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Fall semester Junior Year
Joey walked in the front door of the apartment fresh from an early morning run. He didn't have class till 9 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and was done at 4,then on Tuesday and Thursday he went from 8 to 5 straight and had a Thursday night lab from 6-9.
Joey had originally planned to finish out school in a year but had changed his mind when he realized he didn't want to give up on Lacrosse. He wanted to finish out school with his friends.
Derek looked up from his spot at the kitchen table "how was your run"
Joey bent to untie his shoes as a black lab puppy ran over to him, "not bad" Joey then reached out and began to pet the puppy.
"You have class at 9 right" Derek asked standing up to wash his dishes.
"Yeah then I'm done at 4 but I have to work tonight" Joey replied.
"Ughh alright" Derek replied.
"Why" Joey asked.
"Nothing now it doesn't matter" Derek said as Joey nodded and went to shower and get ready for the day.
Finally around 8:30 Joey was ready for the day. Normally he would ride his bike to campus but on the days he had to work he drove. He had gotten a job at a local restaurant waiting tables and worked random hours around his class, practice and game schedule.
"Cya guys later" Joey said noticing that his other roommates Kyle and Jake were onw awake.
The guys nodded before grabbing the Xbox controllers and beginning to play NBA live, Joey just shook his head and walked out. Between the four boys they had 6 different gaming systems hooked up the TV, They had a PS3, and a Sega genesis that was Derek's, the xbox360 was Joeys, the n64 and super Nintendo were Jakes and the Wii was Kyle's. Someone was always playing something, "be careful with my controllers".
9:30 pm that night
"You worked late tonight" Kyle said looking up from his book as Joey walked into the apartment.
"Ehh I worked 5 to 9,I have crappy hours this week" Joey replied as he sat down on the couch.
"That sucks" Kyle said.
"Where are Derek and Jake" Joey asked.
"Out" Kyle replied.
Reaching down and turning on the Xbox Joey turned toward Kyle "does that mean you are going out to".
"Yeah it does" Kyle replied standing up.
"Good then I can call Jeslyn" Joey replied.
"Who's Jeslyn" Kyle asked.
"we have a class together and I told her I'd call her to chill sometime" Joey said
Kyle nodded as he headed toward his room, "I'll keep them out as long as possible" Kyle said watching his younger roommate pick up his phone and call Jeslyn.
"Hello" a voice said
"Hi this is Joey is this Jeslyn" Joey asked.
"Hold on she's next-door let me take her, her phone" the girl said.
"Alright" Joey replied
A couple minutes later a voice Joey recognized was on the other end of the phone, "Hello"
"Hi Jeslyn its Joey from Micro Bio I was just wondering if you wanted to hang out" Joey said
"Oh my gosh hi, Kat didn't tell me who was on the phone, I'd love to hang out with you" Jeslyn said.
"Sweet you live on Campus right" Joey asked.
"Yeah in Flynt" Jeslyn replied.
"nice I lived there freshman year" Joey replied.
"Sweet so will you come get me then" Jeslyn asked.
"Yeah give me like 15 minutes though, my apartment isn't that close to campus" Joey said as he shut off the Xbox.
"Alright well let me know when you get here" Jeslyn said.
"of course" Joey replied.
"Bye Joey" Jeslyn said as she hung up.
After hanging up the phone Joey grabbed a a quick shower and changed into clean clothes and grabbed his hat off his dresser.
20 minutes later
Once outside of Flynt hall Joey called Jeslyn to her know he was there. He got out of his car and waited for her.
"Hey" Jeslyn said when she finally found Joey and the car.
Joey looked up from staring at the pavement, "Hi"
"So what's your plan" Jeslyn asked.
"uhh well I don't really have one I figured we could just hang out at my place and get to know each other my roommates are out so it'll be just us if that's alright" Joey said as he opened the passanger door for Jeslyn.
"Yeah that's fine, we could watch a movie or something" Jeslyn suggested.
"We could do that or well do you like video games of any kind" Joey asked.
