Tired
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A/N: I am such a fail. It seems like I can never update at reasonable times and I end up taking forever. So I'd like to apologize for my laziness.
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CHAPTER SEVEN
*Dana's POV
Campus was practically empty when we arrived back at PCA. Well, that sorta figures due to the fact that it's Saturday. I was the first one to get out of the limo, with my bundle of bags grasped in my hands. I wanted to dump this stuff off at the dorm before I had to carry it any longer. So without even saying a word to any of the gang I left.
It seemed to take me forever to haul the bags into the room, but I managed. I began dumping the clothes out of their bags and onto my bed. Should I put them in the closet now or later? I thought about other things that I wanted to get done today, but realized that I had no other plans. Well then, looks like I'm stuck putting away clothes.
I sorted through everything and began putting the items on hangers and stowing them away in my closet. I'm a bit OCD about my clothes though, so they were ordered by color. (Like the rainbow.) That just a little bit of information that no one knows about me.
As I was hanging the last shirt on the hanger and putting it into the closet I heard a knock on the door, but before I could get to it or say anything, Micheal came right through.
"Hey Dana, I'm back." Micheal said with a small smile. I ran up and hugged him. Micheal was like a big brother to me, we were really close and told each other tons of things.
"Micheal! How are you?" I asked letting him go.
"Pretty good, just got back about 10 minutes ago." He replied.
"Cool, how was your cuz?" I asked. He had left last weekend, all of the sudden to go visit his cousin in Maine and never really told us why. I had only met her once, but I did know that her name was Erica and she was an amazing artist.
"Oh, er, Dana..." He trailed off his face getting a little hard to read. I knew that face, he was in pain.
"Oh gosh, Micheal what happened?" I asked becoming worried.
"D, she has...cancer." He was slow to answer. My jaw dropped.
"Oh my gosh. Micheal are you alright?" I out my hand on his shoulder. His chin began to quiver, and I wanted to cry for him. He didn't say anything, he just gave me a huge bear hug. We stood there for a while and just hugged each other. Bit finally he let go. Micheal was almost like family, so I was there for him.
"Is that why you left all of the sudden?" I asked, sure that was the answer. He nodded. "Aw, Micheal you know I'm here for you."
"I know," He said quickly wiping away a tear drop that was about to escape his tear duct, "That's why I came to you first. You wouldn't mind if we just keep this between us for a while would you? It just doesn't feel right letting everyone know about this and I don't want them treating me any differently. You know like I'm some lost little puppy."
I made a sad sorta laugh, "Yeah, I know what you mean. I won't tell them."
"Okay, thanks D." He smiled.
"Maybe, we should go find the others and let them know that you're back though." I suggested.
"Yeah good idea," He responded. We left my dorm and went down into the girls lounge.
"Okay, you're going to laugh at me," I stated.
"And why would I do that?" He asked a bit confused.
"I don't know where they are." I said, beginning to laugh at myself.
"Wow, Dana." Micheal smiled again rolling his eyes.
"Shut up," I lightly punched him in the stomach. "I'll text them." I pulled out my phone, but saw that it was dead. Well crap.
"You wouldn't by chance have you're phone with you would you?" I asked
"No I left it in my room, why?" He asked confused.
"Mine's dead."
"That's so like you not to charge you're phone regularly enough."
"Since when has today become the day that you start ragging on me? Sheesh."
"D, you know I'm just playing." Micheal said making sure that I knew.
"Yeah, yeah. Well I guess that we'll just have to go look for them."
"Alright." We went out the door of the girl's lounge and were greeted by a large gust of wind.
"Where do you think that they would be anyway?" Micheal asked once the wind died down a bit.
"Well, I don't really know. They never came to the dorm so it makes me wonder what Zoey, Lola, and Nicole did with their bags." I responded.
"Bags?" Micheal asked not getting it.
"We all went out shopping today and as soon as we got back to PCA I went straight to the dorm to put away my clothes." I explained.
"Oh. Well I don't think that they went to my dorm because there weren't any shopping bags when I got here." I could tell that Micheal was slightly confused.
"Well then this might be difficult." I said about ready to just go back room 101 and not waste any energy looking for them.
"We don't have to find them right now," Micheal stated. "If you want we could just go get some sushi." I liked that idea better.
"Yeah, sounds good."
*Logan's POV
"Dang it Dana. Where are you?" I said to myself after I put my cell phone back into the pocket of my jeans. I called and her phone went straight to voice mail. I was allowed to worry. I mean after all she was my friend.
