*Please forgive any errors and enjoy*
[College Days]
Annalise's head jerks up when she hears a knock at her apartment door. Sighing softly, she places her text book on the coffee table and looks across the room at the small clock. 5:45pm. She has totally forgotten that she and Trevor Jackson had agreed to hang out this afternoon.
Standing up from her place on the couch, she touches her hair and can only pray that she looks even the least bit presentable. Just as she is near the door, the knock comes again, a bit harder this time.
Her smile is wide as she unlocks and opens the door. "Adamant are we?" Her smile slowly fades at the sight in front of her.
"Eve."
"Hey." Eve smiles softly.
"They both stand awkwardly at the door, looking each other over.
"Can I come in?"
"Oh yea-uh sure." Annalise steps to the side to allow the girl inside.
"I didn't see you on campus today so I thought I'd pay a visit."
"Meeting." Annalise's responds simply.
"And then I texted you and you didn't-"
"Trevor will be here soon." She cuts straight to the chase. "We're going to hang out."
Eve's eyes shift at the sound of Annalise's words. She shrugs. "Okay."
"Anything else?" She asks and Eve offers her a blank stare before tilting her head slightly to the side.
"Please don't look at me like that."
"So you do like him?"
"He's nice."
"That's not what I asked you."
Annalise shrugs a shoulder and shakes her head. "Why are you asking me questions anyhow?"
"Oh well maybe it's because you hang out with me, you sell me these dreams, and then you-"
"I what? I go on about my life?" She opens her palm as if presenting to Eve everything that she stands for.
Eve sighs softly.
"I don't know why you're acting like any of this is new to you. It's not like I didn't tell you that I wasn't-"
"You didn't."
"I did!" She exclaims.
"No. No." Eve slowly approaches her. "You told me you were scared."
"Was that not enough?"
"Maybe for you!"
Annalise twists her lips to the side. "Well." She shrugs both shoulders. "I don't know what you want me to tell you."
They both stand in utter silence until Eve decides to speak up. "Tell me what we're doing."
"It's only been two months with me and you."
"Stop avoiding answering me!" Eve nearly shouts.
Annalise drops her head. "Okay Eve, nothing! We're not doing anything!"
Eve cannot help the chuckle that escapes her mouth. "Woooww. We're not doing anything?"
Annalise merely shakes her head.
"Well that's not what it sounded like two nights ago."
"Two nights ago I was lonely."
"And all of those other nights?"
"I just wanted someone here with me, I guess." She swallows hard.
Eve shakes her head this time. "That's not fair Annalise."
A knock at the door interrupts the two and Eve looks Annalise in her eyes. "You better not."
Annalise blinks slowly.
"We're not done talking." Eve states firmly.
She glares at Eve. "We're done." She states lowly, walking past the woman.
The knock comes again.
"Open that door and I will tell him everything."
Annalise stops in her tracks. "I don't care. He's not my boyfriend."
"Oh great. So he's just a quick screw too?"
Eve can see that she is biting the inside of her jaw now which she has picked up as a sign of heavy irritation for Annalise.
"I haven't screwed him." She gets all up in Eve's personal space. "Besides, what's it to you if I'm screwing the guy?"
They're standing so close now that they can feel each other's breaths before hearing them.
"You're right." Eve throws her hands up in defeat. "Open the door."
Annalise laughs lowly. "Because that's exactly what you want me to do, right? Open the door so you can expose all of my dirty little secrets?"
Eve shrugs. "Then maybe everyone will stop seeing you as this perfect entity who can do no wrong."
"I hate that I ever got involved with you."
"I guess now you know how I feel?"