"Well Kelli has an N64 and ive played a little but I suck" Jeslyn replied.
"Every played Xbox" Joey asked.
"Yeah my brother has one" Jeslyn said as Joey nodded and began to drive to his apartment.
"Well we have a lot of game systems so if you want we could do that" Joey suggested.
"A movie actually sounds better I really suck at video games" Jeslyn said as Joey nodded.
"Alright well I don't have a lot of movie choices but i know Derek does, so we can pick one from his collection" Joey replied.
"Who's Derek" Jeslyn asked.
"One of my roommates who's on the Lax team with me, he's my best friend I've known him since my freshman year" Joey replied.
"Oh wow so you play lacrosse" Jeslyn asked.
"I've played since I was a kid,I played baseball for awhile but I got into Lacrosse and realized I loved it so I played club baseball and Lacrosse for school till it got to be to much and I quit baseball and focused on Lacrosse" Joey said as he parked his car.
"Oh wow I play field hockey" Jeslyn replied.
"very cool I used to date a field hockey player but she didn't come back to school" Joey Said as he unlocked the door to the apartment.
"no way are you Jens ex-boyfriend" Jeslyn asked as she took her shoes off.
"If I say yes are you going to ask me to take you home" Joey said as he pulled off the sweatshirt he was wearing.
Jeslyn rolled her eyes, "why would I do that Jen and I weren't friends, we barely talked at all she was super quiet but she talked about you a lot, you started to date when" Jeslyn asked.
"Umm last November we weren't even together a year I broke up with her in June" Joey replied.
"Oh wow yeah she talked about for like a month before that, and stuff It was like we all knew you and had never met you" Jeslyn said as she sat on the couch.
"So what movie do you want to watch" Joey asked trying to get off the topic of Jenna.
"Do you have Batman" Jeslyn asked.
"Derek does let me go grab it" Joey said as he headed to Dereks room.
A couple hours later
"So you ready for me to take you back" Joey asked Jeslyn who was curled up next to him half a sleep.
"Can I stay here tonight" Jeslyn asked.
"Umm yeah, you can sleep in my room I'll sleep in Kyle's he has a bunk beds" Joey replied.
The next morning.
"Dude what the hec are you doing up there" Kyle asked
"Jeslyns asleep in my room" Joey said as he climbed down.
"She stayed over" Kyle asked.
"Yeah we were watching Batman and she fell asleep so she asked if she could stay" Joey replied as he walked down the hall to his room, "Hey you ready to head home"
Jeslyn looked up from where she was sitting on Joey's bed, "Yeah,I had fun last night thanks for asking me to hang out" Jeslyn said.
"Anytime and I had fun to" Joey said as they headed out to his car.
2 months later (Late October)
"You have plans for tonight" Jake asked as he made himself dinner and Joey dug through the fridge.
Joey continued digging through the fridge, "I'm picking Jes up and we're going out to eat" Joey replied.
"Nice where" Jake asked.
"Luigi's" Joey replied as he closed the fridge and then reached for the polo that was on the chair behind him.
"Nice have fun" Jake said as he put his dishes in the sink.
"Who's on dish duty" Joey questioned glancing at the chart on the fridge.
"Not me" Jake replied as he to went and looked at the chart on the fridge himself.
"It's Kyle so that means one of us should just do them beause he wont" Joey mumbled as he walked over to the sink and began to run some water on the mountain of dishes.
"Dude you should just leave them" Jake commented as Joey reached for the sponge and began to scrub the dishes. Kyle didn't like to do the dishes so when it was his turn he normally left them for someone else. Which drove Joey nuts because everyone was supposed to pull their weight with the apartment? The chore chart had been Kim's idea and it seemed to work pretty well. They had communal groceries which were paid for with the grocery fund jar on the counter, each person put atleast 5 bucks in each week toward food, so everything was fair game unless you paid for it on your own and it had your name on it. Garbage had to go to the dumpster by Thursday at noon so every Wednesday someone had to take it out. Other things on the chart included cleaning bathrooms , and vacuuming and cleaning up the kitchen and living room. This week Joey was in charge of the living room and the Trash, which had already been done Wednesday.