"Any luck?" Zoey asked.
"Nope," I responded a bit annoyed. "Why didn't we go back to your guy's dorm again?"
"Because Lola and Nicole wanted to go see a movie." Chase replied giving them a stern look.
"Yeah, and since Dana took off we couldn't tell her." Lola said as if it was all Dana's fault.
"Lola!" I yelled. "Why do you have such a problem with Dana?!" He face looked guarded, but she didn't answer. Everyone was just quiet for a while and looked at me like I had just killed someone.
"I'm going to go get our bags out of the car and go put them in our dorm," Zoey finally spoke. "Chase should I get your's and Logan's?"
"Yeah sure," Chase whispered. And then Zoey left.
"Uh, we'll go with her." Nicole said pulling Lola along with her. Me and Chase were then by ourselves.
"Dude, are you alright?" Chase asked me.
"I'll be just fine." I replied shortly.
"You kinda scared us back there." He said. "What was that all about any way."
"Lola's just bothering me with the way she talks about Dana." I responded, how was it that hard to notice?
"Ah, Logan, that's just the type of person Lola is." Chase said trying to reason with me.
"If that's how Lola is then why don't you hear her saying anything about Zoey or Nicole or Micheal? Huh!" I snapped.
"Hey, calm down," Chase said putting his hands up defensively, "I get you, you have a point." I was quite as he continued.
"She can be harsh, but you know that Dana can defend herself." He went on, "Dana will snap her neck if Lola even touched her."
I tried to hid a laugh, "Yeah, she would."
"So are we gonna go meet up with the girls or do you want to go find Dana?"
"You can go," I responded, "I think that I'll just walk around a bit." That wasn't totally a lie.
"Okay, man." Chase said starting to turn away, "Just don't kill anyone." He smiled and was off. I walked down towards the beach. I needed the time alone.
Zoey's POV
"Logan can be scary." I said to Nicole and Lola while we were pulling bags out of the limo.
"Yeah what was his deal anyway. I've never known Logan to be that why? Why was he so mean to you Lola?" Nicole asked.
"Because." Lola began in a dramatic voice, "I'm horrible."
"Whatever," I responded. "Logan's just grumpy." We had gotten all of the bags out and were starting to walk toward the girl's dorm.
"Hey Zo! Wait up!" I heard Chase yell as he jogged over to us.
"Oh hey!" I said.
"Logan scare you off too?" Lola said jokingly.
"Ah, no." Chase said becoming more serious, "We were just talking."
"Right, right." Lola said sarcastically, but Chase ignored her.
"Let me help you with that." Chase said while taking half the bags I was carrying out of my hands.
"Okay," was all that I could say in return. Oh my goodness, he was so nice.
We all walked together towards room 101 and when we finally got there the first thing that I noticed was that the closet door was open and there were empty, plastic shopping bags on top of Dana's bed.
"We she certainly has been here." Lola said snorting lightly. "She could have at least cleaned up a bit." From the corner of my eye I say Chase give her a look. Me and Nicole just ignored her.
"Hey I'm gonna go take mine and Logan's clothes back to our dorm, I'll text ya later," Chase said while looking into my eyes.
"Yeah, okay." I smiled as he left.
"Oh! Someone likes Chase!" Nicole squealed.
"Shut up," I said as I put my bags down on my bed and began sorting through the clothes.
"Oh you so do," Lola chimed in, "And he loooooves you."
"He does not!" I protested as I felt my cheeks starting to burn.
"Whatever," Lola said, "But someday you two will admit it." I ignored her and changed the subject.
"So where do you think Dana would be anyway?" I asked aloud.
"I have no idea. I bet her phone is dead though. She always forgets to charge it." Nicole stated.
"Honestly, I don't care where she is." Lola calmly stated.
"Well we all knew that one," I replied. Nicole laughed.
"Yeah, what is it between you two any way? You guys like totally hate each other. I really wish you guys wouldn't thought because since we all share a dorm it makes me and Zoey feel uncomfortable." Nicole rambled.
"We just don't like each other." Lola was short.
"Yeah but there has to be a reason." Nicole went on.
"Nicole!" Lola snapped, "I just don't like her. She thinks that she's all that and could take down any one. Well guess what! She can't!"
"You better watch it," I warned, "If Dana hears you then she'll make you eat you're words, maybe even literally."
"I'm not scared of her," Lola was quick to answer, "She won't hurt me."
