chorused
"Well hi there, I've seen you around in my department but never approached, nice meeting you... You look cute by the way"I concluded
"Gam sa ham mi da" he said with a little bow
"Seriously?" I lamented frustratedly
"Now what did he say?" Nessa asked
"He's..."
"I just said thank you so much, you know, for the compliment" Park cut Kim off at the middle of her sentence
"Oh okay" I replied
"I thought you couldn't speak English, cause you were always replying in Korean" Vanessa stated
"Hello? I school in WSU, why would i leave Seoul to come down here if i couldn't speak nor understand English" He questioned
"Good point" I said thoughtfully
"I just like using it on people who i just met for the first time, so they might think i don't speak English, just like you guys now, FYI it worked" He said again laughing
"And i could as well use it whenever i wanna cuss someone, you know, so they won't understand, that's my edge" He had an evil smirk on while saying that
"Just don't use it on me cause I could do the same thing in Spanish" I said
"You speak Spanish?" Both Kim and Park asked simultaneously
"Well yeah, I'm actually from Spain, Nessa didn't tell you?" I asked and faced her
"Oh don't give me that look, it might have slipped my mind" She said, going back to her fries and smoothie that faced everyone of us
"Logan?" Vanessa said in surprise as we drove into our driveway and saw him standing by the corner
"Hey, it's been a while i saw you, you're busy with Emily most of the time now and we don't hangout" Nessa said, and i caught a smile on his face, Vanessa saw it as well i think
"That's what i actually came to fix" He replied
"How do you ..."
"I and my friends are throwing a frat party this Friday, which is tomorrow, so i came by to invite you both, but you should see them first"
"Where" Came my question
"My place, i told them i wanna go get a couple of friends, so they're waiting there"
"But we just got back, shouldn't we..."
"Of cause we're going Nessa, remember you said you wanna catch up?" I tried convincing her
"Well yeah, but ..."
"But nothing, Logan let's go" I commanded cutting her off
"You gotta stop doing that Mily?"Nessa said
"Doing what?" I asked obviously
"Cutting me off, it annoys me" She plainly stated
"Okayyyy, let's hop in" Logan said referring to his car
"Why do i feel like you want this more than i do?" Vanessa asked with a questioning look which left unanswered as we drove away.
"Guys I'm back" Logan voiced as he approached his friends in the lounge
"Took you long enough" One of the guys said
"Are this the chics you talked about?" a blonde guy asked
"Yea, this is Vanessa and this is Emily" He introduced us both to his clique
"Nice, the Emily you've always been talking about huh?" A guy with a dark low hair asked, which made him widen his eyes a bit
"Oh come on Alex, i don't talk about her that much"
"Is it just me or am I sensing something going on between you two" Vanessa then asked which i opposed to
"Of cause it's just you"
"Nope, not just her, the air seems a bit foggy between you two" A dark girl with full curly hair, who had a slender body posture, tall and has big bust, she looked African and she was approaching us
"Hi, I'm Gwen" She said and stretched out her hands toward Vanessa who reached for it, then did the same for me
"He's a keeper, trust me" she told me as she shook me
"Not you too Gwen" Logan lamented
"Sorry, already at it" She replied, which left me with a small laugh
"Come on, you girls should have a drink" a long blonde hair guy stretched two cups to us as well sat
"Cole, i hope that's not vodka?"
"Chillax Log, they won't be driving anyways" He said comfortably
"Well Alex, since you cut me off my introduction, let me continue" Logan said still standing
"Vanessa, Emily, meet Alexander, Cole, Gwen, Todd and Claire, Claire's Todd girlfriend and you two already know Chad right, he traveled for the weekend, so no need for his intro" Logan meticulously listed
"You girls are like freshers right?" Claire said with some sorta scornful tone
"Well it's our second semester so we're not longer freshers" Nessa said exactly what i could have said which made everyone let out an "Oooohhh" reaction
"You're still technically freshers" She said still trying to stand her ground
"Babe that's enough, you're still in your second year too remember" Todd defended
"So you just wanna take her side now huh!"She said, huffed and dashed off
"I'm so sorry for that" Tod said and looked directly at Nessa before chasing after her
"Is she always like that?" I asked this time
"She's a bit insecure"Gwen voiced out and got a look from everyone
"What, isn't it the truth?" She asked rhetorically but no one answered
VANESSA'S POV
"What's up with you and Todd" Emily asked from my side
"What do you mean by that" I asked
"He came back and had a chat with you, soon after Claire left" She said further and i saw Logan throw a glance at us from the rearview
"He just apologized for Claire's behavior, that's all" I said plainly
"Are you 100% sure, cause I'm pretty sure i heard laughter coming from you both" She persisted
"Mily don't be delusional, we just met today and besides he has a girlfriend"
"That Gwen said is insecure remember" she said again
"And how does that concern me, i don't have ..."