"If I don't do them I have to do them next week" Joey mumbled in disgust as Kyle emerged from his bedroom dressed to go out, "would it kill you to do the dishes when it's your turn" Joey mumbled as he scrubbed a frying pan clean.
"I was gonna do them tomorrow" Kyle mumbled as he reached for a dry dish towel and started to dry the dishes Joey had finished. As Joey finished up the dishes, his phone rang "call from Babe".
"Hey you" Joey said answering.
"Hey when are you coming" Jeslyn asked.
"I'm on my way now, just gotta put my shoes on" Joey said as he reached for his sneakers, and Sweat Shirt
"Alright you can stay here tonight if you want Kat's gone for the weekend" Jeslyn said.
"I was thinking about it but I have to work in the morning" Joey said sitting down on the couch next to Otto the black lab puppy he had adopted.
"Ughh alright do you think someone could drop me off at my building in the morning" Jeslyn asked.
"if you don't mind getting up at 9:30 I'll be able to bring you back" Joey said as he reached over and petted the dog.
"Did you want to go out to eat tonight" Jeslyn asked.
"That was my plan why" Joey asked.
"I have a lot of home work could we do a study date instead" Jeslyn asked.
"Yeah we can do that,I guess I'l just stay with you tonight then and bring my work clothes with me"Joey replied.
"You sound like you don't want to so I can just stay at your place it's fine"Jeslyn replied.
"Alright don't say I didn't offer" Joey replied as he walked out the door.
"Bye"Jeslyn said hanging up.
Joey turned back inside as he hung up, "Otto want to go for a ride" The once calm puppy shot off the couch and toward his owner. "sit" Joey instructed as he reached for the leash hung by the door.
December end of finals week and home for break
Jeslyn climbed into the passengers seat of Joeys car and smiled," I can't wait to meet your family".
Joey nodded as he finished checking the car's oil and everything else to make sure the car was ready for the drive home. Jeslyn was going home with Joey for a week and then going back up to Syracuse with him before driving home to South Carolina. Joey was spending most of his winter break in Syracuse because of work. He would be back home for Christmas and New Years but then he had to go back up and work for the rest of his break. "I can't wait to see them since I was only home for like a day at thanksgiving and I missed Lexies and Kevins birthdays"Joey said as he threw his duffle bag into the back seat and then got in the car himself.
"Right because of work" Jeslyn commented.
About3 and a half hours into the drive Joeys phone began to ring "Call from Mama".
"Hey" Joey said.
"Hey where you" Kim asked.
"Just coming into the city,where is everyone" Joey asked.
"We're at Uncle Billys" Kim replied.
"Alright umm we're gonna head to our house cause I'm exhausted" Joey replied.
"Alright everyone wants to meet Jes though" Kim said.
"She'll be with us for a week, I don't want to overwhelm her to much with family right away"Joey replied.
"Alright your sister will be home from school soon could you get her off the bus"Kim asked.
"Yeah sure" Joey replied.
"Your brother will need to get picked from school he stayed late" Kim said.
"I am not a sibling taxi" Joey mumbled.
"Joey please if you don't want to come here I need you to do that for me" Kim asked.
"I guess so when do I get Kev" Joey asked.
"Now, Lex doesn't get home for an hour" Kim replied.
"Alright see you soon I hope" Joey said
"Love you bunches we wont be long and Aunt D says to stop being a brat" Kim commented.
"Tell Aunt Danielle that this brat just drove for 4 and a half hours and he's tired"Joey said as he hit Trafic on his way into Brooklyn.
"I will" Kim said
"well I'm in traffic I gotta go" Joey said
"alright love you kiddo" Kim said.
"love you to" Joey said hanging up.
Eventully traffic let up and Joey was able to get to the high school and pick up his brother and make it home to get his sister off the bus.
