Hey so this is the sequel to Just Friend or More? But if you didn't read it and don't feel like reading 31 chapters of it, I think you'll be able to figure out what's going on. But here's the gist of things: Zach and Cammie were best friends, but then their relationship got complicated when they kissed. Cammie stopped talking to Zach afterwards, and rumors started to be spread at school, causing the pair to hate each other. Now, they have graduated and are going to the same school. Zach is a start quarterback on scholarship.
To all my readers of Just Friends or More?: Thank you for reading my story and following me to this one. I promise there will be Zammie, you just have to be patient. Also, if you are read First Operative, I am putting it on Hiatus because I don't really feel like dealing with that plot because it's kind of more reserved than I normally write. BUT I will go back to writing it once I wrap the story around my head.
Zach's POV
Today is August 18th. Classes start next week. Today is move in day. I have already been here since the beginning of July for football, so I am already moved in. So is everybody else on my football team. My roommate, Austin, and I are chilling in our dorm listening to the radio play "We Can't Stop" for the fourth time in the past hour. It's a catchy song, but there's only so many times you can listen to it before you want to chuck your very expensive stereo system that the school gave you (perks of being a division 1 athlete) across the room.
"I'm so bored man." I say to Austin as I throw a ball against the wall.
"Same...what are we going to do?" We sit in silence for awhile, "Where's Riley?"
Riley was a wide receiver and he always knew how to have a good time, "I think he's helping his girlfriend move in."
"It's move in day?" Austin bolts up, "Let's go check out the new scenery."
By scenery he means girls. "I'm down."
I screw on some shoes and follow Austin out the door. As Austin and I leave the athletic dorms and walk around the main part of campus, we receive a lot of appreciative looks from girls. Not to be weird or anything, but Austin is a good looking guy. He has blonde hair and green eyes that are similar to mine. From the two months that I have known Austin, I have come to find that he is a hard core player. Not that I'm judging, but he pulls, and it does get annoying when you want to go to sleep in the comfort of your own dorm room after a late night and find a towel on the door knob; a signal that means "Do Not Come in, I am hooking up with a girl."
Austin doesn't really like what he sees on the streets so he leads me towards the coed dorms.
"Can you hold the door please?" A motherly voice asks just as we are about to enter the building.
Austin holds open the door and I step to the side.
"Thank you!" The mother says.
"Ms. Morgan?" I ask shocked to see her.
"Zach!" She smiles widely, "Are you living in this dorm too?"
"No, I'm in the athletic dorms, let me take those off your hands." I grab the boxes from her arms and begin following her up the stairs.
"Is Cammie staying in these dorms?" I ask stupidly.
"Yeah, she's actually in the room right now trying to move stuff around."
Austin awkwardly follows behind us as Ms. Morgan stops in front of a door. I didn't really want Austin to meet Cammie, but I guess he was going to now.
"Here we are." She smiles as she opens the door, "Cammie I ran into Zach downstairs!"
Cammie is laying on the floor trying to push a bed towards the wall with her legs. I see her face flash an emotion of disgust as she hears her moms words but quickly puts a sweet smile on her face, "Perfect! Now we have some muscle to move this bed!"
I smile, but I know that Cammie has not forgiven me. We haven't talked since Grad Night. All of the drama from last year never got resolved. I did find out that the so called rumors that Cammie spread weren't actually spread by Cammie, but by my ex-grilfriend Beth. Beth admitted this to me when she was drunk at a party in June, she also said that she did it to keep Cammie away. But even after I found out, I never had the opportunity to talk to Cammie. And I was embarrassed that I fell into Beth's trap; I didn't want to admit my foolishness to Cammie but I am going to try my damn hardest to become her friend again.
I turn and look at Austin and find him checking Cammie out with a look of appreciation on his face. Oh no. "Hi Cammie, I'm Austin, Zach's roommate."
"You poor thing." Cammie makes it seem like she's joking, but I can see in her eyes that she's serious.
"He's not that bad..." Austin jokes.
Suddenly Ms. Morgan's phone buzzes and she looks down at it and sighs, "Cammie, I need to make a call to the office, it might take a while...Zach can you keep Cammie company?"
"No problem Ms. Morgan," I look into Cammie's eyes, "I'll take good care of her." I directed the last comment to Cammie. Judging from the look in her eyes, I could tell that she wasn't as easy to win over as her mother was.
Ms. Morgan hurries quickly out of the room.
Austin claps his hands together, "So how much left is there?"
"I think that we got it all." Cammie smiles.
"Man I'm hungry." Austin says.
"You're always hungry, man." I say as I throw a pink pillow at him. Austin ate everything that was in sight. I gave up having a stocked fridge in our room the fourth day of living with Austin.
"I'm a big boy!" Austin pats his stomach, "So what do you say Cammie? Want to go get a bite to eat?"
Cammie bites her lip and thinks for a moment, "Yeah! That sounds good!" Cammie grabs her purse and key and we start to walk down stairs and out of the dorm.
We settle on a pizzeria in the middle of downtown. We decide to split a pizza with everything on it. As we wait for our food, I am forced to watch Austin flirt with Cammie. And the worst part about it, is that I have to watch Cammie flirt back. I want to warn her that Austin is a player, but I haven't gotten the opportunity to, since Austin hasn't left Cammie alone.
"Be right back, I need to use the bathroom." Austin says. Cammie nods and smiles.
We watch Austin walk off. Now would be the time for me to talk to Cammie, "Cammie, you need to be careful about Nick..." I begin, but then I see Cammie's eyes flash with fury.
"Zachary..." She begins in a fake sweet voice, "I don't think you have any authority to tell what I can and can't do considering our little history."
My heart pangs again. I deserve this treatment, "I'm just trying to look out for you."
"I think I can look out for myself."
We sit in an awkward silence until Austin comes back. I love Austin, but if he breaks Cammie's heart, he will not want to be sleeping in the same room as me. I sit there seething as Cammie flirts even harder than before with Austin. Austin is eating up every bit of it.
"So Cammie, the football house is having a party tonight," If Austin invites Cammie, I will never talk to him again. Okay, I probably will. The football house is a house where a bunch of the football upperclassmen live, "And I was wondering if you wanted to come with me."
"Yeah sure!" Cammie smiles sweetly, "I'd love too."
"And it's sports themed, so wear a costume." The football guys made it a costume themed party, because they knew it would encourage girls to wear even sluttier outfits than normal. I thought this plan was ingenious until Cammie became one of the possible girls that would wear a slutty outfit.
I shoot Austin a death glare.
"What man?" Austin asks.
"Nothing." We pay for the pizza and walk Cammie to her dorm. Then we walk back to ours. It was going to be a long night.
