"It's been a long time coming."
The morning sunlight poured in through the window. The room was silent, apart from Cheesecake running around in his cage. Next to me, Morgan soundly slept, hogging all of the sheets as usual. I exhaled sharply, looking at the ceiling,...
"There's a party, and both Morgan and Taylor are coming."
Kevin ran his tongue over his teeth in thought, mulling over my offer. “Y’know,” he finally began, “This seems a bit invasive, and that’s me talking.”I shrugged. “I want to know what’s going on.”I had a revelation when I woke...
"The most popular girl in school asks the shy nobody to be her study buddy."
“Wow, you really hit her?” Taylor asked me, smiling in shock.I nodded and looked down in slight embarrassment. Our legs dangled over the ledge as we talked, sitting side by side. “Yeah. She seemed to like- wait, I shouldn’t be...
"The most popular girl in school asks the shy nobody to be her study buddy."
Whatever Morgan and I had planned to do that night, it was thrown away. Swiftly, it was replaced with the both of us gathered around Morgan’s phone, FaceTiming with a blubbering, panicked Taylor. “I don’t know what he’s going to do,”...
"The most popular girl in school asks the shy nobody to be her study buddy."
I breathed heavily, looking at my apartment’s front door. This wasn’t going to be fun. Steeling myself, I walked in, seeing Kevin cleaning the countertops. When he saw me, he broke into a small smile.“Hey Quinn!” he declared in an...
"The most popular girl in school asks the shy nobody to be her study buddy."
I was never going to have a threesome with Morgan and Taylor. That much had become clear. In fact, the more the three of us hung out and sexuality was inevitably introduced, the more sure I was that I wanted...
"The most popular girl in school asks the shy nobody to be her study buddy."
It was a miracle that the memories of that second date didn’t make me fail all of my finals. School should have been the first thing on my mind, but it came at a distant second place, after Morgan, and...
"The most popular girl in school asks the shy nobody to be her study buddy."
It was hard to read Morgan. I know there was this whole stereotype that ‘when a woman tells you she’s not upset and it was not that big a deal, she’s very upset and it was the biggest deal’ –...