Good morning, my dears!
Here we are for another day with these kiddos! I'm so excited to be back, it's been so much fun spending every day with you all!
Oodles of thank yous to Fran S. Flower, my beta extraordinaire, and DaniDarlingxx who has been so much more than a pre-reader through this.
Day 5: March 17, 2020
Rose
6:02 PDT
Los Angeles, California
I feel my bed shift as Emmett sits up. He's trying to be quiet, but he's so fucking massive that every slight shift of his body shakes the bed. "No," I growl, my eyes still screwed shut. He chuckles softly, leaning over to kiss my shoulder. I hide my smile in my pillow.
"Sorry, Baby," he sighs. "I'm going for a run. Wanna come?"
I shift enough to grab a spare pillow and smack him with it. He laughs and gets up from the bed. I hear him getting dressed, and soon he's leaving my room. As soon as I hear him clomp downstairs, I let out a long breath and flop back on my bed. It's Tuesday, and under normal circumstances, I'd be getting up to get ready for school. I'm Pre-med, which means I spend a stupid amount of time in class and labs. It's strange not to be going to anything.
I reach for my phone, checking my email. My dad's secretary, who I'm sure he's screwing, has emailed me a flight itinerary. I frown as I look it over. My parents have booked me a one-way flight to Rochester.
It's first-class and leaves tomorrow morning. I roll my eyes so hard, it actually hurts. I delete the email. If my parents want to waste money after I've told them no, that's on them.
There is an email from my professor talking about lab time being canceled but trying to outline more reading for us to do while they try to figure out how to give us more online lectures. Our school isn't totally inept, there is an online program, but it's not prepared for this.
I read through my emails a while, then check in with a study group for one of my labs. People are panicking, and I scroll for a while before groaning and tossing my phone aside. I don't want to deal with people; it's way too early in the morning.
For a brief moment, I'm annoyed that my year is being derailed like this. I've worked my ass off to get to this point; I'm ready to graduate soon and move on to med school. If this pandemic holds me back, I'm going to lose my shit.
Hopefully, everything will right itself in a couple of weeks.
Poor hopeful Rose (though, looks like she did let him into her bed after all). We were all hoping for a few weeks last year, yet here we all are still. *sigh*
Was there anything going on in your life that got totally and utterly derailed? I mean, we all were derailed a bit, but I knew a lot of people-specifically in school-whose entire education had to be redirected. Chem majors were suddenly studying computer analysis because they couldn't do chem from home. It was terrible.
I'll see you loves tomorrow!