Stacy's Dorm Room

"God, you two have been hanging out quite a bit lately." Torrie pointed as she took a sip of her iced tea and flipped through a Cosmo magazine while sitting comfortably on Stacy's bed.

"Yeah I know," Stacy answered as she searched the web for an answer to her homework assignment. "He's just such a great guy. And he's a lot of fun so…but we're just friends. That's it."

Torrie looked over at her friend like 'You can't be serious.' "Oh come on Stace. I always see you guys talking to one another at like pretty much every party we've been to this month. And not to mention, you're both in the same Sales and Marketing class."

Stacy just giggled and looked over towards her friend. "So what? It's just a fun little thing we have going on. That's all. I swear."

Torrie just gave her an unamused face. "So I take it that Randy has no idea 'bout Tyler huh?"

Stacy paused everything she was doing and quickly peered over at the picture of her and Randy that was sitting on top of her nightstand. A slight smile spread across her face as she stared at Randy's handsome appearance. She missed his smile and the way he'd make her laugh. She missed his lustful blue eyes that would bore into hers every time they made love to one another. She missed the way they'd wrestle each other in bed before intercourse and how he'd place soft kisses all over her sultry body in between rounds. She missed him so much and the aching wait to see him seemed to never grow shorter, but longer.

"Stace?" Torrie interrupted her thoughts as Stacy snapped out of her trance and looked over in her best friend's direction. "Has he found out yet or no?"

Stacy just shook her head. "Nah. I haven't told him. But, it's not like I have to either. I'm all the way out here and he's all the way back home. I can't just live the rest of my life being bored and boy deprived when he chose not to come out here in the first place. I mean, I'm sure…actually…I know for a fact, that he's probably going to all these parties out there and probably flirting it up with a bunch of other girls anyways. So I don't think that I'm really being a bad girlfriend by just simply hanging out with another guy who's just a friend."

Torrie looked at her friend with sympathetic eyes. She knew that Stacy was still hurting from not seeing Randy and that she did still love him with all of her heart. But she was also afraid that this whole thing going on with Tyler might begin to intervene with her and Randy's relationship which could wind up with them breaking up! And that was the last thing that Torrie wanted to see for them because she knew, probably better than anybody else, that they were made for each other and that the love they shared for one another was unmatchable and incomparable. But on the other hand, she also had no idea how heart wrenching and terrible the feeling was to break away from her boyfriend and to leave him to go live somewhere else. She had John right by her side, which she was greatly thankful for, but Stacy and Aly both had to experience that feeling and were still trying to cope with the sudden change.

"You're right Stace. It's better if he doesn't know about it." Torrie smiled back at her longtime friend as Stacy just half smiled and turned back around to continue on with her homework. "Well anyways…on a liter note…" Torrie began, trying to release the tension. "What are we gonna do for your birthday?!"

Stacy just laughed and shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know. I haven't really decided."

"We should throw you a big party at like Adam's or somebody's house! Do you know how much fun that would be?!" Torrie exclaimed as she had an energized and excited expression plastered on her face.

"Oh my god! That would be so much fun!" Stacy agreed with the almost identical expression.

"We'll invite every single person we know! And then some!" Torrie cried out which made Stacy laugh even more.

"Let's do it Tor! Seriously, that would be so much fun." Stacy said as she smiled at the thought of a kick ass birthday party.

"Alright. That's what we're gonna do. I'll pull some strings and we'll make it the best god damn party the University of Maryland has ever seen!"

San Diego State University

"Yeah hold on, I gotta go get the mail real quick." The tall tan guy said as he opened up his door and ran down the stairs to receive his mail for the day from his P.O. Box.

"Hey Randy." A girl named Trista pronounced as she grabbed the mail that was in her P.O. Box.

"Hey Trista. What's going on?" He asked as he gave her a quick smile and a friendly face.

"Eh, nothing much. But um…I was wondering. What are you and Grant doing tonight? There's a party going on down the street and I wanted to know if you guys were interested." She stated, clearly infatuated with the muscular lacrosse player that stood right before her.

"Um…yeah that might sound like a plan. What time's it at?"

"Like around eight or so…" She answered, closing the little door to her mail box and turning on her heel. "So I guess we'll see you there?"

"Yeah." He answered with his signature smirk, as Trista flirtatiously waved goodbye and headed down the hall where her dorm room was. Randy just shook his head and grabbed his mail, hopping up the stairs and back into his room where Grant was sitting on his butterfly chair.

"Yo. Guess who I just ran into." Randy remarked as he looked over at his best friend.

"Who?" Grant asked intrigued, since it looked like Randy had a slightly amused face.

"Trista."

"Oh my god dude. She's such a fuckin' stalker. Like seriously, how many times has she invited you to a party?"

Randy just laughed since he knew that it was true, the girl was a little bit clingy, but he thought it was real funny when he mentioned her to Grant because he absolutely despised her and made fun of her all the time. "Too many to count man."

