Author's Note: I'm sorry it's been over a month since I've updated! I never meant to go that long! My life in the last month has just been total chaos. I hope you enjoy the update!

The next morning Rachel got up at 7 AM. She was supposed to meet Mandy and Anita at the dorms by 8 AM, which was the move in time. Mandy had called the night before and asked if Rachel could come over so Mandy could put some stuff in her car as well. Rachel put on black work out pants, a big t-shirt, tennis shoes, and pulled her hair up in a pony tail. She wasn't worried about looking cute today because she was going to be working all day. Then she went into the bathroom and put on a little make-up. Ross was still asleep in the bed so she went and gave him a quick kiss which woke him up. "I'm gone honey," said Rachel.

"Okay, be careful and don't strain yourself too much," answered Ross.

"I won't," said Rachel. "Love you."

"Love you too," answered Ross as he rolled over and went back to sleep.

When Rachel arrived at the NYU freshman dorm, Mandy and her mom were already there. Kristie and her parents were there as well. It was decided that Mandy and her mom would bring Mandy's stuff up the stairs and that Rachel would start to organize it in the room because Rachel didn't need to do any heavy lifting. They worked non-stop until noon when they decided to take a lunch break. Mandy, Kristie, and Rachel walked down the street to a deli while the rest of the parents continued to fix stuff in the room. As Mandy, Rachel, and Kristie walked into the front door of the dorm with lunch for everyone, a guy who Mandy thought had to be the cutest guy she had ever seen in her life stopped them. "Hey ladies, I'm Chris and I just moved into room 1202."

Mandy was the first to regain her composure and answered, "I'm Mandy and this is my roommate Kristie. We just moved into 2204."

"Well, a bunch of us are going out tonight, if you want to join us?" asked Chris.

"Sure, that would be fun," Mandy said with a huge grin on her face.

"Okay, I'll pick you girls up around 10," answered Chris.

They then started to walk away when Chris grabbed Rachel by the arm, "Hey, you never told me your name."

"My name's Rachel," she answered as Kristie and Mandy started to snicker.

"Well Rachel, what room do you live in?" asked Chris.

"Umm," started Rachel trying really hard not to laugh, "I don't exactly live in the dorm."
"Oh, so you live off campus?" asked Chris. Mandy and Kristie were unable to hide their laughter at this point. Chris started to give them a strange look.

"Actually," said Rachel, "I'm Mandy's mom." By now even Rachel had started to laugh!

"Oh, wow!" said Chris. "I mean, you just don't look old enough to have a daughter in college. I thought you were like her older sister or something. Man am I embarrassed! Now I see the wedding ring!"

"It's okay," said Rachel. "It's not every day that an eighteen year old hits on me. It felt kind of nice. I just better not tell my husband!"

"So, will I still be able to see you tonight?" he asked while looking straight at Mandy.

"Sure, ten o'clock, right?"

"Right."
"Okay, we'll be ready," Mandy said as they walked off and headed up the stairs.

When they walked back into Mandy and Kristie's dorm room, they all busted out laughing once again.

"What's so funny?" asked Anita.

"Oh, this freshman just hit on Rachel," said Mandy. "He thought she was like my sister or something. He wanted her to go out with us tonight!"

Anita started laughing just as hard as the rest of them! The rest of the afternoon flew by and soon everything was unpacked and the room had been transformed from looking like a hospital room into a page from the Pottery Barn catalogue. Mandy and Kristie had picked out matching pink and green duvet covers, matching desk lamps, and tons of pictures of themselves, their friends from home, and their families. The room actually looked like home now. Kristie left to go have dinner with her parents before they caught their flight back to Miami. Mandy gave Anita and Rachel a hug and thanked them both for helping her today. They both then left to head home. Before she left Rachel made Mandy promise to call her in the morning and give her every last detail of her night out with Chris.

After everyone had left, Mandy sat down on her bed and looked around her new home. She had never been so excited in her entire life. She was getting to live on her own with her best friend and to go school to become what she had dreamed of being since she was a little girl, a fashion designer! Not only all of that, but the hottest guy in the world was coming to take her out tonight! Sure he had said a bunch of people were going, and Kristie was going too, but Mandy thought Chris might like her! Maybe he was going to bring another guy for Kristie and they could double date.

Promptly at ten o'clock that night there was a knock on Mandy's dorm room door. She went and opened the door to find Chris standing there. "We're just about ready," she said to him. "Come on inside."

"We?" said Chris. "I thought me and you were going out tonight."
"I thought you said a bunch of people were going and you asked me and my roommate," Mandy whispered, hoping that Kristie couldn't hear the conversation from the bathroom.

"That's when I thought Rachel was your sister, not your mom! I was going to fix her up with my older brother," said Chris.

"Well, couldn't you fix Kristie up with your older brother?" she asked.

"I don't think she's really his type," said Chris.

Mandy didn't know what to say to this. She knew that Kristie wasn't what most would consider gorgeous, but Mandy had always thought she was really cute. She was about thirty pounds overweight, but she had gorgeous dark brown, curly hair, and big brown eyes. Mandy knew in reality she was prettier than Kristie, but that had never been a problem for her. Looks were not something that Mandy put a whole lot of value in.

"Well, maybe I shouldn't go," said Mandy. "I don't want to leave my roommate here alone on our first night."

"No, Mandy," said Chris. "Come with me. Just tell Kristie that her date cancelled out. I really want to go out with you."

"Okay," Mandy relented. She went inside, quickly broke the news to Kristie, and ran out the door with Chris. In the back of her mind she chastised herself for being so rude. She had never blown off her best friend for a guy! She had always been a good friend, but she had also never dated a guy like Chris. It was almost as if Chris had some kind of power over her. When she was with him, she just didn't think like herself.

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