Tuesday, September 11, Dorm

I burst into Michael's loft calling,

"Michael?" no answer,

"Michael?"

"In the kitchen," he finally answered sounding slightly annoyed. So I hurried down the hall towards the kitchen. I was extremely surprised to see Boris there.

"Oh," I said, "Hi Boris. Um, Michael? Can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Can't it wait?" he said obviously irritated.

"No," I squeaked as I shook my head. So he reluctantly left his stool in the kitchen and we went into the hallway. "Tina decided to take a gap year," I let out. Michaels eyes widened. Everyone knew how dedicated Tina was to becoming a thyroid surgeon. "Because of Boris," I added unnecessarily. Michael was still speechless so I asked, "What do we do?" Michael just shook his head in disbelief and returned to the kitchen. I followed feeling a little awkward and out of place. Michael pulled out a stool next to him for me, then sat down on his own one and proceeded to tell Boris the news.

"WHAT!" he whispered loudly like it was something top secret. "Why," he asked returning to his normal voice. I looked at Michael and Michael looked at me. Neither of us wanted to tell him. Observing us, Boris said, "Your kidding. She can't seriously be doing this because of, um, the other night?" I looked at my shoes and Michael nodded slowly. Boris teared up and said, "I didn't mean for this to happen. I have a recording soon and I really needed to practice. She should know. But I forgive. I just want her back." his voice crackling.

"And that is what we are going to do," Michael replied confidently. "Tomorrow night we all meet at Blue Ribbon ok? Think of ideas before tomorrow."

So Boris left and Michael came to the dorm for the night. I'll update tomorrow morning.