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Chapter Three
Still two years earlier: College Check in
Lilly shifted the last suitcase from the floor to the top of her bed, turning her head when she hears someone else in the room. "Hi, I'm Lilly"
"Jenny," the brunette girl says, extending a quick hand.
Lilly smiled, "So I'm guessing we're roomies?"
Jenny nodded, "Looks that way; where are you coming' from?"
"New York City. My parents are cops there," she explains.
Jenny nodded, "Sweet. I'm from Stanton Island. My mom's a lawyer and my dad's a pediatrician."
"Awesome. So umm, what are you majoring in?" Lilly asked, pulling a dress from the suitcase and hanging it up.
"Business technology," Jenny shrugged, "Nothing major. What about you?"
"Criminal Justice; I wanna be a detective, the only problem is I don't wanna work with my parents"
"Won't that be kind of hard…? I mean where else would you work?" Jenny laughs.
Lilly shrugged, "Maybe I'll move to L.A. or to Miami or something. That'd be pretty hot."
"I guess so. Hey, ya wanna go check out the campus?"
Dropping the remainder of the clothes to put away, Lilly nods and grabs her room key. "Sure. We can grab some lunch or something too."
Jenny nods, "Sure," she smiles.
Lilly closed the door behind them both and pulled out her key, twisting it in the lock.
"I guess since we're roommates it'd be pretty stupid for me to ask for your number, right?" A suave male voice whispered from her left. "I'm Scott."
Lilly couldn't help but laugh at his cockiness. "Lilly. What was that about my number?"
"Ehh… it was nothing…"
Lilly nodded sarcastically, "Ah. I see. Well if that's you're only pick up line you might wanna work harder. Maybe hang around with someone cooler," she finished with a smirk.
"Ouch. Someone's playing hard to get"
"I'm the master, didn't you hear?"
"Sorry, someone forgot to send out the memo. Where you two ladies headed?"
"Lunch" Lilly says simply.
"Ah. Well I'm pretty hungry too"
Lilly rolled her eyes and then laughed, "Sure you can come too."
"Alright, alright, you don't have to beg…" Scott smirked, turning to follow Jenny and Lilly down the hall and out of the residence hall.
Three Months Later
Saturday night; a night of freedom- the night where they didn't have to get up early and they wouldn't have to get up early the next day, either. Homework was on hold, people were out, and parties were going on. And Jenny found herself by the girls' joint closet, rummaging through not only her clothes, but Lilly's as well.
"What's so important that you have to change 10 times?" Lilly asked, looking up from her law book. She was working diligently on a paper, as she usually did on Saturday nights.
"Party at the frat house tonight and I wanna look just right. You know, you could come with me"
Lilly shook her head; "This papers due Monday by noon. I have to finish it."
Jenny shrugged, "That leaves you tomorrow and like 3 hours on Monday. Come on, all you ever do is study, study, study."
"Uh yeah, memo, that's college life." Lilly said, rolling her eyes a bit. "Besides, that's not ALL I do. I go for jogs in the mornings with Scott and sometimes we catch movies."
"Oh sorry; you have 25 of a life; I forgot" Jenny rolled her eyes, "And come on, Lil, I don't study 24/7 and my grades are pretty good."
"B's and C's?" Lilly raised an eyebrow.
Jenny shrugged again. "Average," she explained. "Come on, you're coming with me tonight and you're gonna have fun. I'm tired of watching you sit around here. Besides, how do you plan on landing a man with all those books surrounding you?"
Lilly sighed but relented, closing her 'Introduction to Law' book and saving the paper on her laptop.
Jenny smiled and clapped. "Eee!" she squealed, "This will look PERFECT on you."
"Perfect?" Lilly smirked. Shimming out of her sweat pants and college sweat shirt, she threw the dress over her body, smoothing it out over her hips. "I guess it does look pretty good…"
"Good? That looks HOT. You're sure to get some tonight," Jenny winked, finally settling on a red and brown tube top with a matching brown skirt and boots.
"You ready?"
"Yeah, I'm ready" Lilly followed her best friend out the door.
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Lilly was surprised to see Scott at the frat party; she'd spent quite a bit of time with him, running and talking, and they even had a couple classes together, and never did he come off at the party time. But there he was, sitting on the couch talking to a skinny, dark haired sorority type girl. She sighed some, wishing he'd look at her like he was looking at this girl, eyeing her. But she wasn't glamorous or mysterious like this girl…quite the contrary, actually.
She turned her head when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Drink?"
She didn't know the guy offering her a drink; she'd never laid eyes on him, but then, he looked older which would probably be the reason she'd never seen him around, and the reason she didn't have any classes at all with him. "No thanks, I don't drink."
"Eh come on, why else are you here? Besides, it's just one. It's not like it's going to hurt you. I'll take care of ya. My names Jake… Jake Patterson."
Lilly smiled and hesitantly took the drink from him. "I'm Lilly…Lilly Goren. Have I met you before?"
"Probably not; I'm an art history major and you don't look like the type of girl to like art history," he smiled.
Oh man his smile was so…so white and so…amazing! She bit her lip and gently shook her head, "No…No I'm a criminal justice major," she grinned.
"Ah. A crime fighter; so you're like… Superwoman with handcuffs?"
"Something like that," Lilly smirked, sipping on her drink. Her parents were wrong; this stuff was great. This drink…it was watermelon flavored, or strawberry, she couldn't tell, and it was warm going down. And the more she drank the more…free… she felt. And she loved it. This feeling of freedom and confidence, it was like no other feeling she'd ever felt before, and she didn't want it to end. So when she finished her first drink and Jake gave her another, she took it. And when that one was gone she grabbed another, and then another…