"You know she's right about that" Logan voiced out interrupting me, eyes still fixed on the rearview, which faced us both
"I noticed something between you two, but don't let it get out, cause Claire can act like a psycho atimes" he said again
"Of cause you'll be on her side, don't know what you two are playing at but what i wanna know is when you two would stop the pretence of not likeing eachother, i know something's definitely going on" I said, smirked and got down from his car cause we were already at our apartment building
"I wanna say something" i told Emily as i laid on my bed to sleep and she gave me a go ahead look
"I would be taking a week off, next week"
"Why" Came her question
"I wanna visit Seattle" I simply said, but got a weird look from her
"Nothing personal, just wanna go say Hi"
"And you can do that on phone? Something's up, tell me, wait is your Mum sick?"
"Jeez, why would you suggest that, of cause not" I corrected
"Then just spit it out"
"Remember what you said the other day about Mrs Caroline? Well i just wanna prove you wrong and clear my thoughts"
"That's why you wanna travel all the way to Seattle?" She asked looking bewielded
"Isn't that enough reason, and why are you making it sound far, it's not like I'm traveling to another continent am I?" I asked again but she didn't give any answer immediately and i was already feeling super sleepy, so i think i dosed off after that
"Vanessa hurry up, it's few minutes before the party starts and we're still at home" Emily complained
"Good thing we aren't the ones throwing it right?" I asked simultaneously as i came out to reveal my outfit
"What do you think? Too revealing?"
"Perfect" She said to the cream coloured spagetti party dress i wore, my cleavage was visible down to the upper part of my breast cause i didn't put on a bra
"Alright, let's go" Emily said, literally dragging me out as i took my purse
"Ladies welcome, you two look ravishing" Cole said politely, which seemed really weird cause he's always the rough type. He then led us to a different corner of the room where the others sat, they adjusted a bit so we could fit in the couch, Emily sat beside Logan and i sat beside her, i was actually adjacent to Todd who sat with Claire
"Great" I said inwardly
"Who's up for a game" Alex said raising his voice above the music
"Drunk Jenga" Cole suggested which we all agreed to and re-arrenged ourselves, surprisingly Todd was beside me and Claire at his other side
"This would be fun" I muttered inaudibly.
VANESSA'S POV That scourging hot sunday afternoon, i stood right infront of my parents house contemplating when to go inside and how to explain what brought me back home from pullman. I actually intended to leave on Saturday the day after the party, but i had a throbbing headache so i had to rest for the whole day, before i finally decided to sail early this morning"You're gonna keep standing there or what?" Came a voice which sounded like it belongs to an old lady, I turned around and found out that it actually belongs to Mrs Robinson, our grumpy neighbor, she's been like that ever since we moved in, since i was still in highschool"I'm going in now, was just taking a quick look around" I said and gave out a fake smile which she huffed to "Baby, you're back? What happened" mum asked once she opened the front door to let me in, she had a shocked yet happy expression written all over her "Honey who's there?" I heard dad ask from one of the rooms"Come see for yourself, you're not g
AUTHOR'S POV Raymond Perkins, a twenty year old second year college student of Stanford, who was once the most celebrated during his highschool years, in football, debate, quiz competition etc and was even nominated and won the prom king title. His family are well known around various countries, but mostly Seattle, he's the second child among his two other siblings, Daryl Perkins (his older brother) and Ashley Perkins(his younger sister). His girlfriend from highschool, Alison Delaware which he broke up with during his first year in college won the prom queen title, and that brings about Vanessa Holland, the first girl he met on his arrival day during their 7th grade They became friends, really good friends at that, but during their 12th grade feelings erupted, they once shared a kiss but that was it, he wanted things to go back as they were and not destroy the friendship bond which they shared cause he was already dating Alison since 11th grade and want to break that aswell V
