“What?”

“Yeah. Don’t be acting so surprised and all Leah. Come on. These upperclassmen want me to hang out with them, so I said ‘yes’,” she calmly laid out another outfit on her bed. She’s been thinking about what to wear for a few hours by now.

“But we always go out together on the weekends! We always go on a huge shopping spree in Dludum,” I slumped into the spinning chair at my desk and watched as the entire content of the dresser slowly accumulated on her bed.

“I know we always do that. So what’s one week where we don’t? We can totally go out next week or something.”

“Or I could tag along with you guys?”

“Leah. Seriously, I mean no offence, but the girls and I want to do some serious flirting, which is so not going to happen if you tag along. We both know that you’re going to be bashing on the guys or critiquing the morals of dating or something.”

I stayed silent as she walked to her dresser to test a shade of lipstick with an ‘acceptable’ outfit. I couldn’t believe. I knew that some roommates can get annoyed or tired of each other after living together for too long, but we’re like sisters. We’ve been together since we’ve arrived here. Sure we’ are the polar opposites of each other, but that never stopped us from hanging out. She suddenly interrupted my train of thought.

“Either that or you’ll end up in some fist fight with them over something. You know that it’s going to happen. As celebrity-crazy as you are, you just can never get along with guys. You almost always get into an argument or a fist fight with some guy at the market every time we go out.”

“Fine. I’ll stay behind, but don’t stay out late. You still have that project to do.”

“No worries. One of the gals is in my class and she agreed that we could totally work together the day after. She’s nice. I think you’d like her. She knows quite a bit about mechanics and stuff.”

“Right.” I couldn’t stand it anymore. I don’t want her to even start rattling off about her new friends and how awesome they are and what they plan to do over the weekend. “I’m going to go out for some fresh air.”

She didn’t even answer.