"Why do you have some sort of leverage over her?" I asked starting to get annoyed that Lola was dissing one of my friends.
"You could say that." Lola said. We had to stop the conversation there because my cell phone began to ring. I picked it up and answered it.
"Hello?" I said into the phone.
"Hey it's Chase," I smiled a little.
"Oh hey, what's up?" I asked wondering why he was calling me after I had just seen him about 10 minutes ago.
"Micheal's back," was all that he said to respond.
"Oh awesome!" I said excitedly. "Is he there right now?"
"Well, no, he's not at the dorm." Chase said confused. "I don't know where he is. He left his cell phone here though."
"I bet he's with Dana," I said after all they were really close.
"Yeah that's what I thought." Chase agreed. " We should probably go out and find them though don't you think? It's starting to get dark."
"Yeah sure," I replied. "How about we meet you in the quad?"
"Sounds good," Chase replied.
"Okay, see ya." I said.
"I love you," He said so quickly that I could barely tell what had com out of him mouth, "bye." and then he hung up.
I was slightly in shock when I hung up the phone. Chase had never said that to me before. Did he really mean that he loved me? Or was it just that kind of friend love? But, I've never heard those words come from him before. And it made me smile.
"Zoey?" Nicole asked, "What's going on?"
"Oh, nothing," I said hiding my smile now, " We're supposed to meet Chase in the quad. Micheal's back and we think that he's with Dana. So we're going to o find them" I saw Lola roll her eyes.
"Fine," She said shuffling her feet towards the door. "Let's go."
Logan's POV
Well I didn't really like the feeling of walking on the beach with my shoes on so instead I went up to get some sushi. I like sushi. That sounds a little obvious.
I walked into Sushi Rox, our on campus restaurant, and ordered. It wasn't until that after I sat down I noticed that all the way across the room, sitting at a table for two was Micheal and Dana. Huh? I got up and went over to their table. Scooting a chair to sit with them.
"Hey Micheal glad to see you're back!" I said while high-fiving him.
"Hey man, glad to be back." Micheal greeted.
"Yeah, and Dana, everyone's been looking for you." I said not really looking at her. I was under the impression that her a Micheal were on a date. Would they really do that?
"Oh, well Micheal came over when I got to the dorm and we were going to find you guys, but then we decided to get sushi instead." She replied eying me. "Is that a problem?"
"Nah, we were just worried." I stated.
"Okay..." She trailed.
"So Micheal," I said reverting my attention back to him. "How was Maine? How's Erica doing?" Was it just me or did Micheal seem to stiffen a little bit?
"Maine was fine, nice weather. Erica just opened her new art studio and things really seem to be taking off." Micheal didn't seem to want to say any more, but I had to ask.
"Oh so is that why you left? To help her get things set up?"
"Oh, uh, yeah." He stammered.
"Cool," I said.
"Hey maybe we should all get out of here and go find everyone else," I heard Dana chime in.
"Yeah, let's go," Micheal agreed.
"I'll tag along," We all stood up and walked out of Sushi Rox.
"Uh, I'm going to go to my dorm and put my phone on the charger." Dana said while starting to walk faster.
"We'll come with." Micheal said and we started to keep her pace.
"Okay."
In room 101 we were all just siting around while Dana hooked up her phone. Was I making this awkward?
"I think they've been here." Dana said.
"What makes you think that?" I asked, how did she know?
"Well, there's a bunch of clothes on Zoey's bed," Dana said while pointing. I turned to look and there were.
"And so there are." I responded. Well that conversation wasn't going anywhere. But then Dana's phone went off. She went over to her bed and picked up her phone, while it was still on the charger.
"Logan you called me seven times." Dana seemed to laugh.
"Well you didn't answer," I replied, "We were starting to think that you were being raped." Micheal laughed that time.
"I wouldn't let that happen to her." He said smiling.
"I know man, but we didn't know you were back."
"Oh yeah."
Dana's phone went off again. This time she looked at it a little longer.
"Did someone else call you?" I asked
"No..." She trailled off. "Sierra texted me."
"And?" I pressed.
"Well she's going to be back tomorrow morning." Dana seemed a little distant. And I felt a chill spread through my entire body.
A/N: AND THAT'S CHAPTER 7! Woot! I hope that you all liked it :D Feel free to review if you would like to. I had fun writing this chapter, especially with all of the POV changes, I like writing in different perspectives. I just hope that I didn't make it confusing.
Happy Readings!
Lana