CLAIRE'S POV I knew he'd freak out, that asshole, if he really thinks he can dump me for her then he's really gonna regret it. I heard their little talk after everything that day about hanging out today evening, but that's not happening under my watch I did a little background check on her cause i think I've seen her around campus once or twice and i know she works in 'BEAUTY AND ELEGANCE' which's great cause i have few people there, so j could just call in some favour against her will "Claire" I heard someone call me"Yeah?" That was Lisa, my close friend"Professor Liam called for you" "okay, I'll be back soon, hang around if you want" I said and went into staff building, took the elevator upstairs and went towards his office door, i didn't give a shit about knocking cause i knew i didn't had to"Who the hell..." "Oh it's you Claire" He said immediately he sighted me, i turned around and locked the door behind me "You sent for me?" I asked walking forward"Yeah come sit" H
"I got in!!!"Emily said barge-in into our front door "You got in where, did we ...""To WSU dummy, remember i told you i got wait listed the last time we spoke right, well i checked just a few minutes ago and found out i got accepted" Emily said with all excitement gushing through her veins "I'm so happy for you Mily" i congratulated her as well celebrated in our sitting room "What's all the excitement about?" Mum asked as she walked down the staircase "Ms Holland, i got accepted into WSU, I and Vanessa are going to WSU this fall" Emily replied excitedly to my mum "So Nessa's gonna have a friend there afterall, not just any friend, her best friend" mum said grinning"Seriously Mum ..." "You know i and your Dad you're a bit worried cause you don't socialize a lot and maybe you'll be a loner in Washington state university""Mum, I'm not a loner, I'm not an introvert and lastly I'm not anti-social,I just love staying alone away from people and their heck of trouble ""The las
EMILY'S POV "Mum we got it" I and Vanessa both chorus as both our mums gave us nonstop pep talk about college, we arrived WSU some minutes ago but they won't let us go in cause of one little advice or the other "We wouldn't engage in any delinquent act, so there's no need worries and we'll definitely study, seriously mum we aren't kids we know what to do" Vanessa voiced put as the good child she seem to be "Not all of us" I said barely audible, only Nessa heard me and she busted out a bit"Vanessa darling, would you do me a favour and watch over Emily, you're clearly the responsible one and she could be a pain in the butt" My mum requested"Seriously? I'm i some kinda dog or something?" I questioned faking annoyance "No problem Mrs Lopez, they won't be any trouble" She assured and we said our goodbyes, they drove off and we waved until they got out of sight"Finally..." I exclaimed"Thought they'll never leave" I groaned and it made Vanessa laugh a bit "Oh I'm sorry, i wasn't
VANESSA'S POV (continues ) Emily woke up with a pounding headache so i gave her some pain killers earlier to subside the pain and she feels a bit better now, like she said "Good news, the headache's gone but i still feel a little hungover" "Serves you right you know, seriously who gets hungover on their first day of school?" I frankly asked"Well since it was a freshers party, I'm gonna guess 80 percent of freshers would be like me today" Emily said with some kind of Victory tone "Nope, you're wrong not everyone went to the party...""Hence my 80 percent, the other 20 percent didn't go" She stood her ground totally cutting me off"Even at that, not everyone in that party was drunk as you were, come on mily, you still seem a little hungover you're sure you can go?" I asked for the hundred time "Pretty certain about it, now stop asking and let's go before we run late" she said and took her key"Oh no you don't, I'm driving today and we'll get coffee on our way " she didn't prote
EMILY'S POV (continues) "Coming" I said and hopped towards the door bell "Logan" I snarled and glared towards his direction"And Chad, I'm here as well " The guy from the first day said"Yea i figured" I said and dropped him a glance, I saw Vanessa coming from behind and decided not asking the question i intended to "Oh hey guys..." She greeted then turned to me"Urrmm Mily, guess we're done, we should head out now" She said and immediately went out alongside the two guys "Yeah why not, acting all bossy" I whispered inwardly and went out "Mily i got an idea for the part time job " Vanessa raised her voice against the music blaring in the party"What about the internship? gave up on that?""No but for the main time let's get into something, so i have an idea though it was initiated by someone though""Who?"I asked"Not important now, just here it, there's an opening at a department store, we could apply there if you're up for it " Nessa said"Hell yea i am " I said again, right