The two laughed a little bit longer as Randy sat down on his bed and started going through his mail. He picked out all of the trash mail and all of the unnecessary stuff, but in the process, he spotted a certain letter that caught his attention. He furrowed his brows and quickly grabbed the white envelope. At the top right hand corner of the envelope was the University of Maryland symbol which set off an excited switch in his mind. 'Could this be what I think it is?' He thought to himself as he quickly opened up the letter without hesitation, anticipating if it was the letter he had been patiently waiting to receive. His heart was racing as he opened it up and began reading it.

Grant looked over confusedly at the ruckus that Randy was making on the bed. "Dude, what are you reading?"

Randy's eyes were wider than ever and his breathing had rapidly increased. A small smile slowly crept onto his well defined face as a look of shear excitement and joy swept over him like a wildfire. "Come look at this dude."

Grant sluggishly got up from his chair and walked over to the bed. "Let me see." He quickly grabbed the letter from Randy's hands and read over it.

"Oh my god!" Grant looked shockingly at the letter. "Are you kidding me?"

"Maybe you got one too." Randy stated as he looked up at Grant who wasted no time running down the stairs and to his mailbox.

"Dude! I got one too!" Grant cried out as he ran back into the room. He quickly opened up the letter as he eagerly began reading over it, not once glancing up from the paper.

Maryland

"So since both of you guys' birthday is like, only a week apart, I was thinking that we could have a conjoined birthday party instead." Torrie suggested to Aly and Stacy, who were trying to copy down notes since they were right in the middle of class.

"Torrie. Shhh." Aly commanded as Torrie just sat back and sort of giggled.

"But wouldn't that be a great idea? Twice the people and twice the fun. Plus, me and John have the ultimate surprise for you two."

Stacy couldn't help but giggle at her friend's determination to talk during class. She was always getting yelled at by the professor for talking and it looked like she was about to be yelled at now.

"Miss Wilson!" Professor Schweitzer called out with authority.

"Yes?" Torrie asked nervously, sort of embarrassed that she was being called out in front of the entire class yet again.

"Do you continuously have to speak while I do?"

"Um…no sir." She timidly answered.

"Good. Now I don't want to see you open your mouth for the rest of the class period. Understood?" He instructed while smacking his pointer stick on the desk in front of him, creating a loud echoing noise.

"Yes sir." She responded, looking over at her friends who were trying their hardest not to laugh. "We'll discuss this later." She said under her breath as Aly and Stacy just shook their heads at their friend's stupidity.

8:25 pm

The house was illuminated with lights and the windows displayed hundreds of people's bodies dancing to the loud thunderous noise of music that dispersed evenly along the streets. Beer pong and Flip Cup were among a few of the games being played with plenty of alcohol to go around.

"Hey! I got you a beer!" Tyler yelled due to the deafening music as he handed Stacy a red plastic cup.

"Thanks!" She said back as she smiled and leaned back against the kitchen counter.

"So what's your status?" He asked right next to her ear so that she could hear him properly.

"My status?" She confusedly inquired, wondering what the hell he meant by that question.

"Like are you single? Or do you have a boyfriend?"

Stacy's eyes grew wider as thoughts of Randy popped into her mind once again. Whenever she heard that word, boyfriend, his face just crawled into her conscience. "I have a boyfriend actually."

Tyler's excited and hopeful face soon turned into a crushed and defeated one, but he didn't want to make it completely obvious or else he'd look like a pussy. "Oh, that's cool. What's his name?"

"Randy. But he's back in California so…we're trying to work out this long distance relationship thing but so far it's been pretty hard."

Although a moment ago Tyler's face had gone from excited to crushed, it lit back up again when it sounded like the relationship wasn't going so well. "Ahhh that sucks." He commented, not meaning a word of it. "All my buddies that tried to keep it going with their girlfriends back from high school or wherever, ended up just breaking it off cause the strain was just too much. Not that I'm saying that that's what's gonna happen to you guys but…"

"Nah I know what you're saying." She smiled as she peered into his beautiful brown eyes. "Sometimes I just wonder if it's really worth continuing if every night I go to sleep, knowing that I won't see him the next day, and then crying myself to sleep cause I miss him so much."

Tyler nodded his head and placed his hand around her shoulder, almost as if it looked like they were a couple. "You know what Stacy, it's not worth crying about. It'll all work out okay? I promise. Now let's have a kick ass time, don't think about Randy, and let's go play some beer pong alright?!"

Stacy just laughed at his cute enthusiasm and cheered with him. "Let's go!"

And with that, the two exited the kitchen and headed towards the basement where most of the pong games were taking place.

SORRY FOR THE SHORT CHAPTER GUYS. BUT THE NEXT ONE WILL BE AWESOME! LOL PLEASE R&R!!!!!!