LAURA'S POV "Sir, you requested my presence?" I said as i entered Mr Roberts office"Yes i did, here are the résumés for our two new staffs, they're downstairs now, you can go over there and direct them to their stations" He instructed, i collected the files and was about going out when i heard him say"I'll be out for the rest of the day, makes sure everywhere's in order" Came his instruction"Yes sir"I simply replied and went out, i took glance at their files and took the elevator down"Vanessa Holland and Emily Rodriguez " I called and immediately saw two young ladies approaching my way, one had dark blonde hair colour while the other had a light brunette hair colour"Vanessa?" I called again to know who is who, the brunette answered "Says here you're 18, clocking 19 in a few weeks, happy birthday in advance, you're a freshman in WSU right?" "Yes everything's correct" She answered sharply"You have any experience working at a makeup store?" I asked again"No, but I handel the
CLAIRE'S POV I knew he'd freak out, that asshole, if he really thinks he can dump me for her then he's really gonna regret it. I heard their little talk after everything that day about hanging out today evening, but that's not happening under my watch I did a little background check on her cause i think I've seen her around campus once or twice and i know she works in 'BEAUTY AND ELEGANCE' which's great cause i have few people there, so j could just call in some favour against her will "Claire" I heard someone call me"Yeah?" That was Lisa, my close friend"Professor Liam called for you" "okay, I'll be back soon, hang around if you want" I said and went into staff building, took the elevator upstairs and went towards his office door, i didn't give a shit about knocking cause i knew i didn't had to"Who the hell..." "Oh it's you Claire" He said immediately he sighted me, i turned around and locked the door behind me "You sent for me?" I asked walking forward"Yeah come sit" H
AUTHOR'S POV Raymond Perkins, a twenty year old second year college student of Stanford, who was once the most celebrated during his highschool years, in football, debate, quiz competition etc and was even nominated and won the prom king title. His family are well known around various countries, but mostly Seattle, he's the second child among his two other siblings, Daryl Perkins (his older brother) and Ashley Perkins(his younger sister). His girlfriend from highschool, Alison Delaware which he broke up with during his first year in college won the prom queen title, and that brings about Vanessa Holland, the first girl he met on his arrival day during their 7th grade They became friends, really good friends at that, but during their 12th grade feelings erupted, they once shared a kiss but that was it, he wanted things to go back as they were and not destroy the friendship bond which they shared cause he was already dating Alison since 11th grade and want to break that aswell V
VANESSA'S POV That scourging hot sunday afternoon, i stood right infront of my parents house contemplating when to go inside and how to explain what brought me back home from pullman. I actually intended to leave on Saturday the day after the party, but i had a throbbing headache so i had to rest for the whole day, before i finally decided to sail early this morning"You're gonna keep standing there or what?" Came a voice which sounded like it belongs to an old lady, I turned around and found out that it actually belongs to Mrs Robinson, our grumpy neighbor, she's been like that ever since we moved in, since i was still in highschool"I'm going in now, was just taking a quick look around" I said and gave out a fake smile which she huffed to "Baby, you're back? What happened" mum asked once she opened the front door to let me in, she had a shocked yet happy expression written all over her "Honey who's there?" I heard dad ask from one of the rooms"Come see for yourself, you're not g
EMILY'S POV "Where's she?" I asked already getting anxious "Relax we'll find her, let's just look around" Nessa replied"Right, before I forget, I'm meeting up with Logan for dinner" i told her as we kept looking around for Kim and her boyfriend"hmm are you guys like a thing now or something?" She asked teasingly but earned a look from me "What!!! You guys hangout more often this days than usual, so I'm free to think whatever i want""We're just friends I keep telling you that, and besides yesterday yiuyou had your little time out with your guy friend David" I said making air quotes on the guy friend "Seriously? We... I mean i brought you takeouts on my way back, it's not like i forgot about you or something""Tell me about it?" I replied sarcastically"What i should be telling you about is that you guys should use protection before entering yourselves" She said and gave a mouthful of laughter"How dare...""Here there are" She said cutting me off my statement as she located whe
VANESSA'S POV A month later, Beauty and Elegance were all in great anticipation of the CEO Mrs Caroline Howard, i heard her name from the manager Mr Robert, she'll be here later in the afternoon which means i had to wait until she comes before i could leave"Hi Vanessa, did you by chance see your friend? Emily" Scott approached me and asked with his British accent as i sat in the break room "No, well not till after we got to work that is" I answered politely"Okay, please do tell her i asked about her when you see her would you? It seems like she have been avoiding me" he said sounding a bit hurt in the process "Sure, would do so" i said and he left Few minutes after he left while i kept myself busy with my phone, Emily appeared from nowhere"Speak of the devil" I said with a smile"Missed me?" She asked as she took a sit next to me while taking my slushie in the process, I didn't object"So how did you manage to pass Bob" My question came in "Told him i had a stomach ache, he
EMILY'S POV "I got filled in on everything" i told Vanessa immediately she walked inside"Filled in on what?" She asked looking oblivious"Logan told me how your afternoon went in the mall and you guys hung out as well" I replied smiling "Gee, he's like what now? Your gossip mate?" "Cause he knew you wouldn't tell me, which is true by the way" I defended"What time did he even had to blab it out, cause he just dropped me off few minutes ago" She asked looking hella surprised"Well he told me 30 minutes ago, but that's not the main point here, what did the guy at the mall say to you?" I asked curiously"Nothing you should know about Mily, i know you'll talk" She opposed"Please just something, who would i even say a word to, huh?" I persuaded "His name's David, that's all I'm saying and oh, he thought we're like a mate or something cause he saw me getting that fruit you like, what's it called again ...""Loquat" i completed her statement"Yeah that and he asked for my number but i
VANESSA'S POV It's been three months already and work have been fine so far, I'm saving up for a car and this months payment would definitely get it, Logan offered to get me one but I declined. School have been alright as well I and Mily have tried everyday to combine our classes with work but worst of all, our shifts were now during the morning hours so that's meant we had to sacrifice our morning classes any day we had it.Emily's nemesis at work grew to dislike me as well don't know why though, and my friend Kim became friends with Emily as well. One last thing Emily got an admirer a British guy named Scott who works at the spa section, he's so sweet especially his accent but Emily doesn't give a fuck about him and recently I began noticing Logan's behavior around Emily it's seems a bit off but it maybe I'm overthinking things."Earth to Kim" I heard Emily say which brought me back from wherever I was and it seemed Kim was lost as well not in thoughts but in someone"Caught y
LAURA'S POV "Sir, you requested my presence?" I said as i entered Mr Roberts office"Yes i did, here are the résumés for our two new staffs, they're downstairs now, you can go over there and direct them to their stations" He instructed, i collected the files and was about going out when i heard him say"I'll be out for the rest of the day, makes sure everywhere's in order" Came his instruction"Yes sir"I simply replied and went out, i took glance at their files and took the elevator down"Vanessa Holland and Emily Rodriguez " I called and immediately saw two young ladies approaching my way, one had dark blonde hair colour while the other had a light brunette hair colour"Vanessa?" I called again to know who is who, the brunette answered "Says here you're 18, clocking 19 in a few weeks, happy birthday in advance, you're a freshman in WSU right?" "Yes everything's correct" She answered sharply"You have any experience working at a makeup store?" I asked again"No, but I handel the
EMILY'S POV (continues) "Coming" I said and hopped towards the door bell "Logan" I snarled and glared towards his direction"And Chad, I'm here as well " The guy from the first day said"Yea i figured" I said and dropped him a glance, I saw Vanessa coming from behind and decided not asking the question i intended to "Oh hey guys..." She greeted then turned to me"Urrmm Mily, guess we're done, we should head out now" She said and immediately went out alongside the two guys "Yeah why not, acting all bossy" I whispered inwardly and went out "Mily i got an idea for the part time job " Vanessa raised her voice against the music blaring in the party"What about the internship? gave up on that?""No but for the main time let's get into something, so i have an idea though it was initiated by someone though""Who?"I asked"Not important now, just here it, there's an opening at a department store, we could apply there if you're up for it " Nessa said"Hell yea i am " I said again, right